If you could see into the future
- would you look? Jenni Green doesn't have a choice. On her way to visit her best friend Autumn
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In the tradition of Krakatoa" " The World Without Us" & " Guns Germs & Steel" comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-&-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year
- mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months allowing for excessive rain frost & snowfall through much of the North-eastern U.S. & Europe in the summer of 1816. In the U.S. the extraordinary weather produced food shortages religious revivals & extensive migration from New England to the Midwest. In Europe the cold & wet summer led to famine food riots the transformation of stable communities into wandering beggars & one of the worst typhus epidemics in history. 1816 was the year " Frankenstein" was written. It was also the year Turner painted his fiery sunsets. All of these things are linked to global climate change
- something we are quite aware of now but that was utterly mysterious to people in the nineteenth century who concocted all sorts of reasons for such an ungenial season. Making use of a wealth of source material & employing a compelling narrative approach featuring peasants & royalty politicians writers & scientists " The Year Without Summer" examines not only the climate change engendered by this event but also its effects on politics the economy the arts & social structures."

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This fourth volume of the years best science fiction & fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genres greatest authors including Jonathan Carroll Neil Gaiman Kij Johnson Kelly Link Paul Mc Auley RJ Parker Robert Reed Rachel Swirsky Catherynne M. Valente & many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimovs F&SF" " Strange Horizons" " Subterranean" " Tor.com" & other top venues " The Years Best Science Fiction & Fantasy" is your guide to magical realms & worlds beyond tomorrow." ...

Packed with fun quizzes & fill-in sections that will help girls document their likes & dislikes record their physical characteristics detail information about their friends families & hobbies & encourages them to confess their hopes & dreams this work also

Includes:: instructions for girls to create their own memory box & suggests items to put inside it
- including the completed Yearbook.


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Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the eighteenth book in the series. The Yellow Admiral -- the eighteenth novel in the sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written -- sets the fall & rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall & rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour in the storm waters off Brest. Worst of all in the spring of 1814 peace breaks out. But Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with news that the Chileans require the service of English officers. Jack is savouring this reprieve for his career when he receives an urgent despatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba. ...

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012 WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK: BEST BOOKS OF 2012 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY HERALD BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war by a young Iraq veteran & poet THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hailed as a modern classic. Everywhere John looks he sees Murph. He flinches when cars drive past. His fingers clasp around the rifle he hasn't held for months. Wide-eyed strangers praise him as a hero but he can feel himself disappearing. Back home after a year in Iraq memories swarm around him: bodies burning in the crisp morning air. Sunlight falling through branches; bullets kicking up dust; ripples on a pond wavering like plucked strings. The promise he made to a young man's mother that her son would be brought home safely. With THE YELLOW BIRDS poet & veteran Kevin Powers has composed an unforgettable account of friendship & loss. It vividly captures the desperation & brutality of war & its terrible after-effects. But it is also a story of love of great courage & of extraordinary human survival. Written with profound emotional insight especially into the effects of a hidden war on families at home THE YELLOW BIRDS is one of the most haunting true & powerful novels of our time. 'THE YELLOW BIRDS is the All Quiet on the Western Front of America's Arab Wars.' (Tom Wolfe author of The Bonfire of the Vanities ) ' Kevin Powers has conjured a poetic & devastating account of war's effect on the individual.' (Damian Lewis star of Homeland & Band of Brothers ) ' Inexplicably beautiful'. (Ann Patchett Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto & State of Wonder) ...

Published annually in February by The National Gardens Scheme (NGS) The Yellow Book" has detailed listings of thousands of gardens open for visiting & is packed with photographs of gardens & informed comment. The so-called 'bible' of garden visiting & the key to secret gardens of England & Wales " The Yellow Book 2013" is your essential guide to the thousands of gardens that open for the NGS. With a new look for 2013 & full colour throughout finding a garden to visit near you has never been easier. Look out for water gardens sensory gardens gardens offering accommodation & learn how to create your own patch." ...

The Yellow House: Van Gogh Gauguin & Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles" is art critic Martin Gayfords account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh & Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French town of Arles. Two artistic giants. One small house. From October to December 1888 a pair of at the time largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul Gauguin & Vincent Van Gogh ate drank talked argued slept & painted in one of the most intense & astonishing creative outpourings in history. Yet as the weeks passed Van Gogh buckles under the strain fought with his companion & committed an act of violence on himself that prompted Gauguin to flee without saying goodbye to his friend. " The Yellow House" is an intimate portrait of their time together as well as a subtle exploration of a fragile friendship art madness genius behind a shocking act of self-mutilation that the world has sought to explain ever since. " Gayfords fascinating depiction of the Odd Couple of art history is both moving & riveting". (" Daily Mail"). " Masterly...a wonderfully alert & moving portrait". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Profoundly absorbing. Gayford has reconstructed these tumultuous weeks...the reader lives them day by day almost minute by minute. Delightful utterly fascinating". (" Independent on Sunday"). Martin Gayford is a celebrated art critic & journalist who has written for the " Spectator" & the " Sunday Telegraph" & is the current Chief European Art Critic for Bloomberg. In his other book " Constable in Love: Love" Landscape Money & the Making of a Great Painter" Gayford tells the true story of Romantic painter John Constables life & loves." ...

The Yellow on the Broom is the fi rst part of Betsy Whyte's autobiography. Not only is it a fascinating insight into the life & customs of traveller people in the 1920s & 1930s it is also a thought-provoking account of human strength & weakness courage & cowardice understanding & prejudice by a sensitive & entertaining writer. ...

Made with a traditional Mason jar & high tech energy efficient lighting. Captured inside the jar are a highly efficient solar cell rechargeable battery & low-energy LED lamps. When the jar is placed in sunlight the solar cell creates an electrical current that charges the battery over a few hours. This energy is then used at night to power the three LED lamps inside the jar. The light is diffused by the frosted jar to give the appearance of sunlight emitting from it (warm coloured LED lights are used to give a more natural & warm light). You may have noticed that there is no switch on the sun jar
- in fact there are no visible controls at all
- there is a clever light sensor inside that automatically activates the lights when it gets dark or lights are turned out!* Mason Jars are not only beautiful but by their very nature they are completely water tight
- so the Sun Jar can happily be left outside in any weather conditions. A perfect garden light or night light for a childs bedroom.


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