In today's world no self-respecting English-language enthusiast could have failed to notice the frequent & flagrant abuse of our native tongue by pesky foreigners? (Forgetting for a moment the fact that many nations speak our language better than we do.) Lost in Translation" features hundreds of genuine original & utterly ridiculous examples of the misadventures in English discovered all over the world by the author & his intrepid team of researchers. Everything from hotel signs to baffling advertisements such as the German beauty product offering a ' Cream shower for pretentious skin' or the Japanese bar that boasts ' Special cocktails for ladies with nuts' or the French warning at a swimming pool
- ' Swimming is forbidden in the absence of the saviour.' Published in paperback for the first time this autumn " Lost in Translation" demonstrates how widely the English language has travelled though unfortunately some of it seems to have got a bit scrambled en route."
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When Alicia Carlyle returns to the home of her childhood after the tragic death of her husband she is hoping to put the past behind her. But first she must come face to face with the woman who nearly destroyed her marriage & tore her family in two
- her sister-in-law Sabrina. Their enmity runs deep but Alicia is determined to make a fresh start for herself & her two children Nathan & Darcie & to heal her fractured relationship with her beloved brother. However just when it looks as if they might have a chance at a brighter future Sabrinas fifteen-year-old daughter Annabelle accuses seventeen-year-old Nathan of a crime he insists he didnt commit. & once more the two families are locked in a battle that is fraught with mistrust betrayal & lies
- a battle that threatens to destroy them all...

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Join the Ripleys Bureau of Investigation
- a group of teen agents with special gifts
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Three children. Alone on the ocean waves after a fierce storm throws their parents from the Pamela Jane into the icy waters below. Maya Simon & Penny now face a wild rescue adventure that will lead them to a truly magical place... Imagine an island with green mountains looming over pink sandy beaches & tide pools lit by the moon. An island with the darkest of secrets where pirates lurk & jaguars roam
- & a precious stone holds a power that is both wondrous & terrifying. This is where the children must go. No one from the outside has escaped the island before. Danger is everywhere. But they cant turn back now. Could you?
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The Lost Joy of Railways will transport you back to the 1950s & 1960s with this nostalgic look at Britains railways in their glory days. Packed with hundreds of never-before-seen photographs journey logs trainspotting notebooks & ephemera The Lost Joy of Railways is a vivid recollection of the whole atmosphere of the railways during that glorious era when we were trainspotters. Divided into the six regions of British railways each chapter documents the favourite stations & engine sheds that were a magnet to the spotter... Western Region
- Top spots include London Paddington Oxford Gloucester & Bristol Temple Meads with a section on the miracles of Barry Scrapyard. Southern Region
- Top spots include London Waterloo Bournemouth Exeter Central & Salisbury with a section on Eastleigh Works which started life in 1891. Eastern Region
- Top Spots include London Liverpool Street London Kings Cross & Doncaster with a section on The Great Escape; only 50 former LNER steam locos have been saved for preservation far fewer than any other big four railway companies. London Midland Region
- Top spots include London Euston London St Pancras Birmingham New Street Liverpool & Carlisle with a section on The Great Escape discussing the preserved locos from the LMS. North Eastern Region
- Top spots include Leeds York Darlington & Newcastle with a section on BR Standard Locos. Scottish Region
- Top spots include Glasgow central Edinburgh Princes Street Edinburgh Waverley & Perth with a section on BR Diesel & Electric Locos. Records of trainspotting trips & the final days of steam are also included along with feature pages on famous railway photographers schedules works scrapyards dastardly diesels & essential clothing equipment & survival kit for spotters. The Lost Joy of Railways is a time machine that will carry you back to those innocent glorious years when railways were still an integral part of our everyday lives.





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For many of us the history of Africa is at best vague. We might think of Egyptian pyramids legendary queens (of Sheba or Cleopatra) & Zulu warriors. The truth however is one of remarkably diverse creative culturally rich civilisations. In this book which accompanies an 8-part BBC series Gus Casely-Hayford takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of this remarkable continent. We will encounter archaeological sites of staggering beauty that rival the Great Wall of China vast & ancient universities that predate Oxford & Cambridge kingdoms of extraordinary wealth artistic traditions that still inspire artists today great religious sites that surpass the Vatican & a country with more pyramids than Egypt. In recent years new archaeological & anthropological research has opened up the study of African history in ways previously unimaginable. Long-lost kingdoms are suddenly being brought back to life. Civilisations that had faded into myth are revealing their secrets. Using this latest research Gus Casely-Hayford is able to tell the history of Africas major kingdoms in an entirely new colourful & richly-informed way. Accessible & inspiring The Lost Kingdoms of Africa" is both a major addition to our understanding of this oft-overlooked history & a source of genuine delight & wonder." ...

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams third pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox. Twenty years after vanishing without a trace French archaeologist Roland Petitier makes a dramatic reappearance at a major Athens conference promising an astonishing find
- the legendary Golden Fleece. But before he can give his talk hes found dead in a hotel room; & an out-of-control policeman puts Petitiers onetime protege Augustin Pascal into intensive care then later accuses him of Petitiers murder. Only Augustins two closest friends Daniel Knox & Gaille Bonnard can prove his innocence. However rumours of the fleeces rediscovery have spread &. ambitious Georgian oligarch Nergadze is determined to get it first. He sends his psychopathic grandson Mikhail to Athens with orders to bring it back. Mikhail quickly becomes convinced that Dan Knox has it & slowly moves in for the kill!
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LOST LANES will take you on 36 meandering tours of the most beautiful & hidden destinations in southern Engl&. The book
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The Worlds Last Steam Locomotives is a joyful celebration of Colin Garratts forty years of professionally documenting these wonderful machines. During this time he has visited more than forty countries all over the world with eight expeditions to India & twenty to China. The result has been a matchless legacy of pictures which can be only be of increasing interest & value as time passes. Colins work is authentic
- no preserved or tourist revivals scenes appear within this book just real steam locomotives doing what they were designed & built to do. This is the finest possible visual tribute to the steam locomotive ever produced. With 224 pages & more than 300 colour photographs it documents machines of every conceivable shape size & colour often framed by some of the most memorable landscapes in the world. This is a book of great beauty & delight destined to become the jewel of any trainlovers collection.
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HE WAS THE KEEPER
- Arno Holmstrand is about to die his life cut short by an organization intent on laying claim to the secrets
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