After you with the Pistol
- the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp.
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AFTER YOU`D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O` Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE & I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love & grief.A distraught young woman boards a train at King`s Cross to return to her family in Scotl&. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London.AFTER YOU`D GONE follows Alice`s mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, & of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family`s heart. ...

Afternoon Tea is every woman`s dream book, as delightful to look at as it is to cook from. Think finger sandwiches, scones, pastries, cakes, biscuits & slices. Think linen tablecloths & fine china, proper tea made in a teapot, a group of your best friends gathered round, & lots of gossip. Here`s your chance to spoil yourself with cucumber sandwiches, chocolate eclairs & raspberry cream sponge. Teatime will never be the same again. ...

Explore a wonderful choice of quaint & cosy tea rooms, charming hotels & delightful tea shops, a perfect choice for afternoon tea. Each of the establishments has been approved by the Tea Guild, & has a great selection of teas, elegant sandwiches, delicious cakes & pastries to make afternoon tea a finest top quality experience. Also included are details of facilities, including eating outside, own blend tea & even if there's a pianist. ...

A charming memoir of self-discovery, family, connection & the power of a tomato. `I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit on a stool in my grandmother`s house. It is the height of summer in a seaside village in the south of Greece. We little Aussies devour `tomato sandwiches` as the family chats & laughs & swats flies.. .` From the first heady taste of tomatoes on home-baked bread in her mother`s village in Petalidi, to sitting at a taverna some 30 years later in Ithaka with her young family, Spiri Tsintziras goes on a culinary, creative & spiritual journey that propels her back & forth between Europe & Australia. These evocative, funny & poignant stories explore how food & culture, language & music, & people & their stories help to create a sense of meaning & identity. ...

Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends & killed their enemies, having seen & done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans` journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return. Through wide-ranging interviews with former combatants
- including a Royal Marine sniper & a veteran operator in the SAS
- as well as serving personnel & their families, physicians, therapists & psychiatrists, Aftershock looks beyond the labels of shell shock & post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to get to the heart of today`s post-conflict experience. It pursues the question that the military are so reluctant to ask: why do people who are trained to thrive within the theatre of war so often find themselves ill-prepared for peace? As a new generation of battle-scarred troops begins to lay their weapons down, Aftershock offers an empathetic yet hard-hitting account of the hidden cost of conflict. And its message is one that has profound implications, not just for the military, but for anyone with an interest in how we experience trauma & survive.

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One of the titles in a series of topographic maps covering much of north-west Africa, produced as part of the IMW* project in 1960’s. Each map covers an area spanning 6° in longitude & 4° in latitude. There is some variation in colouring & the depiction of terrain, but hill-shading, spot heights & contours are used to show the general relief. Additional graphics show features such as dunes, rock outcrops, cliffs, sand areas, escarpments, marshes, seasonal lakes & watercourses, & areas liable to flooding. Bathymetric contours are also included. Communications detail

Includes:: roads, major trails & railways, although there is some inconsistency in colouring & the extent of classification, e.g. not all maps distinguish seasonal roads. On most maps intermediate road distances are indicated on main routes. Symbols show airports, mosques, mines, oil & gas fields, lighthouses, ruins & significant isolated buildings. Administrative boundaries are marked & latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals, with further margin ticks at 1’ intervals. The map legend is in French only on some sheets, & in English & French on others.* The International Map of the World was a project conceived in the early 20th century to compile a world map series at 1:1, 000, 000 through the efforts of participating nations. The value of the program has declined since 1970 & the IMW is no longer regarded as an active international series.

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Agadir
- Pays Ida-Outanane region in a series of GPS compatible maps at 1:160, 000 published by EWP & West Col Productions & covering
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A very funny take on the contortions a grandparent goes through to please a grandchild. When Oliver visits Grumpy, Grumpy twists himself into a funny position to amuse his grandson. `AGAIN!` shouts Oliver, so Grumpy does something even more extraordinary. `AGAIN!` comes the refrain. & Grumpy complies. Again & again & again, until he`s twisted himself slightly too far.. . With eye-watering yet hilarious detail, cartoonist Ralph Steadman captures the pain & delights of grandparenthood with merciless accuracy. ...

For two years Monica Connell lived as a paying guest of Kalchu & Chola in the Nepalese Himalayan village of Talphi, ten days walk from the nearest road. This book poetically captures the immediacy of Connell`s experience, & her empathy & sense of wonder at the dramas of village life
- a boar hunt in winter, the wedding of a young neighbour & the magic of the full-moon festival when the gods descend to dance amongst the villagers.
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