The Somerset & Dorset is one of the most popular lines in Britain's railway history. Although it was one of the many uneconomic lines that closed following the Beeching report in the early 1960s it has a great appeal to railway enthusiasts today. Many remember the line as a route to holiday destinations as it linked Bath & Bournemouth & provided connections to the Midland & London & South Western railways from Great Western territory but it also provided a valuable service to local passengers & freight traffic. First built in the mid 19th century the Somerset & Dorset kept its independent identity throughout its history although jointly operated for much of its existence by the Midland & London & South Western railways until 1923 then owned by the Southern & London Midland & Scottish railways until nationalisation. Athough the Somerset & Dorset closed more than 40 years ago the line has left traces in the landscape which are still visible today. The route is split into two volumes from Bath to Evercreech Junction & from Evercreech Junction to Bournemouth. This book shows the route through the medium of aerial photography from Bath to Evercreech Junction including well known landmarks of the railway that are still tracable today such as Bath Green Park station Midford station Midsomer Norton South station Bath Road viaduct & Charlton viaduct. The aerial photographs are supplemented by historical photographs of significant locations or structures along the line such as stations tunnels junctions & viaducts as well as maps showing sections of the line before closure. ...

For me Mother Teresa of Calcutta embodies Christian love in action. Her face shines with the love of Christ on which her whole life is centred & her words carry that message to a world which never needed it so much. Something Beautiful for God is about Mother Teresa & the religious order she instituted. It is not a biography in the ordinary sense but

Includes::
- along with other writings about & by her
- the transcripts of Muggeridges conversations with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. This beautiful hardback edition contains many colour & black & white photographs of Mother Teresa as well as the complete text of Malcolm Muggeridges famous book
- the book which brought Mother Teresa & her work to the attention of the worlds media.




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Thirty years old successful & stunning Darcy Rhone used to think that being down & out meant not finding a size four at the ...

Rachel Miller & Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood. Theyve shared birthdays the horrors of high school & even boyfriends but while Darcy is the sort of woman who breezes through life getting what she wants when she wants it Rachel has always played by the rules & watched her stunning best friend steal the limelight. The one thing Rachels always had over Darcy is the four-month age-gap which meant she was first to being a teenager first to drive first to everything.. .but now shes about to be first to thirty. & Darcy still has a charmed life. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday Rachel is shocked to find herself questioning the status quo. How come Darcy gets a glamorous job at a PR firm & the perfect boyfriend while Rachel grinds away at her despised job as an attorney & remains painfully single. Is it just luck? Or looking back at their friendship & their lives together is it a bit more complicated than that? Then an accidental fling complicated everything & its time for Rachel to make a few hard choices. & shes forced to learn that sometimes true love comes at a price... ...

The dazzling Lytton twins Adele & Venetia are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928 on their eighteenth birthday they are rich & admired with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the spectre of Nazi Germany is growing... Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways
- but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed. Barty Miller rescued from the London slums in babyhood by Celia Lytton is clever ambitious & a complete contrast to the twins
- & she faces temptation of the most unexpected kind...

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This is the first Blandings novel In whuch P.G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth his bone-headed younger son the Hon. Freddie Threepwood his log-suffering secretary the Efficient Baxter & Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote without at least one imposter on the premises Blandings Castle is never itself. In Something Fresh there are two each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this... ...

Doesn't every girl dream of getting.. .something from Tiffany's? It's Christmas Eve. & on 5th Avenue in New York City two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love. Gary is buying his girlfriend Rachel a charm bracelet. Partly to thank her for paying for their holiday-of-a-lifetime to New York. But mainly because he's left his Christmas shopping far too late. Whereas Ethan's looking for something a little more special
- an engagement ring for the first woman to have made him happy since he lost the love of his life. But when the two men's shopping bags get confused & Rachel somehow ends up with Ethan's ring the couples' lives become intertwined. & as Ethan tries to reunite the ring with the woman it was actually intended for he finds it trickier than expected. Does fate have other ideas for the couples? Or is there simply a bit of Tiffany's magic in the air.. .
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It's 1975. Helen O' Dowd & Sarah Flannery encounter one another briefly under traumatic circumstances. Three years later their lives collide unexpectedly again & for the next thirty years they remain in contact without ever laying eyes on one another again or realising that they once met. As time goes by they share their triumphs & disasters their hopes & their fears. This is a story that begins on a bridge on an autumn afternoon. It's a story of marriage children love & true friendship. ...

Thursday Next Head of Juris Fiction & ex-Spec Ops agent returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two a pair of dodos & Hamlet who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. Its not going to be easy. Thursdays former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system & the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination. With help from Hamlet her uncle & time-travelling father Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? & why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare? ...

This is a diary packed with famous names & extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail & wonderful observation providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades & a revealing often hilarious & sometimes moving account of Gyles Brandreths unusual life
- as a child living in London in the swinging sixties as a jumper-wearing TV presenter as an MP & government whip & as a royal biographer who has enjoyed unique access to the Queen & her family. Something Sensational to Read on the Train takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride from the era of Dixon of Dock Green to the age of The X Factor from the end of the farthing to the arrival of the euro from the Britain of Harold Macmillan & the Notting Hill race riots to the world of Barack Obama & Lewis Hamilton. With a cast list that runs from Richard Nixon & Richard Branson to Gordon Brown & David Cameron
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Includes:: princes presidents & pop stars as well as three archbishops & any number of actresses
- this is a book for anyone interested in contemporary history politics & entertainment royalty gossip & life itself.




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