My Country Right or Wrong Quiz Book is filled with questions all about the United Kingdom: people, places, history, customs & more! Each mini-quiz will test your knowledge of a particular part of British culture or geography & the many pot-luck quizzes force you to take your chances! Play with a friend or as a group game, or just use this treasure trove of information to brush up on your general knowledge! ...

An inspirational guide book to help you plan spectacular road rides. Each route is broken down into key elements, giving concise information on the essentials that make for a great day out on the bike, including route, road features, & public transport links for point to point rides, accompanied by inspirational images of the ride. Each ride will has a clear start & end point outlined & takes in fun, flowing roads, deliberately featuring roads that are quiet & offer stunning views of the British landscape, covering all areas across the UK. Browse the pages, choose a route, & head off out with a road ride companion packed with useful information for when you`re out on your bike.

Includes:: two ` Taste Le Tour` rides for each of the two Tour de France Yorkshire stages in 2014, & information on the Giro D` Italia routes coming to Irel&, also in 2014. Also

Includes:: printable routes from the Bloomsbury website.



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The ultimate book of sweetie nostalgia! A colourful, witty & irreverent encyclopedia of all the sweets & crisps of your youth. From Mojos to Rainbow Drops, Space Raiders to Trios, Corona to Kia Ora & everything in between. Fully illustrated with hundreds of wrappers, ads & specially recreated packshots this book will lead you down memory lane until you reach the corner shop, load up a 10p mix up bag & rot your teeth on the contents. The authors have been given access to the archives, factories & warehouses of some of the leading sweet & snack manufacturers in the country & have delivered a book that is packed full of fascinating historical research...and lots & lots of sweets. WITH A FOREWORD BY JONATHAN ROSS. ...

Britain is a place of remarkable beauty & surprising extremes: nowhere else in the temperate world boasts such extreme variety in such a small area. Our humble island has over 10, 000 miles of coastline; iconic animals & birds; & unique spectacles of migration that see wildlife from all corners of the globe descend upon our shores. Here, life is governed by the seasons: each month bringing extraordinary transformations to our land & its inhabitants. This lavish companion to the new BBC One series brings Britain to life, celebrating the vibrancy of the changing year through stunning photography & mesmerising time-lapse sequences, & revealing the unmissable drama & beauty to be witnessed on our very own doorstep. ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel is a name synonymous with the heroic & inventive engineering of the Victorian era. His personal bravery, persuasive character & refusal to accept the conventional boundaries of his profession led him to a wide range of exceptional achievements. In this revised & updated edition, Chris Morris tracks down Brunel`s legacy to provide an unrivalled visual celebration of the great man & his work. Alongside the graphic photography is a commentary which reveals Brunel to be as much a visionary as an engineer. ...

` Mark Lowery is far too funny` Jonathan Meres, author of THE WORLD OF NORMThe fourth book in the hilarious & anarchic ROMAN GARSTANG ADVENTURE series Incredibly, unbelievably, Roman`s cousin is marrying the cousin of Rosie Taylor (AKA The Worst Person Who Ever Lived) cousin. Roman can`t believe this (as Rosie says: ” How can we be in the same family, we`re barely in the same species”). Rosie`s parents decide they should go along together & ”make a weekend of it”. Roman`s plus one is his best friend Gamble (probably the naughtiest kid in Europe)
- & it`s the beginning of another big, messy, catastrophic & uproarious adventure for Roman
- with Winnebagos, illegal thrash metal festivals & campsite beauty contests all thrown into the mix.. .

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The New Cat keeps bringing dead things into the house as presents for Tom. When he brings in the head of the vicar`s very expensive Koi Carp & the Vicar makes Mum pay GBP200 for a replacement, Anna`s Dad is so cross he locks the New Cat out of the cat-flap. Tom argues for the Cat to be let back in, but the flap is left shut overnight & when Dad finally concedes, the New Cat has disappeared altogether. Anna, Suzanne & Tom are convinced he has been kidnapped
- but who is responsible? A new investigation begins...
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In 1914 a train pulled into a provincial British railway station. The porter, a curious chap, asked the regiment of soldiers where they were from. ` Ross-shire, ` one called down, but the porter heard ` Russia`. & so began a rumour that led to Germany losing the First World War. Often the history we learn at school is only half the story. We hear of heroic deeds & visionary leaders, but we never hear about the people who turned up late for court & thereby changed the law, or who stood in the wrong queue at university & accidentally won a Nobel Prize. The Great Cat Massacre: A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes demonstrates that the nation is as much a product of error as design. Through chapters on religion, law, culture, war, science & politics, it reveals such things as how an edict from Pope Gregory IX helped spread the Black Death, how the sister of cricketer John Willes invented overarm bowling, & how, had a letter not been lost, Disraeli might never have become prime minister. This book is history told through human failings, schoolboy errors, bad luck & extraordinary consequences; a history of mishearing, misdiagnosis & misinterpretation
- a history that you won`t find in the textbooks.
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Jelly & her family live in Chompton-on-de-Lyte, where everyone loves a Chocablocka bar or two. So when the end of chocolate is announced, she can`t believe it. Determined to investigate, Jelly & her gran follow a trail of clues to a posh chocolate shop & its owner, the pompous Garibaldi Chocolati. Gari`s suspiciously smug, despite his failing business & yucky chocolate. Is it really the chocopocalypse, or is there a chocoplot afoot? ...

Stanfords Adult Book of the Month July 2016 From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk & Memphis to Tokyo & Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character of each place
- its people, its art & architecture, its government
- & explain the reasons for its success. Richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, maps & plans, this volume is nothing less than a portrait of world civilization.

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