AA Essential Guide Vancouver & the Canadian Rockies" gives you all the information you need to know for a memorable holiday to this fantastic destination. Pocket-sized & packed full of information you really need the guide is great value for your money & an ideal choice to help you get the best out of the region containing helpful advice for planning your trip with information about when to go getting there being there & getting around. There are website addresses & practical information throughout. The best things to see & do plus hotels restaurants & nightlife are listed & cross-referenced with grid locations so you can pinpoint them on the mapping." ...

The ultimate Vancouver pocket city map! Explore the fabulous city of Vancouver with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail this compact dependable city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. *

Includes:: 2 Pop Out maps
- a detailed street by street plan of the city centre as well as an overview map of greater Vancouver * Additional maps of Stanley Park & the Pacific Northwest are also included * IHandy self-folding tourist map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city in an easy-to-use format * Thorough street index is also featured & cross-referenced to the map so you can easily find your destination * Hotels restaurants stores & attractions are all included on the map


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The fourth & final volume of the Herries Chronicles described as incomparably the best in The Daily Telegraph is a love story of effortless brilliance (Observer) which starts with the triumph of Judith Pariss hundredth birthday in the 1870s & then moves to the tragic disillusionment of the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Set predominantly as before amidst the grandeur of the lake district landscape it tells the passionate & unforgettable story of Vanessa Judiths Granddaughter & her ner-do-well cousin Benjie whom she had sworn in childhood never to betray. ...

Kirsty & Rachel are in for a surprise when their fairy friends whisk them off to the Fairyland Music Festival only for Jack Frost & his goblins to strut onto the stage! The naughty gang have stolen the Pop Star Fairies magical clef necklaces & Jack Frost intends to use them to become the biggest star in the world. In this third book of the magical series the girls must help Vanessa the Dance Steps Fairy get her clef back or dancers everywhere will be no more graceful than an elephant on stage! ...

The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Now very much alive the woman is rushed to the hospital where she murders a security guard & seizes hostages one of whom is the heavily pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But who is this woman & what does she want? Only Jane can solve the mystery
- if she survives the night.
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No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home he gets onto a tube train
- & never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later he's still missing. Out of options & desperate for answers Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. & in missing person cases the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide. But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined. For as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him someone is watching. Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day. & with Raker in his sights he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself...
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In the late 1930s in New York Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband Malcolm & their little boy Teddy. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she has kept secret even from her husband Marielle secretly lights a candle each year for a child who died in a tragic accident when he was scarcely more than a baby. Then Marielle runs into her first love American expatriate Charles Delauney. & when her little Teddy is kidnapped Charles is first blamed then arrested as the Pattersons the New York Police & the FBI turn the country upside down looking for Teddy. A terrifying court drama seeks to put Charles Delauney behind bars as a series of revelations begin to unravel the truth about Marielle Charles & Malcolm. Piece by piece the uncovering of their pasts creates a complex mosaic of the motives & passions controlling their lives. Vanished is an intriguing tale of guilt desire & suspense & people one cant easily forget as they are drawn inexorably together seeking the child that...vanished. ...

From Norman Davies the acclaimed author of Europe: A History" comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms selected as a Book of the Year by the " Sunday Times" " Daily Telegraph" " New Statesman" " Independent" " Guardian" & " Financial Times". Europe's history is littered with kingdoms duchies empires & republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean ' Empire of Aragon'? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original & enthralling book peers through the cracks of history to discover the stories of lost realms across the centuries. " Dazzling provocative & brilliant". (Dominic Sandbrook " Sunday Times" Books of the Year). "A luminous account.. .there are few better ways of understanding the multilayered splendours & horrors of Europe's past than through the pages of this wise humane & unfailingly engaging book". (John Adamson " Sunday Telegraph"). "" Vanished Kingdoms" is great history & also great art. It is written with verve passion & profound empathy". (David Marquand " New Statesman" Books of the Year). "A magnificent achievement. Brocaded with scholarship the book is unlikely ever to be equalled". (Ian Thomson " Independent")." ...

A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school & locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme it means relying on his protge to ferret out a master illusionist theyve dubbed the conjurer who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise & the minutes tick down Rhyme & Sachs must move beyond the smoke & mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all. ...

Rupert Everett's first memoir
- Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins
- was an international bestseller & an instant classic on publication

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