It all started in 1964 when two friends gave up promising medical careers to embark upon a journey which few hardened truckers would have considered. In so doing they were solely responsible for creating the first long haul overland route across Europe & deep into the Middle East to Kabul. The men had started the ' Middle East Run' was to become a phenomenon in the road haulage industry an image which it still holds today. This book is about the company founded by one of those men from its fledgling days as Asian Transport to the thriving Astran Cargo Services Ltd that it is today. In this book Ashley Coghill documents the complete history of the company to date with the focus predominantly on the early days when the men were fighting for something & revelling in the adventure. These early long haul drivers would think nothing of a 10 000 mile round trip to Iran or the Arabian Gulf & being stranded at 6 000 feet on a mountain pass with temperatures below -40 was just all in a day's work. Ashley Coghill has an immense enthusiasm for his subject & has given his research total dedication. He has also tracked down past & present employees to gather first hand information which he has illustrated with over 300 carefully selected images. The end result is a detailed comprehensive & fascinating account of an extraordinary company. ...

1902: London Society is in a frenzy of anticipation for the coronation of the new king Edward VII. The Earl & Countess of Dilberne are caught up in the lavish preparations yet Lady Isobel still has ample time to fret. Her sixteen-year-old niece Adela tragically orphaned has run off with a troupe of fake spiritualists; her plain yet clever daughter Rosina is threatening to elope to Australia
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- & her new daughter-in-law is pregnant with a potential heir yet still completely untrained in the particular ways of the English aristocracy. With her trademark joie de vivre Fay Weldon once again draws her readers into the lives & loves of the aristocratic Dilberne family as they embrace not only a new century but a new generation
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One of the most vivid & realised characters of recent fiction Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barrys highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields & that festering at home waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. Profoundly moving intimate & epic A Long Long Way" charts & evokes a terrible coming of age one too often written out of history." ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's 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. ...

This collection of warming recipes will help stave off winter's chill. On a cold day a steaming bowl of soup is always welcome
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After the Great War the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease & starvation when the conflict was over. Haunted by memories the Allies were determined that the end of the Second World War would not be followed by a similar disaster & they began to lay plans long before victory was assured. Confronted by an entire continent starving & uprooted Allied planners devised strategies to help all 'displaced persons' & repatriate the fifteen million people who had been deprived of their homes & in many cases forced to work for the Germans. But over a million Jews Poles Ukrainians Latvians Lithuanians Estonians & Yugoslavs refused to go home. This book offers a radical reassessment of the aftermath of World War II. Unlike most recent writing about the 1940s it assesses the events & personalities of that decade in terms of contemporary standards & values. This the true & epic story of how millions ultimately found relief reconciliation & a place to call home. ...

A journey through & succesfully out of twenty years of anorexia. It wasnt just losing weight that mattered to Alison
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The plan is so complex the target so well protected that the three snipers have to rehearse the killing in the seclusion of the Arizona desert. Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent the audacious assassination. But he doesnt know who the target is. Or where the crack marksmen will strike. Former SAS sergeant Mike Cramer is also on the trail infiltrating the Irish community in New York as he tracks down Mary Hennessy the ruthless killer who tore his life apart. Unless Cramer & Howard agree to co-operate the world will witness the most spectacular terrorist coup of all time.. . ...

From the critically acclaimed Andrea Levy Orange Prize winning author of SMALL ISLAND comes this breathtaking hauntingly beautiful heartbreaking & unputdownable novel shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize & longlisted for the Orange Prize. You do not know me yet. My son Thomas who is publishing this book tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery & the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity & it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831 & she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of Julys mama Kitty of the negroes that worked the plantation land of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation & many more persons besides
- far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. Perhaps my son suggests I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha I tell my son what fuss-fuss. Come let them just read it for themselves.
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What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? & when the combined value ...