A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher`s rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters

Includes:: council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents & management consultants, & even Prince Charles. Cutting through the teeming surface of London, it investigates a number of wider themes: the rise & dramatic fall of council housing, the coming of privatization, the changing memory of the Second World War, once used to justify post-war urban development & reform but now seen as a sacrifice betrayed. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise & fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to live through the Thatcher years.

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A Journey Through South-East England: Broadstairs to Lewes follows Brian`s latest walking adventures through the South-East of Engl&. Brian has previously walked over 1, 000 miles for his last two walking companion guide books, Finding My Place & Walking My Patch. In this book, Brian shares the details of four complex walks: Broadstairs to Canterbury (a journey through East Kent), Canterbury to Bethersden (scaling the North Downs & across the Low Weald), Bethersden to Bexhill (straddling the County boundary) & Bexhill to Lewes (1066 Country, Beachy Head & The South Downs). Each walk contains a detailed guide & map of the route, & the walks celebrate the geography, geology & landscape of Southern Engl&. More than just a walking guide, A Journey Through South-East England is essential reading for lovers of the great outdoors & protectors of the diminishing landscape. Brian also delights readers with poetry along the way as his poems cover many of his observations during his walks. ...

This unabridged compact edition of photographer Harry Cory Wright's breathtaking book documents his quest to capture the variety of natural landscapes that make up the modern British Isles. In the tradition of the great journeys undertaken by such photographic pioneers as Fox Talbot, Cory Wright travelled with his large-format plate camera through the fragile, frozen beauty of Unst in Shetl&, down through the Western Isles & mainland Scotland to the dusty chalklands & glowing harvests of southern England & Wales. Each of his remarkable images is infused with the unique spirit of its location
- from wild mountain ranges to secret woodland glades, from windswept beaches in winter to wheatfields gleaming in the late-summer sun. With an evocative foreword by award-winning travel writer Adam Nicolson, this is an outstanding portrayal of rural Britain today.
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Readers as well as listeners can now embark on a journey through the cycling year with The Cycling Podcast, which has been entertaining & informing fans since 2013. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie & Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d` Italia, Tour de France & Vuelta a Espana. These take readers behind the scenes & explore the culture & landscape as well as the racing, while the ` Lionel of Flanders`, complete with beer recommendations, does the same for the Classics in Belgium. There are appearances, too, by leading journalists & podcast favourites Francois Thomazeau, who takes responsiblity for the French Tour de France jinx, Ciro Scognamiglio, with a hearfelt love letter to cult favourite Filippo Pozzato, Fran Reyes, who pens a farewell to El Pistolero, Alberto Contador, & Orla Chennaoui, who hits the road to cover La Course in a one-woman karaoke-booth-on-wheels. Further contributions from professional riders Ashleigh Moolman Pasio & Joe Dombrowski & the voice of the Tour de France, Sebastien Piquet, as well as stunning galleries from the podcast world`s first & only dedicated photographer, Simon Gill, make this the perfect celebration of a year in cycling. ...

There`s a whole universe out there... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system & keep going. Where do you end up, & what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty. As you travel through the void between galaxies your spaceship encounters nothing more exciting than the odd hydrogen molecule. But when it does come across something more exotic: wow! First & most obviously, stars & planets. Some are familiar from our own backyard: yellow suns, rocky planets like Mars, gas & ice giants like Jupiter & Neptune. But there are many more: giant stars, red & white dwarfs, super-earths & hot Jupiters. Elsewhere are swirling clouds of dust giving birth to stars, & infinitely dense regions of space-time called black holes. These clump together in the star clusters we call galaxies, & the clusters of galaxies we call... galaxy clusters. And that is just the start. As we travel further we encounter ever more weird, wonderful & dangerous entities: supernovas, supermassive black holes, quasars, pulsars, neutron stars, black dwarfs, quark stars, gamma ray bursts & cosmic strings. A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects & how they fit together to build the cosmos. As for the end of the journey
- nobody knows. But getting there will be fun. ABOUT THE SERIESNew Scientist Instant Expert books are definitive & accessible entry points to the most important subjects in science; subjects that challenge, attract debate, invite controversy & engage the most enquiring minds. Designed for curious readers who want to know how things work & why, the Instant Expert series explores the topics that really matter & their impact on individuals, society, & the planet, translating the scientific complexities around us into language that`s open to everyone, & putting new ideas & discoveries into perspective & context.
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Take a journey from your doorstep into outer space! Zoom through the Solar System, discovering satellites, comets & asteroids along the way. Explore craters on Mars, moon-hop around Jupiter, & get a close-up view of Saturn`s amazing rings. Just don`t travel too close to the Sun! Packed with lively illustrations to reveal our amazing universe, this book is perfect for a parent & child to read together or to explore independently. The new A Journey Through titles include: Human Body: 978-1-78493-297-8 Space: 978-1-78493-298-5 ...

It is AD 130. Rome is the dazzling heart of a vast empire & Hadrian its most complex & compelling ruler. Faraway Britannia is one of the Romans` most troublesome provinces: here the sun is seldom seen & `the atmosphere in the country is always gloomy`. What awaits the traveller to Britannia? How will you get there? What do you need to pack? What language will you speak? How does London compare to Rome? Are there any tourist attractions? & what dangers lurk behind Hadrian`s new Wall? Combining an extensive range of Greek & Latin sources with a sound understanding of archaeology, Bronwen Riley describes an epic journey from Rome to Hadrian`s Wall at Britannia`s
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- northwestern frontier. In this strikingly original snapshot of Roman Britain, she brings vividly to life the smells, sounds, colours & textures of travel in the second century AD.

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Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west & Lithuania at its southern border, & now part of modern Latvia, the region was by occupied by Nazi Germany & returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. Once ruled by descendants of the Teutonic Knights, it is now a nowhere land of wide skies & forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles & ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this place, the buffer between the Germanic & Slav worlds. His digressive travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation into the whereabouts of a former lover, a search for an excavator of tombs, & he follows in the footsteps of Louis XVIII, for whom Courland was once a place of exile. Author of Voyage to Desolation Island & The Dark Room at Longwood
- 'a remarkable book which defies classification' (New Statesman), which won six prizes on its publication in France
- Kauffmann has come to be known as an erudite & witty observer of the world's most desolate reaches.

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Four members of the Coverdale family
- George, Jacqueline, Melinda & Giles
- died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`A compelling & moving story, expertly told, that will draw you in & keep you in its grip until the last page.` DAILY EXPRESS` Magnificent.. . his writing is evocative & perfect. His grasp of human loneliness & longing is beautiful & comforting.` MARIAN KEYES` Atmospheric, creepy & impossible to put down.` the TIMES`I raved about Holding two years ago.. . A Keeper is even better. A powerful, very sad story, beautiful writing, two time frames that are perfectly balanced. Outstanding. Will easily be one of my books of 2018.` JOHN BOYNE`A gripping, thoughtful tale about the search for identity, belonging & self-possession.` OBSERVER` Moving & darkly funny.` GOOD HOUSEKEEPING` Smart, well-written & thoroughly entertaining.` IRISH INDEPENDENT` It`s a sad & lovely book, brimful of tenderness & compassion, where the revelations of the past upturn the perceptions of the present.` SUNDAY EXPRESS` Charming & tender, a complete joy.` SUNDAY MIRROR` Perfectly crafted, a beautiful, gripping account of Irish memory & deceit. A terrific achievement.` ANDREW O`HAGANFrom the bestselling author of Holding comes a masterly tale of secrets & ill-fated loves set on the coast of Irel&. Dear Lonely Leinster Lady, I`m not really sure how to begin... The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. & then the tide turns. Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother`s death, intent only on wrapping up that dismal part of her life. There is nothing here for her; she wonders if there ever was. The house of her childhood is stuffed full of useless things, her mother`s presence already fading. & perhaps, had she not found the small stash of letters, the truth would never have come to light. 40 years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet but for the tireless wind that circles her as she hurries further into the darkness away from the cliffs & the sea. She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on. This compelling new novel confirms Graham Norton`s status as a fresh, literary voice, bringing his clear-eyed understanding of human nature & its darkest flaws. ...