With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst At the fantastical court of King Willie & Her Dreaminess the Queen of Pisuerga, maid of honour Laura de Nazianzi & His Weariness Prince Yousef whisper promises to each other in the palace gardens. But Laura is destined for disappointment. The King & Queen have plans for a royal wedding for their Prince, & the young woman in their sights is none other than Princess Elsie of Engl&. The court is all aflutter... First published in 1923, Ronald Firbank`s The Flower Beneath the Foot is a flamboyant court satire & lyrical tour de force of innuendo & eccentricity. Read by many as a subversive celebration of homosexuality, this is a classic of modernist literature from a stylist like no other. ...

Set in December 1937, the Japanese have taken over the city of Nanking. Sixteen school girls take shelter in a church run by an American priest, Father Engelmann. As the soldiers pass through the city, a group of courtesans from a local brothel arrive at the church seeking refuge further endangering the children. Based on true events, The Flowers of War is a powerful story about the impact of war on prejudices & how love can flourish even amidst death & war. ...

Set in December 1937, the Japanese have taken over the city of Nanking. Sixteen school girls take shelter in a church run by an American priest, Father Engelmann. As the soldiers pass through the city, a group of courtesans from a local brothel arrive at the church seeking refuge further endangering the children. Based on true events, The Flowers of War is a powerful story about the impact of war on prejudices & how love can flourish even amidst death & war. ...

Fredrik Sjoberg's mesmerising Swedish bestseller on travel, the joy of collecting & discovering the hidden wonders of life. The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here & there, my story is about something else. Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art & sometimes the bliss of limitation. & the legibility of landscape. Other days are more dismal. As if I were standing on queue in the rain outside confessional literature's nudist colony, mirrors everywhere, blue with cold. Warm, funny & insightful, The Fly Trap is a meditation on collecting; be it hoverflies or fine art. A fascinating web of associations, it begins with Sjoberg's own tranquil experience as an entomologist on a remote island in Sweden, & takes in heroic historical expeditions to Burma & the wilderness of Kamchatka. Along the way, Sjoberg pauses to reflect on a range of ideas
- slowness, art, freedom,
- drawing other great writers, like D.H Lawrence & Bruce Chatwin, into dialogue. From the everyday to the exotic, The Fly Trap revels in the wonder of the natural world & leaves a trail of memorable images & stories. A rare masterpiece.. .graceful, poetic, astonishing &
- yes!- absolutely thrilling. (Jyllands Posten). Sjoberg has a witty, erudite, incisive tone reminiscent of travellers & anthropologists such as Barlow, Chatwin or even Robert Byron. (Swedish Book Review). Fredrik Sjoberg is an entomologist & lives with his family on the island Runmaro, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist & the author of several books including The Art of Flight & The Raisin King, which accompany The Fly Trap.


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When everyone has left the house in the morning, the bath toys spring into action & head off on exciting adventures in their magical flying bath! From giving a muddy piglet a shower to putting out a fire for a frightened baboon, they have water at the ready for any emergency
- but they`re always home for the children`s bathtime at the end of the day. The simple rhyming speech-bubble text is great to read aloud, & perfect for developing reading confidence. Richly detailed, sumptuous artwork completes this irresistible book for young readers. A playful & adventurous story from the creators of TYRANNOSAURUS DRIP, THE TROLL & JACK & THE FLUMFLUM TREE.
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Flying Machines is a spectacular interactive guide to aerodynamics that has five fabulous flying machines to make. There are two specially designed paper planes, a rubber-b&-powered single-prop plane, a unique, superspeedy twin-prop plane & a vertical take-off helicopter. Flying hints & tips suggest how to manipulate your machines speed, distance & flight direction, demonstrating the basic aerodynamic principles & helping you to understand the forces that affect flight. (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive `CE` logo). ...

Meet Maqil
- also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail & Miguel
- a chancer & charlatan. A criminally clever man who tells a good

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Deeply moving. His determination & single-mindedness was & still is a true inspiration to me. (Sir Chris Hoy). This is a book that must have taken great courage to write, is a harrowing reminder of how little the public know about sportsmen, no matter how brightly the spotlight shines on them. (The Guardian Number 10 in Cycle Sport's Best 50 Cycling Books of All Time). It

Includes:: a foreword by Sir Chris Hoy. Graeme Obree's story begins with a tough upbringing in the Ayrshire valleys, where he found his escape by taking to the roads on his bike. He would emerge from total obscurity to smash Francesco Moser's World Hour Record, controversy hard at his heels for his unique riding style & pioneering construction techniques
- famously using parts from a washing machine to build his bike, ' Old Faithful'. But amidst the record attempts, media feeding frenzy & thrilling head-to-head duels with Chris Boardman, Graeme was fighting another battle. With searing honesty, he recounts his biggest battle against depression which drove him to attempt suicide.


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The iconic & incomparable Flying Scotsman presented on a cushion from a sophisticated & decorative collection by We Love Cushions, designed to bring life & style to any room setting. The image comes from a collection of Flying Scotsman posters held in the National Railway Museum. The cover, printed using archival inks to get the brightest finish possible, with a super soft cotton linen mix, & comes complete with the cushion pad washable at 30º. To see other cushion designs in this series please lick on the series link. ...

No other train has entered the British national consciousness in the same way as the Flying Scotsman. It has been the star of films, music, dances, literature & even a cocktail
- designed at the train`s own cocktail bar in the 1930s. The Flying Scotsman first ran in 1862; it still runs today, passing through incarnations like stations through the years. In its heyday of the 1920s & `30s it was seen as the pinnacle of modernity: a stylish, glamorous feat of engineering. Now it is viewed through the heady steam of nostalgia; an iconic image of days gone by. This book follows the story of the Flying Scotsman in a way that no other history has, expertly weaving together the tale of the locomotive with a wider historical narrative. Furthermore, it delves into the lesser-known stories of the train
- such as its sabotage by striking miners in 1926
- & features superb examples of poster art & other publicity materials commissioned by the LNER to promote the service, & documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present. Written by the current curator of the National Rail Museum, the story of the Flying Scotsman has never been told so well.


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