The Time Out Dubai Shortlist

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The Shortlist Guide series from Time Out explores a range of international destinations in a handy, pocket-sized format designed to introduce visitors to the best nightlife, entertainment & local attractions in the city. Expert local writers provide an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city, ensuring that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. Each guide opens with a ‘ Don’t Miss’ section profiling recommendations by the author & accompanied by detailed commentary. An Itineraries chapter provides inspiration for travellers with a series of thematic walks around the city. The main section explores the city by region, with each area divided into sights & museums, eating & drinking, shopping, nightlife & arts & leisure. Contact details, addresses, opening times & prices for each establishment are also given where relevant.A further section on Essentials provides listings of hotels by area, accompanied by a description & with details of opening times, addresses, directions & outline room prices. Further information on getting to the city & around is also provided. There is also a Resources index, with practical guidance on accidents & emergencies, credit card loss, customs, dental emergencies, disabled visitors, embassies & consulates, left luggage, opening hours, smoking, telephones, tickets, visas & what’s on where. ...

The Shortlist Manchester selects the very best of Manchester`s sightseeing, restaurants, shopping, nightlife & entertainment, with Time Out`s trademark expertise. It also takes you straight to the latest venues, tips you off to the news & fashions & gives the dates that matter. It`s the best reference for anyone visiting Manchester in a handy size & easy to use format. Features include: full colour & illustrated throughout with exclusive photography, using original imagery to give a real sense of the place. This area guides not only cover the sightseeing in Manchester, but also restaurants, bars & shops
- all plotted on maps handily located within the chapter, top lists of the must-see highlights, itineraries to help you plan your visit, critic`s choices pick out the best Manchester sights, experiences & cultural highlights
- at a glance, Manchester restaurants & bars have been visited & reviewed anonymously by critics who pay their own way & Manchester hotels independently reviewed.

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The Time Out UK Guides series comprises a range of titles dedicated to exploring the UK, providing inspiration for trips away, thematic destinations & holiday breaks with the family. Individual guides cater for exploring with children in addition to thematic titles on beaches, coastlines & the countryside. Photographic titles also celebrate some of the UK’s most attractive destinations. * Please see individual descriptions for further information.* ...

With the inauguration after ten years of the newly expanded Accademia gallery, Venice`s grandi maestri are fighting back against the lagoon city`s slew of cutting-edge contemporary offerings. & while lambent madonnas continue to preside in the ageless gloom of any number of ancient churches, the modernist jewel of Carlo Scarpa`s Olivetti showroom in St Mark`s square has been returned to the public after loving restoration. Time Out Venice`s team of local experts gives the lie to La Serenissima`s reputation as unchanging museum. Charting new openings & major revamps in a city where it pays to look beyond the tourist-trade veneer & take a peek its own unique way of life, the guide leads you to restaurants where Venetians dine, shops where the glass really is blown in Murano & exquisite corners where the visiting hordes seem light years away. Venice city guide highlights: full colour & illustrated throughout with exclusive photography, using original imagery to give a real sense of the place; handy pull-out Venice map; extensive area guides not only cover the sightseeing in Venice, but also restaurants, bars & shops
- all plotted on maps handily located within the chapter; Top 20 list of the must-see highlights; itineraries to help you plan your visit; Critic`s choices pick out the best Venice sights, experiences & cultural highlights
- at a glance; all Venice restaurants & bars have been visited & reviewed anonymously by critics who pay their own way; & Venice hotels independently reviewed. The revamped Time Out Guides retain the independence & local expertise that the series is known for, while adding more features to help the visitor navigate the city. Whether you have an action-packed 24 hours or a leisurely week in which to take it all in, these guides are more essential than ever.

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Great Britain & Ireland are home to some of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. Stonehenge, Hadrian`s Wall & Ironbridge are familiar to us all & each year thousands flock to witness their spectacular beauty. But what can these fascinating sites tell us about the lives & times of our ancestors? Now, Channel 4`s perennially popular Time Team take us on an archaeological sight-seeing tour of Britain & Irel&. Region by region, they select the most interesting & important sites which are open to visitors, some familiar to all, others relatively unknown. Each is treated with the inimitable no-nonsense Time Team style. This book is like having Tony, Mick, Geo-Phys & the gang in the back seat of your car
- sharing their specialist knowledge & fascinating historical insights wherever you travel in the British Isles...
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In this intriguing & very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th & 78th birthdays, & looks back on her earlier life. With all her familiar skills as a writer she recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s & 1930s in Cambridge, & then giving birth to her second daughter during the worst of the Doodlebug bombardment in London during the war. It follows her work, starting out as an administrator in the National Health Service, then on to the Home Office in the forensic & criminal justice departments. She later served as a Governor of the BBC, an influential member of the British Council, the Arts Council & the Society of Authors, & eventually entering the House of Lords. Along the way, this diary & personal memoir deals with her burgeoning reputation as a novelist, starting with Cover Her Face in 1962, & with the craft of the classical detective story. She also details the writing of one of her most intriguing & carefully researched books, A Certain Justice. This wonderful memoir will enthral aficionados of detective fiction, & will also appeal to anyone who lived through those turbulent years of the twentieth century. ...

The world & its resources are finite, yet we are seemingly locked into a system based on growth: growth of population, growth of income & growth of consumption. From this irrefutable starting point, Time to Eat the Dog? attempts to uncover what sustainability really means. Brenda & Robert Vale explore the environmental impact of the decisions we make, from what we eat & what we wear to how we travel & enjoy ourselves. Their book will make you see your life & your place in the world in a completely new light. Challenging the orthodoxies that underpin our entire economic system, this is one subversive read. ...

This travel mug is perfect for those who live life on-the-go fuelled by a warm beverage. Made from ceramic with a double insulated wall, this mug makes travelling with a hot drink easy. A silicone lid keeps your cuppa warm & the phrase ‘time to go’, which is on the front, keeps things cheery. Material
- Insulated Double Wall Porcelain, Silicon
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From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned & awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks & the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude & the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of `supernatural windfall` which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records. ...