Much-loved author Tessa Kiros celebrates the heritage of Italy the country she has chosen to call home in Limoncello & Linen Water. This whimsically feminine book is a tribute to the women in our lives
- mothers mothers-in-law grandmothers
- & the important lessons we learn from them. With accessible delicious recipes ranging from robust family dishes to quirky cakes & old-fashioned preserves this book is a precious heirloom to treasure.""

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Mma Ramotswe & Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade The Principles of Private Detection. But who is the eminent author Mr Clovis Andersen & what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very unlikely possibility & yet.. . When Mr Andersen visits Botswana on holiday he is delighted & intrigued to stumble across a roadside sign that reveals the existence of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Professional courtesy suggests that he call & announce himself. Meanwhile Mma Makutsi & Phuti Radiphuti are embarking on married life & building a new house
- a tricky business under any circumstances but especially hazardous when the name of the contractor is the Joy & Light Building Company.
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Mma Ramotswe & Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade The Principles of Private Detection. But who is the eminent author Mr Clovis Andersen & what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very unlikely possibility & yet.. . When Mr Andersen visits Botswana on holiday he is delighted & intrigued to stumble across a roadside sign that reveals the existence of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Professional courtesy suggests that he call & announce himself. Meanwhile Mma Makutsi & Phuti Radiphuti are embarking on married life & building a new house
- a tricky business under any circumstances but especially hazardous when the name of the contractor is the Joy & Light Building Company.
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In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln he paints a surprising & near-heroic picture of the man who led America through four of the most divisive & dangerous years of the nations history. Observed alternately by his loved ones his rivals & his future assassins Lincoln at first appears as an inept & naive backwoods lawyer. People in this novel are not averse to turning up getting drunk & regaling the reader with details of Lincolns whoring activities & his seemingly inexhaustible supply of folksy stories. Yet gradually Lincoln the towering leader of deep vision emerges in a Washington engulfed by fear greed & the horrors of the Civil War. Lincolns loving but mentally decomposing wife his view from the White House on slavery & Americas bloodiest war & his own fierce personal ambition: all are portrayed with a vibrancy & an urgency that almost belies what they have now become ? history itself. ...

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. ...

THE LINCOLN LAWYER: Operating out of the back of a Lincoln car & with two ex-wives & dozens of guilty clients defence attorney Mickey Haller can't afford to miss a trick. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman Haller has his first high-paying
- & seemingly innocent
- client in years. But then the case starts to fall apart & the suspect isn't quite who he seems
- & Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks it's easy to wind up as prey. THE BRASS VERDICT: When another lawyer Jerry Vincent dies Mickey Haller inherits all his clients
- putting his stalled career back on track. The only problem is the detective handling the case
- Harry Bosch
- is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him. THE REVERSAL: When Mickey Haller is invited to prosecute a case he knows something strange is going on. To switch sides would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him is an intriguing one. But as a new trial date is set it starts to look like Mickey's been set up...





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Lincolnshire is incredibly rich in medieval churches from Saxon times onwards many of them still little known. Lincoln Cathedral is justly famous & second only to Durham in the grandeur of its setting. The prosperous years from the Middle Ages though to the eighteenth century have left a splendid legacy in the great town churches of Boston & Louth in the innumerable village churches of the south of the county the delightful manor houses (such as Tennysons Somersby) & the Georgian town houses & coaching inns of Boston & Grantham of Lincoln & Louth & above all of Stamford. Monuments to industry include the vast maltings at Sleaford the soaring dock tower of Grimsby & an abundance of windmills. ...

A full account of the part played by Lincolnshire's airfields during the Second World War. The history of each airfield is described with the squadrons & aircraft based at them & the main operations flown. The effects of the war on the daily lives of civilians & the constant dangers from raids & night bombing are also detailed. Fully illustrated. ...

The Lincolnshire coast has been part of the British seaside experience since the railways opened up the area to holidaymakers in the late nineteenth century. Coastal resorts that in the eighteenth century were only for the gentry were transformed into towns that catered for mass tourism enjoying their heyday in the 1920s & 1930s. Even today though beyond the popular beaches there is a rural & unspoiled coastline
- one of the countys greatest landscapes. Winston Kime has spent most of his long life on the Lincolnshire coast & here records its history. Focusing not only on resorts such as Skegness Mablethorpe & Cleethorpes as well as all the smaller holiday spots he also describes the never-ending struggle with the sea the role of smugglers & wreckers transport in the area shanty towns of the 1920s Billy Butlins legacy social & economic development & much more. Profusely illustrated this new book will appeal to Lincolnshire residents & visitors alike.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys 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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