The Peak District is a remarkable area of contrasting yet compatible characters: the rolling limestone of White Peak country & the brooding, atmospheric moorland of Dark Peak terrain. The AA Guide to The Peak District gives you all you need to know to get the most out of your visit to this wonderful region. From the origins of mass rambling on Kinder Scout to the ducal home of the Devonshires at Chatsworth, each entry is packed with the very best sites to see, things to do, recommendations for eating & drinking, & places to explore nearby. With everything from local legends to must-see festivals & events, this authoritative & practical guide ensures you will never be lost for something to do. ...

The largest county in England
- ` God`s Own County` to its inhabitants
- Yorkshire offers the visitor everything from the beauty

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The Abba Guide to Stockholm is a thematic book compiled by Sara Russell which takes you on guided tour of the city, allowing you to follow in the footsteps of Sweden’s biggest ever pop b&. The guide features more than 60 important ABBA places in & around Stockholm & contains hundreds of photographs of the band & the city, as well as a map, addresses & transport information. Find out where the famous park bench photo was taken, where scenes from ABBA
- The Movie were shot & where the band recorded their world-famous music. The Stockholm venues which played significant roles in the careers of Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida, such as the recording studios, concert halls, hotels, cafes, streets & parks, are all featured here.
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Agatha Christie`s world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. There`s a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. & as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim`s corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill & then Churston, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught
- until he makes the crucial & vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans...
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Agatha Christie`s world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. There`s a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. & as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim`s corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill & then Churston, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught
- until he makes the crucial & vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans...
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A teenage girl is kidnapped in Venice. The race to save her will uncover a conspiracy powerful men will kill to keep hidden. THE HOSTAGE: The teenage daughter of a US soldier disappeared in Venice last night. Now clues are appearing on anonymous website Carnivia.com
- & the police are always one step behind. THE INVESTIGATORS: Kat Tapo of the Venice Carabinieri & US intelligence analyst Holly Boland are working together to find the girl. The deeper they dig, the darker the case becomes. THE WEBMASTER: Daniele Barbo, creator of Carnivia, never allows access to his servers. But then secrets are unearthed from Italy`s dark wartime past. Secrets that could put them all in danger...THE ABDUCTION has begun.
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The seventh book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s & 70s
- the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian
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A hundred years ago, in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar, the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In a secret valley Agatha Farley is introduced to a family of motherless yetis & devotes her life to their upbringing. She teaches them to speak, tells them stories & insists on polite manners. But as the decades pass, tourists come to the mountains, a hotel is built & yeti-hunters arrive. Agatha knows that there is one place in the world where they would be protected
- her ancetral home at Farley Towers. When a boy & his sister stumble upon her hidden valley, she knows she has found the courageous people who will carry out her plan. The excited yetis are smuggled into the bridal suite at the hotel. A freezer lorry is waiting to put them into semi-hibernation on the long trip home. But the baby yak that has fallen in love with the youngest yeti foils the refrigeration plan & they set off on a hugely entertaining road trip half way across the world. In the Sultan of Aslerfan`s kingdom the yetis release all the animals from his zoo. In the Alps they rescue a lost child in a blizzard. In Spain, the yak creates chaos at a bullfight. But when they arrive in Engl&, a terrible shock awaits them at Farley Towers... This early novel, never submitted for publication, contains all the trademark qualities that made Eva`s subsequent books so successful; comedy, loveable & eccentric characters, perfectly-crafted plotting, & inspiring themes of tolerance, kindness to animals, & the defeat of cruelty.
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It is midnight on the feast day of La Befana, & Venice is celebrating. Masked figures crowd the vaporettos, fireworks burst over the tower of St. Mark, & every trattoria hums with grappa-soaked gossip. But on the steps of Santa Maria, there is a deathly hush. A body has washed up from the Grand Canal: a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest
- a desecration known in the Catholic Church as an Abomination. This is Captain Katerina Tapo`s first murder case, an investigation with sinister roots in post Cold War Italy that will test loyalties Kat did not know she had as she travels through the labyrinthine backstreets of Venice, to an abandoned asylum on the uninhabited island of Poveglia, via Carnivia.com, a dark replica of Venice where friend & foe alike reside in total anonymity...
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Armed only with textbook Arabic & restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson set out to ”learn about the world 9/11 made us fear”. From a base in Abu Dhabi, he sets out to lunch in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, travels under the watchful eye of Aleppo`s secret police, risks shipwreck en route to Somalia, investigates Yazidi beliefs in a sacred cave, cliff-dives in Oman, celebrates New Year`s Eve in Tahrir Square &, at every turn, discovers a place that doesn`t match its reputation. While politicians & the media eagerly stoke the flames of Islamophobia, Valen Levinson crosses borders with abundant humour & humanity. Seeking common ground everywhere, he finds that people who pray differently often laugh the same. & as a young man bar mitzvahed at twenty-one (instead of the usual thirteen), he slowly learns how childish it is to live by decisions & distinctions born of fear. ...