Get ready for a bedtime adventure story with the littlest dreamer as you save your pet from the clutches of a fierce dragon, dig for pirate treasure, zoom round a racing track in a super-fast car & even blast off into space to play with aliens on Mars! Snuggle up with this fantastical yet settling journey into dreaml&. This aspirational & soothing story is brought to life by Charlotte Cooke`s delightful illustrations & is the perfect bedtime story, with special bedtime stickers to reward children for getting into bed, staying put & falling asleep! You can also climb lollipops in a land of sweets & swim with mermaids before settling down to bedtime in Littlest Dreamer: A Bedtime Journey. Suzanne Smith is Creative Director & Content Creator at Mums Creative Content Ltd & Doodle Pie Ltd, who create captivating concepts for children`s television & books including the Hattie B, Magical Vet series published by Puffin & the Doodle Girl picture book activity series published by Simon & Schuster. Charlotte Cooke graduated from the University of the West of England in 2010 with a First Class Honours degree in Illustration. She was awarded Highly Commended for the Macmillan Prize in 2010. Her publishers include Parragon & Canata Learning & she has worked with Charlotte & Adam Guillain, best-selling authors of the George`s Amazing Adventures series. ...

Get ready for a bedtime journey with the littlest dreamer as you ride on a magical pony over a rainbow, have a cupcake feast with the woodland animals & dance with a prince at a spectacular royal party, all before settling down to go to sleep! Snuggle up with this fantastical yet settling journey into dreaml&. This aspirational & soothing story is brought to life by Charlotte Cooke`s delightful illustrations & is the perfect bedtime story, with special bedtime stickers to reward children for getting into bed, staying put & falling asleep. You can also dig for pirate treasure & drive a racing car in Littlest Dreamer: A Bedtime Adventure. Suzanne Smith is Creative Director & Content Creator at Mums Creative Content Ltd & Doodle Pie Ltd, who create captivating concepts for children`s television & books including the Hattie B, Magical Vet series published by Puffin & the Doodle Girl picture book activity series published by Simon & Schuster. Charlotte Cooke graduated from the University of the West of England in 2010 with a First Class Honours degree in Illustration. She was awarded Highly Commended for the Macmillan Prize in 2010. Her publishers include Parragon & Canata Learning & she has worked with Charlotte & Adam Guillain, best-selling authors of the George`s Amazing Adventures series. ...

The romantic dream of downsizing, giving up the ratrace, & living life at 4mph on the inland waterways is proving more & more attractive. But for tens of thousands of people it is not just a romantic dream but an actual lifestyle. Tony Jones is one of those people. He has lived aboard his 50ft narrowboat for over 7 years & in this very practical book he documents what the liveaboard lifestyle is really like, focusing on the practical issues of day to day living for those who want to know what living on a boat actually entails, to see how to manage it for themselves. Topics covered include:
- the pros, cons & costs of a residential mooring
- power usage & energy consumption (and how it differs from a house)
- how to stay warm
- the choice of coal, electric, gas or wood heating
- boat loos
- the pros & cons, & troubleshooting typical problems
- entertainment
- TV, radio, internet, DVDs
- logistical problems
- no postal address, GP access, vehicle access or use The aim of this book is to feed people`s dreams by showing that every possible problem that could arise when living on a boat has a tried & tested solution. The dream is perfectly possible, & this book is the complete practical guide to achieving it.









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This is book shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2014. Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life & the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is a note. At home, his family slowly begins to unravel. Poisonous rivalries grow, the once-thriving family business implodes & destructive secrets are unearthed. & all around them the sands are shifting as society fractures, for this is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable & unstoppable change. ” Deeply moving”. (Amitav Ghosh). ” Terrifies & delights”. (A S Byatt, Guardian). ” Unforgettable”. (Daily Telegraph). ...

With a foreword by John le Carre. 1984. East Germany. Captain Gerd Wiesler, a loyal member of the secret police, is assigned to spy on the playwright Georg Dreyman. The flat is bugged, & Wiesler begins to listen in to the daily
- & nightly -activities of the playwright & his actress-girlfriend. But when he discovers that the surveillance has been instigated by the Minister of Culture`s desire for Dreyman`s girlfriend, rather than the playwright`s political views, Wiesler begins to question his own loyalties. As he continues to listen in, he finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed in the couple`s lives, & the gap between his professional duty & personal integrity starts to widen. This hugely influential film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, whose screenplay is published in English for the first time, is as relevant
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- now, in the wake of Edward Snowden & the Wiki Leaks revelations, as it was when it won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Further contents: Introduction by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; ` Appassionata: The Idea for the Film`, by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck`; an essay by Sebastian Koch (` Georg Dreyman`); an interview with Ulrich Muhe, by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; ` Wiesler`s Change of Heart`, an essay by Manfred Wilke; full film cast & crew credits Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the writer & director of The Lives of Others, was born in Cologne in 1973 & grew up in New York City, Brussels, Frankfurt & West Berlin. He studied Russian Literature in Leningrad before obtaining an MA from Oxford & a Diploma in Film Direction from the University of Film & Television in Munich.


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The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, & the education of women was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful & characterful women in a way that no era had been before. Elizabeth Norton explores the seven ages of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII`s sister who died in infancy; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth`s wet nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; & Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens & serving maids, nuns & harlots, widows & chaperones. ...

In this tender, lyrical, & often funny novel, Anjali Joseph, author of Saraswati Park, shines a light on everyday life, illuminating its humour, beauty, & truth. There is a certain number of breaths each of us have to take, & no amount of care or carelessness can alter that. This is the story of two lives. Claire is a young single mother working in one of England`s last remaining shoe factories, her adult life formed by a teenage relationship. Is she ready to move on from memory & the routine of her days? Arun makes h&-sewn chappals at his home in Kolhapur. A recovered alcoholic, now a grandfather, he negotiates the newfound indignities of old age while returning in thought to the extramarital affair he had years earlier. These are lives woven through with the ongoing discipline of work & the responsibility & tedium of family life. Lives laced with the joys of friendship, the pleasure of sex, & the redemptive kindness of one`s own children. This is the story of the living. In this tender, lyrical & often funny novel, Anajli Joseph, author of Saraswati Park, shines a light on everyday life, illuminating its humour, beauty, & truth. ...

This view was produced by assembling hundreds of images from NOAA weather satellites which orbit the earth at an altitude of over 820 km (520 miles). The resulting cloud-free satellite image is enhanced with shaded-relief for land & the sea bed & natural colours to depict vegetation distribution & landscape variations. Printed on high quality paper. ...

A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has travelled a long way & chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Maria`s sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor. & to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her. Weeks before, Maria & her husband Martin fled Stockholm for Morocco, where Martin planned to write an explosive novel; one that would reveal the truth behind dark events within his commune of writers decades before. But the couple never made it to their destination. As Maria settles into her lonely new life, walking the wild, desolate moors, it becomes clear that Winsford isn`t quite the sanctuary she thought it would be. While the long, dark evenings close in & the weather worsens, strange things begin to happen around her. But what terrible secrets is Maria guarding? & who is trying to find her? ...

Britain possesses one of the most remarkable & varied coastlines in the world, with its richness in geology & human history on display. Since the dawn of time the sea has been sculpting the rocks, sands & marshes, constantly changing the shape of the coastline & the inhabitants of Britain have adapted, defended, sometimes surrendered it or recaptured it in response to the forces of nature. ” The Living Coast” brilliantly celebrates this dynamic interplay between sea, land & people in over 350 sumptuous images from the air
- a seagull`s-eye view round the 9, 000 miles of British coast, from Land`s End to the wave-pounded isles & the ancient rocks of the far north; the receding shores & sensationally beautiful estuaries of the east; &, the familiar chalk cliffs, crumbling Jurassic coast & drowned river valleys of the south. This book is composed of 14 chapters, each beginning with a narrative & ending with a photographic exhibition. The coast is taken region by region, moving clockwise round the perimeter of the UK.
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