From Devon to Northumberland & from East Anglia to Snowdonia these 42 detailed routes take you on some of the most interesting roads for riding imaginable. Roads that make you want to go back & ride them again & again
- from little used mountain passes with tight hairpins to open twisting traffic free enjoyment & all through stunning countryside. The routes cover all types of terrain & vary in length from as little as ten miles to about 80. Some are included for the riding challenges they offer others for the fantastic views some take you to out of the way & remote places you would be unlikely to find unaided whilst others are close to major centres but all will give you that wonderful sense of freedom & enjoyment that can only be gained from riding. The book is wire bound so it will easily fit in a map pocket or tank bag & all the routes are printed in easy to follow symbols to help the rider navigate whilst on the move. The essential guide for anyone going touring in England & Wales. Its features easy to follow maps & full directions for sportsbike tourer & classic riders. It fits in map pockets for navigating on the move. It

Includes:: information on things to see & where to stop on the road. It is designed for the motorcyclist.


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No longer the well-beloved Louis XV is becoming ever more unpopular
- the huge expense of his court & decades of costly warfare
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THE ROAD TO DUNE is a compilation of material celebrating
- & adding to
- the epic Dune novels. In this fascinating volume the

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General Mac Kenzie Hawkins is a living military legend a hero & a rogue. When he gets kicked out of the army for conduct unbecoming to an officer his options are limited
- but not for long. He has a plan a plan so ambitious it will shock the world & make him a very rich man: he is going to get $400 million
- a dollar from every Catholic in the world. & hes going to do it by kidnapping the Pope...

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Based on his consultancy experience with churches & dioceses over the last three years & further research on the causes of church growth Bob Jacksons new book shows how the Church at parish diocesan & national level can overturn its old cycle of decline & begin a new cycle of growth. At its heart this book is about how local churches can thrive & grow in the early twenty-first century. Part 1 outlines the current context offering a sharp analysis behind the reasons for church growth & decline. Part 2 describes churches which are already experiencing growth both in numerical & ministry strength. It looks at lessons learnt & what is at the heart of a resurgent thriving Church. Parts 3 & 4 set out workable strategies & unpacks ways in which human & financial resources can be deployed to support & sustain the growth of the local church. This is not about glib short-term solutions promising quick results. The goal of this book is to help transform fragile signs of hope for the Church into a solid road to growth. ...

This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners intrigues affairs marriages feuds thwarted ambitions & desires the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners wars plots & natural disasters run through every garden older than a generation or two & fill every corner of the grander historical ones. Families marry. Gardeners are poached. Political allegiances forged & shattered. The human trail crosses from garden to garden. They sit in their surrounding landscape not as isolated islands but attached umbilically to it sharing the geology the weather food climate local folklore accent & cultural identity. Wines must be drunk & food tasted. Recipes found & compared. The perfect tarte-tartin pursued. None of these things can be ignored or separated from the shape & size of parterre fountain herbaceous border or pottager. So this is a book filled with stories & information some of it about French gardens & gardening but most of it about what makes France unlike anywhere else. From historical gardens like Versailles Vaux le Vicomte & Courances to the kitchen gardens of the Michelin chef Alain Passard. There are grand potagers like Villandry & La Prieure D' Orsan & allotments & back gardens spotted on the way. Monty celebrates the obvious French associations of food & wine & finds gardens dedicated to vegetables herbs & fruit. It is a book that any visitor to France whether gardeners or not will want to read both as a guide & an inspiration. It is a portal to get under the French cultural skin & to understand the country in all its huge variety & disparity a little better. ...

In 1967 Celtic manager Jock Stein stepped from the tunnel of Lisbons Estadio Nacional & took up a position pitch-side as his team of home-grown journeymen trotted out to face Inter Milan the charismatic superstars of Italian football in the European Cup final. Celtic were a team forged in Steins own image steeled with a relentless industry & integrity by their inspirational manager whose character had in turn been honed by the horrors of the deep dark of the Lanarkshire coalfields. Martin Greig & Charlie Mc Garrys extraordinary novel delves to the very heart of that incredible season through the eyes of Stein
- as he plots & plans & drags his team to the very pinnacle of European club football
- & those of Tom an idealistic young fan from the East End of Glasgow whose dreams of life beyond the decaying slums of the Gorbals are inextricably tied to those of his heroes. The Road to Lisbon is a novel of hopes & dreams of self discovery & triumph over adversity
- & of an unerring love with an institution that represents so much more than just a football club.


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Thomas is desperate to join 'the players' he'll do anything to watch them perform even skip school & risk a caning. But when Thomas' rule breaking gets him in trouble with more than just his school master he has to flee his home & make his way to London. Here he meets his hero Shakespeare & his players. But behind the excitement of the theatres is a grimy world of deception poison & treason. Will Thomas manage to uncover the plot in time? & will he manage to save Shakespeare from a fate worse than death? ...

The definitive guide to the origin of J.R.R. Tolkiens books from The Hobbit to The History of Middle-earth series --



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A bestseller in England & celebrated as one of the great memoirs in many years The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of Engl&. But after Lancashire's supremacy in cotton textiles ended with the crash of 1920 his father was thrown out of work. From then on Billy & his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty. For the ordinary families of Lancashire unemployment was an ever-present fear: If you worked you ate. If there was no work you went hungry." Billy's boyhood was not all misery. Working-class pride & culture made for tight family & neighborhood bonds & added savor to the smallest pleasures in life. Mr. Woodruff writes with an understated lyricism & an eye for telling details that effortlessly pulls us into another time & place." ...