The lives of four sensuous bold & remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD in the desperate days of the siege of Masada when supplies are dwindling & the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers & all are keepers of secrets
- about who they are where they come from who fathered them & whom they love. There is Yael the assassins daughter whose heartbreak leads to her true path in the ruins of the desert; Revka the bakers wife who loses her dearest treasure on earth & yet finds the strength to protect her family; Aziza the warriors beloved who leads a secret life not even those closest to her could imagine; & Marit beautiful witch of Moab a woman as loyal as she is dangerous.
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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. ...

Dover has been the gateway to England for over 3 000 years & each generation has left its mark on the town. From the Bronze Age boat to the Channel Tunnel from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War & from Henry VIIIs harbour to the immense Eastern Docks Dover is full of history. In this book the towns busy maritime centre seafront & architecture have been captured in a series of fascinating historical photographs each compared with a modern photograph of the same scene today. These photographs together with the authors well-researched captions will inform & entertain residents & visitors to Dover alike. ...

Making full use of archival sources studies by other scholars & information provided by family members Vincent Orange has completed the first biography of Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to cover his entire life. Soldier pilot wireless pioneer squadron commander spiritualist champion skier Stuffy Dowding is perhaps best known as the creator of the first radar-based air defence system & his no less remarkable management of such throughout the Battle of Britain. Dowding served in delightful & dangerous Iraq helped to pacify unrest in the Holy Land was involved in the R.101 airship disaster & oversaw the creation of Britains first eight-gun monoplanes the Hurricane & Spitfire. Controversially dismissed from Fighter Command & refused the RAFs highest rank he nevertheless became the first airman elevated to the peerage since Trenchard. Westminster Abbey was packed for his memorial service in March 1970 with more that 46 air marshals in attendance; & in 1988 HM the Queen Mother unveiled a statue in his honour. With his expert eye respected historian Orange has analysed & evaluated every episode of Dowdings exceptional career to produce what will be seen as the definitive biography. ...

Michelle Williams is young & attractive she has close family ties as well as a busy social life
- but she is far from usual. She
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This is Orwells record of a period in the late Twenties when he lived among the tramps dregs & plongeurs of London & Paris. It is the white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant compassionate young man to poverty injustice & the callousness of the rich.. . It offers insights rather than solutions; but always insights have to precede solutions.. . No one has ever claimed Down & Out" is its authors best book yet many of his admirers describe it as their favourite Orwell. Its flaws are numerous but oddly endearing." ...

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor & destitute Down & Out in Paris & London" is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of "1984" published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in " Penguin Modern Classics". ' You have talked so often of going to the dogs
- & well here are the dogs & you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery & squalor
- sleeping in bug-infested hostels & doss houses of last resort working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile ' Hotel X' surviving on scraps & cigarette butts living alongside tramps a star-gazing pavement artist & a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking previously-hidden world to his readers Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time
- & in doing so found his voice as a writer. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) better known by his pen-name George Orwell was born in India where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author & journalist Orwell was one of the most prominent & influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory " Animal Farm" was published in 1945 & it was this novel together with the dystopia of " Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949) which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels & non-fiction including " Burmese Days" (1934) " Down & Out in Paris & London" (1933) " The Road to Wigan Pier" (1937) & " Homage to Catalonia" (1938) are published in " Penguin Modern Classics". If you enjoyed " Down & Out in Paris & London" you might like " Homage to Catalonia" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " Orwell was the great moral force of his age". (" Spectator"). " The white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant compassionate young man to poverty". (Dervla Murphy)."


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The prophetic debut novel from the visionary author fo LITTLE BROTHER now published for the first time in the UK. Jules is a young man barely a century old. Hes lived long enough to see the cure for death & the end of scarcity to learn ten languages & compose three symphonies! & to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World. Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now overseen by a network of ad hocs who keep the classic attractions running as they always have enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches. But the ad hocs are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of Presidents & is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington Lincoln & all the others. For Jules this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears that this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (Its only his fourth death & revival after all.) Now its war. ...

Join sprightly Frog & his energetic farmyard friends frolicking down by the cool of the pool
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There are so many things to see down by the station; engines buses taxi's & more. Bouncy illustrations innovative die cutting & popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats suitable for babies toddlers pre-schoolers & the nursery or classroom. ...