3 X Cesar Aira combines three short novels by the cult Argentinian writer in one beautifully designed box set. Irreverent, playful, provocative & prolific, Argentinian author Cesar Aira has written over seventy books & has been acknowledged internationally to be one of the most original & provocative authors in world literature. Collected here are three of his novellas, to be published for the very first time in the UK. In Ghosts, an immigrant worker`s family are squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen & their families see the ghosts which float around the place, but one teenage girl`s interest in them becomes so intense that her mother realizes her life is in the balance. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter tells of a point in the life of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, when he visits Latin America to paint its spectacular landscapes. There, a strange episode interrupts his trip & irreversibly marks him for life. & in The Literary Conference, a young translator called Cesar Aira travels to a literary conference, intent on world domination... Praise for Cesar Aira: ” Once you`ve started reading Aira, you don`t want to stop”. (Roberto Bolano). ” Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges & W. G. Sebald”. (Los Angeles Times). Cesar Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949, & has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. One of the most prolific writers in Argentina, Aira has published more than seventy books. ...

This new title is the second in an enhanced series of Paul Hannon`s walking guides. A range of enhancements see two previous titles merge to cover a broader, logically grouped area. This volume merges the Three Peaks & Howgill Fells areas, which already meet in Dentdale, virtually all within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The new series is far more visually appealing with the use of colour throughout & a more modern house style. The best of the walks from the original series are gathered together to provide 25 glorious outings. A collection of over 50 colour photographs depict features & landscapes along the routes, while concise route descriptions are complemented by a wealth of background information. ...

Ronald Turnbull’s Cicerone guide to Three Peaks, Ten Tors is a practical book exploring long-distance & challenge walks in the UK, providing tips & advice on tools, techniques, routes & reminiscences from the author’s own walks. For aspiring or novice long-distance walkers, the guide is valuable in providing tips on how to minimise the ‘suffering’ of walking, staying safe, raising money for charity & reflections on the highs & lows of long-distance routes. Turnbull intersperses sound advice with wry recollections of his experience of the National Three Peaks challenge & other such routes across the British Isles. The guide is organised into sections detailing 15 long-distance & challenge walking routes across the UK including National Three Peaks, Yorkshire Three Peaks, Lancashire Three Peaks, Three Peaks of Somerset, Ten ors (Dartmoor), Lyke Wake Walk, Derwent Watershed, Across Wales, Lairig Ghru, Fifty walks from your front door, Welsh 3000s, Lakes 3000s, Cumbria’s Old Country Tops, Cairngorm 4000s, Mourne’s Seven Sevens & Tranters’ Walk in Lochaber. Each Chapter begins with Information boxes detailing the hills involved, distance, ascent, terrain, a suggested target time & how long the standard strong walker should take to walk the route. Detailed route descriptions are accompanied by colour diagrams mapping the route in addition to colour photographs illustrating some of the highlights of each region. ...

This Three Rivers 4 Person Picnic Basket by Navigate

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Meet Pete Brown, a beer jounalist, beer drinker & author of an irreverent book about British beer, ” Man Walks Into A Pub”. One day, Pete`s world is rocked when he discovers several countries produce, consume & celebrate beer far more than we do. The Germans claim they make the best beer in the world, the Australians consider its consumption a patriotic duty, the Spanish regard lager as a trendy youth drink & the Japanese have built a skyscrapter in the shape of a foaming glass of their favourite brew. At home, meanwhile, people seem to be turning their back on the great British pint. What`s going on? Obviously, the only way to find out was to on the biggest pub crawl ever. Drinking in more than three hundred bars, in twenty-seven towns, in thirteen different countries, on four different continents, Pete puts on a stone in weight & does irrecoverable damage to his health in the pursuit of saloon-bar enlightenment. ”A fine book...the exact tone that a work on this social drug requires.”
- ” The Times”. ” Over 300 bars later & the man still manages to make you laugh.”
- ” Daily Mirror”. ” Carlsberg don`t publish books. But if they did, they would probably come up with ” Three Sheets to the Wind”...”
- ” Metro”. ”A marvellous book which is as enlightening about the countries he visited as any travel guide.”
- ” Adventure Magazine”.



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Three sisters struggle to change the course of their destinies in a China that does not belong to them. Yumi uses her dignity, Yuxiu her seductive powers, & Yuyang her desire for success. This breathtaking story vividly captures the demonic desire for power that possesses people. Whether it`s in the village of the Wang family, where life is attuned to the rhythm of working the fields & the slogans of the cultural revolution, or in the Peking of the 1980s, not one of these women is prepared to be just another wave in the `infinite ocean of people`. It is an epic portrayal of life in modern China. ...

The Three Sisters Wilderness Adventure Map is a waterproof, topographic map that

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” There is only one bond that I trust: between a woman & her sisters. We never take our eyes off each other. In love & in rivalry, we always think of each other.” When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined
- with Margaret`s younger sister Mary
- to a sisterhood unique in all the world. The three sisters will become the queens of Engl&, Scotland & France. United by family loyalties & affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other. Katherine commands an army against Margaret & kills her husband James IV of Scotl&. But Margaret`s boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son. Mary steals the widowed Margaret`s proposed husb&, but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others. As they experience betrayals, dangers, loss & passion, the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond, more powerful than any man, even a king.

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A chilling collection of three novellas from YA authors Lucy Christopher, Kat Ellis & Rhian Ivory. Three Strikes is a collection of three novellas from three star YA authors: ` The Darkness` by Lucy Christopher: Everyone has disappeared. Ebony writes by candlelight. Is she the only one left? Then she spots a red light blinking at her from the darkness. A camera? ` The Twins of Blackfin` by Kat Ellis is a prequel to the popular Blackfin Sky. Every evening Bo visits her best friend Sky`s grave. One night she hears a girl`s voice. Following it leads her to a journal & a crypt. ` Matchstick Girl` by Rhian Ivory is a modern YA retelling of The Little Match Girl. Out busking, runaway Nia is mugged & left badly hurt in a tunnel. All she has is three matches, & she starts seeing pictures in the light... A story of grief, love & music.i?1/4i?1/4i?1/4 ...

Once upon a time, the name Baghdad conjured up visions of the most magical, romantic city on earth, where flying carpets carried noble thieves off on wonderful adventures, & vicious viziers & beautiful princesses mingled with wily peasants & powerful genies. This is the world of the Arabian Nights, a magnificent collection of ancient tales from Arabia, India, & Persia. The tales
- often stories within stories
- are told by the sultana Scheherazade, who relates them as entertainments for her jealous & murderous husb&, hoping to keep him amused & herself alive. Three fantastic tales have been chosen from our new translation to introduce readers to the delights of Arabian Nights
- Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves Killed by the Slave Girl is a well-known & well-loved classic, placed alongside the equally enchanting Judar & his Brothers & Ma'rus the Cobbler.


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