The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back & forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development & prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people, a nation of seafarers. It is also our nearest, dearest playground where people have sought sun, sin & bracing breezes.

Tom Fort takes us on a fascinating, discursive journey from east to west, to find out what this stretch of water means to us & what is so special about the English seaside, that edge between land & seawater. He dips his toe into Sandgate's waters, takes the air in Hastings & Bexhill, chews whelks in Brighton, builds a sandcastle in Sandbanks, sunbathes in sunny Sidmouth, catches prawns off the slipway at Salcombe & hunts a shark off Looe.

Stories of smugglers & shipwreck robbers, of beachcombers & samphire gatherers, gold diggers & fossil hunters abound.

This paperback book has 432 pages & measures: 19.8 x 13 x 2.8cm





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Lita de Alberdi is a gifted spiritual teacher who has taught hundreds of people to channel their guides. In this accessible & practical book, she explains how you too can learn to contact & channel your own spiritual guide. Full of easy-to-follow meditations & exercises based on her successful courses, Channelling will enable you to: ï ½ Experience an expanded state of consciousness ï ½ Work with guides & angels ï ½ Use psychic protection effectively ï ½ Channel to receive help with health & past life issues ï ½ Conduct channelled readings for others ï ½ Understand the changes happening on Earth today ï ½ Enhance your confidence & creativity Throughout the book Lita de Alberdi

Includes:: channelled material from her own guides & answers the many questions that people ask. If you want to learn to channel successfully & safely, this book is for you.

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What happens when a life implodes? When a respected older man, a product of the liberated 1970s, is incapable of cleaning up his act for the twenty-first century? When he pursues sex with a rabidity his body & his reputation can no longer sustain? In this collection, which features two new, previously unpublished stories, Edmund White explores different aspects of ageing, romance & sex. Taking an unsparing look at gay midlife, these stories are not fiction devoted to the dim splendours & miseries of the past but rather to the unsettling, irresistible claims of the present. Age remains one of the great taboos of gay culture, but Edmund White, as iconoclastic as ever, writes about maturity with the same precision & insight he brought to adolescence in A Boy's Own Story. Edmund White has always been the ideal travelling companion, as he demonstrated in The Flaneur; here, he invites the reader to accompany him to Florida, the Greek Isles, & Turkey
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This book brings together all the work in a new field of physics, the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics. The author shows how computers have been able to help researchers, by mapping the whole plane of solutions of non-linear equations. ...

Someone is following you…
One summer evening in New Engl&, two young girls stumble upon a body. Forensic pathologist Dr.

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Stuck with arrows & close to death, a man is pulled from the icy waters of the Gulf of Nahl. Winter, a seemingly quiet young fisherman's daughter, harbours a secret addiction that threatens to destroy her. A young priestess, Cinzia, must face a long journey home to protect her church from rebellion. A rebellion sparked by her sister. ...

Immerse yourself in the entire Chaos Walking trilogy is now available in this striking 10th anniversary boxed set.

Prentisstown

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An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded & later reviled in the America that made him Hollywood's richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes, & many studies have sought to unveil 'the man behind the mask'. This title charts the tale of the Tramp himself through his films. ...

Charlie Chaplin is the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. Chaplin's life was marked by extraordinary contrasts: the child of London slums who became a multimillionaire; & the on-screen clown who was a driven perfectionist behind the camera. This book tells his story. ...

In 1931, City Lights introduced Charlie Chaplin's new female star to the world. The film
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