OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Henry Wilt tied to a daft job & a domineering wife has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers joiners butchers & the like. & things are no better at home where his massive wife Eva is given to boundless & unpredictable fits of enthusiasm
- for transcendental meditation yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job he realises he can do something about his wife
- & as each day passes his fantasies grow more murderous & more real.

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In this the second of Tom Sharpes chronicles about Henry Wilt our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology & the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots & reactionary bureaucrats -- in addition to his wifes enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap & the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality. Wilts problems are compounded by nature in the shape of a rose bush nostalgia temporary infatuation with a foreign student & the hostility of medical services unwilling to attend to his most urgent needs. But it is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power which have corrupted greater men than he. With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism & by the sophisticated methods of police anti-terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows Wilt resumes his dialogue with the unflagging Inspector Flint & is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho-political profile. Bitingly funny & brilliantly written The Wilt Alternative exposes the farcical anomalies which have become the social norms of our time. ...

When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan & Uncle Wally in Atlanta Wilt knows only one thing
- that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water & especially not two rotund Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape & find equilibrium then to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt the countryside & an ill-judged bottle of whiskey... Meanwhile Eva finds her plans to inherit Joan & Wallys fortune slipping away faster than her sanity thanks to a combination of sinister teenage quadruplets with foul mouths & her unexpected role as lead suspect in a drug-trafficking plot. Outrageous darkly comic & packed with calamity on top of calamity Tom Sharpes latest episode of Wilts misadventures is a razor-sharp farce that will delight fans both old & new.
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Stuck in a job he doesn't want
- but can't afford to lose
- as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University

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Always known as the Wilts & Berks Canal never Wiltshire & Berkshire the W&B has been derelict & abandoned for over a century but plans exist to restore the waterway. Over sixty miles long the project has many interesting challenges to overcome. With branches to Cricklade (on the Thames & Severn Canal) Chippenham Calne & Wantage & a route through the middle of Swindon the plan is more than ambitious. Doug Small has written a photographic history of the canal showing the task of the restorers as they undo a hundred years of neglect. From the market towns of Abingdon & Melksham to the sleepy backwaters of the Wiltshire countryside the canal also meandered into the middle of Swindon. The restoration will be exciting & interesting & this book will show the changing face of the canal from its once-bustling commercial period to dereliction & restoration. ...

Walking is one of Britain's favorite leisure activities & this great pocket-sized walking guide to Wiltshire features a variety of mapped walks to suit all abilities. Contained within the guide are 50 walks of 2-10 miles & all the practical detail you need accompanied by fascinating background reading on the history & wildlife of the area & an introduction to each walk. All walks are annotated with local points of interest & places to stop for refreshments. & every walk is given a summary of distance time gradient level of difficulty type of surface & access landscape dog friendliness parking & public toilets. ...

From prehistoric Stonehenge & Avebury to railway age Swindon the rolling countryside of Wiltshire encompasses every aspect of English building. Thirteenth-century Salisbury cathedral is set in a spacious close within a planned medieval town which boasts Georgian delights such as Mompesson House. Towns & villages range from Marlborough with its sweeping High Street to the exceptional Lacock in the shadow of its abbeys remains remodelled as an eighteenth-century Gothick fantasy. The great country houses include some of the finest in England: Palladian Wilton with which Inigo Jones was involved Stourhead set in its evocative classical landscape the elegant eithteenth-century Bowood & the mellow Bath stone of Corsham Court. ...

A full account of the part played by Wiltshires airfields during the Second World War including Boscombe Down Hullavington Lyneham Old Sarum Thruxton Larkhill & Wroughton. The history of each airfield is described with the squadrons & aircraft based at them & the main operations flown. The effects of the war on the daily lives of civilians & the constant dangers from raids & night bombing are also detailed. Fully illustrated. ...

Manicured playing lawns. Royal patronage. Strawberries & cream. Spiffing white sporting apparel. There is no spectator event quite like Wimbledon. For more than a century tennis most legendary players
- among them Roger Federer Martina Navratilova Virginia Wade Boris Becker & Pete Sampras
- have gracefully volleyed their way to glory on the hollowed grounds of the All England Club. But it is also on this same turf that some of the games finest have faltered often because they were unable to master the very thing that gave lawn tennis its name
- the grass. The only Grand Slam tournament still played on the games original surface Wimbledon has become as much of a showcase of British culture & tradition as it has an elite sporting event. In Wimbledon: 101 Reasons to Love Tennis Greatest Tournament author David Green celebrates the athletes the matches the history & the rituals that have come to define this prestigious competition. Beautifully illustrated this charming book is a perfect addition to STCs popular 101 Reasons to Love series.


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