Travelling around the Hope Valley has always been a challenge & usually involved rudimentary tracks or just paths to individual farms. Even by the late seventeenth century most of the roads were impassable because of snow in the winter & in spring they were subject to flooding as the snow melted. Transport was by horse & packhorse & was often easier on the high dry ground than on the lower mires & bogs of the Hope Valley. Agriculture has been crucial for the area for many centuries. As well as arable farming Yorkshire drovers brought their cattle to this area every May & kept them in the hills north of Castleton for the summer. Other industries included lead mining corn milling lime burning cotton weaving needle making candle making & rope & twine making. Liam Clarke takes an affectionate look at this unique part of the British Isles. ...

When we discuss eating disorders theres a tendency to focus on the sufferer. Yet there are millions of concerned parents carers friends & relatives who are confused & frustrated
- both by their own personal circumstances & by the abundance of potentially misleading information. Hope with Eating Disorders" offers real understanding of the mind-set of someone suffering with an eating disorder plus an extensive description of the various treatments available for the many & varied types of eating disorders that exist. With interviews from some of the worlds leading experts it sends the message that real full & lasting recovery is possible despite what we are so often told. Having helped her own daughter on the journey from an eating disorder back to health & happiness Lynn wants the HOPE within these pages to leap out & give a hug of inspiration & strength; to you a friend or a loved one. With the help of this book you can progressively break the negative spiral of this all too common illness once & for all."
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Solomon Kugel wishes for nothing more than to be nowhere to be in a place with no past no history no wars no genocides. The rural town of Stockton New York is famous for nothing: No one was born there no one died there nothing of any import has ever happened there which is exactly why Kugel decided to move his family there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isnt quite working out that way. His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life & wont stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one he bought & he fears his is next. & when one night Kugel discovers history -- a living breathing thought-to-be-dead specimen of history -- hiding in his attic bad very quickly becomes worse. Like nothing youve read before the critically acclaimed Shalom Auslanders debut novel is a hilarious & disquieting examination of the burdens & abuse of history propelled with unstoppable rhythm & filled with existential musings & mordant wit. Scabrous & determinedly iconoclastic.. .one of the funniest & most thought-provoking novels youll read all year Sunday Times A wonderful twisted trangressive heartbreaking true & hugely funny book. It will make very many people angry. It will also make very many people very happy. A. L. Kennedy author of Day Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah thundering warnings of disaster & retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isnt joking. Howard Jacobson author of The Finkler Question winner of the Man Booker Prize Can the darkest events of the twentieth century & of all human history be used to show the folly of hope? & can the result be so funny that you burst out laughing again & again? If you doubt this is possible read Hope: A Tragedy. You wont regret it. John Gray author of Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans & Other Animals ...

The humour at times can leave you gasping.. .comic brilliance Sunday Times Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past & its burdens. So in the hope of starting afresh he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened. Sadly Kugels life isnt that simple. His family soon find themselves threatened by a local arsonist & his ailing mother wont stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she didnt actually suffer through. & when one night Kugel discovers a living breathing thought-to-be-dead specimen of history hiding in his attic bad very quickly becomes worse. Singularly inventive & superbly shocking.. .nothing short of genius Scotland on Sunday He will make you laugh until your heart breaks New York Times Book Review ...

Ellie works really hard at the stables. Her only comforts are her beautiful horse Spirit & the friendship of her cousin Joe. When it looks like both might be taken away from her will Ellie have the strength she needs to survive? & will her magical bond with Spirit be unbreakable
- or not? This is a beautifully tender story that will enrapture girls with a passion for horses or a taste for romance.
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Play peekaboo with your baby & hear them giggle in delight as springtime animals are revealed! Read together & lift the flaps to reveal delightful springtime animals; then explore the soft shiny & bumpy textures. Where has bunny rabbit gone? Is she behind the pretty flower petals? & who will you discover behind the big daisy? Find them all as they are waiting to say Peekaboo! This is an award-winning series for babies perfect for developing imagination early-thinking & memory skills. ...

The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a semi-mythical beer specially invented in the 19th century to travel halfway around the world through storms & tropical sunshine & arrive in perfect condition for a long cold drink on an Indian verandah. But although you can still buy beers with IPA on the label they are to be frank a pale imitation of the original. For the first time in 140 years a keg of Burton IPA has been brewed with the original recipe for a voyage to India by canal & tall ship around the Cape of Good Hope; & the man carrying it is the award-winning Pete Brown Britains best beer write. Brazilian pirates & Iranian customs officials lie ahead but will he even make it that far have fallen in the canal just a few miles out of Burton? & if Pete does make it to the other side of the world with Barry the barrel one question remains: what will the real IPA taste like? Weaving first-class travel writing with assured comedy Hops & Glory" is both a rollicking raucous history of the Raj & a wonderfully entertaining groundbreaking experiment to recreate the finest beer ever produced." ...

The hop has been intimately involved in social history for many centuries: it has caused controversy due to its role in the brewing process & was for centuries the centre of a social phenomenon with thousands descending on hop-producing regions during harvest. It is a branch of agriculture requiring intensive labour & great skill & this book examines its history from the earliest times to the present day describing the traditional tools of the trade the growers the pickers & all those whose versatile skills have through the centuries made the hop industry a success. ...

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to work hard at school & to play hopscotch with her friends on the pavement outside her house in the run-down Nechells area of Birmingham. As long as everything is alright at home with her Ma & Pa her little sister Joyce & brother Sid then life is good. But after Ems mother Cynthia has her baby she just doesnt seem to be able to cope. Her life-long friend & neighbour Dot helps as much as she can but she has children of her own & no man to hand; Cynthias husband Bob too does his best but begins to feel that hes losing the wife he has loved so much; & little Em just cant find enough hours in the day to do all the washing & cleaning. Soon it seems the only thing is for Cynthia to go & stay across the city with her tyrannical older sister. With Cynthia away life only gets harder for Em. Her best friend Kate ostracizes her leaving only poor stinky Molly Fox at her side & when the Board Man comes to call wanting to know why shes not at school things are really bad. When Bob stays out later & later in the evenings always the worse for wear & spending too much time with a local very merry widow Em decides to travel across Birmingham to fetch her mother home but the mother she discovers is a far cry from the proud upright & loving figure she has known so well.. . ...

Set in the years 1914-1918 this is the third book in the Blackwood saga. For three generations members of the Blackwood family served the Royal Marines with distinction. With the outbreak of World War I at last comes Jonathan Blackwoods turn to carry the family name into battle. But as the young marines embark for the Dardanelles & a new kind of warfare it dawns on them that the days of scarlet coats & an unchanging tradition of honour & glory have gone forever. First in Gallipoli & two years later at Flanders comes their horrifying initiation into a wholescale slaughter for which no training could ever have prepared them. Caught up in the savagery of a conflict beyond any officers control Blackwoods future rests on the horizon
- the dark lip of the trench which was the last fateful sight for so many.
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