It`s New Year`s Eve, & Beth plans to spend a whole year alone, in her snug, safe house. But she has reckoned without floppy-eared, tail-wagging Mouse, who comes nosing to her window. Followed shortly by his owner, Alice. As Beth`s year of solitude rolls out, Alice gently steals her way first into Beth`s house & later into her heart. & by the time New Year`s Eve comes round again
- who knows?A tender & delicate love story in verse, The Space Between is a tale of how warmth, support & friendship can overcome mental anguish.
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In The Space Tourists Handbook, Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson gives would-be space tourists the exact same training program that he gives to his billionaire customers. Here are step-by-step instructions for liftoff, sleeping in weightless environments, using the ...

Jakob has found the long-lost SPACE TRAIN! But it`s old, battered & broken. With the help of Granny & Derek the robot chicken, can Jakob fix the train?A stunning intergalactic adventure, packed with fun flaps & out-of-this world illustrations from the talented Karl James Mountford (The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth, Last Stop on the Reindeer Express)! ...

The Spanish, in the Xenophobe guide series; consisting of a range of pocket-sized guides which take a humorous & irreverent approach to a wide range of world cultures. Each guide explores the characteristics of a country’s people in a series of dedicated sections, encompassing nationalism & identity, behaviour, manners, character, obsessions, beliefs & values, leisure & pleasure, culture, custom & tradition, business, systems, health & hygiene, crime & punishment, government & bureaucracy, conversation & gestures & language. Written in a wholly irreverent style, Xenophobes guides attempt to forewarn readers of the main stereotypes & foibles that are associated with individual nationalities. ...

The Spanish Ambassador`s Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris & Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited & with a mysteriously enormous suitcase? Or the horse they gave Prime Minister John Major in Turkmenistan
- which hapless embassy officials had to rescue from the clutches of the Moscow railway? These & other `funnies`, as they are known in Whitehall, are included in Matthew Parris & Andrew Bryson`s glorious new volume of not so diplomatic writing, which accompanies a new BBC Radio 4 series is a follow up to their acclaimed collection of ambassadors` final despatches, Parting Shots. Drawn from Freedom of Information requests & previously overlooked Valedictories these startling despatches throw a revealing light on how the British have viewed the world
- &, unwittingly perhaps, on how the world has viewed the British. Praise for Parting Shots: ” Parting Shots is unbuttoned, indiscreet & very funny”. (Yorkshire Post). ” Fascinating, if sometimes uncomfortable, reading”. (Financial Times). ” Very funny”. (Guardian). After working in the Foreign Office then serving as a Conservative MP, Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He writes two weekly columns for The Times & one for the Spectator, & in 2011 won the Best Columnist Award at the British Press awards. His acclaimed autobiography Chance Witness was published by Penguin in 2003. He is a frequent broadcaster. Andrew Bryson is a radio journalist working in the BBC`s Business & Economic Unit. He frequently works as a producer on Radio 4`s Today programme & on Radio 5 Live.

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After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe
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Includes:: fresh & bold flavours from Spain. With over 120 recipes, Spanish Bible provides an easy-to-follow

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Between 1936 & 1945, tens of thousands of people across Spain were executed at the hands of General Franco. With the country only recently coming to terms with the scale of his reign of terror, Paul Preston
- the leading expert on 20th century Spain
- attempts to assess the General

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Between 1936 & 1945, tens of thousands of people across Spain were executed at the hands of General Franco. With the country only recently coming to terms with the scale of his reign of terror, Paul Preston
- the leading expert on 20th century Spain
- attempts to assess the Generalísimo`s motives in The Spanish Holocaust. Using cold, hard evidence & a series of revealing descriptions, Preston reveals the true extent of the terror the Franco regime inflicted on Spain`s population
- something the author believes is tantamount to a holocaust, such was the extend of cold-bloodied killings. Nothing is concealed in Preston`s work, which makes it one of the most important contemporary history books in 2012. Buy your copy today!


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Eliciting comparisons to Orwell`s Homage to Catalonia, Pritchett`s meditative work on Spain is comprised of a string of sketches, woven around the author`s musings on the Spanish character. Having lived in Spain for four years during the 1920s, Pritchett is well placed to deliver such a report, & his resulting narrative is both well informed & delightfully written. ...