Looe in 1905 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. The map covers both West Looe & East Looe, & extends northward to Shutta & Barbican, & eastward to Millendreath Beach. Features include the railway station with the line to the harbour, St Mary`s church, Guildhall, Plaidy Beach, site of St Anne`s chapel, Boscarn House, St Nicholas church; the cramped houses are neatly delineated on either side of the harbour. On the reverse is a directory of Looe in 1910. 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. ...

This brilliantly colourful look & find book is teeming with jungle scenes to pore over & talk about. Count crocodiles hiding in the water, spot a sloth wearing slippers, match toucans with identical beaks & much more. Each page is packed with talk-about opportunities, & all the answers are at the back of the book if you get stuck. ...

` Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.` By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is adopted by charming Nick & his dazzling wife Alix. They draw her into their tight circle of friends. Suddenly, Frances` life is full & ripe with new engagements. But too late, Frances realises that she may be only a play thing, to be picked up & discarded once used. & that just one act in defiance of Alix`s wishes could see her lose everything.. . ...

LOOK AT ME is a superb coming-of-age novel & an unsettlling yet entertaining exploration of grief. `A sharp-eyed novel about ...

From a multi award-winning German novelist comes this finely nuanced & disarmingly funny novel about a woman who has lost sight of who she once was. Katharina`s husband isn`t coming home for the weekend
- again
- so she`s on her own. When their chaotic daughter Helli has a nosebleed, Kat has to dash off to school to pick her up. Then their son, Alex, announces he`s bringing his new girlfriend home for the first time. Kat`s best friend from college is coming around tonight too, & she`s wondering if she should try to seduce him
- but first she needs to do the shopping, the vacuuming & the laundry, deal with an exploding clothes-dryer, find their neighbour`s severed thumb in the front yard & catch a couple of escaped rodents. When she`s got all that sorted, perhaps she`ll have time to think about the thing she`s been trying not to think about
- the lump she`s just found in her breast. Because you can`t just die & leave a huge mess for someone else to clean up... can you? & wasn`t there supposed to be more to life than this?



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This ultimate picture book packed with wonderful, quirky, amusing & delightful images from the British Museum. There is no text at all: the pictures, & combinations of pictures, speak for themselves. This makes the book accessible to all ages. Quite young children will enjoy examining & talking about the pictures; even adult visitors familiar with the museums galleries will find much to surprise & entertain them. Every reader is likely to be surprised at the breadth & variety of images, all of which come from the British Museum. ...

The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West & Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver & entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider & passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval & family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world. This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the most brilliant & mercurial voices of early twentieth-century, who was a major influence on writers including Hunter S Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth & the Beats. This new edition

Includes:: an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe`s second novel, Of Time & the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now available in Penguin Classics.

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An action-packed book filled with building sites to explore, construction machines to learn about & a demolition site in action. Lift the flaps to discover the work that goes into building a house, a bridge, a skyscraper & more, the jobs people do & the machines that are used. An exciting introduction to how buildings go up
- & come down.
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From nests in treetops to dark underground burrows, there are lots of animal homes to discover in this fascinating book. Lift the flaps to see how animals build homes in extreme temperatures, shelter in a warm coral reef, or on a riverbank & lots more. With over 80 flaps to lift & links to websites with videos & pictures of real animal homes. ...

A fascinating flap book packed with interesting information about how lots of things work. Discover the inner workings of cars & boats, farm & building site machines, everyday household items including vacuum cleaners, computers & fridges, & much more. ...