A lads` weekend in Eastern Europe spirals out of control. A bleeding tourist is rescued by a stranger in downtown Toronto. A middle-aged woman holidaying in Tunisia considers the local options for love. An unemployed man shares his fantasies of a sex tour of Arizona with his long-suffering girlfriend. A woman is drawn into an impromptu but life-changing football game in the heart of the Amazon. Following his universally acclaimed third novel, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, Somerset Maugham Award-winner, Rodge Glass, has created a themed, contemporary story collection like no other. With wit, wisdom, insight & pathos, he examines men & women of all ages who, through the advent of discount air travel, play out their lives & loves across the globe. Glass brilliantly captures the isolation, dislocation & occasional epiphanies of those who find themselves a thousand miles from home, & those who long to be. ...

Join little rabbit & his mummy as they spend a glorious sunny day together in the meadow. Little rabbit finds love everywhere, but knows that a mummy`s love is always the best love of all. Flurries of foil throughout & featuring a tenderly-told rhyming text & heartwarming illustrations. Exploring the loving relationship between animal parents & their babies, this beautifully-designed, padded picture book will soon become a bedtime favourite. ...

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson`s writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories & truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love. Selected from the books of Jeanette Winterson. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Eating by Nigella Lawson; Jealousy by Marcel Proust; Babies by Anne Enright; &, Desire by Haruki Murakami. ...

John Betjeman began writing for the Telegraph in 1951 & continued to do so for a quarter of a century. During that time Britain underwent profound social & cultural changes. In architecture, grand Victorian edifices were pulled down to make way for gleaming brutalist monuments to the Future. In literature, a new generation of angry young men (and women) challenged convention head on. In music, pomp & circumstance gave way to the electric guitar. & in fashion, hemlines crept up. Amongst much of the population, however, such rapid change met with disquiet: a nagging sense that the New had displaced much that was wonderful in the Old. By turns eccentric, wistful & polemical, Betjeman`s writing for the Telegraph gave voice to this unease. From contemporary reviews
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- of novelists such as Ian Fleming, Nancy Mitford & J.D. Salinger, through prescient warnings about the threat posed to the English skyline by office blocks, motorways & concrete lamp-standards, to elegiac paeans to Norman churches &, of course, the gothic majesty of St Pancras station, Lovely Bits of Old England collects the very best of Betjeman`s contributions to the Telegraph for the first time. Taken together they offer a eulogy for what was lost & an impassioned defence of the past in the face of progress`s relentless onward march.

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` Generous & empathetic.. . opens up postwar migration in all its richness` Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian` Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded.. . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not only the transformation of British society after the war but also its character today` Piers Brendon, Literary Review` Lyrical, full of wise & original observations` David Goodhart, The Times The battered & exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers
- to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world & with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed
- & transformed the country. Drawing on an amazing array of unusual & surprising sources, Clair Wills` wonderful new book brings to life the incredible diversity & strangeness of the migrant experience. She introduces us to lovers, scroungers, dancers, homeowners, teachers, drinkers, carers & many more to show the opportunities & excitement as much as the humiliation & poverty that could be part of the new arrivals` experience. Irish, Bengalis, West Indians, Poles, Maltese, Punjabis & Cypriots battled to fit into an often shocked Britain &, to their own surprise, found themselves making permanent homes. As Britain picked itself up again in the 1950s migrants set about changing life in their own image, through music, clothing, food, religion, but also fighting racism & casual & not so casual violence. Lovers & Strangers is an extremely important book, one that is full of enjoyable surprises, giving a voice to a generation who had to deal with the reality of life surrounded by `white strangers` in their new country.

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The battered & exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers
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A richly imagined & stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, & betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, & the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, & freedom. It is a place of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, & discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, artists, libertines, & parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. It is at the Chameleon where the striking Lou Villars, an extraordinary athlete & scandalous cross-dressing lesbian, finds refuge among the club`s loyal denizens, including the rising Hungarian photographer Gabor Tsenyi, the socialite & art patron Baroness Lily de Rossignol; & the caustic American writer Lionel Maine. As the years pass, their fortunes-and the world itself-evolve. Lou falls desperately in love & finds success as a race car driver. Gabor builds his reputation with startlingly vivid & imaginative photographs, including a haunting portrait of Lou & her lover, which will resonate through all their lives. As the exuberant twenties give way to darker times, Lou experiences another metamorphosis-sparked by tumultuous events-that will warp her earnest desire for love & approval into something far more. ...

Karttakeskus’ Water touring maps are a completely new type of map series. The pre-folded maps made from waterproof & rip-proof material can fit into a small space on the boat, but when opened, they cover a wide area. In this way, the water touring map is e.g. an excellent planning tool alongside electronic navigation solutions, offering a wide overview for e.g. route planning. On the other h&, the waterproof material makes the map easy to handle in e.g. an open boat or sailing boat. Water touring maps: In land areas, the maps have been supplemented with the National Land Survey of Finland’s Topographic Database material. New map sheet division. Size 70 × 100 cm, folded 23.3 × 11.3 cm. Additional themes incl. slipways & camp fire sites & landfalls. Scale in maritime areas 1:60 000, inland waterways 1:50 000 Base map source: Finnish Transport Agency. Not for navigation use. Does not meet the requirements of an official nautical chart. ...