This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train" will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind & reflect that there are still places in Britain where we can stop & stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways a love of history a love of nostalgia. This book will be a paean to another age before milk churns porters & cats on seats were replaced by security announcements & Burger King. These 12 spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as 'the horrible burden of time.' This title is updated for the paperback." ...

Society is on the brink of collapse. The Old World is vanishing the New World is taking over. There are no rules. Not now that a deadly disease is spreading that causes its victims to turn violent. Previously loving people become murderous. No-one can tell who will turn & who will not. This is a work of force & dark brilliance
- the perfect expression of the terrors of the 21st Century.
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Who is Yogi Bears girlfriend? What links gazpacho soup with revenge? List the nine activities which are traditionally forbidden in public swimming pools. What does the Mona Lisa have in her left hand? List the ten ways in which a batsman may be dismissed in a game of cricket. What links the words almost" & "biopsy"? On the Tip of My Tongue will take you from the natural world to notorious ships & novelty records from the arts to advertising slogans & airport codes from science & sport to scandals & space shuttles from historical events to Hogwarts & Hitchcock & from popular culture to platonic solids & poker hands. Its a quiz book with a difference. As well as attempting to answer thousands of brain-twisting questions youll be asked to recall as many items as you can from a list & to solve the hidden links between groups of questions. While youre struggling to find the right responses youll also be reading anecdotes comments & curious facts. It can be played with family friends enemies
- or on your own. But however you want to play it youre sure to suffer the hopeless frustration of finding the next answer is On the Tip of My Tongue."
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King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table is one of the worlds greatest legends. Everyone knows the story of the boy who pulled the sword from the stone who was mentored by the great wizard Merlin who broke the sword & retrieved it from the Lady of the Lake who was finally betrayed by Guinevere leading to his final battle & his death on the Isle of Avalon. Yet little is known of the truth behind the great story. This book enters the realm of conjectural history
- the blurred middle ground between fact & fiction
- to separate the fiction from the facts. Known events are linked to probable facts & compared to imprints on the landscape; the aim being to build a starting point for archaeological investigations & to finally discover the truth of King Arthur & his Knights of the Round Table.

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Life dealt Mary Queen of Scots love intensity betrayal & tragedy in generous measure. On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots" traces the major events in the turbulent life of the beautiful enigmatic queen whose romantic reign & tragic destiny exerts an undimmed fascination. Here is the essential guide to over 200 Mary Queen of Scots sites of interest in Scotland England & France. It is fully illustrated with maps & plans & clearly shows the best tour routes region by region. Sites to visit in Scotland include: Linlithgow Palace
- Mary's birthplace now a magnificent ruin.; Stirling Castle
- where only nine months old Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland; The Palace of Holyrood House
- Rizzio one of Mary's many lovers was murdered here
- some say his blood still stains the spot where he was stabbed to death; & Fotheringay
- after 16 years' imprisonment Mary met her death on the executioner's block."




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Unlike most men of his acquaintance Gregory Bridgerton is a firm believer in true love. Hed have to be an idiot not to be: all seven of his siblings are happily married. Gregory figures he is just biding his time until the right woman comes along. & so when he sees Hermione Watson he knows with every fibre of his being that she is meant to be his. But through Hermiones closest
- & slightly less beautiful
- friend Lucy Abernathy he finds out that Hermione is desperately in love with another man. Sadly by the time Gregory figures out the right girl is actually the wrong girl & the right girl was Lucy all along its too late. Lucy is to marry another! Now
- on the way to the wedding
- Gregory must figure out how to thwart the nuptials & convince Lucy that she was always meant to be his



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Frankie fears her dreams of ice-skating stardom are over when a skiing injury means she's unable to enter the World Junior Championships. So when Frankie is matched with Paul
- another injured-skater
- for the Pairs Competition Frankie is delighted. But this is no match made in heaven. Paul's reluctance to share the spotlight makes teamwork virtually impossible & his fierce ambition appears to be masking a deeper worry. If only Frankie could be paired with tall talented Dylan
- when they skate together Frankie feels like a perfect 6.0. Skating in synch with Paul is tough enough so when he suggests spicing up their routine with a stunning
- but notoriously difficult
- skating move Frankie's concerned. While it's guaranteed to grab attention Frankie fears that if they fail on the ice people will be talking about them for all the wrong reasons. What's more Paul insists they keep this a secret from their coach & following Frankie's maverick moves in last year's routine she's already skating on thin ice. Ultimately Paul's mad desire for victory could even get them kicked out of Skate School. Frankie's a strong skater with a big personality
- but is she strong enough to stand up to Paul?





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This title continues the bright & breezy best-selling series about all the fun of summer camp: competitions & cookouts gossip & games boys & bunk warfare...and a whole lot of girly secrets! Toris holding a glam ski weekend but shes only allowed to invite five of her Lakeview friends. Shes desperate not to hurt anyones feelings but has no idea how to handle it. & just when she thinks things cant get any worse the Camp Lakeview reunion is scheduled for the same weekend. The girls will be divided by three thousand miles
- can they survive a rift that big? Girls will be lining up to get their hands on the next batch of Summer Camp Secrets which are sure to attract a new legion of fans too!
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In 2001 Nick Brandt embarked on an ambitious photographic project a trilogy of books memorialising the vanishing natural grander of East Africa. Focusing on of the world's last great populations of large mammals; elephants giraffes lions gorillas & their kin he created two of the new century's most influential photographic books: On This Earth (2005) & A Shadow Falls (2009). His iconic portraits of these majestic animals express & empathy usually reserved for human subjects. The magisterial On This Earth A Shadow Falls collects the most memorable images from Brandt's first two books along with their accompanying essays. A testament to the bookmaker's craft it is the first volume on Brandt's work to capture the superb quality of his remarkable large format prints which are notable for their velvet blacks & tonal subtleties. Brandt is currently completing the final volume of his trilogy documenting the fate of the great animals of East Africa. ...

Shane Warne is one of the most fascinating sports people on the planet. You might not follow cricket you may never have even seen Warne on the cricket field yet you know who he is what he looks like & what is going on in his personal life at any given time. Selected as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century Warne dazzled opposition batsmen & cricket fans alike with his bowling on the field & his outspokenness & scandals off it. Gideon Haigh one of the worlds most celebrated cricket journalists tackles this great personality in his unique style. How has Warne shaped sport & how has sport has shaped him? Who is the real man behind the back page & front page headlines? ...