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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In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war...and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is Deighton`s fourteenth novel & a vivid evocation of wartime Engl&, the story of a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4. At the centre of the novel are two young men: the deeply reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, estranged son of a deskbound colonel, & the cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse, well on his way to becoming America`s Number One Flying Ace. Alike only in their courage, they forge a bond of friendship in battle with far-reaching consequences for themselves, & for the future of those they love. ...

Mog was tired. She was dead tired... Mog thought, `I want to sleep for ever.` & so she did. But a little bit of her stayed awake to see what would happen next. Mog keeps watch over the upset Thomas family, who miss her terribly, & she wonders how they will ever manage without her. Nothing happens for some time...then suddenly, one day, Mog sees a little kitten in the house. The kitten is frightened of everything
- noise, newspapers, bags & being picked up. Mog thinks the kitten is very stupid. But then Mog realises that the nervous kitten doesn`t know how to play & just needs `a little bit of help`. & so, Mog pushes the surprised kitten into Debbie`s lap, where it finds it actually likes being tickled & stroked. The new family pet is settled in at last. But Debbie says she will always remember Mog. ` So I should hope, ` thinks Mog. & she flies up & up & up right into the sun.
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The First World War changed London & Londoners forever. For the drivers who took their buses to the Western Front & for their families & friends left behind it meant facing new challenges at work & a new way of life. This book illustrates how London reacted & dealt with that change looks through its transport system. It`s a long way to Tipperary, It`s a long way to go, It`s a long way to Tipperary, To the sweetest girl i know, Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, It`s a long, long way to Tipperary, But my heart`s right there. ...

May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when her older sister Atka puts her on a UN evacuation bus fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Thinking they will be apart for a short time, they make a promise to each other to be brave. But as the Bosnian war escalates & months go by without contact, their promise becomes deeply significant. Hana is forced to cope as a refugee in Croatia, while Atka & their younger siblings battle for survival in a city overwhelmed by crime & destruction. Then, when Atka manages to find work as a translator, events take an unexpected turn, & the remarkable events that follow change her life, & those of her family, forever. ...

Goodbye to Berlin contains six sketches of individual`s lives in pre-Hitler Berlin: the author`s landlady, Sally Bowles, a working class family & a Jewish family. Many of the characters cross over with the characters portrayed in his other Berlin novel Mr. Norris Changes Trains. ...

Goodbye to Soho is Clayton Littlewood’s vivid & entertaining non-fiction account of his & his partner’s struggles to keep afloat their designer menswear shop based in London’s Soho. Following on from his award-winning diary Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho. Littlewood is at it again, watching the hookers, the gangsters, the rent boys & following the same strange characters who make up this strangest of villages. With a Dickensian cast of characters consisting of eccentric artists, Soho madams & ex-Diana Ross impersonators, Goodbye to Soho is a snapshot of modern London life – a Samuel Pepys diary for the Soho subculture. ...

` There`s happiness in having less. If you are anything like how I used to be
- miserable, constantly comparing yourself with
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An archly funny, classic mystery adventure with a magic twist! Lucy Goodly is the new boot girl at Grave Hall, working for the cold, aloof Lord Grave. The other staff
- Vonk the Butler, Mrs Crawley the cook & violet the scullery maid
- all seem friendly but Lucy soon notices that strange things are afoot in her new home
- & not just Mrs Crawley`s experimental anchovy omelettes. There are moving statues, magical books & Lord Grave has a secret. Meanwhile, all over the country, children are vanishing. Could the mystery of the missing children be linked to the strange goings-on? Lucy is determined to find out...


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Goodmayes & Seven Kings in 1915 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions have been published for this area to show how it developed across the years
- the two maps are from different series, Essex Old & New Series, & so the sheetlines are somewhat different The Seven Kings 1894 map covers an area from Queen`s Road & Sams Green eastward to Goodmayes Lodge & Goodmayes Lane, & from Ilford Cemetery northward to Wards Lane & Stump Cross. Newbury Park branch has not yet been built & Seven Kings station not opened. Features include Seven Kings Farm, Aldborough Cottages, St Mary`s church, Cauliflower Road, Ash Grove. The map show an area somewhat to the north, although overlapping with the later 1915 map. The Goodmayes 1915 map captures the eastern side of Ilford, extending to Goodmayes: an area that stretches from Sunnyside Road & Connaught Road eastward to Hazeldene Road & Colinton Road at Goodmayes, & from Cambridge Road & Seven Kings station southward to Mortlake Road & Longbridge Road. Features include the GER main line & Newbury Park Junction, St Mary`s church, Ilford Cemetery, South Park, All Saints church Goodmayes, Goodmayes Farm. The southern half is still quite rural, with Goodmayes Lane winding its way across the map, but the northern half is already lined with streets. This version links more conveniently with the London series. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.
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