Crossrail, the ` Elizabeth` line, with its spacious, light-filled stations, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east-west route through what was once country side to the old city core & out again. Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Tottenham Court Road (alias St Giles-in-the-Fields) & the route along Oxford Street (alias the Way to Oxford & also Tyburn) this richly descriptive book traces the course of many of these historical journeys across time as well as space. Archaeology disinters layers of actual matter; one may also disinter the lives that walked where many of our streets, however altered in appearance, still run today. These people spoke the names of ancient farms, manors & slums that now belong to our squares & tube stations. They endured the cycle of the seasons as we do; they ate, drank, laughed, worked, prayed, despaired & hoped in what are essentially the same spaces we occupy today. As The Tunnel Through Time expertly shows, destruction & renewal are a constant rhythm in the city`s story. ...

Crossrail, the ` Elizabeth` line, with its spacious, light-filled stations, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east-west route through what was once countryside to the old City core & out again. Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Tottenham Court Road (alias St-Giles-in-the-Fields) & the route along Oxford Street (alias the Way to Oxford & also Tyburn) this richly descriptive book traces the course of many of these historical journeys across time as well as space. Archaeology disinters layers of actual matter; one may also disinter the lives that walked where many of our streets, however altered in appearance, still run today. These people spoke the names of ancient farms, manors & slums that now belong to our squares & tube stations. They endured the cycle of the seasons as we do; they ate, drank, laughed, worked, prayed, despaired & hoped in what are essentially the same spaces we occupy today. As The Tunnel Through Time expertly shows, destruction & renewal are a constant rhythm in the city`s story. ”A forensic researcher...an imaginative historical sensibility & way of revisiting the past
- as if approaching it through the back door
- that has both subtlety & poignancy”. (Financial Times).

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`A story with so much inherent drama... a kaleidoscopic cold war story.` The Guardian In the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture & even death to liberate friends, lovers, & strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Then, as the world`s press heard about the secret projects, two television networks raced to be the first to document them from the inside, funding two separate tunnels for exclusive rights to film the escapes. In response, President John F. Kennedy & his administration, wary of anything that might raise tensions & force a military confrontation with the Soviets, maneuvered to quash both documentaries. As Greg Mitchell`s riveting narrative unfolds, we meet extraordinary characters: the legendary cyclist who became East Berlin`s most wanted man; the tunneller who had already served four years in the East German gulag; the Stasi informer who betrays the `CBS tunnel`; the young East Berliner who escapes with her baby, then marries one of the tunnellers; & an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English Channel. Capturing the hopes & fears of everyday Berliners, the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police, & the political tensions of the Cold War, The Tunnels is breaking history, a propulsive read whose themes still reverberate today. ...

Turkish cuisine is a colourful mosaic enriched by the recipes & techniques of many ancient cultures, the creativity of its cooks & the geography of the region. Inspired by the best of that regional cooking this collection of recipes represents a rediscovery of timeless, authentic & delicious Turkish dishes interspersed with cultural history & the personal anecdotes of its authoritative authors. ...

Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Atat?rk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire & set it on the path of modernisation. He was determined that his country should be accepted as a member of the family of civilised nations. Today Turkey is a rapidly developing country, an emergent market & a medium-sized regional power with the second strongest army in NATO. It is an open country which attracts millions of tourists, thousands of foreign businessmen & hundreds of researchers. They enjoy Turkish hospitality & experience its rich landscape & history, but many find it hard to form an overall picture of the country. In this sequel to his acclaimed biography of Atat?rk, Andrew Mango provides such an overall portrait, tracing the republic`s development since the death of its founder & bringing to life the Turkish people & their vibrant society. The Turks Today interprets the latest academic research for a broader audience, making this highly readable book the authoritative work on modern Turkey. ...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector`s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector`s Library are books to love & treasure. This edition of Henry James`s classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE.A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated & inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children
- but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. She soon begins to see sinister figures at the window, but do they exist solely in her imagination, or are they ghosts intent on a terrible & devastating task? The Turn of the Screw is one of the most famous & eerily equivocal ghost stories ever written. Owen Wingrave is the story of a son in a long line of military heroes who refuses to follow tradition, yet proves his bravery in a haunted room.
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The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Meanwhile The Aspern Papers explores obsession of a more worldly kind, with its tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on some letters written by a great poet. Such is his drive, he is quite prepared to use trickery & deception to achieve his aims... ...

In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, Tim Winton describes turnings of all kinds: second thoughts, changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, abrupt transitions. The seventeen stories overlap to paint a convincing & cohesive picture of a world where people struggle against the terrible weight of their past & challenge the lives they have made for themselves. ...

This is a rare discovery in the world of fairy tales
- now for the first time in English. With this volume, the holy trinity of
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” One of the most unusual & affecting books...a compulsively readable, devastating novel.” (Jonathan Safran Foer). When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills & then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger & is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting. Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation & corruption & she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love & revenge, fact & myth, duty & sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination & arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original & heartbreaking story about how we treat nature, & each other. ...