Hard Was The Struggle" explores the women's movement in Britain from the passing of the Marriage & Divorce Act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison who threw herself under King George V's horse during the Derby & thus sustained fatal injuries this fascinating book uses anecdotes & accounts by both famous & hitherto lesser known suffragettes & suffragists to explore how the voice of women came to be heard throughout the land in the pursuit of equal votes for females. Using diary extracts & letters the main protagonists of the women's movement are brought back to life as Lucinda Dickens Hawksley explores how they were portrayed in literature & art as well as the media reports of the day." ...

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. ...

Whilst we might choose our words carefully we rarely think about the origins behind the many phrases place names & expressions we use everyday. Yet behind these words lies a fascinating story steeped in the weird & wonderful history & traditions of everyday life. From hundreds of commonplace & more quirky terms to names of streets cities & public houses this fascinating & fun book answers the questions youve always had about the wonderful language we all use yet seldom think about. So if its all Greek to you & seems like hocus pocus for Petes sake dont be left on tenderhooks have a gander at this idiosyncractic tome. Make no bones about it
- its the bees knees!
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When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father hes looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he & his friend Tom discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints it takes them to another world.. .a world of dinosaurs. Jamie & Tom discover some fresh dinosaur footprints & decide to do some tracking. It looks as if a large herd are moving towards the river but as the boys approach the marshy area they notice some smaller footprints going a different way. They discover a baby Ankylosaurus in the mud
- its thrashing around & has sunk up to its middle. The baby dino is well & truly stuck. The boys have to find a way of saving the little Ankylosaurus. But when its mother appears will she realize theyre trying to help? Or will she come at them with her huge clubbed tail?
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MARCHING POWDER is the story of Thomas Mc Fadden a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia & thrown inside the notorious San Pedro prison. He found himself in a bizarre world the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society. Prisoners have to pay an entrance fee & buy their own cells (the alternative is to sleep outside & die of exposure) prisoners' wives & children often live inside too high quality cocaine is manufactured & sold from the prison. Thomas ended up making a living by giving backpackers tours of the prison
- he became a fixture on the backpacking circuit & was named in the Lonely Planet guide to Bolivia. When he was told that for a bribe of $5000 his sentence could be overturned it was the many backpackers who'd passed through who sent him the money. Sometimes shocking sometimes funny MARCHING POWDER is an always riveting story of survival. ' All the staples of the prison memoir are here: sadistic guards an attempted break-out the terrors of solitary confinement the joys of freedom.. . The result is a truly gripping piece of testimony' Sunday Telegraph ' This exotic cautionary yarn opens the abyss beneath our wealthy world' Uncut
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This is a controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike & how it changed Modern Britain. The Miners strike was a dividing line in Modern British history. Before 1984 Britain was an industrial nation reborn from the ashes of the Second World War by Clement Atlees vision of a welfare state. Most of the great industries were nationalized & the trade unions was one of the major forces in the l&. After the strike which ended with humiliating defeat in March 1985 Thatchers Britain was born. In March 1984 the leader of the Miners Union Arthur Scargill led his members out of the pits without a ballot to protest at planned pit closures; they would spend the next 13 months facing the utmost deprivations as they fought to keep their jobs. On picket lines the miners faced harassment & the police which culminated in the violent Battle of Orgreave. Meanwhile Thatchers government feared that Britain was on the verge of a civil war. It was a struggle of attrition that neither side could dare lose. Twenty five years after the strike the debate is still controversial. Marching to the Faultline" tells the full story of the strike from confidential cabinet meetings at Downing Street to back room negotiations & life on the picket line. The book draws on previously unseen sources from interviews with the major figures private archives & documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act to set the record straight." ...

This book is all about creating beautiful & delicious food...without stress & without fuss. Marco Pierre White serves up more than 100 recipes & shows the home cook how to get big flavours from store-cupboard ingredients. The book has sections for starters shellfish fish meat poultry desserts & Marco uses bottles jars & packets to make divine sauces syrups & dressings. Olive oil honey mustard soy sauce vinegar Hellmanns Heinz & Knorr
- they are all on the lists of ingredients here. & the three main ingredients of Marco Made Easy are: Simple Fast & Fun. Itll take longer to wash the dishes he says than it will to make them. Tomato ketchup helps to make Salmon Ketchup; that bottle of Lea & Perrins brings life to the sauce for peppered steak; & beef casserole is transformed by a can (or two) of Guinness mixed with a carton of prune juice. Desserts too require little skill. Jamaican Mess made with bananas shop-bought custard & Carnation caramel sauce
- is creamy rich & swee. Who could say no? Beautiful photographs of each stunning dish enable the reader to copy the master chefs presentation: you dont need to be an artist. As Marco says of this revolutionary cook book Its for anyone who loves food but hates aggro.

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This book is all about creating beautiful & delicious food...without stress & without fuss. Marco Pierre White serves up more than 100 recipes & shows the home cook how to get big flavours from store-cupboard ingredients. The book has sections for starters shellfish fish meat poultry desserts & Marco uses bottles jars & packets to make divine sauces syrups & dressings. Olive oil honey mustard soy sauce vinegar Hellmanns Heinz & Knorr
- they are all on the lists of ingredients here. & the three main ingredients of Marco Made Easy are: Simple Fast & Fun. Itll take longer to wash the dishes he says than it will to make them. Tomato ketchup helps to make Salmon Ketchup; that bottle of Lea & Perrins brings life to the sauce for peppered steak; & beef casserole is transformed by a can (or two) of Guinness mixed with a carton of prune juice. Desserts too require little skill. Jamaican Mess made with bananas shop-bought custard & Carnation caramel sauce
- is creamy rich & swee. Who could say no? Beautiful photographs of each stunning dish enable the reader to copy the master chefs presentation: you dont need to be an artist. As Marco says of this revolutionary cook book Its for anyone who loves food but hates aggro.

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In September 1298 the rival Italian republics of Genoa & Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo son of the Doge were defeated. Among the thousands of Venetians captives was one Marco Polo gentleman merchant of Venice & sometime traveller to East Asia. Incarcerated in a Ligurian fastness he told his story to a fellow-prisoner a writer of romances named Rustichello of Pisa. The account of his travels that Marco Polo dictated to Rustichello in captivity
- Il Milione
- would be exceptionally widely read & would stimulate European interest in the East & its riches. Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu is Laurence Bergreens thrilling & masterly reconstruction of the life & wanderings of one the great adventurers of world history. Between 1271 & 1275 Marco Polo accompanied his father Niccolo & uncle Maffeo on a journey east from Acre into central Asia along the Silk Route eventually reaching China & the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire Kublai Khan. Entering the service of the Khan he travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire. The three Venetians returned home by sea in 1292-5 calling at Sumatra & southern India before reaching Persia & making the last part of their journey to Venice overl&. Three years later came that fateful encounter with the Genoese fleet in the Adriatic...

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What could be more fun than a masked Mardi Gras ball at a so-called haunted mansion? But things start to turn spooky when the revelers are tormented by strange apparitions... Could the ghost stories really be true? But when an antique tiara snatched Nancy is convinced the crook is another guest
- not a ghoul. Can she uncover the culprit before it's too late?
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