Felix Hart, a tragic orphan, is expelled from school, cast onto the British high street, & forced to make his way in the cut-throat world of wine retailing. Thanks to a positive mental attitude, he is soon forging a promising career, his sensual adventures taking him to the vineyards of Italy, South Africa, Bulgaria & Kent. His path to the summit is littered with obstacles, however. Petty office politics, psychotic managers & the British Board of Wine & Liquor prove challenging enough. But when Felix negotiates the world`s biggest Asti Spumante deal, he bites off more than he can chew & is plunged into a terrifying world of Mafiosi, people smuggling & ruthless multinationals. Part thriller, part self-help manual & part drinking companion, Corkscrew is a coruscating critique of neo-liberal capitalism, religious intolerance & the perils of blind tasting. ” An astonishing debut. Bed-wettingly funny.”
- The Little Chalfont Gazette ” Not suitable for young adults. Or most old ones, frankly.”
- Buckinghamshire Bookworm Monthly ”A wholly inappropriate gift for any wine lover.”
- American Goblet Magazine


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Robert V. Camuto`s interest in wine turned into a passion when he moved to France & began digging into local soils & cellars. ” Corkscrewed” recounts Camuto`s journey through France`s myriad regions
- & how the journey profoundly changed everything he believed about wine. The world of great wines was once dominated by great Bordeaux chateaux. As those chateaux were bought up by moguls & international corporations, the heart of French winemaking shifted to the realm of small producers, whose wines reflect the stunning diversity of regional environment, soil, & culture-terroir. In this book we follow Camuto across France as he works harvesting grapes in Alsace, learns about wine & bombs in Corsica, & eats & drinks his way through the world`s greatest bacchanalia in Burgundy. Along the route he discovers a new generation of winemakers who have rejected chemicals, additives, & technologically altered wines. His book charts an odyssey into this new world of French wine, a world of biodynamic winegrowing, herbal treatments, lunar cycles, & grape varieties long ago dismissed as `difficult`. Camuto`s work is a delightful look beyond the supermarket into the kaleidoscopic world of flavours offered by the true vintners of France.
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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. ...

This book describes 30 traditional Cornish festivals & recent revivals, linking them imaginatively with traditional dishes & modern feasts using local ingredients. Each festival is illustrated with a quirky, fun illustration & accompanying recipe, old or new. For each recipe there is a photo of the finished dish. The book provides a lively, sometimes idiosyncratic, look at Cornish history, folklore, food & customs. It guides you around the county & enables you to cook your own Cornish feast. ...

In 2006, UNESCO designated Cornwall & West Devon Mining Landscape a World Heritage Site. In the eighteenth century, Cornwall was one of the country`s principal industrial areas. Before the late 1870s, it produced more tin than any other region in the world, & in the early nineteenth century its output of copper was two-thirds of world production. The remains of the mines contribute to a distinctive cultural landscape; more than 200 engine houses survive
- the largest concentration of such monuments in the world. This book, & its companion Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth, is a guide to the best examples of the surviving mines, with stunning photographs & authoritative text.
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Food, once the shame of the British nation, is now the object of our shameless, salivatory interest. Cookery is never off our TV screens, nor out of our newspapers. A revolution is afoot, in short, & never in the field of human nutrition have so many people eaten so well. So, at least, we are led to believe. But in the course of a dyspeptic journey around the eating places, the fine food producers, the markets & supermarkets of Britain, expatriate gastronome Paul Richardson found that the truth is more complex, more intriguing & much more amusing. He chats to chefs & shoppers, foodie faddists & junk food junkies. He visits cheesemakers, bakers, smokehouses, coffee houses, & artisan producers of everything from ham & jam to cakes & ale. Democratic to the last, he tastes his way through deep-fried Mars bars in Newcastle, udder in Accrington, pasties in Padstow, & foie gras three ways on a buckwheat pancake in Fulham, interpolating his narrative with fascinating 'bites' of culinary lore. With wit, warmth & a refreshing lemon-squeeze of scepticism, Paul Richardson shows that British food is all these things & more. ...

Cornwall at 1:100, 000 on the Ordnance Survey Tour Map No. 1, with the Isles of Scilly shown as an inset. More insets present town navigation maps of St Ives, Falmouth, Newquay, Hugh Town, Padstow, Bude, Launceston, Penzance, Helston, Bodmin, Truro, St Austell, Fowey, & Looe, plus an overview of the whole area with cycle routes & national hiking trails. Additional topographic information

Includes:: sandy beaches, dunes, foreshore & high water mark. Also included are lists of selected places of interest, market days & farmer markets. Edition F; Publication Date: February 2011 About this series: Ordnance Survey

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Cornwall is a land apart, one which has had a strong sense of its separate identity throughout history. Here are some of the richest & best preserved prehistoric & medieval landscapes in Britain, medieval castles & later coastal defences, & a land of inscribed stones, holy wells, wayside crosses & small churchtowns, scattered throughout its diverse countryside & along its beautiful coastline. Its medieval churches show monumental Norman fonts, accomplished C14 sculpture, striking C15 west towers & generously proportioned C15 & C16 aisles, with a wealth of medieval & Renaissance bench ends. Major houses can be found from all periods ranging from the spectacular mansions of the mining magnates like Tregothnan & Lanhydrock, through the supremely picturesque as at St Michael`s Mount, to the exquisite Elizabethan of Trerice. The smaller houses of the Cornish gentry survive in significant numbers from the medieval period, many refashioned in the C18 & C19. Threaded through almost every landscape is evidence of Cornwall`s distinguished mining history, & its towns, remarkably well preserved, offer fine public buildings of the C18 & C19, & at Truro the greatest English cathedral of the Victorian age. Among the architectural highlights of the last century are Lutyen`s dramatic extension to Penheale, Modernist seaside houses, Barbara Hepworth`s sculpture garden & the vast biomes of the Eden Project. ...

Short Walks Cornwall covering parts of Trelissick, St Agnes & the Lizard. This selection offers interest & regional variety in Cornwall, providing the best short walks in the area. Covering walks through the whole of Snowdonia, both popular & little know scenic routes including the Launceston & the Minack theatre.- See walk locations by Looking Inside Inside:-20 circular walks up to 5 miles- Clear, large scale Ordnance Survey route maps- GPS reference for all Cornwall waypoints- Where to park, good pubs & places of interest en route- All routes have been fully researched & written by expert outdoor writers
- Beautiful photography of scenes from the walks Ideal for families, or for those who prefer shorter distances, Short Walks guides contain 20 walks graded by distance, duration & difficulty. Each route

Includes:: points of interest as well as fun observation questions for children.


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Cornwall in a series of colourful reproductions of attractive county maps by John Speede from about 1610-1611, printed on thick art paper & ideal for framing. Each title, 58 x 45cm / approx. 23” x 18”, is decorated with additional notes, drawings, coats of arms, street plans, etc. Little drawings are used to show locations of towns, larger villages, hills & woodlands or parks. Rivers & lakes are also drawn, as are boundaries of the administrative subdivisions with the names of the Hundreds. Surrounding the county are decorative panels filled with additional information which differs from title to title: street plans, coats of arms of notable local families, geographical features, notes about local history, etc. ...