For the first time the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices
- vivid unselfconscious & unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyones troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is with little regard for liberal niceties or the feelings of their betters. Many of these voices will stay with the reader in future volumes jostling alongside well-known figures like John Arlott (here making his first radio broadcast still in police uniform) Glenda Jackson (taking the 11+) & Doris Lessing newly arrived from Africa struck by the levelling poverty of postwar Britain. David Kynaston weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political economic & social landscape for the next three decades. Deeply researched often amusing & always intensely entertaining & readable the first volume of David Kynastons ambitious history offers an entirely fresh perspective on Britain during those six momentous years.
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' An enthralling account' Independent 'A fascinating book...researched with an awesome thoroughness' Daily Telegraph ' Hampton's excellent book should be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the 2012 London Olympics' Daily Mail Critic's Choice The budget for the 2012 Olympic village alone is already a billion pounds short. The likelihood of corporate sponsorship recedes with every day of the credit crunch. How on earth are we going to match the opening & closing ceremonies of Beijing let along top them? Fortunately London has been through just such hard times before in the run-up to an Olympics & in 1948 it showed just how to run a fantastic Games on a tiny budget
- indeed make them all the better for it. Janie Hampton's book about the last time the Olympics came to London is a tale of female competitors sewing their own kit teams ferried to the Games on red London buses & billeted in Spartan hostels or even army camps & the main stadium being hastily cleared of greyhound racing to allow the athletics to take place. The total budget was GBP760 000 great athletes like Emil Zatopek & Fanny Blankers-Koen thrilled the crowds & at the end a profit was turned! This is a book that becomes more relevant & ironically entertaining every day nearer to 2012. Janie Hampton is also the author of a bestselling biography of Joyce Grenfell. She lives in Oxford
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A special tenth-anniversary edition of W.G. Sebalds modern classic Austerlitz" with a new introduction by James Wood. In 1939 five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport & placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity & he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life after a career as an architectural historian Austerlitz
- having avoided all clues that might point to his origin
- finds the past returning to haunt him & he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebalds melancholic masterpiece. " Mesmeric haunting & heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald." (Eileen Battersby " Irish Times"). " Greatness in literature is still possible." (" John Banville" " Irish Times" " Books of the Year"). "A work of obvious genius." (" Literary Review"). "A fusion of the mystical & the solid... His art is a form of justice
- there can be I think no higher aim." (" Evening Standard"). " Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art." (" The Times Literary Supplement"). "I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague & their treatment by the Nazis." (" Observer"). "A great book by a great writer." (Boyd Tonkin " Independent"). W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 & settled permanently in England in 1970 where he was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia until his death in 2001. He is the author of four works of fiction: " The Emigrants" which won the Berlin Literature Prize the Heinrich Heine Prize & the Joseph Breitbach Prize; " The Rings of Saturn; Vertigo; & Austerlitz" which was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize & the National Book Critics Circle Award. Alongside this stand books of poetry " For Years Now" " After Nature" " Unrecounted" & " Across the Land & the Water" & the non-fiction books " On the Natural History of Destruction" & " Campo Santo"."


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Island country continent Australia sure is a big one! Its essence is diversity: deserts tropical reefs towering forests mountains & multicultural cities. Charles Rawlings-Way & Meg Worby Lonely Planet Writers Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage & you can rely on us to tell it like we see it. Inside This Book 13 authors 158 maps 25 800km of coastline 1 snake in a canoe Inspirational photos Clear easy-to-use maps Pull-out map Great Barrier Reef Trip feature Comprehensive planning tools In-depth background ...

The chapters in this fantastic travel guide to Australia have been ordered so that all the sights walks & listings for that area are in one section. This makes it much more user-friendly plus there are colour-coded sections to help you find the information you need quickly & easily. Packed with practical information from local transport to the local language informative text within the guide accompanies wonderful images showing off the best of Australia. ...

Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. Comprehensive index. The map scale is 1: 4 000 000.
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New edition from Asias bestselling map br&. With Area Maps of: Australia (1: 7.7 Million scale) Sydney Area (1: 650 000) Greater Sydney (1: 120 000) Greater Melbourne (1: 150 000) Brisbane Area (1: 650 000) Cairns Area (1: 250 000) Perth Darwin Areas (1: 300 000) Adelaide Area (1: 300 000) & City Plans for Central: Sydney (1: 10 000) Melbourne (1: 15 000) Brisbane (1: 15 000) Perth (1: 17 500) Adelaide (1: 15 000). Places of interest are indicated throughout. ...

The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated. Some 400 000 Australians volunteered for active duty an astonishing 13 per cent of the entire (white) male population a number so great that the Australian government was never forced to rely on conscription. Casualties were an astonishing 52 per cent of all those who served ensuring that the effects of the war would be felt long after the armistice. In particular their epic endeavour at Gallipoli in 1915 was the nations founding legend & the ANZACs went on to distinguish themselves both on the Western Front & in General Allenbys great cavalry campaign against the Turks in the Middle East. Their uniforms & insignia were also significantly different from those of the British Army & provide the basis for a unique set of artwork plates. ...

This title presents the new series covering the history of Australian English language & culture. It is a guide to Australian slang jargon & humour including common misunderstandings humorous & quirky expressions. It teaches how to speak like a local; helps discover Australian Englishs place in contemporary society; &

Includes:: terms for food & drink & sports & entertainment. It features a comprehensive Aboriginal section & terminology index & a useful & easy-to-use lexicon index.

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In Australia the flora has had a broad impact on the lives of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers having provided them with the essential materials for making their food medicine narcotics & stimulants. Plants were also ecologically important for maintaining the populations of terrestrial fauna that hunter-gatherers once foraged upon for their subsistence. The flora has helped shape Aboriginal cultures over the millennia since their Ancestors first occupied the Australian continent. This book describes the species that were essential as the means for manufacturing Aboriginal weapons tools shelter watercraft ceremonial objects clothing ornaments & paint. The book demonstrates how hunter-gatherers lived by making objects from plants & investigates similarities & differences of plant uses across Aboriginal Australia as well as their distinctiveness in relation to practices from other parts of the world. An overview of the changing relationship that Aboriginal people have with the flora is given along with a description of current trends. The present work is jointly concerned with the ethnobotany & economic botany of Aboriginal Australia. ...