WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILL BRYSON An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40 000-&-a-half-foot peak The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favourite since its publication in 1956. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constantly lost) Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) & 3 000 Yogistani porters set out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas. http://www.rumdoodle.org.uk/ ...

Ash is James Herbert's most controversial novel to date & will make you wonder what is fact & what is fiction. They were miscreants with black souls roaming the corridors & passageways. Infamous people thought long-deceased. Hiding & nurturing their evil in a basement full of secrets so shocking they would shake the world if they were ever revealed. David Ash ghost hunter & parapychologist arrives at Comraich Castle -- a desolate ancient place with a dark heart -- to investigate a series of disturbing events. An incorporeal power has been ignited by a long-ago curse fed & now unleashed by the evil of those who once inhabited this supposed sanctuary -- & by some who still do. Yet their hour of retribution is at hand.. . ...

Ash is James Herbert's most controversial novel to date & will make you wonder what is fact & what is fiction. They were miscreants with black souls roaming the corridors & passageways. Infamous people thought long-deceased. Hiding & nurturing their evil in a basement full of secrets so shocking they would shake the world if they were ever revealed. David Ash ghost hunter & parapychologist arrives at Comraich Castle -- a desolate ancient place with a dark heart -- to investigate a series of disturbing events. An incorporeal power has been ignited by a long-ago curse fed & now unleashed by the evil of those who once inhabited this supposed sanctuary -- & by some who still do. Yet their hour of retribution is at hand.. . ...

In the world of ASH fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life & death reality & magic. As orphaned Ash grows up a servant in her stepmother's home she begans to realise that her beloved mother Elinor was very much in tune with these underworld folk & that she herself has the power to see them too. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty greed & ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court & hopefully Royal or aristocratic marriage Ash befriends one of these fairies-a mysterious handsome man-who grants her wishes & restores hope to Ash's existence even though she knows there will be a price to pay. But most important of all she also meets Kaisa a huntress employed by the king & it is Kaisa who truly awakens Ash's desires for both love & self-respect... Ash escapes a life with her grim & self-serving stepmother & finds her beloved one...ASH is a fairy tale about possibility & recognizing the opportunities for change. From the deepest grief comes the chance for transformation. ...

With her mother dead & her father away the Ash Girl lives huddled deep in the protection of the ashes with her stepmother & two stepsisters. When an invitation to the Ball addressed to all the daughters of the house arrives from Prince Amir Ashie can't believe that she can go too. ...

Widely acclaimed for its warm humor lyricism & honesty this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public & private themes setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backdrop of the times: unemployment the rise of Hitler & Mussolini & the Spanish Civil War. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
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Spring 2010 & when Charlie & Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house set in acres of English countryside is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep it in the family or will they have to sell? Moving back in time in an interwoven narrative spanning two & a half centuries we witness the house from its beginnings through to the present day. Along the way we meet those who have built the house lived in it & loved it; those who have worked in it & those who would subvert it to their own ends including Mrs Trimble housekeeper to the rackety spendthrift Mores; the wealthy Henderson family in their Victorian heyday; six-year-old Pudge; Walter Beckmann prisoner in its grounds; & Reggie & Hugo agents of its postwar revival. Through good times & bad the better we get to know the house the more we care about its survival. A novel about people architecture & living history Ashenden" is an evocative & allusive reflection on England & its past." ...

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914 Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne
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