Regularly hailed as one of the defining novels of the late twentieth century, Mario Vargas Llosa’s “ Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter” is the kind of novel that once you actually pick up & read it does it become blindingly obvious why. Mario is an eighteen-year-old law student & radio news editor who falls in love with his 32-year-old divorced ` Aunt` Julia, the wife of his cousin. Their scandalous affair is interwoven with episodes from the radio soap-opera written by Mario`s friend Pedro Comacho. This edition of Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter is produced to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Mario Vargas Llosa. ...

Marito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer, before his life is torn apart by two arrivals. The first is his recently divorced Aunt Julia, with whom he begins an affair which he must hide from his family. The second is Pedro Camacho, an eccentric scriptwriter whose radio dramas are keeping the whole city enthralled. This hilarious & mischievous novel interweaves the story of Marito`s life with Pedro Camacho`s increasingly insane tales to masterfully depict both Peru & the act of growing up in the 1950s. Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, & Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter is a perfect introduction to one of South America`s most popular & lauded writers. ...

Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view, fine wine (and plenty of it), & her family close around. When death instead takes her handsome young friend Valentino
- & under mysterious circumstances at that
- Poldi will not take it lying down. Perhaps it`s in her blood (her father was a detective chief inspector); perhaps it`s a diverting excuse to spend more time with men in uniform; or perhaps it`s just the promise she makes to Valentino while holding his poor dead h&. But Auntie Poldi`s hunting instincts have never felt more alive. Justice must be served
- if it`s the last thing she does.. .


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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution unlike any other, & its story during the Second World War is also our story. This was Britain`s first total war, engaging the whole nation, & the wireless played a crucial role in it. For the first time, news of the conflict reached every living room
- sometimes almost as it happened; & at key moments
- Chamberlain`s announcement of war, the Blitz, the D-Day landings
- the BBC was there, defining how these events would pass into our collective memory. Auntie`s War is a love letter to radio. While these were the years when ` Auntie`
- the BBC`s enduring nickname
- earnt her reputation for bossiness, they were also a period of truly remarkable voices: Churchill`s fighting speeches, de Gaulle`s broadcasts from exile, J. B. Priestley, Ed Murrow, George Orwell, Richard Dimbleby & Vera Lynn. Radio offered an incomparable tool for propaganda; it was how coded messages, both political & personal, were sent across Europe, & it was a means of sending less than truthful information to the enemy. At the same time, eyewitness testimonies gave a voice to everyone, securing the BBC`s reputation as reliable purveyor of the truth. Edward Stourton is a sharp-eyed, wry & affectionate companion on the BBC`s wartime journey, investigating archives, diaries, letters & memoirs to examine what the BBC was & what it stood for. Full of astonishing, little-known incidents, battles with Whitehall warriors & Churchill himself, & with a cast of brilliant characters, Auntie`s War is much more than a portrait of a beloved institution at a critical time. It is also a unique portrayal of the British in wartime & an incomparable insight into why we have the broadcast culture we do today.




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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Map No. 155, Aurillac
- St. Fleur, at 1:100, 000, part of the TOP100 series from the Institut Géographique National (IGN).
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Map No. 10047, Aurl&, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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Aurlandsdalen
- Østerbø area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at 1:25, 000 with cartography based on
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Aurlandsdalen area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at 1:50, 000 with cartography from Norway’s topographic survey & additional tourist information. Contours lines are drawn at 20m intervals. The overprint varies from title to title, but

Includes:: local footpaths, in some cases distinguishing between easy & more difficult trails, as well as mountain huts & campsites. Many titles also indicate cycle or ski routes, other accommodation possibilities, sport & recreational facilities, including alpine skiing slopes, places of interest, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks giving latitude & longitude. Map legend

Includes:: English. Several titles have on the reverse additional tourist information, although in most cases in Norwegian only. To see the list of Turkart maps at 1:50, 000 & links to Turkart series at 25K, 100K & Hiking Sets please click on the series link above.



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