Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented & important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction & some are narrative non-fiction
- they are all powerful, fascinating & moving, & aim to celebrate regional diversity & explore the meaning of home. In these pages on the Midlands, you`ll find two unique works of fiction. A richly-imagined tale about a young girl adopted by a couple living in the village of Fleckney
- ` Home Is Where the Heart Is`
- by author of Costa-shortlisted Pau, Kerry Young. & ` Time & Seasons`, a heartfelt, powerful story of young love across the ages in Milton Keynes by Carolyn Sanderson.


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Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented & important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction & some are narrative non-fiction
- they are all powerful, fascinating & moving, & aim to celebrate regional diversity & explore the meaning of home. In these pages on the South Coast, you`ll find two unique tales. ` Margate Calling` is an intimate, honest & inspiring account of living in Margate by award-winning BBC broadcaster Gemma Cairney. ` Maisie & Mrs Webster` is a bold, fiercely funny & deeply moving piece of fiction about an obese young woman who is confined to her bed & longs to see the sea, by Brighton-based playwright Judy Upton.
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Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented & important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction & some are narrative non-fiction
- they are all powerful, fascinating & moving, & aim to celebrate regional diversity & explore the meaning of home In these pages on Yorkshire, you`ll find two unique memoirs. ` The Yorkshire Years` is Cathy Rentzenbrink`s deeply moving account of returning to Snaith, where her brother Matty was knocked down by a car over twenty years before. ` The Island upon the Moor` traces a powerful journey
- from a carefree childhood in the village of Holme-upon-Spalding Moor
- to surviving dark periods of depression, by Victoria Hennison.


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Chris Stringer`s ” Homo Britannicus” is the epic history of life in Britain, from man`s very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? Chris Stringer takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived here alongside hippos, elephants & sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer & mammoth, & to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice. Here is the incredible truth about our ancestors` journey over millennia
- & a glimpse of the future to see how it might continue. ”A beautiful book on a fascinating subject, written by a world authority”. (Richard Dawkins). ” Superlative... Pure stimulation from beginning to end”. (Bill Bryson). ” Every chapter contains something new, & throws up a fresh location that deserves to become famous”. (” Sunday Times”). ” This important & eminently readable book pulls together all the best scientific work on the first humans to inhabit Britain”. (Tony Robinson). Chris Stringer is Britain`s foremost expert on human origins & works in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum. He also currently directs the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project, aimed at reconstructing the first detailed history of how & when Britain was occupied by early humans. His previous books include ” African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity”, ” The Complete World of Human Evolution” & most recently, ” Homo Britannicus”, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book of the Year in 2007.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we`re going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem. Equality is out
- but immortality is in. What does our future hold? Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling phenomenon Sapiens envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams & nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century
- from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? & how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers?

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A young gay man bewildered & lost on the highways of Los Angeles; a gay Muslim in Berlin; a rent boy in Shanghai; a holiday romance in Mexico; a man from Dakar in a bathhouse in Paris; a love hotel in Tokyo; a darkroom in Rio; a hamam in Syria; the burning ghats on the Ganges; Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Shinto & atheist; legal & illegal blazing through 17 countries on six continents, Homo Odyssey is an explicit, upfront, edgy, often funny, travel adventure that will leave you seeing the world & yourself with different eyes. How do men sexually attracted to other men live in different parts of the world? How do they see themselves? How have they survived over the centuries, mostly in places hostile to them?” ...

Indexed streetmap of the whole city. Detail

Includes:: unsurfaced roads, tracks, railways, post offices,

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Indexed streetmap of the whole city. Detail

Includes:: unsurfaced roads, tracks, railways, post offices,

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Featuring the work of cartographer Jodocus Hondius. A classic French globe stand in a rich & perfect match of ebonized wood & bronze. Solid & still fragile, elegant & imposingly present. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Choose from three cartographers: maps are from the 16th, 17th & 18th C. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

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. ...