Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne you would expect pensioners Terry & Monica Darlington & their whippet Jim to retire to a comfortable corner of their favourite public house. But no they looked to the New World for their extraordinary new adventure... No-one has ever sailed an English narrowboat in the US before for reasons that become clear during the 9-month voyage of the Phyllis May
- including 30-mile sea crossings blasting heat tornadoes hurricanes & all manner of intimidating wildlife. But the real danger comes from the Good Ole Boys & Girls of the Deep South. Colonels bums captains planters heroes drunks gongoozlers dancing dicks & beautiful spies
- they all want to meet the Brits on the painted boat & their thin dog & take them home & party them to death. & from the Phyllis May a thousand miles of the little-known South-East Seaboard unfold at six miles an hour- the golden marshes of the Carolinas the incomparable cities of Charleston & Savannah & the lost arcadias of Georgia & Florida. Beautifully written lovingly observed & very funny Narrow Dog to Indian River" takes you on a dangerous surprising & always entertaining journey."

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At seventy-five Terry & Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing including starting a business & becoming athletes & running a literary society. Lately they had become boating adventurers & Terry a bestselling writer. But in their Midlands canal town in November life was looking dull & short on surprises. Then their famous canal boat was destroyed by fire. Within a few days they had bought a new one & soon headed north in the Phyllis May 2
- to Liverpool Lancaster the Pennines & Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey & alongside it the story of his life & his marriage & his dog Jim with his broken ear like a flat cap & Monicas dog Jess known with heartbreaking reason as the Flying Catastrophe. Funny affecting & beautifully told this is a story that brims with incident & excitement & is full of the famous & fascinating people the Darlingtons have met. & there is sadness too of course
- it is the true story of an adventurous life well lived.

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At seventy-five Terry & Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing including starting a business & becoming athletes & running a literary society. Lately they had become boating adventurers & Terry a bestselling writer. But in their Midlands canal town in November life was looking dull & short on surprises. Then their famous canal boat was destroyed by fire. Within a few days they had bought a new one & soon headed north in the Phyllis May 2
- to Liverpool Lancaster the Pennines & Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey & alongside it the story of his life & his marriage & his dog Jim with his broken ear like a flat cap & Monica's dog Jess known with heartbreaking reason as the Flying Catastrophe. Funny affecting & beautifully told this is a story that brims with incident & excitement & is full of the famous & fascinating people the Darlingtons have met. & there is sadness too of course
- it is the true story of an adventurous life well lived.

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In his perfectly crafted haiku poems Basho described the natural world with great simplicity & delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North" he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world & bring spiritual enlightenment. He wrote of the seasons changing of the smell of the rain the brightness of the moon & the beauty of the waterfall through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. These travel writings not only chronicle Bashos perilous journeys through Japan but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him." ...

At home I'm a cantankerous old git. On the boat after a week's cruising I'm just a cantankerous old git with dirty hair. Steve Haywood has a problem. He doesn't know where he comes from. In the south people think he's a northerner; in the north they think he's from the south. Judged against global warming & the sad demise of Celebrity Big Brother this hardly registers highly on the Richter scale of world disasters. But it's enough to worry Steve. & it's enough of an excuse for him to escape his long-suffering partner Em for a voyage of discovery along England's inland waterways. Travelling by traditional narrowboat he heads north along two newly opened Pennine canals a trip that takes him from Banbury in deepest Oxfordshire through the vibrant modernity of Manchester to the trendy affluence of Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire's answer to London's ciabatta belt. With irrepressible humour he recounts the history of the waterways & stories of his encounters with characters along the way & attempts to define the magic that makes England's waterways so appealing. ...

Naruto is a ninja-in-training with a need for attention a knack for mischief & sealed within him a strange formidable power. His antics amuse his instructor Kakashi & irritate his team-mates intense Sasuke & witty Sakura but Naruto is serious about becoming the greatest ninja in the village of Konohagakure! Sasuke delves deep to remember how his brother Itachi became the feared ninja he is today! In the bloody battle that ensues between Naruto & his best friend Naruto realizes that being close to an Uchiha brother could mean his downfall. ...

Naruto is a ninja-in-training with a need for attention a knack for mischief & sealed within him a strange formidable power. His antics amuse his instructor Kakashi & irritate his teammates intense Sasuki & witty Sakura but Naruto is serious about becoming the greatest ninja in the village of Konohagakure! In another world ninja are the ultimate power
- & in the village of Konohagakure live the stealthiest ninja in the world. But twelve years ago Konohagakure was attacked by a fearsome threat
- a nine-tailed fox demon which claims the life of the Hokage the village champion. Today peace has returned & a troublemaking orphan named Uzumaki Naruto is struggling to graduate from the Ninja Academy. His goal: to become the next Hokage. But unknown to Naruto & his classmates within him is a terrifying force...

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Naruto is a ninja-in-training with a need for attention a knack for mischief & sealed within him a strange formidable power. His antics amuse his instructor Kakashi & irritate his teammates intense Sasuke & witty Sakura but Naruto is serious about becoming the greatest ninja in the village of Konohagakure! Naruto Sasuke & Sakura have passed the final test to become junior ninja
- but now the real challenge begins. Tired of menial tasks the young ninja ask for a tougher assignment & find themselves
- together with their teacher Kakashi
- bodyguarding a cranky old man from the Land of the Waves. But Tazuna the bridgebuilder is in more danger than anyone realizes: he's the target of elite ninja assassins including Zabuza 'the demon ' & our heroes are about to face a trial by fire...


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Naruto is a ninja-in-training with a need for attention a knack for mischief & sealed within him a strange formidable power. His antics amuse his instructor Kakashi & irritate his teammates intense Sasuke & witty Sakura but Naruto is serious about becoming the greatest ninja in the village of Konohagakure! The tension between Naruto & Gaara builds & Naruto finds himself not only understanding his rival but also sympathizing with him. But that doesn't mean he's gone soft. As Gaara continues to mutate Naruto prepares for the fight of his life! ...

Pursuit Tsunade sends a team to hunt down the conflicted Sasuke who's made a terrible choice of new team-mates. Are Naruto Neji & the others capable of beating the Sound Four? They have no choice but to find out! Exclusive collectible stickers INSIDE! ...