The HUNT Singapore takes you off the beaten tourist trail & introduces you to 85 of the most unique locally-owned eating, shopping & lifestyle experiences in this tiny island nation. We`ve burned through three pairs of shoes walking every nook of the lion city & have discovered everything from fabulous hawker crab shacks, local haute couture designers, & amazing bridges to ancient carpet sellers, bespoke men`s tailors & where to grab custom cocktails when the night descends. New to the UK, The HUNT Guides are your gateway into a witty personal encounter with a local expert in each city. Each beautifully designed guide features that city`s most unique eating, shopping & lifestyle experiences, with a focus on passionately run, independently owned businesses. Handpicked recommendations include a mix of heritage finds & old school favourites, offbeat gems & hip newcomers
- the best each city has to offer whether you`re a visitor, new arrival or curious local.
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Whether you`re heading to Singapore for business or pleasure, you`ll want insider knowledge on where to eat, drink, shop & play in The Lion City. The HUNT team has donned their curatorial coloured glasses & carefully selected around 100 unique, authentic local businesses that range from brand spankin new to deeply patinaed & way off the beaten path, funky & unexpected to chic & shiny. Over the last decade, our award-winning guides have become the go-to source for a worldwide community of locals & travellers who seek out genuine, intriguing independent businesses. ...

Instead of indiscriminately featuring everything & the kitchen sink, The HUNT team has donned our curatorial coloured glasses & carefully selected 100 or so unique, authentic local Sydney businesses that range from eye-popping & brand spankin` new to deeply patinated & way off the beaten track, funky & unexpected to chic & shiny. Over the last decade, our guides have become the go-to source for a worldwide community of locals & travelers who seek out genuine, intriguing independent businesses. ...

Heading to Toronto, but want to do more than visit the CN Tower & order poutine? Allow The HUNT to help you get to know The Six the way the locals do. The HUNT team has donned their curatorial colored glasses & carefully selected 100 or so unique, authentic local businesses that range from eye-popping & brand spankin new to deeply patinaed & way off the beaten path, funky & unexpected to chic & shiny. Over the last decade, our award-winning guides have become the go-to source for a worldwide community of locals & travelers who seek out genuine, intriguing independent businesses.” ...

Instead of indiscriminately featuring everything & the kitchen sink, The HUNT team has donned our curatorial colored glasses & carefully selected 100 or so unique, authentic local Vancouver businesses that range from eye-popping & brand spankin` new to deeply patinated & way off the beaten track, funky & unexpected to chic & shiny. We`ll help you navigate this beautiful, bustling Canadian city so that you can find its hidden gems & local favourites. Over the last decade, our guides have become the go-to source for a worldwide community of locals & travellers who seek out genuine, intriguing independent businesses. ...

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks & hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles & soap. Lewis Carroll`s magnificent nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark features an unlikely cast of characters drawn from the Jabberwocky in Through the Looking Glass. This irresistible new version is illustrated, & has an introduction by, Chris Riddell. This will be luxury edition with both black & white & colour artwork, ribbon marker & metallic blue sprayed edges. It was first published by Macmillan in 1876. ...

On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to You Tube. Entitled ` Message to America`, the clip depicted the final moments of the life of kidnapped American journalist James Foley
- & the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley`s murder
- & the other choreographed killings that would follow
- captured the world`s attention, & Islamic State`s campaign of kidnapping exploded into regional war. Based on three years of on-the-ground reporting from every side of the Syrian conflict, Hunting Season is James Harkin`s quest to uncover the truth about how & why Islamic State came to target Western hostages, who was behind it & why almost no one outside a small group of people knew anything about it until it was too late. He reveals how the campaign of kidnapping & the development of Islamic State were joined at the hip from the beginning. The book is an utterly absorbing account of the world`s newest & most powerful terror franchise & what it means for modern war.


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Patrick Deeley`s train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. From this moment, Patrick unfolds his childhood as a series of evocative moments, from the intricate workings of the timber workshop run by his father to the slow taking apart of an old tractor & the physical burial of a steam engine; from his mother`s steady work on an old Singer sewing machine to his father`s vertiginous quickstep on the roof of their house. There are many wonderful descriptions of the natural world & delightful cameos of characters & incidents from a not-so-long-ago country childhood. In a style reminiscent of John Mc Gahern`s Memoir, Deeley`s beautifully paced prose captures the rhythms, struggles & rough edges of a rural life that was already dying even as he grew. This is an enchanting, beautifully written account of family, love, loss, & the unstoppable march of time. ...

The Marquis de Montespan & his new wife, Athenais, are a true love-match
- a rarity amongst the nobility of seventeenth-century
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century & for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege & breeding in which the titled, l&-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world
- the New World, to be precise. From 1874
- the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known ` Dollar Princess`, married Randolph Churchill
- to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour & sophistication of the Gilded Age. Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women & their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs & letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England
- & what England thought of them.



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