Buying Property Abroad is a comprehensive guide to negotiating the foreign property ladder. This book explains the whole buying process, covering contracts, searches, surveys & deeds. Mortgages, currency deals, taxes, fees & duties are assessed & calculated & the role of estate agents, lawyers, letting agents, surveyors, builders & architects is examined in depth. Enthusiastic but grounded in common sense, the book offers essential support at every stage. Key sources of further information are provided, with website addresses & suggestions for further reading. This must-have guide: examines best buys for investment, holiday & retirement; explains the buying process from start to finish; covers main destinations & emerging markets; &, exposes scams, rip-offs & schemes to avoid. The true cost of buying & owning a property abroad is revealed. ...

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. ...

The Sheep Foldable Shopping Bag, comes as a compact & colourful pouch in the shape of a fox & unfolds into a tote bag with delicate decorative print. Very lightweight, the little sheep can fit into any handbag & be ready to use as an alternative to a plastic bag. The Sheep Foldable Shopping Bag is ideal for when you pop out to get your lunch or a few items from the shops. ...

- Keep those annoying, whining skeeters away with this handy portable sonic mosquito repellent- Enjoy solar-powered electronic mosquito protection wherever you go- Comes with mini solar panel to recharge the integral batteries & handy keychain to clip to bag, belt or keys- Emits high pitched frequency sound to repel mosquitoes for 2-4 hours from full charge- Safe for animals & humans ...

Even tiny babies will enjoy looking at the brilliantly coloured illustrations in this very first book. The peach-skin soft cloth is perfect for little hands to grasp & the surprise sound that comes from the crackly foil sewn inside the book will delight babies. ...

By Any Means is the tale of Charley Boorman’s 20, 000-mile adventure from his home town in County Wicklow, Ireland to Wollongong in Australia, through 25 countries, by any mode of transport to hand
- including a motorcycle in a monsoon! Charley’s incredible journey offers him the chance to meet people & learn firsthand what it’s like to live in many different parts of the world. En-route he drives a lorry through Iran, sets up his own bus service in Turkey, takes a slow boat down the Mekong, & a very fast one through Borneo to deliver vaccines for UNICEF.
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*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2017*LONDON 1885
- A woman`s body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten
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Elizabeth Smart`s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ` Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightening.. .A masterpiece`. One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker
- & fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly &, as a result of Barker`s impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him & his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense & ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children & their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving & immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down & Wept. Originally published in 1945, this remarkable book is now widely identified as a classic work of poetic prose which, more than six decades later, has retained all of its searing poignancy, beauty & power of impact.

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A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque & personal journey through the groves & the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history & structure of the English language. David Crystal has been described (by the Times Higher Education Supplement) as a sort of `latter day Dr Johnson`, a populist linguist who has promoted the study of the English language in an academic & broadcasting career that has so far spanned 40 years & nearly 100 books. Now he has written an engaging travel book of more general appeal. Inspired by W. G. Sebald`s ` The Rings of Saturn` & by Bill Bryson`s books, he has combined personal reflections, historical allusions & traveller observations to create a mesmerising (and entertaining) narrative account of his encounters with the English language & its speakers throughout the world
- from Bangor to Bombay & from Stratford to San Francisco. ` By Hook or by Crook` is an attempt to capture the exploratory, seductive, teasing, tantalising nature of language study. As such, it will appeal to the ever-growing market who like to be entertained as well as instructed.
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A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque & personal journey through the groves & the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history & structure of the English language. David Crystal has been described (by the Times Higher Education Supplement) as a sort of 'latter day Dr Johnson', a populist linguist who has promoted the study of the English language in an academic & broadcasting career that has so far spanned 40 years & nearly 100 books. Now, in his first book for Harper Press, he has written an engaging travel book of more general appeal. Inspired by W. G. Sebald's ' The Rings of Saturn' & by Bill Bryson's books, he has combined personal reflections, historical allusions & traveller observations to create a mesmerising (and entertaining) narrative account of his encounters with the English language & its speakers throughout the world -- from Bangor to Bombay & from Stratford to San Francisco. ' By Hook or by Crook' is an attempt to capture the exploratory, seductive, teasing, tantalising nature of language study. As such, it will appeal to the ever -- growing market who like to be entertained as well as instructed. ...