With everything you need for a memorable holiday the Essential Spiral Cuba" is a definite must-have. The guide is split into colour-coded sections including The Essence of... Planning Best Places to See Best Things to Do & Exploring. There is helpful advice for planning your trip with information about when to go getting there being there & getting around. The Exploring section divides China into colour-coded regions in accordance with the locator map on the cover flap. Hotels restaurants nightlife & places of interest are grouped within each region with grid references & cross-referencing to ensure that it is easy to find what you are looking for in each area. Entries within the guide have been researched by experts & there are website addresses & practical information throughout." ...

In this acute & profoundly engaged exploration of Cuban history Richard Gott illuminates the islands entire revolutionary past from pre-Columbian times to the present. He emphasises little-known aspects of Cubas early centuries & provides an extraordinary account of Castros regime its lonely survival in the post-Soviet years & its expected future. ...

Baedeker; the most famous & cherished travel brand in the world is now adding this exciting new title to its innovative series. This superb full-colour illustrated guide features 3D laminated cut-outs to show you the key sights in perspective & a large fully-indexed pull-out map. Additional detailed maps & plans can also be found throughout the guide clearly pin-pointing the best places to stay & the top places to eat & drink. At the heart of the guide is a wealth of comprehensive information written by experts on the sights & top attractions in an easy-to-read A-Z format. Also included are great practical travel tips covering accommodation & food & drink for all budgets entertainment sport transport & health; not to mention some insider tips for saving money or having a unique travel experience. There is also a variety of recommended tours covering the best routes available to ensure you get the most from your destination. The plastic wallet means that you can keep the guide & map together & ensures that both will survive in all weather. Baedeker
- setting a new standard in 21st century travel guide publishing.
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Glorious colour images complete with informative captions & introductory chapter of the rare & varied Cuban-owned 1950s American & European automobiles trucks & station wagons that were imported before 1961. Sections include Last Chance Saloons Winged Rockets & 38 D-Cups Cuban Coupes Keep On Trucking Cuban Heels Drive & Determination & The Weird & Wonderful. Among the famous Marques that feature are Cadillac Chevy Buick Dodge Oldsmobile Ford Packard De Soto Pontiac Plymouth Edsel Mercury & Metropolitan Hillman Singer & Austin Nash Sedans a Lloyd 600 German 2-cylinder/4-stroke 596cc car Ramblers & SAABs Mercs Humber Standard Vanguard Ford Consul/ Zephyr Hillman Husky & Minx Singer Gazelle & Austin
- most in running order & passed down from generation to generation. Trucks include Fords a Fargo Dodges & Chevys not forgetting cigars street urchins & the lovely ladies of Havana. All uniquely photographed written & compiled by our man in Havana.
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For a growing number of British holidaymakers Cuba is a Caribbean paradise but it is also a land of cutbacks & economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island & his search for the real Cuba inevitably becomes a search for Fidel Castro too. Before meeting his quarry Smith travels extensively through the land of miracles in an old American automobile. His highly-personalised account features a bloody initiation into a voodoo-like cult dining on giant rat & checking into the Love Hotel. & he goes on manoeuvres in the Everglades with armed but not especially competent Cuban exiles dreaming of a second Bay of Pigs. With disarming wit & considerable insight Stephen Smith investigates a country where communism & voodoo coexist & where the influence of its leader of forty years continues to throw a long shadow. ...

Cuba is often perceived in starkly black & white terms
- either as the site of one of Latin Americas most successful revolutions
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When Dot Mc Cann playing with her pals decides to hide in Butcher Rathbone's almost empty dustbin she overhears a conversation which could send one man to prison & the other to the gallows
- & suddenly finds herself in possession of stolen goods. Dot lives with her aunt & uncle the cuckoo in the nest abandoned to these relatives after her parents died. She feels very alone until she meets up with Corky who has run away from a London orphanage. They join forces with Emma whose jeweller's shop has been burgled & with Nick a handsome young newspaper reporter who is investigating the crime. The four of them begin a plot to catch the thieves. But Dot & Emma have been recognised & soon both are in very real danger... Set in Liverpool in the 1920s The Cuckoo Child is vintage Katie Flynn the beloved author of saga fiction with over two million books sold nationwide.
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When Elsie & Bert Jones move with their children Ann & Arthur to Candle Lane a modest street in Battersea they miss their comfortable house in Wimbledon. But the move is the right thing to do as it will enable Bert to finance his new removal business. They are a warm-hearted family & Elsie soon makes friends with her less fortunate neighbour Ruth & her daughter Sally. But before long Elsie realises that all is not well in the house next door... ...

Keep your enemies close your family less so... Last year Nat found herself with nowhere to live. She considered sleeping on the bus & washing in the rain but inevitably ended up on her parents doorstep. It was only for a month she assured them if that. She repeated this phrase a lot over the next six months while the housing market stagnated like a spoilt kids fish tank & her life followed suit. While her friends pursued normal adult lives Nat was taking packed lunches to gigs & being treated to lectures on Why Its Nice When All The Tins Face Forwards In The Cupboard. (So we can see what they all are at a glance!) Nat wouldnt say she & those like her were the real victims of the recession but it would be nice if you did. Then she would do a tiny brave smile. A book for anyone whos been forced back to the family nest parents who cant shake off their adult kids or anyone whos ever excused themselves from a family gathering for a quick scream into a pile of towels. ...

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However her brother has his doubts & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger.. .A gripping elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.




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