This handy portable guide features up-to-date information, including food, drinks, facilities & opening hours, for the best pubs in the North of Engl&, as chosen by the highly respected editors of the annual Good Pub Guide. Spanning Cheshire, Clevel&, County Durham, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Northumberl&, Tyne & Wear & Yorkshire here are handpicked pubs specialising in food, wine, malt whisky & own-brew beer. Whether you`re planning a holiday in this part of the UK & trying to find some charming pub accommodation, looking for a place to enjoy a weekend walk with the dog, or simply in search of some warming pub food & a welcome pint of real ale, this is the guide for you. ...

Now in its sixth edition, The Good Retreat Guide is the definitive work on where to find a retreat that suits you. This authoritative guide is used by people everywhere who need to find a place where the world will not intrude
- a place aside to nurture the spirit, heal the body & bring peace. Whatever your beliefs, it offers the greatest choices of retreats, from monasteries to holistic holidays & explains: the purpose of a retreat, what you do on one & how to make the most of it, the many diverse kinds of retreat, from yoga & meditation to Interfaith or Holistic, & the benefit of spiritual exercises for self-development & better health. With a selection of retreats in Engl&, Wales, Scotl&, Irel&, France, Spain, Italy, other European countries, Asia & Africa
- The Good Retreat Guide is all you need to find a refreshing break & a renewal of mind, body & spirit away from the demands of a hectic world.

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Running is a great way to keep fit, stay healthy, relieve stress & experience new places. The Good Run Guide is your companion to the great running to be found in some of the most scenic locations of England & Wales. Run through the stately grounds of Chatsworth in the Peak District; traverse Hadrian`s Wall on the Scottish Border & visit the breath-taking castles of coastal Northumberl&. Explore coastal coves in the north Cornwall; summit Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales or escape the hustle & bustle of the City along the banks of the Thames. Experienced runners Louise Piears & Andy Bickerstaff, two of the founders of the Good Run Guide, the UK`s leading independent running website, have h&-picked 40 of their favourite runs. Ranging in length from 3.4 to 10.7 miles (5.4 to 17.2 kilometres), there are routes for runners of all ability & fitness levels, on a range of surfaces. Each run features details of the run distance, the flat equivalent distance, difficulty, hilliness, climb rate, terrain & other useful information so you know exactly what you`re undertaking before you set off. There is also a bespoke map, annotated with route descriptions & key route features, to aid navigation. ...

The food you put on your table is at the heart of the house, as a matter of survival & joy. Everything we eat sustains family, friends & self, & The Good Table shows that it is best when sourced & cooked with love & care. Whether making comforting favourites such as Toad in the Hole or Paella, classic dishes such as Beef Suet Pudding or a Brandy Snap with Berries, or recipes from far-flung shores such as Lapland Fish Soup & a Spanish dish of Chorizo in Cider, Valentine's omnivorous curiosity & attention to detail set his recipes apart. In this timely book, Valentine pays homage to the slow cooking of cheaper cuts of beef, pork & lamb, whilst encouraging us to enjoy less widely-used meat such as rabbit & venison. His ingredients are local, mostly inexpensive & easy to find, yet his dishes are often surprising, based on forgotten classics or hailing from distant countries such as Mexico & Morocco. For Valentine, The Good Table starts with good shopping, & he encourages us to not be afraid of buying new ingredients, especially when they are affordable & plentiful. He seeks out sustainable fish, creates luxuries from everyday ingredients such as bread & eggs, & cooks fruit & vegetables when they are in season. ...

Using the credit card & identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels & above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, exponentially & pretend to be someone really important & successful: God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being, results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers & sorting out (as almighty as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle, dying & coming back to life... ...

Behind the island paradises, panoramic views & historical sites there often lies a different story. Using her twenty-year experience in the field of human rights, personal anecdotes & the testimonies of survivors, Lucy Popescu explores the various abuses that often go unnoticed or are carefully hidden from the tourist. From torture in the Maldives, the labour camps of China, seeking asylum in Australia to execution in Iran. Inspired by the ethical flying drive & the rise in investment of projects to offset carbon emissions, ” The Good Tourist”, rather than deterring tourists from their chosen destination, serves as a practical guide to what you can do after your holiday to help a cause or support a people. ...

I`d been itching to ride a Harley-Davidson across America for years. Now it was the High Plains or bust. Inconveniently, my wife Roz had never even sat on a bike. I didn`t fancy a passenger for 12, 000 miles, so Roz borrowed an ancient 100cc Suzuki & made it to the Driving Test centre. The following morning we flew to Baltimore & she bought a yellow 883 ` Sportster`, all leather tassels, sexy buckhorn bars & straight-through pipes. It met my Soft-tail off the ship from Southampton & we were away. The ride of a lifetime was soon transformed into a pilgrimage in search of the American people who the Harleys dragged from under stones, off mountainsides, out of the swamps & the prairie dust. The scenery was phenomenal, but it is the folks I`ll remember
- & riding Death Valley with an engine air-cooled by wind 35 degrees hotter than my blood.
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` As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful & bright` Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy have grown up together in Orchard House with their friend Laurie next door, & now it`s time for them to go out & find their places in the big wide world, to do the great & marvellous things they`ve dreamed of & discover their `castles in the air`. They each find themselves tested, & fall in love, but when tragedy strikes they find their best comfort is in each other, & home. BACKSTORY: Learn more about the unusual author & have a go at making jam! ...

” Goodbye Buenos Aires” is a vivid & earthy celebration of Argentina, which chronicles the rise & fall of the British colony in the 20`s & 30`s through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives
- a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars & brothels of the city whilst trading with farmers upcountry. It is also the biographical portrait of an errant father by a son & a moving description of Argentina by one of its leading writers & journalists. Andrew Graham-Yooll chronicles his now lost tribe, the Anglos
- the British of Argentina
- through this, at times, harrowing memoir of separation, unpredictable politics, personal loss & love rediscovered.


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This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, & what makes us European. Spend time with some of your favourite writers & artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music & movies, to war, literature, driving, nudity, geography, smoking & nature. Featuring pieces of exceptional quality from some of our most treasured novelists, historians, journalists, poets & artists, including: Jessie Burton, Richard Herring, Alain de Botton, Tom Bradby, Val Mc Dermid, Matt Haig, Afua Hirsch, Lionel Shriver, Sarah Perry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ian Rankin, Owen Jones, Mark Kermode, Robert Macfarlane, Chris Riddell, Former Prime Minister Jim Hacker & many more.A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the times we live in, our relationship with the continent, & ourselves.* * * * *
Includes: PIECES BY: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Tom Bradby, Jessie Burton, Ben Collins (aka The Stig), Colonel Tim Collins, Robert Crampton, Adam Dant, Alain de Botton, Kate Eberlen, Matt Frei, Nicci French, Simon Garfield, Jonathan Lynn writing as Former Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Matt Haig, Richard Herring, Jennifer Higgie, Afua Hirsch, Owen Jones, Oliver Kamm, Alex Kapranos, Mark Kermode, Hari Kunzru, Olivia Laing, Marie Le Conte, Amy Liptrot, Robert Macfarlane, Henry Marsh, Val Mc Dermid, Ian Mc Ewan, Hollie Mc Nish, Kate Mosse, Jenni Murray, Sarah Perry, Ian Rankin, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Chris Riddell, Andrew Roberts, Will Self, David Shrigley, Lionel Shriver, Sunny Singh, Ece Temelkuran, Rob Temple, Bee Wilson, Sarah Winman
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