From the 1930s to the 1960s millions of British people chose to spend their annual summer break at a holiday camp taking advantage of the all-in package that included accommodation food & plentiful entertainment. The market leader was Billy Butlin whose camps operated on a vast scale & offered a brightly coloured leisure land in contrast to the drabness of post-war rationing. The holiday camp story however goes back to the 1890s & it continues into the present day with signs of a revival in camp fortunes. Kathryn Ferry celebrates the communal & the kitsch glamorous grandmother competitions chalets Redcoats & all the other well-known symbols of an incredibly popular form of twentieth-century holiday. ...

This is a doodle book a journal & a scrap book
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A brand new set of cards containing simple doodle cards to keep little children busy on holiday. Each card encourages children to add detail to the picture. Children will love to decorate the sun hat fill the chest with treasure & draw palm trees on the desert isl&. The cards are wipe clean & the pack

Includes:: a special pen with which to doodle on the cards making the pack entirely self contained & easily portable. The cards are robust & durable ensuring repeated use.

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The latest wonderfully witty novel from Britain's favourite TV presenter Fern Britton. Two sisters. One House. The holiday of a lifetime... Set on a Cornish cliff Atlantic House has been the jewel in the Carew family crown for centuries. Each year the Carew sisters embark on the yearly summer holiday but they are as different as vinegar & honey. Prudence hard-nosed businesswoman married to the meek & mild Francis is about to get a shock reminder that you should never take anything for granted. Constance loving wife to philandering husband Greg has always been outwitted by her manipulative sibling. Suspecting that Pru wants to get her hands on Atlantic House Connie won't take things lying down. When an old face reappears on the scene years of simmering resentments reach boiling point. Little do the women know that a long-buried secret is about to bite them all on the bottom. Is this one holiday that will push them all over the edge or can Constance & Pru leave the past where it belongs? ...

Called to a domestic dispute Eve is shocked to discover a woman tied to the bed covered in make-up wearing a stick-on tattoo & a partridge in a pear tree figure in her hair strangled to death. Video footage reveals she had let a man dressed as Santa into her flat just before she died & the hunt for the killer takes on a sinister new edge as Eve realises he is counting down the twelve days to Christmas. As the murders continue they discover that each of the victims have been chosen through the dating site Personally Yours. Eve enters the dark world where searching for The One is never satisfying enough. ...

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Who are you going to call if it all goes wrong on holiday? Meet Doctor Ben Mac Farlane. His job is to bring people back to Britain after holiday disasters gap year crises embarrassing incidents on business trips & all the other things that can go wrong when we head off overseas. Holiday SOS is his story
- a year in the life of a very British flying doctor. Follow Ben as he grabs his medical bag & flies to glamorous locations
- helping to pick up the pieces after another holiday emergency. Dramatic hilarious or wildly unexpected for flying doctors emergency medicine doesn't just take place in intensive care wards
- it can happen just across the aisle on your next flight.


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Encourages young jet-setters to fill in the exotic holiday scenes using the colorful stickers provided. This book

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Britain's best-loved best-selling hamster is back! But not for long as this time he's off on holiday & he wants to tell you all about the Fun-Fun-Fun times there are to be had along the way! So far Humphrey has won the Richard & Judy Children's Bookclub been a World Book Day selection & sold over half a million copies of his adventures in the UK alone. ...

Celebrate Chinese New Year" continues the spectacular " Holidays Around the World" series by looking at this child-friendly holiday. Using fairly brief text & Approx. 25 fabulous photographs the book gives a flavour for the holiday as it is celebrated around the world. " Celebrate Chinese New Year" focuses on historical & cultural aspects of the holiday: traditions food types of celebration. The extensive back matter

Includes:: fun facts; a recipe; a map showing the locations of the photographs in the book; a resource list of books videos & Web sites; & a note from an expert consultant. This note aimed at parents & teachers helps put " Chinese New Year" in a greater cultural & historic context."

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