The Which Ski Resort Europe Brit Guide provides comprehensive coverage of the authors’ top 50 ski resort recommendations, ranging from the cheapest & value destinations to those renowned for guaranteed snow or nightlife. The guide is organised by country, encompassing resorts in Andorra, Austria, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, & Switzerl&. Each entry provides a range of information on the resort, including the principal mountains, getting around, lift passes, avalanche risks, ski instruction, touring, events, accommodation, eating out, bars & clubs, getting there & useful facts & phone numbers. Individual star ratings are provided for each resort’s on-slope & off-slope activities. Introductory chapters also give useful information on ski & snowboard terminology, safety tips, park rules & etiquette & an equipment guide. ...

Following the best-selling first volume of his autobiography, Alan Whicker presents a hugely entertaining & characteristically insightful second volume that will delight his army of devoted fans. Throughout his years as Foreign Correspondent & then television's Man Around the World, Whicker has covered everything from wars & revolutions to plastic surgery & mudmen. His belief that you can ask anyone anything as long as you do it pleasantly gained him access to the elusive & the secret: voodoo rituals in Haiti, drug squads in Singapore, bank raids in San Francisco, ashrams in India, polar bears in Alaska, even the social fortress of Palm Beach. With instinctive curiosity & a nose for a great story, he has lived a life of adventure, excitement & danger, winning a raft of awards from peers & public. ...

Whickham & Swalwell in 1895 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. 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. In this title: the map covers both Whickham & Swallell, & extends west to include Axwell Park & Damhead Wood. Features include Whickham Hall, St Mary's Church, Whickham House, Whickhambanks Colliery, Northumberland Paper Mills, Keelmans Bridge, Swalwell Colliery, Swalwell Steel Works, Derwent Bridge & River Derwent, Bates Houses & Home Farm. On the reverse is an extract from a directory of Whickham & Swallwell parish register, plus an extract from an article on Ridley's Works. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Whickham & Swalwell in 1895 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 both Whickham & Swallell, & extends west to include Axwell Park & Damhead Wood. Features include Whickham Hall, St Mary`s Church, Whickham House, Whickhambanks Colliery, Northumberland Paper Mills, Keelmans Bridge, Swalwell Colliery, Swalwell Steel Works, Derwent Bridge & River Derwent, Bates Houses & Home Farm. On the reverse is an extract from a directory of Whickham & Swallwell parish register, plus an extract from an article on Ridley`s Works. 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. ...

Whiffy Wilson doesn`t know how to hold a pen & has never looked in a book, but fortunately his friend Dotty is on hand to show him that school is fun. Soon, Whiffy is in his element, & when he gets a gold star for all his work he realises that school is the BEST THING EVER! Multi-award-winning author Caryl Hart, & artist Leonie Lord reunite in this fantastic companion title to Whiffy Wilson the Wolf Who Wouldn`t Wash. With Caryl Hart`s funny story & Leonie Lord`s fabulous art, schooldays have never been such fun! ...

` It sounds dreadful, ` I said to him one day. ` But actually the war is the best thing that ever happened to me.` Helena`s mother always said she was a born poetess. It was not a compliment. Now an old woman, Helena looks back on her life & tries to capture the past, filling notebook after notebook with memories of her respectable, rigid upbringing, her unyielding mother, her loyal father, her golden-haired brother. She remembers how, at their uncle`s country house in the summer of 1914, their stately bourgeois life of good manners, white linen & afternoon tea collapsed into ruins. & how, with war, came a kind of liberation amidst the mud & rubble-and the appearance of a young English photographer who transformed her existence. Lyrical & tender, filled with images of blazing intensity, While the Gods Were Sleeping asks how it is possible to record the dislocation of war; to describe the indescribable. It is a breathtaking novel about the act of remembering, how the past seeps into our lives & how those we have lost leave their trace in the present. ”A beautifully unorthodox novel of the Great War...a kaleidoscopic palette” Independent ” Almost too beautiful a writer...the footprint of Proust visible on every page” Financial Times ” Sumptuously imagined” Independent Best Translated Fiction 2014 ” Visceral & heart-stopping...deeply & painfully moving...one of the finest war stories ever written” New Books ” Mortier writes so well that you are inclined to see everything else as of secondary importance” NRC Handelsblad ”A monumental, phenomenal book” De Morgen ” If Marcel Proust had a descendant somewhere in Flanders, he must have been born in Ghent.” Knack Erwin Mortier (1965) made his mark in 1999 with his debut novel Marcel, which was awarded several prizes in Belgium & the Netherlands, & received acclaim throughout Europe. In the following years he quickly built up a reputation as of one the leading authors of his generation. His novel While the Gods were Sleeping received the AKO Literature Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the Netherlands. His latest work, Stammered Song Book, a mother`s book of hours, ` a raw yet tender elegy about illness & loss, was met with unanimous praise. Mortier`s evocative descriptions bring past worlds brilliantly to life. ...

Love & marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married life, birth, & childrearing in a foreign culture, she discovered as much about human resilience, & the capacity for courage, as she did about herself. While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love & Rebellion in Nepal tells a compelling story of a woman transformed in intimate & unexpected ways. Set against the backdrop of increasing political turmoil in Nepal, Enslin`s story takes us deep into the lives of local women as they claim their rightful place in society--and make their voices heard. ...

Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his time, Javier Marias is best known for his spy trilogy, Your Face Tomorrow, which has been compared to Proust & hailed as one of the great modern European novels. In his first short story collection for fifteen years, he brings together tales which span his entire writing career: haunting tales from the very edges of life. An obscenely fat man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, a ghost is condemned to repeatedly resign from his job, & a man of impeccable refinement meets his doppelganger at a work dinner, resulting in ghoulish life changes for both men. ...

”A book to start your heart & feet beating for the road”. (The Times). With its stories of strolling, poems about pavement-pounding & wonderings on wandering, this is the indispensable collection for the flaneur & the rambler
- & everyone in between. Take a turn with Jane Austen, stride side by side with Colm Toibin, let restless William Wordsworth lead you through brook & road before a detour with Stella Gibbons to the park. Whether mountaineering with Mark Twain or visiting Oxford Street with Julian Barnes
- be sure to take this anthology with you on your ambulations. With a new foreword by Robert Macfarlane. It is previously published with the title The Vintage Book of Walking.

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