Basildon Bond- bringing you finest top quality writing paper since 1911. This pad contains 40 blue sheets of classic watermarked paper with guide sheet & blotting paper. The pad measures approximately: H 229 x W 178mm. Matches blue envelopes (H 89 x W 187mm). ...

Basildon Bond- bringing you finest top quality writing paper since 1911. This pad contains 40 champagne sheets of classic watermarked paper with guide sheet & blotting paper. The pad measures approximately: H 229 x W 178mm. Matches champagne envelopes (H 89 x W 187mm). ...

The bloody battle to rule Japan has begun: the Iga & the Kouga clan are locked in a fight to the death. Driven by a centuries-old hatred the clans will do anything to annihilate each other. The Kouga clan is engaging in a little espionage & has planted a shapeshifter disguised as an Iga ninja in the Iga palace. Meanwhile the Iga clan turns to its last best hope: their new leader Oboro who alone can defeat the Kougas formidable leader Gennosuke. But is Oboro willing to kill the man she loves? As the war grows more desperate true love may be the next casualty... ...

Thanks to the machinations of Ieyasu Tokugawa the age-old truce between the Kouga & the Iga clans is no more
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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. ...

This book is aimed at basketball players serious about improving their game as well as coaches looking to improve team play & incorporate new drills into their practices. It combines detailed instruction & practice drills to establish & reinforce the fundamentals of individual & team play. It covers essential topics such as basic positioning moving without the ball ballhandling shooting passing perimeter moves post moves defence & rebounding. Tactics such as out-of-bounds play & offensive & defensive systems are incorporated to provide players & coaches with a comprehensive resource for the development of basketball skills. This is a more comprehensive approach to teaching basketball basics including expanded concepts critical cues teaching tips skill assessment & troubleshooting. ...

The Basque Country's coastline runs east from Bilbao (with its award-winning Guggenheim Museum) & San Sebastian (some of the best food in Europe) to chic Biarritz with its splendid beaches. This pocket-sized full-colour guide describes car tours & walks on the coast & inland
- throughout the seven provices making up the area including the lush green flanks of the Pyrenees with their picture-postcard villages & famous places like Pamplona & the Pilgrims' Route to Santiago de Compostela. Fold-out touring map large-scale (1:50 000) topo walking maps. Local transport timetables. Free on-line update service with specific route change information. Series (50 destinations) dubbed 'the blue Bibles' by the Sunday Times.
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They are a mythical people almost an imagined people writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC. Their forbidden tongue is equally mysterious it is related to no other but today the Basques are enjoying what may be the most important cultural renaissance in their long existence. ...

The first major account of the history of reggae black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins & development in Jamaica from ska to rock-steady to dub & then to reggae itself a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster King Tubby & Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica from Colonial Island to troubled independence & Jamaicans from Kingston to London. ...

Longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize Elif Shafaks The Bastard of Istanbul" is a tale of an extraordinary family curse & clashing cultural identities in the mystical & mysterious city of Istanbul. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctors surgery. I need to have an abortion she announces. She is nineteen years old & unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the Kaznci men die in their early forties so it is a house of women among them Asyas beautiful rebellious mother Zeliha who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; & Feride a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. & when Asyas Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay long hidden family secrets connected with Turkeys turbulent past begin to emerge. " Wonderfully magical incredible breathtaking...will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages." (" Sunday Express"). "A beautiful book the finest I have read about Turkey." (" Irish Times"). " Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafaks book. " (" Vogue"). Elif Shafak has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in both English & Turkish contemporary literature; her novels " The Flea Palace" " The Forty Rules of Love" " The Gaze" & " Honour" are consistently at the top of bestseller lists across the globe. Elif Shafaks examination of national identity " The Happiness of Blond People" is available as part of the " Penguin Specials" series
- a digital only series of shorts designed with commuters in mind."
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