Simon Yates is the man who cut the rope in Joe Simpson`s award-winning account of their struggle for survival in ” Touching the Void”. In this book, Yates recounts how he & three companions climbed the world`s largest vertical rock-face, in the Chilean Andes. ...

Sacrificed to further a father`s blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten. In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. Published here in English for the first time, the spellbinding Agamemnon`s Daughter, written in Albania in the 1980s & smuggled into France a few pages at a time, reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds. From the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize comes a searing story of love denied, then shattered under the chilling wheels of the state. Through the impeccably crafted, incisive tale of a thwarted lover`s odyssey through a single day, we are given a true sense of how hard it can be to remain human in a world ruled by fear & suspicion. ...

One of the titles in the topographic survey of the Svalbard group published in a colour version, available for the western coast, central & southern part of Spitzbergen, plus two small islands of Svenskøya & Kongsøya. The map has contours at 25-metre intervals, bold relief shading & spot heights, & shows settlements, roads & tracks, working & disused mines, airfields, lighthouses & radio beacons, etc. A grid gives UTM co-ordinates plus latitude in steps of 10` & longitude in 20’. The rest of Spitzbergen, Nordaustlandet, Edgeøya & other small islands are covered by black & white maps with contours only. Most of these maps show no geographical names, as indicated in the individual descriptions of each title. ...

This miscellany explores the fascinating & enigmatic world created by the undisputed ` Queen of Crime`, Agatha Christie. Examining her place in literary history, her books & her iconic characters, including Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple, this unique collection

Includes:: facts, trivia "es that feature in Christie`s legendary stories & the subsequent film & television adaptations. The Agatha Christie Miscellany will also delve into the secrets, mysteries & tricks that made Christie the most sensational & successful mystery writer of her time. For example, how is it that she managed to keep us guessing the murderer until the very end? Looking at her life & the influences on her writing, this entertaining & informative miscellany will, above all, unravel the secrets of Agatha Christie`s phenomenal success.

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Janet Morgan`s definitive & authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author. Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the world`s bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple, have become fiction`s most legendary sleuths & her ingenuity has captured the imagination of generations of readers. But although she lived to a great age & was prolific, she remained elusively shy & determinedly private. Given sole access to family papers & other protected material, Janet Morgan`s definitive biography unravels Agatha Christie`s life, work & relationships, creating a revealing & faithfully honest portrait. The book has delighted readers of Christie`s detective stories for more than 30 years with its clear view of her career & personality, & this edition

Includes:: a new foreword by the author reflecting on the longevity of Agatha Christie`s extraordinary success & popularity.

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Agatha Christie`s Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks & Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This

Includes:: illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories & a lost Miss Marple. When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world`s most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the impossible
- more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie`s output
- 66 crime novels, 20 plays, 6 romance books under a pseudonym & over 150 short stories
- it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those 55 years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes? Following the death of Agatha`s daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie`s private notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists & drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays & stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations & details that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. Christie archivist & expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha Christie`s writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success & a number of never-before-published excerpts & stories from her archives. This book features Agatha`s original ending of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, painstakingly transcribed from her notebooks. It also

Includes:: a number of short stories from the archives reproduced in full, including the unpublished The Man Who Knew, How I Created Hercule Poirot, & an early draft for a Miss Marple story, The Case of the Caretaker`s Wife.






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Agatha has fallen in love
- again. This time it`s the local gardener, George Marston, she has her eye on. But competition for
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Incomer Gloria French is at first welcomed in the Cotswold village of Piddlebury. She seems like a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church & caring for the elderly. But she has a bad habit of borrowing things & not giving them back, so when she is discovered dead, poisoned by a bottle of elderberry wine, folk in the village don`t mourn her passing too intently. Parish councillor Jerry Tarrant hires Agatha Raisin to track down the murderer. But the village is creepy & secretive & the residents don`t seem to want Agatha to find who the murderer is, & Agatha`s investigations are hampered by the emotional upset of finding her ex, James Lacey, has fallen in love with young detective Toni Gilmour. & now the murderer is targeting Agatha! Praise for the Agatha Raisin series: `M.C. Beaton`s imperfect heroine is an absolute gem` Publishers Weekly ` Clever red herrings & some wicked unfinished business guarantees that the listener will pant for a sequel` The Times (audio review) ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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This book is the winner of the National Book Award 2014. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the ` Wastepaper Queen`. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China`s story
- one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, & in the halls of power of the world`s largest authoritarian regime. Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between the individual & the Communist Party`s struggle to retain control. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility & teeming romance. Yet it is also riven by contradictions. It is the world`s largest buyer of Rolls Royces & Ferraris yet the word `luxury` is banned from billboards. It has more Christians than members of the Communist Party. & why does a government that has lifted more people from poverty than any other so strictly restrain freedom of expression? Based on years of research, Age of Ambition is a stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.
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