Long pouch made from recycled leather. This leather is produced from ground down leather scraps that are a by-product of leather manufacturing. It retains most of the properties of regular leather & it will maintain its beauty for many years. The leather pouch features internal cotton lining & zip top closure. The perfect size for eyeliner pencils or eyebrow brush, as well as fountain pens or pencils. Perfect for travel or everyday use. Available in different colors. ...

Long pouch made from recycled leather. This leather is produced from ground down leather scraps that are a by-product of leather manufacturing. It retains most of the properties of regular leather & it will maintain its beauty for many years. The leather pouch features internal cotton lining & zip top closure. The perfect size for eyeliner pencils or eyebrow brush, as well as fountain pens or pencils. Perfect for travel or everyday use. Available in different colors. ...

Long pouch made from recycled leather. This leather is produced from ground down leather scraps that are a by-product of leather manufacturing. It retains most of the properties of regular leather & it will maintain its beauty for many years. The leather pouch features internal cotton lining & zip top closure. The perfect size for eyeliner pencils or eyebrow brush, as well as fountain pens or pencils. Perfect for travel or everyday use. Available in different colors. ...

British cycling is the best in the world. Bradley Wiggins won the 2012 Tour de France then less than 10 days later won the time trial at the London Olympics. Shortly after that, Britain`s track team dominated the velodrome for the second Games in a row by topping the cycling medals table. & that was on top of Nicole Cooke`s gold in the women`s 2008 Olympic road race, which merely added to her outstanding career, in which she had already won the women`s version of the Tour de France twice, in 2006 & 2007. These are just some of the highlights of Britain`s cycling pedigree. But this success did not come overnight, & this fantastic new book delves into the history of Britain`s illustrious history in the world`s major cycling events & details the path British cyclists have taken to collectively become the world`s pre-eminent cycling nation. It looks at all the characters, from Reg Harris, a track superstar & household name in the 1940s, & Tom Simpson, whose exploits in the 1967 Tour de France cost him his life, to Chris Boardman, 1992 Olympic track champion, & Mark Cavendish, road racing`s newest sprint hero, with dozens more in between. It examines what these exceptional athletes had to do to get to the top of their respective events & the stories that surrounded their success, all set against the rich history, rivalries & culture of the races they took part in. It examines all the cycling disciplines, including mountain biking & BMX, where British cyclists such as Steve Peat & Shanaze Reade have been world champions. Featuring first hand interviews with the leading riders from across the eras, this book is the definitive guide to this amazing & largely untold story. ...

After the Great War, the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease & starvation when the conflict was over. Haunted by memories, the Allies were determined that the end of the Second World War would not be followed by a similar disaster, & they began to lay plans long before victory was assured. Confronted by an entire continent starving & uprooted, Allied planners devised strategies to help all `displaced persons`, & repatriate the fifteen million people who had been deprived of their homes & in many cases forced to work for the Germans. But over a million Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians & Yugoslavs refused to go home. This book offers a radical reassessment of the aftermath of World War II. Unlike most recent writing about the 1940s, it assesses the events & personalities of that decade in terms of contemporary standards & values. This the true & epic story of how millions ultimately found relief, reconciliation & a place to call home. ...

In “ The Long Shadow” the critically acclaimed author David Reynolds explores the true impact of World War I on the rest of the 20th century & demonstrates that Britain, more than perhaps any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend the 1914-1918 conflict in terms broader than individual personal tragedies, however moving, of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. The author’s broad historical perspective sets out show that some of the Great War`s legacies were negative & pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy & empire or nationalism & capitalism, & re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland & the United States, the book provides an impressive overview of the war’s legacy during the rest of the 20th century. ...

In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In The Long Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War`s legacies were negative & pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy & empire, nationalism & capitalism & re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland & the United States, The Long Shadow throws light on the whole of the last century & demonstrates that 1914-18 is a conflict that Britain, more than any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend. Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadow is a magisterial & seismic re-presentation of the Great War. ...

When Ingi Friedlander travels to Yearsonend in the rugged interior of South Africa to purchase a statue, its eccentric sculptor, Jonty Jack, does not want to sell
- he says it was not his creation, but simply appeared miraculously. Ingi decides to stay & try to win Jonty`s trust, but soon realises that the townspeople suspect she has come to seek a different treasure
- the legendary wagon of gold brought in by defeated Boer soldiers. Gradually she prises open the secrets of the past, secrets of greed, racism & vaulting ambition, whose key lies with the Italian POW Mario Salviati
- deaf, dumb & now blind. Watched over by a very earthy angel & long dead humans, Ingi forces a resolution with the past & faces up to her own future.


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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize & longlisted for the Orange Prize, The Long Song is breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking & unputdownable You do not know me yet.” My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery & the early years of freedom that followed.” ...

The Earth's climate has always been in flux: glacial periods & warm ones have slowly & relentlessly alternated for millennia. But the period of global warming of the last 15, 000 years is without precedent, & it set the conditions which enabled civilization to arise. It is our 'long summer'. From the almost unimaginably hostile climate of the late Ice to the onset of ' Little Ice Age', which began in 1315 & lasted half a millennium, this book tells the remarkable story of how human history has been influenced by the planet's ever-changing climate. Confronted with such challenges as severe droughts in southwestern Asia & the ripple effects of the Medieval Warm Period, our ancestors have proved themselves to be at their most resilient & adaptable. Deploying all the resources of new climatology from the past century, from tree rings to deep cores from glaciers, Fagan provides us, for the first time, with an historical context in which to understand the unprecedented global warming of today, as we try to anticipate an uncertain climatic future. ...