Following the huge success of his portrait of The Yorkshire Coast, Mark Denton presents a further collection of his remarkable panoramic photographs. This time he takes as his subject the Yorkshire Moors & Wolds, two very different landscapes separated by the Vale of Pickering & encompassing forests, remote farmlands, dramatic rocky landscapes & gently rolling hills. In these images, Mark Denton captures some of the most atmospheric, varied, enchanting & little-known areas in the whole country. ...

If you are new to walking in the Yorkshire Dales, you're in for a treat, as we trace our way up the Three Peaks. First though, we'll do them one at a time, giving a chance to savour the experience, as well as getting to know the area. Paul Shorrock is the 'local' expert who has brought together the whole ' Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge' adventure. He starts by exploring each of the three peaks through six day walks before moving on to tackle the whole challenge. Everything you need to explore these glorious landscapes & prepare yourself for the 12 hour Challenge is included in ' The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge':-
- Fully detailed walk descriptions, with frequent timings to aid navigation, for the six day walks & the complete challenge.
- OS 25k large scale mapping of all the walking routes.
- Gps waypoints for the pin-point navigational accuracy that is so valuable for a successful challenge.
- Full training, accommodation & local information for everything you need to know before attempting the challenge. The Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales provide some of the finest walking in Britain. With a combination of high peaks & stunning scenery the area is rightly popular with outdoor types, from leisure walkers up to super-fit fell runners. It always seems to follow that when you have a mix of high places & human beings, sooner or later someone will come up with an idea of a challenge of some kind. With the Three Peaks of Pen y Ghent, Whernside & Ingleborough the solution was simple
- do them all in one walk!




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If you are new to walking in the Yorkshire Dales, you`re in for a treat, as we trace our way up the Three Peaks. First though, we`ll do them one at a time, giving a chance to savour the experience, as well as getting to know the area. Paul Shorrock is the `local` expert who has brought together the whole ` Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge` adventure. He starts by exploring each of the three peaks through six day walks before moving on to tackle the whole challenge. Everything you need to explore these glorious landscapes & prepare yourself for the 12 hour Challenge is included in ` The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge`:-
- Fully detailed walk descriptions, with frequent timings to aid navigation, for the six day walks & the complete challenge.
- OS 25k large scale mapping of all the walking routes.
- Gps waypoints for the pin-point navigational accuracy that is so valuable for a successful challenge.
- Full training, accommodation & local information for everything you need to know before attempting the challenge. The Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales provide some of the finest walking in Britain. With a combination of high peaks & stunning scenery the area is rightly popular with outdoor types, from leisure walkers up to super-fit fell runners. It always seems to follow that when you have a mix of high places & human beings, sooner or later someone will come up with an idea of a challenge of some kind. With the Three Peaks of Pen y Ghent, Whernside & Ingleborough the solution was simple
- do them all in one walk!




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The Young Hornblower
- a truly formidable force in His Majesty`s Service The seventeen-year-old Hornblower became notorious as
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` Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures.` Dorothy L. Sayers Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger, who had snored his way through the train journey. But within minutes the other man has snored for the last time
- he has been shot dead while sleeping in an armchair. Temperley has a brief encounter with a beautiful young woman, but she flees the scene. When the police arrive, Detective Inspector James discovers a token at the crime scene: `a small piece of enamelled metal. Its colour was crimson, & it was in the shape of the letter Z.` Temperley sets off in pursuit of the mysterious woman from the hotel, & finds himself embroiled in a cross-country chase
- by train & taxi
- on the tail of a sinister serial killer. This classic novel by the author of the best-selling Mystery in White is a gripping thriller by a neglected master of the genre.


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` The Zahir`, Paulo Coelho`s new novel available in paperback for the first time, incorporates exclusive new content including an extra section containing interviews with Paulo & plenty of information for those for whom the book just wasn`t enough. It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought. It ends in obsession. One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Though time brings more success & new love, he remains mystified
- & increasingly fascinated
- by her absence. Was she kidnapped, blackmailed, or simply bored with their marriage? The unrest she causes is as strong as the attraction she exerts. His search for her
- & for the truth of his own life
- takes him from France to Spain, Croatia &, eventually, the bleakly beautiful landscape of Central Asia. More than that, it takes him from the safety of his world to a totally unknown path, searching for a new understanding of the nature of love & the power of destiny. With ` The Zahir`, Paulo Coelho demonstrates his powerful & captivating storytelling.



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” We should never have come!” so said Aidan Hartley`s father in his final days, rising from a bed made from mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide from an oryx shot many years before. His words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back over 150 years through four generations of one British family. In The Zanzibar Chest, Hartley weaves together his family`s history, his childhood in Africa & his accounts of the continent`s horrendous wars, which he witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Burnt out from a decade of horror, during which three of his close friends were torn to pieces by an angry mob in Somalia, Aidan retreats to his family`s house in Kenya, where he discovers the Zanzibar chest containing the diaries of his father`s best friend, Peter Davey, an Englishman who died under mysterious circumstances more than fifty years earlier. Tucking the papers under his arm, Hartley embarks on a journey to southern Arabia in an effort not only to unlock the secrets of Davey`s life, but of his own. Travelling to the remote deserts where his father served as a British officer, Aidan begins to piece together the disparate elements of Davey`s story, a man who fell in love with an Arabian woman & converted to Islam, but ultimately had to pay an exacting price. At once a modern & a historic love story, The Zanzibar Chest is also an epic narrative charting the fates of men & women who embraced & were ultimately transformed by foreign lands. ...

Oman. The ancient land of frankincense, wind-swept deserts, craggy mountaintops & turquoise seas. Into this magical nation come three remarkable women, each facing a crossroad in her life. Rachel, an American war photographer, who is struggling to shed the trauma of her career. Now she is headed to Oman to cover quite a different story
- for a glossy travel magazine. Ariana Khan, a bubbly English woman who has rashly volunteered as Rachel`s `fixer`, a job she`s never heard of in a country she knows nothing about. & Miza, a young woman living far from her beloved homeland of Zanzibar. As the second wife of Tariq, she remains a secret from his terrifying `other` wife, Maryam. Until the day that Tariq fails to come home... As the three women journey together across this extraordinary l&, they quickly learn that, in Oman, things aren`t always what they appear to be... The Zanzibar Wife is a bewitching story of clashing cultures & conflicting beliefs, of secrets & revelations, of mystery & magic, by the author of the beloved international bestseller The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul.` As if Maeve Binchy had written ` The Kite Runner`
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With such tantalising chapters as ” In Defence of Smuggling” & ” Lunch with Homer” this witty, eye-opening tapestry of writings on travel & a life spent as one of the 20th century`s most formidable adventuresses is Freya Stark at her luminous best. In chronological order, spanning an extraordinary 50 years, from 1919 to 1967, Stark`s writings range from eloquent musings on the nature of travel, of being a woman
- both writer & explorer
- in what was then predominantly a male world & jewel-bright stories from across the world
- Arabia to North Africa, Iran & India
- that captivate the reader with every sentence. There are romantic picnics under starlit skies on remote islands, meaningful moments of quiet in Mecca & Jerusalem & heartfelt accounts of encounters with a kaleidoscope of people. The Zodiac Arch resurrects many lost worlds, but it is also a lodestar for all those under the spell of wanderlust.



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This book is shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize. ” Surely his masterpiece... Intelligent, terrifying & comic... Amis has tackled the biggest questions with imagination & intelligence, & the ultimate strength of this masterly novel is that he knows, & shows, that although there is no answer to the questions Auschwitz poses, we must never stop asking them. Read it, ponder it
- revel in it indeed
- then read it again.” (Allan Massie, Scotsman). There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn`t show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul
- it showed you who you really were. But the king couldn`t look into the mirror without turning away, & nor could his courtiers. No one could. What happens when we discover who we really are? & how do we come to terms with it? Fearless & original, The Zone of Interest is a violently dark love story set against a backdrop of unadulterated evil, & a vivid journey into the depths & contradictions of the human soul.


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