Paris Small Shops is Herb Lester’s guide to a more specialised shopping experience. The pocket-sized map lists & gives a bit of background information on 40 shops where you can buy anything from everyday essentials, art supplies, to scented candles & even taxidermy. Including the odd café, this map shows shops dating back hundreds of years as well as ones that are new in town. With a wide range of places to visit in France’s capital this map will introduce to a whole new world of shops tucked away in back streets as well on grand boulevards. Maps in this series are an eclectic selection of quirky titles designed to illuminate particular aspects of a city or a district. Each title lists publishers’ recommendations, ranging from the already famous attractions to little gems known only to the well informed locals, all with brief descriptions &, where appropriate, contact details. Accompanying maps are designed to highlight the locations of the recommended places rather than to provide an accurate presentation of the street network. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

The New York Times bestseller The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction. With extraordinary honesty & magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink & the mess & the pain & the beauty & the moments of surprise & of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic & compassionate. Celebrated for many years by those in the know, she is about to become
- a decade after her death
- the writer everyone is talking about. The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis. ` With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston & New York & quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners.. . The writer Lucia Berlin most puts me in mind of is the late Richard Yates.` LRB, 1999

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The New York Times bestseller ` This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver` Independent The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction. With extraordinary honesty & magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink & the mess & the pain & the beauty & the moments of surprise & of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic & compassionate. Celebrated for many years by those in the know, she is about to become
- a decade after her death
- the writer everyone is talking about. The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis. ` With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston & New York & quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners.. . The writer Lucia Berlin most puts me in mind of is the late Richard Yates.` LRB, 1999

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`I devoured A Manual for Heartache in one sitting... a kind, honest & wise book about how to make a friend of sadness.` Rachel Joyce When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief & loss & find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult & overwhelming & how we can emerge from suffering forever changed, but filled with hope. This is a moving, warm & uplifting book that offers solidarity & comfort to anyone going through a painful time, whatever it might be. It`s a book that will help to soothe an aching heart & assure its readers that they`re not alone. ...

This is a new translation of Georges Simenon`s atmospheric novel set in the bustling streets of Paris, book nine in the new Penguin Maigret series. Slowly the Czech was becoming animated, but in a muted way, so typical of the man. Maigret now noticed his hands, which were long, surprisingly white & dotted with freckles. They seemed to reach out & take part in the conversation. ` Let`s be clear that it`s not your professionalism which I question. If you understand nothing, & I mean absolutely nothing, it`s because from the very start you`ve been working with facts which had been falsified.` Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. As his audacious plan to uncover the truth unfolds, he encounters rich American expatriates, some truly dangerous characters & their hidden motives. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels. ” Compelling, remorseless, brilliant”. (John Gray). ” One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century... Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories”. (Guardian). ”A supreme writer.. .unforgettable vividness”. (Independent). Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels & short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerl&, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. ...

`A magnificent, compelling & insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding.` Brian Cox What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out... Over the last sixty years, scientists around the world have worked together to explore the fundamental constituents of matter, & the forces that govern their behaviour. The result, so far, is the ` Standard Model` of elementary particles: a theoretical map of the basic building blocks of the universe. With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the map as we know it was completed, but also extended into strange new territory.A Map of the Invisible is an explorer`s guide to the Standard Model & the extraordinary realms of particle physics. After shrinking us down to the size of a sub-atomic particle, pioneering physicist Jon Butterworth takes us on board his research vessel for a journey in search of atoms & quarks, electrons & neutrinos, & the forces that shape the universe. Step by step, discovery by discovery, we journey into the world of the unseen, from the atom to black holes & dark matter, & beyond, to the outer reaches of the cosmos & the frontiers of human knowledge. Beautifully illustrated, with gradually evolving maps offering an inventive visual glossary as the journey progresses, A Map of the Invisible provides an essential introduction to our world, & to particle physics. It is a landmark work of non-fiction by one of the great scientists & science writers of today. ...

A Map of the World: According to Illustrators & Storytellers is a carefully curated collection of work by a new generation of designers, illustrators & mapmakers. By exploring the concept of maps being works of art that tell stories about a certain place & time, these artists conjure up fantastic landscapes, utopias & provide an incredible form of escapism. From accurate & surprisingly detailed representations to personal, na� ve, & modernistic interpretations, the featured projects from around the world range from maps & atlases inspired by classic forms to cartographic experiments & editorial illustrations. ...

A full colour map showing London in about 1520
- its many churches, monasteries, legal inns, guild halls, & a large number
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The editor of the best-selling annual Mariner`s Book of Days assembles some of his favourite classic nautical material into an amalgam of practical information about boats, anchors, rope & ballast, together with poetry, legend, lore, language of the sea, art, thoughts about literature & more. A rich collection of maritime knowledge. Fully illustrated. ...

Weigh anchor & sail the seven seas with great explorers from across the globe. A Mariner’s Tale features flaps, 3D artwork & a secret mariner’s chest full of amazing activities. Discover the seafearing methods used by famous mariners such as Marco Polo & Christopher Columbus. Learn about the ingenious instruments invented to help navigation, & uncover how the world was explored in this stunningly illustrated, interactive maritime guide. ...