Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! Lottie loves living in the museum with Great Uncle Bert but, when the Golden Cat of Cairo disappears at the launch of a new exhibition, Lottie`s home is under threat. Can Lottie, Great Uncle Bert & Reg the caretaker follow the clues & find the cat in time, or will Lottie lose her home forever? Perfect for developing & newly confident readers, Lottie Lipton Adventures are packed with action, adventure & puzzles for the reader to solve. ...

125 Gower Street, 1882. Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London`s most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent men to the gallows, business has been light. Listless & depressed, Grice has taken to lying in the bath for hours, emerging in the evenings for a little dry toast & a lot of tea. Usually a voracious reader, he will pick up neither book nor newspaper. He has not even gathered the strength to re-insert his glass eye. His ward, March Middleton, has been left to dine alone. Then an eccentric member of a Final Death Society has the temerity to die on his study floor. Finaly Sidney & March have an investigation to mount
- an investigation that will draw them to an eerie house in Kew, & the mysterious Baroness Foskett...THE GOWER DETECTIVE SERIES: The Mangle Street Murders. The Curse of the House of Foskett. Death Descends on Saturn Villa.
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This lavishly illustrated book reveals the state of the art of the custom racing bicycle. Each chapter covers a particular part of the bike, starting with the largest subject area
- frames (steel, aluminium, titanium & carbon fibre), then moving on to forks, headsets, wheels, tyres, hubs, gear components, chains, brakes, saddles, handlebars, pedals, water bottle cages & accessories. As well as an overview of the components available, with beautiful studio images of the latest kit, the chapters include interviews & opinions from the top designers & manufacturers. There is advice on sizing & geometry & having your own frame custom measured & made; how saving weight & focusing on quality make the bike better; & which bike is suited to particular riders & different disciplines (Cyclo-Cross, Time Trial, Track, etc.). In addition, professional mechanics show the details, special tools & secrets behind making racing bikes run like clockwork. Chapter by chapter, the book builds up the complete guide to specifying & buying your dream bike.
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Customers do say the dumbest things, & this hilarious book contains a whole host of crass, stupid & just plain odd requests & queries heard on the high street. Featuring laugh out loud remarks from coffee shops & supermarkets to bars & bookshops, read safely in the knowledge that you would never make the same embarrassing errors (would you?), as The Customer`s Always Wrong illustrates just how silly people can be. The perfect stocking filler for Christmas 2013. ...

The Customs of the Kingdoms of India offers selected writings from the most famous of early travellers, Marco Polo. As Polo returned home across the Indian Ocean, after years in the service of Kublai Khan, he picked up a fabulous array of stories from sailors & merchants, about the peoples of the region, some reliable, some wholly implausible, but all fascinating. This pocket paperback collects selected extracts from _ The Travels of Marco Polo_ About this series: Penguin's _ Great Journeys_ series presents extracts from some of the most important classic travelogues in a compact paperback format. The series allows readers to travel both around the planet & back through the centuries
- but also back into ideas & worlds frightening, ruthless & cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent & implacable jungles, deserts & mountains, multitudes of birds & flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends & stories were treated as facts & in which so much was still to be discovered.
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Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built & one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal & the increasing use of steamships made clippers unprofitable on shorter routes. It was turned to the trade in wool from Australia, where for ten years she held the record time for a journey to Britain. After finishing her time in service as cargo ship, & then a training & cadet ship, it was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display. This handy & illuminating pocket manual collates original documents to tell the fascinating story of how the legendary Cutty Sark was commissioned, her design & building, life on board & her notable journeys. ...

Crime spreads across the globe in this new collection of short stories from the Crime Writer`s Association, as a conspiracy of prominent crime authors take you on world mystery tour. Highlights of the trip include a treacherous cruise to French Polynesia, a horrifying trek in South Africa, a murderous train-ride across Ukraine & a vengeful killing in Mumbai. But back home in the UK, life isn`t so easy either. Dead bodies turn up on the backstreets of Glasgow, crime writers turn words into deeds at literary events, & Lady Luck seems to guide the fate of a Twickenham hood. Showcasing the range, breadth & vitality of contemporary crime-fiction genre, these 28 chilling & unputdownable stories will take you on a trip you`ll never forget. Contributors include: Ann Cleeves, C.L. Taylor, Susi. Holliday, Martin Edwards, Anna Mazzola, Carol Anne Davis, Cath Staincliffe, Chris Simms, Christine Poulson, Ed James, Gordon Brown, J.M. Hewitt, Judith Cutler, Julia Crouch, Kate Ellis, Kate Rhodes, Martine Bailey, Michael Stanley, Maxim Jakubowski, Paul Charles, Paul Gitsham, Peter Lovesey, Ragnar Jonasson, Sarah Rayne, Shawn Reilly Simmons, Vaseem Khan, William Ryan & Will Burton Mc Cormick. ...

Dr Mary Aiken is the world`s leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology
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First published in 1885, this is still a classic travel account of the Cyclades. It is the result of two tours the author made with his wife between 1882 & 1884 & it registers the ups & downs of travelling around these islands. Modern travellers will recognize some of the experiences he writes about & will appreciate his recording of things long gone. ...

The Cyclades are the quintessential Greek isles, renowned for the beauty of their seascapes, their historical monuments & a unique way of life deeply rooted in the remote past of the Aegean. Over the course of more than 7, 000 years the Cyclades have seen a succession of civilizations, the earliest of them perpetuated in legends such as that of Atlantis, which has been identified with volcanic Santorini. The islands are arrayed around their sacred centre on Delos, where Leto was said to have given birth to the divine twins Apollo & Artemis, children of Zeus. Dionysos was born on olive-embowered Naxos, where he fell in love with Ariadne, & myths relate that Poseidon was the protector of Tinos, whose mid-summer festival of the Virgin is celebrated with the folk-dances & songs for which the Cyclades are famous. In this comprehensive guide to the Cyclades, John Freely describes the immemorial past & timeless present of these enchanting islands, which still await discovery. ...