A new translation of Giorgio Bassani`s award winning collection of novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes & communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War. In these five unforgettable stories, Bassani gave life to the characters that would inform the Romanzo di Ferrara, his suite of novels depicting life in the city. Moving, poetic, atmospheric & artfully observed, this collection is a distillation of Bassani`s genius. It won the Strega Prize on first publication as Cinque Storie Ferraresi in 1956, & established Bassani as one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century. ` Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, & one of its great artists` Guardian ` The most uncompromising, merciful & merciless writer` Ali Smith ...

Withington & Burnage in 1892 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. Two versions have been published for this area. The maps cover much of Withington on the western side of the map; coverage then extends eastward to Burnage & Burnage Lane. Features on the more built up 1916 map include the LNWR Wilmslow & Levenshulme line with Mauldeth Road station, Ladybarn, St Margaret`s church Burnage, Palatine Road with tramways, St Paul`s church, Yewtree Farm, Withington House, Withington Hall, etc. Each map has a selection of street directory entries. The 1892 version in colour, taken from the beautiful 1st Edition h&-coloured map. 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. ...

Withington & Burnage in 1916 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 much of Withington on the western side of the map; coverage then extends eastward to Burnage & Burnage Lane. The LNWR Wilmslow & Levenshulme line runs through the map with Mauldeth Road station. Other features include Ladybarn, St Margaret's church Burnage, Palatine Road with tramways, St Paul's church, Yewtree Farm, Withington House, Withington Hall, etc. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries including Burnage Lane, Clarence Road, Hill Street, Old Hall Lane, Palatine Road, Parsonage Road, St Paul's Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Withington & Burnage in 1916 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. Two versions have been published for this area. The maps cover much of Withington on the western side of the map; coverage then extends eastward to Burnage & Burnage Lane. Features on the more built up 1916 map include the LNWR Wilmslow & Levenshulme line with Mauldeth Road station, Ladybarn, St Margaret`s church Burnage, Palatine Road with tramways, St Paul`s church, Yewtree Farm, Withington House, Withington Hall, etc. Each map has a selection of street directory entries. The 1892 version in colour, taken from the beautiful 1st Edition h&-coloured map. 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. ...

Born & bred in the North East of Engl&, David Moffatt had no intention of disturbing his deep roots in the banks of the Tyne until his University tutor asked him to go to Mato Grosso in Brazil. With a fraught love life, & his football team heading for relegation, suddenly a year in the jungle sounded like a good idea. His life is changed forever... Against a backdrop of growing up in postwar Tyneside, Without a Paddle describes David`s travels in a series of tales & delightful vignettes. Amusing, sometimes hilarious, occasionally sad, we meet his drunken bush guide that he has to disarm, his incompetent camp cook who nearly poisons his boss, an odd assortment of expeditionaries from the elderly entomologist that David has to save from the wasps to a sexchange capybara, & the young female zoologist who...well, it`s all in the book. With a major bid submission hours away, David gets locked stark naked in his bathroom in Cairo, exiting via the window to a busy street seems his only option. At the height of the `red terror` in post-revolutionary Ethiopia, his room is searched while he sleeps
- & was the hammering on his door in a seedy hotel in Ogaden the beginning of a kidnap? New Year`s Eve in Rio finds him in a club to which he doesn`t belong & discover what happens to the Gambian beauty queen in Banjul market. After growing up on Tyneside with a teddy bear that travelled to South Africa, playing & watching football & more football, singing with The Invaders & being suspended from school, none of this had equipped David with the paddle he needed to steer him through his travels. Without a Paddle is a light-hearted memoir that will appeal to those with an interest in foreign travel, or who simply enjoy a good laugh.
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It is 2011, & all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science & Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges & struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at the university is lonely & claustrophobic. Her letters are read by censors & she must hide her notes & photographs not only from her minders but also from her colleagues, evangelical Christian missionaries, whose faith she does not share. As the weeks pass she discovers how easily her students lie, & how total is their obedience to Kim Jong-il. She also, bravely, hints at the existence of a world beyond their own: the internet, free travel, democracy, & other ideas forbidden in a country where torture & execution are commonplace. Yet her pupils are also full of boyish enthusiasm, with flashes of curiosity not yet extinguished. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving & incalculably rare glimpse of life inside the world`s most inscrutable country. ...

In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl, barely alive, is found in a sprawling house where thirteen people lie dead. The girl has been beaten & abused, & the house still smoulders from the fire that raked through it. The girl now awaits her trial for the murders that the local police believe she has committed. But an unconventional social worker, Simran Singh, is convinced of her innocence. As Simran begins to examine the circumstances around the case, she encounters a terrifying web of prejudice & deceit in which lives of women are endangered from birth. Brilliantly descriptive of tradition-bound Punjab, Kishwar Desai`s debut novel introduces the feisty & independent Simran, whose determination to seek out the truth places her at odds with her environment. What she discovers will change her forever. ...

[ Previously published as ` Went The Day Well`] ` Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best` Spectator `A book to die for` Evening Standard From Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this is a breathtaking portrait of the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo. As Wellington`s rain-sodden army retreated towards an obscure valley called Waterloo, the men & women of Britain were still going to the theatre & science lectures, working in the fields & the factories, reading & writing books & sermons, painting their pictures & sitting in front of Lord Elgin`s marbles. David Crane`s stunning freeze-frame of Britain on this day of momentous change shifts hour by hour between Britain & Belgium. The Britain that fought Waterloo
- its radicals & patriots, artisans & aristocrats, prisoners & poets
- appears through the smoke of battle & the mythology of Waterloo in this magnificent & original tracing of the endless, overlapping connections between people`s lives.

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Whitney in 1919 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 of Witney covers the centre of the town, extending from the River Windrush westward to Witney Park Farm `on site of Bishop`s Palace`, & from St Mary`s church northward to Holy Trinity church. Features include Church Green, High Street, Mount Mills, Langel Common, The Crofts, Market Square, Corn Street, Workhouse, cemetery, Bridge Street, Mill Street, Witney Mills, West End, etc. On the reverse is a commercial directory from 1899. 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. ...

Witten & Langendreer in 1944 in the Alan Godfrey series of reproductions of British War Office survey first published in 1945 prior to the Allied occupation of the area. The map is in colour & covers the area from Langendreer in the north southward to Witten. Features include railways, roundhouses, marshalling yards, collieries, tramways, Witten town centre, Laer, Annen, Kley, �-spel, Düren, etc To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. This series of reproductions from Alan Godfrey covers the major industrial area east of the Rhine that

Includes:: Bochum, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Oberhausen & other towns, with their great network of railways & industries. The maps are taken from the British War Office 1:12, 500 plans & reduced at Approx. 1:19, 000. Published in 1945, prior to the Allied occupation of the area, the maps are especially good at showing industry, collieries & transport. They are not bombing maps
- indeed, they make clear that allowance is not made for bomb damage
- but show the areas with all their industrial sites & railways largely as they were before the bombing raids of 1943-44. The maps have additional information added by British intelligence. This is normally accurate but allowance must be made for the `fog of war` & occasional spelling mistakes, etc. Each title has on the reverse a specially written introduction to the area in English, with a shorter text in German. Map legend is in English only.



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