Ignored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Here Andy Miller traces the perilous circumstances surrounding its creation & celebrates the timeless perfectly crafted songs pieced together by a band who were on the verge of disintegration & who refused to follow fashion.EXCERPTBig Sky contains some of the most beautiful thunderous music The Kinks ever recorded aligned to a vulnerability & warmth no other group
- & I mean no other group
- could ever hope to equal. It is a perfectly balanced production. On the one hand the mesh of clattering drums & electric guitar never threatens to overwhelm the melody; on the other the gossamer-light harmonies Ray & Daves vocal line traced by Rasa Davies wordless falsetto are bursting with emotion. When most of the instruments drop away at 1.20 the effect is effortlessly vivid
- two lines where Davies performance is both nonchalant & impassioned. The result is wonderfully enchantingly sad made more so perhaps by the knowledge that The Kinks will never again sound so refined or so right.


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Indulge your fantasies with this tantalizing & mouth-watering selection of 40 flirtatious & alluringly decorated cookies. With inspirational photography each cookie means that you can tease your friends with kitsch creations. Kinky Cookies helps you to create tasteful burlesque-inspired & sumptuous treats to bring the naughtiness back into baking. ...

My name is Kinsey Millhone. Im a private investigator licensed bonded insured; white female age thirty-two unmarried & physically fit. That Monday morning I was sitting in my office with my feet up wondering what life would bring when a woman walked in & tossed a photograph on my desk. Somebody killed my husb&. Thirty one years since A is for Alibi was first published Sue Grafton presents Kinsey & Me her first compendium of short stories. It features nine Kinsey Millhone short stories each a gem of detection as well as autobiographical pieces written in the decade after Graftons mother died. Together they show just how much Kinsey Millhone is a distillation of her creators past even as they reveal a child who free of parental discipline read everything & roamed everywhere. But the dark side of such freedom was that very parental distance.. . Kit walked through the empty house listening to her footsteps resounding against the pale dead floors.. .the windows stood open to the summer heat & a wind that smelled of lilacs touched at the screens. From her bedroom she could look out into the side yard where the cherry tree had blossomed every April since time began.. . And now the house was being sold & the land their mother was dead their father remarried: all of life everything was breaking apart breaking down being levelled destroyed razed rendered obsolete that childhood that life that family as odd & unhappy as it had been.. . Published in the UK for the first time this dazzling & often moving collection displays the depth & range of Graftons writing & reminds us of her unique talent as a storyteller. ...

Kintyre poet & historian Angus Martins interest in placeanames extends back over 40 years. This meticulously researched exploration covers over 200 Gaelic place-name elements plus many others of Norse Scots & English origin. Over 1200 individual place-names are examined from the well-known to the obscure & forgotten. These names are drawn from a diverse range of sources from mid-19th century Ordnance Survey maps & field notebooks to fishermen & shepherds whose store of names contained many known only to themselves. As well as looking at the origin & meaning of place-names Martin also looks at their historical associations
- the events & families connected with them
- to provide a full & fascinating account which will illuminate the landscape of his native Kintyre. This then is a book which will interest not only students of place-names but also archaeologists local historians genealogists naturalists & anyone with a passion for Kintyre & its colourful past.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction As small children Rudyard Kipling & his sister Trix lived an enchanted life in India playing with their beloved servants & running around freely. Their innocent happiness came to an abrupt end when they were sent back to England to live with strangers & forced to conform to the strict rules of Edwardian society in an alien country. Both brother & sister grew up to become writers although one lived in the shadow of the others genius. Rudyard Kiplings incredible life is known to many while his poetry & books have been read by millions a but what became of his talented younger sister? Her story full of love & lies became a distressing family secret that was hidden from the world... Mary Hamer has unearthed the truth about Alice Kipling known to her family affectionately as Trix. In this fictionalised account of their lives the author goes to the heart of the relationship between a difficult brother & his troubled sister & explores how their early lives shaped the very different people they were later to become." ...

Kippers basket is old & worn. His blanket is smelly & disgusting. But can Kipper find a better place to sleep? He tries a flowerpot like a bird a nest like a squirrel & a lily-pad like a frog but nothing seems quite as good as his old worn basket & his lovely smelly blanket. ...

Come on an alphabet adventure with everyones favourite puppy & his friends: little pig Arnold
- who has lost his ant
- & the

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Wheres the best place to try out the most powerful torch there is? Kipper & Tiger decide that it must be in the middle of the woods at the bottom of Big Hill. But just what is that big animal with horns that they can see on the other side of the tent? Perhaps it would be safer to camp in Kippers room? ...

Kipper loves the snow & when he sees great white flakes tumbling down one morning he cant wait to be out enjoying himself. Kippers friend Tiger isnt nearly as good at snow games as Kipper is because of his silly woolly clothes
- but they still manage to build a wonderful snowdog.
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