Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains & windswept coastlines facing Sicily
- the most beautiful kilometre in Italy
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Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic
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The magazine staff at Old Cars Weekly has opened the shops of several prestigious restoration businesses to show how the professionals & experts bring cars back to show-ready condition. From simple projects like how to install door seals & pull minor dents to detailed engine rebuilding work Old Cars Weeklys Auto Restoration Guide has something for do-it-yourselfers of all abilities.

Includes:: tutorials on: Painting tips & tricks Handling spray guns Wood panels Floor pan rebuilding Brakes & front ends Seat upholstery Guage replacement Wiring & more!

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The magic of the old Covent Garden Market is evoked through Peter Ackroyds introduction & Clive Boursnells marvellous photographs taken over the course of numerous & extended visits to Covent Garden in the 1960s & 1970s. The book

Includes:: a preface by Clive Boursnell & the words of some of the market people whom the photographer interviewed at the time.

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The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) with its combination of the sentimental the grotesque & the socially concerned & its story of pursuit & courage which sets the downtrodden & the plucky against the malevolent & the villainous was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was conscious of the 'many friends' the novel had won for him & 'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow' & it remains one of the most familiar & well-loved of his works. ...

Clarence Darrow was one of the most legendary & influential trial lawyers the world has ever seen. Famous for his ability to turn seemingly unwinnable cases his way through his oratory & his uncanny skill at reading the mood of a jury he was a man whose work inspired impassioned campaigns against the death penalty as well as lavish Hollywood movies. Now award-winning writer Donald Mc Rae revisits the three greatest trials which secured Darrows near-mythic reputation & brings them vividly to life. The public themes which Darrow confronted still resonate powerfully today: sex & murder religion & science racism the media & the law. Written with great intimacy drama & immediacy this is a sweeping story which offers piercing insight into one of the most towering & controversial personalities of the twentieth century. ...

Muffin was a rescue dog an ordinary mongrel who joined the Bardsley Mc Gee family in Leeds in 1999. She was three years old a 'little shipwreck' of a dog who had been badly neglected undernourished & contained in a high-rise flat for whole of her young life. The family she came into was also under pressure as the writer's husband Tim was in the middle of a long struggle with cancer & had been told earlier that year that his illness was terminal. Never having previously shown interest in animals Tim bonded almost instantly with chaotic little Muffin who became a steadfast companion during his final months. & during the dark days after Tim's death & when the author's daughter left for university Muffin became a loyal friend with an uncanny ability to display empathy around times of illness & loss. With Muffin reaching the end of her days author Barney Bardsley looks back over the eventful years they have shared to remember the joy & laughter that this loving soulful creature brought to her family. Her story will strike a chord with anyone who has ever loved & been loved by a pet. ...

This is a book for everyone who has ever wondered why pubs should be called The Cross Keys The Dew Drop Inn or The Hope & Anchor. You'll be glad to know that there are very good
- strange & memorable
- reasons behind them all. After much research about (and in) pubs Albert Jack brings together the stories behind pub names to reveal how they offer fascinating & subversive insights on our history customs attitudes & jokes in just the same way that nursery rhymes do. The Royal Oak for instance commemorates the tree that hid Charles II from Cromwell's forces after his defeat at Worcester; The Bag of Nails is a corruption of the Bacchanals the crazed followers of Bacchus the god of wine & drunkenness; The Cat & the Fiddle a mangling of Catherine La Fidele & a guarded gesture of support for Henry VIII's first Catholic wife Catherine of Aragon; plus many many more. Here too are even more facts about everything from ghosts to drinking songs to the rules of cribbage & shove ha'penny showing that ultimately the story of pub history is really the story of our own popular history.

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This informative enthusiastic guide provides complete instructions & helpful advice for making delicious homemade ice cream either in a h&-cranked or electric freezer.

Includes:: 58 exotic mouthwatering ice cream recipes plus recipes for toppings sauces more. Introduction. Illustrated throughout.

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FILTH in his heyday was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now only the oldest QCs & Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. Long ago Old Filth was a Raj orphan
- one of the many young children sent ' Home' from the East to be fostered & educated in Engl&. Jane Gardam's new novel tells his story from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. Brilliantly constructed
- going backwards & forwards in time yet constantly working towards the secret at its core
- OLD FILTH is funny & heart-breaking witty & peopled with characters who astonish dismay & delight the reader. Jane Gardam is as sensitive to the 'jungle' within children as she is to the eccentricities of the old. A touch of magic combines with compassion humour & delicacy to make OLD FILTH a genuine masterpiece.


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