This beautiful cut-paper edition of ” Jingle Bells” features a spectacular pop-up finale & silhouette illustrations by Niroot Puttapipat, illustrator of The Night Before Christmas. ” Jingle Bells” is an irreplaceable part of Christmas celebrations, & this is the perfect book to share on Christmas Eve. With the turn of each page, the scene transforms, capturing the thrill of sleigh-riding in the snow & the magic of the Christmas season. An ideal gift, & a book to treasure for ever. ...

All witches LOVE Halloween, right? Wrong! This little witch loves... CHRISTMAS! Trixie`s friends think she`s batty as a vampire, so she needs Santa`s help to spread the Christmas joy. But when she visits Lapland HQ, Santa is nowhere to be seen, the elves` shelves are empty & ALL WITCHES are on the Naughty List! Luckily, Trixie knows a spell or two that just might save Christmas for everyone. Join Trixie, Rudy the cat, LOTS of elves & witches... & even Santa himself in this beautifully illustrated picture book by James Brown. ...

` Neighbours...hah. People`d live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, & then some trivial thing would happen & someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.` & when the neighbours in question are the proud empires of Klatch & Ankh-Morpork, those are going to be some pretty large garden tools indeed. Of course, no-one would dream of starting a war without a perfectly good reason.such as a `strategic` piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen`s right to bear arms to defend what they consider to be their own. Even if it isn`t. & even if they don`t have much in the way of actual weaponry. As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him...and that`s just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse. Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid & at least one very camp follower. ...

`A little bit Golden Compass, a little bit Hunger Games, & all adventure`
- Amie Kaufman, NYT bestselling author of ILLUMINAEThe
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Trekking route from Juri to Lukla & Namche Bazaar, & on to the Everest Base Camp, at 1:100, 000 in the Nepa Maps series which provides extensive coverage of trekking areas of Nepal on detailed contoured maps with trekking routes & hiking trails, huts & camp sites, local places of interest & other tourist information. The map shows the main trekking route from Jiri to Lukla & on to the Everest Base Camp, plus several other treks: Gokyo Lakes, Island Peak (Imja Tse), Bhote Koshi valley to the Nangpa Glacier, as well as the route from Sagarmatha National Park westwards, north of the Rolwaling region. Also highlighted are several other connecting routes & variants. Contours are at 80m intervals, with bold relief shading & vegetation colouring. Index lists places, peaks, passes, lakes & base camps. The map has margin ticks with latitude & longitude at 5' intervals. Additional information

Includes:: tables showing the main Everest routes in stages with altitudes in metres & feet & trekking times. Titles in this series have cartography is based on the country

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Map No. 103, Jizerske Hory, in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps of the Czech Republic at 1:75.000 from Shocart highlighting both signposted cycling routes & other local cycling paths, with route profiles & additional tourist information. Relief is shown by contour lines, spot heights, & subtle hill-shading. The maps show roads, tracks, railways, cable cars, chairlifts, & a range of natural landscape features & landmarks. Coloured symbols depict plenty of additional tourist features e.g. information centres, places of interest, antiquities, shelters, campsites, accommodation, bicycle services etc. An overprint highlights both signposted routes & other recommended routes which have no terrain markers. For all bike routes intermediate distances are shown. Hiking paths are also highlighted. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 5' intervals. Each map is accompanied by a booklet containing general information on the Czech cycle route network, elevation profile diagram for selected routes, plus an index for locations of historical & geographical interest, bicycle service workshops, information centres, & tourist attractions. Map legend & text are in English, German & Czech. ...

` Today is the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. More difficult, more painful, less joyful, less full of love. I & Jo`s friends & family are going to work every moment of our lives to love & nurture our kids & to fight against the hate that killed Jo. Jo believed in a better world & fought for it every day of her life with an energy, & a zest for life that would exhaust most people.` In the aftermath of Jo Cox`s tragic death in 2016 her husband Brendan Cox urged us to remember Jo`s life & what she stood for & not the manner of her death. In this moving & impassioned portrait of Jo
- as daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP & activist
- we see how much she gave & how much more she had to give, & her legacy of values & beliefs which will live on.

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` Melons. Melons for sale!` Every day, Jo-Jo brays the same message & carries the heavy melons through the streets of Venice. Bullied by his master & plagued by flies, Jo-Jo is loved by nobody. But one day, somebody notices Jo-Jo. The famous Doge`s daughter herself! & when danger looms, the Venetians need a hero to save them.. . From the master storyteller himself comes a story about an evolving friendship between Jo-Jo & the Doge`s daughter, who loves the donkey despite his lowly position. A real feeling of of warmth & hope is created in this timeless, classical tale. ...

Volumes have been written by & about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now, Simon Fenwick, archivist of the Leigh Fermor papers, tells Joan`s story in Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor.A talented photographer, Joan defied the social conventions of her times &, though she came from a wealthy & well-connected family, earned her own living. Through her lover, & later editor of the TLS, Alan Pryce-Jones, she met & mingled with the leading lights of 1930s bohemia
- John Betjeman, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh, Maurice Bowra (who adored her) & Osbert Lancaster, among others. She featured regularly in the gossip columns, not only for her affairs & her fashionable clothes, but for her intrepid travels to Russia & America. In 1936 she met & subsequently married the journalist John Rayner, but her belief in open marriage was not shared by her husband & their relationship foundered. Then, in 1944 in Cairo, where she was a cypher clerk, she met Paddy Leigh Fermor, lionized for his daring kidnap of the Nazi General Kreipe in Crete. They would remain together until her death in 2003. In this riveting biography, written with full access to Joan`s personal archive, Simon Fenwick reveals the extraordinary life of a woman who, until now, has been defined by the man she married & their famous friends. Here, at last, Joan is placed at the centre of her own story. It is also a riveting portrait of a marriage & a milieu, revealing the sexual & intellectual mores of that wartime generation who lived life at full tilt, no matter what the consequences.
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Volumes have been written by & about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers, reveals a woman hitherto only fleetingly glimpsed. A talented photographer, Joan defied the social conventions of her times &, though she came from a wealthy & well-connected family, earned her own living. Through her lover, & later editor of the TLS, Alan Pryce-Jones, she met & mingled with the leading lights of 1930s bohemia
- John Betjeman, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh, Maurice Bowra (who adored her) & Osbert Lancaster, among others. She featured regularly in the gossip columns, not only for her affairs & her fashionable clothes, but for her intrepid travels to Russia & America. In 1936 she met & subsequently married the journalist John Rayner, but her belief in open marriage was not shared by her husband & their relationship foundered. Then, in 1944 in Cairo, where she was a cypher clerk, she met Paddy Leigh Fermor, lionized for his daring kidnap of the Nazi General Kreipe in Crete. They would remain together until her death in 2003. In this riveting biography, written with full access to Joan`s personal archive, Simon Fenwick reveals the extraordinary life of a woman who, until now, has been defined by the man she married & their famous friends. Here, at last, Joan is placed at the centre of her own story. It is also a riveting portrait of a marriage & a milieu, revealing the sexual & intellectual mores of that wartime generation who lived life at full tilt, no matter what the consequences.
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