More From Contributor

£11.51
This guide is unique in its approach to identification. It means that you can first look at the track or sign & then by means of keys to determine the animal group or species responsible for what you see. The keys refer you to detailed descriptions & illustrations. The guide is arranged to enable quick identification. ...
Available
£5.99
The world has known about global warming since the late 1970s yet little has been done to halt it. The threat if we fail is nothing less than catastrophe
- the flooding of coastal communities the extinction of species & entry into a climate regime of which humans have no experience. Exploring the relationship between what we know & what we refuse to know Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an urgent journey from the Arctic to Central America interviewing researchers environmentalists & traditional Inuits whose lives have already been dramatically altered by climate change.
...
Available
£10.87
Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere grey & beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it Esther Woolfson examines the elements
- geographic atmospheric & environmental
- which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the circumstances of her own life house garden & city she writes of the animals who live among us: the birds
- gulls starlings pigeons sparrows & others; the rats & squirrels; the spiders & the insects. In beautiful absorbing prose Woolfson describes the seasons the streets & the quiet places of her city over the course of a year which begins with the exceptional cold & snow of 2010. Influenced by her own long experience of corvids she considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world urban & non-urban wildlife the values we place on the lives of individual species & the ways in which man & creature live together in cities.


...
Available
£5.59
There's a bomb scare at Kingdom Hill racecourse where failed conman Tricksy Wilcox watches his dreams blown to kingdom come... At Cheltenham's glittering National Hunt Festival protocol is rocked as a love-struck owner falls madly in love with her jockey.. . There is passion
- & revenge
- at the glorious Kentucky Derby...and then ten other tantalizing stories to hold you enthralled from the starting gates to the finish. Award-winning Master of Crime Dick Francis tackles a new distance with thirteen nerve-tingling tales of politics passion horses & crime
- each one of them tied to a milestone event in the international racing calendar. The result is beyond question.


...
Available
£5.99
In Glasgow a child goes missing taken from the front garden of his home
- & the investigation leads the police to the doors of
...
Available
£5.99
The ultimate Rome story Julius Caesar has taken his legions north to battle the Gallic tribes. But as his successes mount overwhelming ambition & new alliances begin to threaten his one true friendship. Marcus Brutus was instrumental in the conquest of Gaul & so in restoring Caesar's reputation as a hero of Rome. But after decades standing side by side will they choose to cross the Rubicon together? Are they both willing to take the fight to Rome herself? The third instalment in the bestselling Emperor series. ...
Available
£8.96
I slept right through to the next day. Missed the funeral & everything. Mam said it was just as well. Would've been too upsetting. I think of him now though. Right at this moment. Here in this kitchen. & I wonder if it could've been different. Dublin 1984: Ireland is a divided country the Parish Priest remains a figure of immense authority & Jim Finnegan is thirteen years old the youngest in a family of five sisters. Life in Jim's world consists of dealing with the helter-skelter intensity of his rumbustious family taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend & quietly coveting the local girls from afar. But after a drunken yet delicate rendition of ' The Fields of Athenry' at the Donohues' raucous annual party Jim captures both the attention of the beautiful Saidhbh Donohue & the unwanted desires of the devious & dangerous Father Luke O' Culigeen. Bounced between his growing love for Saidhbh & his need to avoid the dreaded O' Culigeen Jim's life starts to unravel. He & Saidhbh take a ferry for a clandestine trip to London that has dark & difficult repercussions forcing Jim to look for the solution to all his problems in some very unusual places. The Fields is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character: Jim's voice leaps off the page & straight into the reader's heart as he grapples with his unfairly interrupted adolescence. Lyrical funny profoundly original & endlessly inventive it is a brilliant debut from a remarkable new voice. ...
Available
£5.99
Rachel Gardner's family life is far from a happy one. Her father Stanhope is cold & remote & her mother Nellie seems to care for nothing but housework. Then one day Stanhope collapses in the street & dies
- & the facade he had built up carefully for so many years is revealed as a sham. Sad & confused Rachel leaves home & flees to the one place she has known parental kindness: the home of the rector's daughter Angela her school friend. As her feelings for Angela's elder brother David deepen into romance Rachel believes she has everything she ever desired. But after the outbreak of the Second World War David joins the RAF & returns horribly injured refusing to see her. Fate however gives Rachel another chance at love. & just as the pieces of her once-shattered life are falling into place a new disaster threatens everything she holds dear.
...
Available
£5.99
The final title in bestselling author Simon Scarrow's Revolution series: a quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history Wellington & Napoleon. It's 1810 & both Viscount Wellington & Emperor Napoleon have made great names for themselves as outstanding military commanders. Wellington expands his achievements in Spain but knows his most challenging test will be to face Napoleon's mighty army. But when Wellington invades France in 1814 he gains a swift victory. He indulges in a spell of self-congratulation at Vienna
- until news comes of Napoleon's triumphant return. Napoleon ambitious as ever embarks on a Russian campaign which ends in disaster & is then defeated at Leipzig in the biggest battle ever fought in Europe. With Napoleon's power waning at long last Wellington must seize the opportunity to crush the tyrant once & for all
- & so the two giants face each other for the final time at Waterloo...

...
Available
£4.49
Sooz a 13 yr old girl from Surrey has become the Dark Mistress of Dirks otherworldly kingdom the Darklands. Thanks to the Ring of Power given to her by Dirk his minions recognize her as their ruler. Sooz immediately sets about redecorating Dirks Dark Tower to the taste of a young girl. But Sooz has to face her toughest challenge when an army of fanatical paladins & orcs gather to march against her. Despite their centuries of hostility to each other they prefer to form an alliance rather than accept Soozs new regime. & what of Dirk? He continues on slaving away at school plotting ways to rescue Sooz. Eventually he is able to advise her on life in the Darklands & Sooz is able to hold back the fanatical paladins. ...
Available

Field Of Stars

A story of passion and dedication deserved of a place in great travel writing" -WriterFace.com the online social network for writers and literary agents. Susie Tarver has an inquisitive and adventurous mind and a great sense of humour which is how she came to find herself living in an old cottage in an isolated part of France in the first place. One day she noticed an overgrown and obviously ancient pathway alongside her garden. After some research Susie discovered that this track is part of the centuries old Pilgrims' path to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and has been walked by countless seekers and travellers since the Middle Ages. Eventually curiosity getting the better of her she decided to make the journey herself. On her own on foot and all the way to Santiago. Join Susie on her
own pilgrimage as she explores the wonders and pitfalls of Mediaeval French and Spanish towns enjoys good food and generous hospitality--but endures more often the privations of life as a pilgrim--sobs into her sodden walking boots fends off the amorous advances of a nonagenarian farmer meets philosophers jokers and mind-numbing bores walks in rain and in sunshine and finds through it all the spirituality and peace inherent in this ancient path arriving six weeks later weary but exhilarated in Santiago to find that her life will never be the same again. Evocatively illustrated throughout by David Dry RIBA.""
  • Availability: In Stock
  • Supplier: WHSmith
  • SKU: 9781849030069
Availability: In Stock
£9.99

Product Description

A story of passion & dedication deserved of a place in great travel writing" -Writer Face.com the online social network for writers & literary agents. Susie Tarver has an inquisitive & adventurous mind & a great sense of humour which is how she came to find herself living in an old cottage in an isolated part of France in the first place. One day she noticed an overgrown & obviously ancient pathway alongside her garden. After some research Susie discovered that this track is part of the centuries old Pilgrims' path to Santiago de Compostela in Spain & has been walked by countless seekers & travellers since the Middle Ages. Eventually curiosity getting the better of her she decided to make the journey herself. On her own on foot & all the way to Santiago. Join Susie on her own pilgrimage as she explores the wonders & pitfalls of Mediaeval French & Spanish towns enjoys good food & generous hospitality--but endures more often the privations of life as a pilgrim--sobs into her sodden walking boots fends off the amorous advances of a nonagenarian farmer meets philosophers jokers & mind-numbing bores walks in rain & in sunshine & finds through it all the spirituality & peace inherent in this ancient path arriving six weeks later weary but exhilarated in Santiago to find that her life will never be the same again. Evocatively illustrated throughout by David Dry RIBA.""

Reviews/Comments

Add New

Price History

Vouchers

No voucher codes found.
Do you know a voucher code for this product or supplier? Add it to Insights for others to use.

Facebook

Jargon Buster

Garden - An outside area with grass and foliage
Foot - A part of the body at the bottom end of the leg
Foot - or Feet - a measurement equivilent to 30cm
Dry - A term used to describe an item with has little or no water present
Dry - A term used in wine making to describe the lack of sugar (sweetness)
Humour - Something either verbal of physical that provides amusement and can provoke laughter
garden - A planned space used for the display, cultivation and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.
Spain - A country within the EU.
Spanish - The main language spoken in Spain and Latin America.
France - A state situated in Western Europe with several overseas territories.
Day - The time it takes a planet or other space objects to complete one rotation.
Network - A link and communication between things. Often computers or people.
Cottage - A house typically found in the country, commonly small in size.

Supplier Information

Page Updated: 2024-03-04 10:03:14

Community Generated Product Tags

Oh No! The productWIKI community hasn't generated any tags for this product yet!
Menu