Home of beautiful sandy beaches, quaint cottages & windmills
- Lincolnshire`s huge expanses of countryside & coast provides the
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` Stunningly good. Beautiful, smart, raw, sad, poetic & humane... It`s the best thing I`ve read for ages`, James Rebanks, author of THE SHEPHERD`S LIFE How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross? Francisco Cantu was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. He worked the desert along the Mexican border, at the remote crossroads of drug routes & smuggling corridors, tracking humans through blistering days & frigid nights across a vast terrain. He detains the exhausted & the parched. He hauls in the dead. He tries not to think where the stories go from there. He is descended from Mexican immigrants, so the border is in his blood. But the line he is sworn to defend is dissolving. Haunted by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. & when an immigrant friend is caught on the wrong side of the border, Cantu faces a final confrontation with a world he believed he had escaped. The Line Becomes a River is timely & electrifying. It brings to life this landscape of sprawling borderlands & the countless people who risk their lives to cross it. Yet it takes us beyond one person`s experience to reveal truths about life on either side of an arbitrary line, wherever it is. ...

It is the summer of 1983, & young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics & money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, & their children Toby & Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend & his uneasy responsibility. At the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens` world. In an era of endless possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty
- a prize as compelling to him as power & riches are to his friends.
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With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, a classic novel about class, politics & sexuality in Margaret Thatcher`s 1980s Britain. There was the soft glare of the flash -- twice -- three times -- a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned & said, ` Prime Minister, would you like to dance? In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel & their children Toby & Catherine. Innocent of politics & money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens` world & an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst`s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man`s collision with his own desires, & with a world he can never truly belong to. ...

In February 1793 France declared war on Britain & Holland & by 1815, established dynasties & kingdoms were overthrown, the United States had been established as a world power & a new age was dawning. This was to be the longest, hardest & cruellest war ever fought at sea & while the war on land saw the rise of the greatest soldier ever known
- Napoleon Buonaparte
- the war at sea had the formidable genius of Horatio Nelson. In The Line Upon A Wind, Noel Mostert has achieved a work of unparalleled research & illuminating analysis. He has also brought us the story of the daily lives of the sailors on board the fighting ships. There are heroes & villains, captains so harsh that crews were goaded to mutiny & others whose concern for the welfare of their crews changed life at sea forever. It is a tale of ordinary men & extraordinary bravery, of the building & navigation of fearsome warships & of a period of tumultuous conflict, change & innovation
- maritime history at its very best.


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Large ships have always evoked awe & nostalgia among shiplovers, & none more so than the giant liners of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries. They sailed the oceans with a wide range of passengers long before any other mode of long-distance transport was available to the ordinary man. Their sheer size & opulence were genuinely admired & frequently amazed at around the world, & the romance & tragedy surrounding them has ensured an enduring place in the hearts & minds of those who served or travelled on them as well as those who have only ever seen their like in literature or on film. Here, for the first time, the history of these vessels is recounted with full exploration into their design, construction & development, along with a social history of those who worked & travelled on them. The well-known perennial favourites such as ' Mauretania', ' Olympic', & ' Titanic', ' Bremen', ' Europa' & the ' Cunard Queens' will be looked at in a fresh new light in the context of emerging & changing lifestyles. The book also offers detailed information on some of the lesser known but significant ships such as 'l' Atlantique', ' Empress of Britain', & ' Cap Arcona'. The story is brought full circle with a discussion of the liner's increasing influence on cruise ship design & what is foreseen as the ultimate triumph of the ocean liner, the new Cunard ' Queen Mary II' project to initiate a new liner era for the twenty-first century. With both original & contemporary illustrations in both colour & black-&-white, this will be an essential work for liner enthusiasts & maritime historians alike. The illustrations alone are a goldmine of period pieces, industrial splendour & style. ...

Aesop`s Fables are given a contemporary twist in this series of retellings with bright & graphic artwork. Featuring ingenious die-cuts, you can lift the page to release the mouse from the lion`s claws, then, later, turn the page to make the mouse release the lion in return. The upmarket format & stylish illustrations make this series of books perfect gift material. ...

George Orwell`s moving reflections on the English character & his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion & the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism & an English revolution. His fullest political statement, it has been described as `one of the most moving & incisive portraits of the English character` & is as relevant now as it ever has been. ...

Emily (16), Travers (10), Angus (9), Maisie (7) & Oakley (1) lived in an idyllic 300-year-old cottage in the Cotswolds. They attended the local school, watched TV & did all the things English middle-class children do. Then, in 1995, their biologist mother seized the opportunity to study lions in Botswana &, in the space of 3 months, changed the family's lives forever. Within 24 hours of landing in Gaborone they were travelling to their new home at Maun in the Okavango Delta, one of the most beautiful wildernesses on earth. Weeks after arriving, the children had made home in an old mission house full of stray dogs & were learning to fetch fresh water, dig a toilet & which creepy crawlies could kill you & which couldn't. Their classroom was an open hut & free days were spent in a Land Rover tracking prides of lions across hundreds of miles of bush. The Lion Children is an extraordinary life-enhancing story about the joy of childhood & living in an environment as different as it can be. But above all it is about the lions, who we get to know through the eyes of the children themselves. This story will capture the public's heart & imagination. It is illustrated with the children's own drawings & photographs taken over the 5 years. ...

From the creator of the known & loved Bright Side lifestyle br&, Rachel Bright, & the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Jim Field, comes a feelgood rhyming story about one little mouse trying to make himself heard & discovering along the way that even the smallest of us has the heart of a lion. Perfect for fans of Giraffes Can`t Dance this stylish book from two contemporary stars really is something to shout about
- it will make you laugh, cry & read it every bedtime.
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