The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money
- dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition & violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing & desperation: Horace Mc Coy`s classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s.
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Jacques (Albert Camus`s alter ego) recalls the final years of his life. Famous for his opposition to any form of violence whatsoever, his ideas met with the disapproval of the intelligentsia of the time, & he found himself receiving numerous death threats-a situation that would trigger in him a recurring nightmare: They were coming for him.. .to kill him. ...

Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament & the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop ...

Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament & the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop ...

A Hungarian classic & winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, They Were Divided reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in central Europe on the eve of WWI. In the foreground, it tells the story of Balint & his flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, told with humour & bittersweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. In the background, the sinister & fast-moving events in the Balkans eventually not only lead to a horrific war, but also to the complete dismemberment of their once-great country. ...

In the sequel to They Were Counted Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful & unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink & his own fecklessness. The politicians, quarrelling among themselves & stubbornly ignoring their countrymen`s real needs, are still pursuing their vendetta with the Habsburg rule from Vienna. Set in picturesque Translvania, Banffy paints a rich & fascinating portrait of the aristocratic world oblivious to its impending demise. ...

Weaving together the stories of three generations of Samoan women, contrasting the traditional & the modern, They Who Do Not Grieve is a stunning new novel from one of the Pacific`s most exciting writers. Malu, brought up by her grandmother, has only a ghostly memory of her dead mother. & `malu` is also the name of the Samoan woman`s traditional tattoo, & the shame & grief not completing the tattoo ceremony can haunt a life forever. Young Malu, watching the Americans living on the isl&, sees the modern way, the Nineties discontent overtaking the Sixties notions of an island paradise, whilst hearing tales from the older Samoan women of the old life. Although destined to repeat the patterns of the past, Malu can turn them into vivid stories for the future ...

Theydon Bois in 1915 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the village of Thedon Bois, spread out from its station on the GER Ongar line. Features include Theydon Green, the station, Thrifts Hall, nurseries, St Mary`s church, Coppice Row, Manor Villas. A portion of Epping Forest is in the north-west corner. Directories of the village for 1895 & 1922 are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

A compelling & beautifully written memoir about dark & shameful family secrets, & one young Scottish woman`s pilgrimage to Australia to attempt to lay the past to rest. In 1837 Angus Mc Millan left the Scottish Highlands for the other side of the world. Cutting paths through the alien harshness of the Australian frontier, Mc Millan became a pioneer to be forever mythologised in the statues & landmarks that bore his name. He was also Cal Flyn`s great-great-great-uncle. Inspired by this glimmer of an ancestral greatness, Flyn followed in his footsteps to Australia, where her investigations forced her to confront dark & horrifying family secrets. She discovered that Mc Millan & his peers were responsible for a series of assaults on indigenous peoples so ferocious that the sites would ever after be synonymous with bloodshed: Skull Creek, Boney Point, Slaughterhouse Gully. Mc Millan too had a new name: the Butcher of Gippsl&. Driven to piece together his story & confront her own history, Flyn looks for answers: How could a man lauded for his generosity & integrity commit such terrible acts? How could a man who had witnessed the horror of Highlanders cleared from their lands then massacre & `clear` indigenous people on the other side of the world? How can whole societies come to be overlooked & forgotten? Should today`s generation atone for their ancestors` sins? Blending memoir, history & travel, ` Thicker Than Water` evokes the startlingly beautiful wilderness of the Highlands, the desolate bush of Victoria & the reverberations on one from the other. A tale of blood & bloodlines, it is a powerful, personal journey into dark family history, intergenerational grief & the inherited guilt that we all carry with us. ...