OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys 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. ...

Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared & fortunes were made but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of the men who sought to end slavery & brought the issue to the heart of British political life. ' Hochschild's marvellous book is a timely reminder of what a small group of determined people with right on their side can achieve. Carefully researched & elegantly written with a pacy narrative that ranges from the coffee houses of London to the back-breaking sugar plantations of the West Indies it charts the unlikely success of the first international human rights movement' Saul David Literary Review ' Hochschild is such a gifted researcher & story-teller that he never fails to hold the reader's attention... For all its terrible theme Hochschild's book is not in the least depressing because it is suffused with admiration for the courage & enlightenment of the men & women who crusaded against this evil & finally prevailed' Max Hastings Sunday Telegraph ' Thought-provoking absorbing & well-written' Brendan Simms Sunday Times ' Stirring & unforgettable' Economist ...

As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the strangest case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutally murdered in one of the citys oldest buildings
- a library where the English citizens of Quebec safeguard their history. & the death opens a door into the past exposing a mystery that has lain dormant for centuries.. .a mystery Gamache must solve if hes to catch a present-day killer. Steeped in luscious atmosphere brimming with the suspense & wit that have earned Louise Penny a massive global following Bury Your Dead is the most ingenious suspense novel of the year.
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Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde & blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had been suffocated at birth. Bucks father was a terrifying figure with a maniacal zeal for religious conversion
- a passion rarely shared by the local communities he targeted. He drained the familys budget for his Chinese translation of the New Testament while his aggrieved long-suffering wife did her utmost to create a homely environment for her children several of whom died tragically young. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in America as a bestselling author (her most renowned work The Good Earth" re-entered the bestseller charts in 2004 when it was selected for Oprahs Book Club) but in this startlingly original biography Spurling recounts with elegance & great insight her unspeakable upbringing in a China that was virtually unknown to the West."
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Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harmans professional & private lives collide when a skeleton is unearthed in her garden" Fran is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner but renovations at the rectory they plan to move into are disrupted by the discovery of a skeleton buried in the vegetable patch. As investigations into its identity progress its also clear that Marks two grown-up children are less than ecstatic at the prospect of their fathers forthcoming nuptials. In fact at least one of them seems to be behaving very strangely indeed... " ...

At 2 a.m. on 10 March 1983 Carmen Bugan's father left the family home alone. That afternoon Carmen returned from school to find secret police in her living room. Her father's protest against the regime had changed her life for ever. This is her story. ...

In Burying the Wren Deryn Rees-Jones returns to familiar preoccupations but with a new clarity & maturity of vision. With intense lyricism she calls on the Roethkean small things of the universe -- truffles slugs trilobites birds stones feathers flowers eggs -- which mysterious & magical as well as ordinary -- she sets up against loss. Her sequence of Dogwoman poems which draws on the work of artist Paula Rego is a an extended elegy to her late husband the poet & critic Michael Murphy. Above all these are poems of the body.. .the blue heartstopping pulse at the wrist" which are alive to the world & the transformative qualities of love." ...

The third title in the new Usborne Very First Reading" series designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together with their parents. Parents & children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) & as the books progress in the series the adults read less & less & the child more & more. There are puzzles at the end to check the childs understanding of the text & guidance notes for the parents. Beautiful illustrations help to motivate beginner readers." ...

On 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old school girl Milly Dowler. Milly disappeared on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames Surrey in 2002. Six months later her body was discovered many miles away. A massive police investigation the largest manhunt in Surreys history got nowhere. Only when nightclub bouncer & bare-knuckle boxer Levi Bellfield was arrested for the murder of another young woman did it become clear to police that they had a serial killer on their hands. This is the full story of the murders the victims & the pain-staking nine-year investigation & trial by police & prosecutors. It tells of Bellfields terrifying controlling personality
- a man who went from charming to monstrous in the blink of an eye
- & his depraved stalking of young women. It is a terrifying portrait of the only man in modern British legal history to be given two whole-life sentences.

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Bus-Pass Britain" is a colourful celebration of travelling by bus around the British Isles & features a selection of 50 favourite bus-routes submitted by members of the public in response to a Bradt competition. Their favourite bus routes reveal a wonderful mosaic of journeys across Britain from a pleasant meander through Surrey lanes to an orbit through Birmingham's edgy suburbs. Evocative & fun the book reveals how free bus passes have encouraged a new generation of keen explorers. Join us on the top deck for a fresh perspective on towns & villages across Britain. Each journey

Includes:: recommendations on where to stop & explore providing details of inspiring sights suggested walks & the best local cafes pubs restaurants. All the practical

Details: bus times the length & duration of each route & travel connections to the start & finish are provided & the book features a scattering of quirky stories & reflections (entitled Bus-stops) on the wonders of this more leisurely form of travel."



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