Pictura is a stunning range of black-&-white artworks to collect & colour, for ages 9 to 90. In this title from the urban ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING MOTHERING SUNDAY & LAST ORDERS, & reissued for the first time on the Scribner list, this is an intensely moving novel about a night that will change one family beyond recognition. On a June night Paula, a successful art dealer, lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her. In nearby rooms their twin teenage children, Nick & Kate, sleep too. The next day, Paula knows, will define all their lives. As dawn approaches, Paula recalls the years before & after her children were born. Her story is both a celebration of love possessed & a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, of the fragilities on which even our most inward sense of who we are can rest. Graham Swift`s apparently most domestic book is that rare thing in fiction, a novel about happiness, though a happiness that is not all that it seems. An intimate & tender tale of a marriage, a family & a home, it begins to embrace big themes: nature & nurture, the illusory & the real. Praise for Mothering Sunday: ` Bathed in light; & even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift`s small fiction feels like a masterpiece` Guardian ` Alive with sensuousness & sensuality.. . wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement` Sunday Times ` From start to finish Swift`s is a novel of stylish brilliance & quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green & Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game` Evening Standard ` Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical & exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, & the parallel lives
- the parallel stories
- we can never know.. . It may just be Swift`s best novel yet` Observer

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” Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me” is a gripping & moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel ” The Infatuations” is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when
- in the bedroom, half-undressed
- she drops dead in his arms. He panics & slips away. But Marta`s family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, & Dean, the widowed husb&, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. Victor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live in the shadows forever.

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From the winner of the Grand Prix de la Litterature
- Mabanckou`s trademark humour & surrealism combine in an autobiographical
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Berlin. A city where nightclubs stay open from Friday night till Monday morning. A city with an underbelly as dark & addictive as the 24-hour drugs, drinking, dancing & sex in filthy toilets that it serves up. Three young men, from different backgrounds, meet here by chance, struggling to find a future & to escape from the past. Tobias was violated as a child & tossed from one city to another by separated parents. Now he`s got AIDS & can find only fleeting happiness with a new lover. Armand fled from his middle-class family home to live as a painter & set up house with a high-school sweetheart. Tugged between expectations, desire & responsibilities, he flees to give release his artistic soul. But at what cost? Franz was raised in a good, wealthy German family & believed he was capable of achieving anything he wanted. A job in a nightclub leads him into the Berlin underworld, where his life takes an unexpected turn & he is threatened with ruin. Berlin promises both escape & salvation for these three young men, in a stunning coming-of-age story by award-winning author Oscar Coop-Phane. With grace & affection, he depicts a cast of flawed characters whose lives spiral downwards, their lifestyles drawing them into a grimy abyss that threatens to eclipse them. A literary masterpiece, Tomorrow, Berlin is a compelling ode to youth & desire, & a stark reminder that escape can only ever be an illusion. ...

A magical, captivating picture book about the power of love between a son & his father Tom & his dad are good at making things. Their inventions start out simple, but they quickly become bigger, faster, crazier
- & they almost always involve wheels. But then Dad loses his job, & everything changes. Sadness clouds the house like a winter sky. That is, until Tom comes up with a brilliant plan that takes their amazing vehicle inventions & creates something astounding
- something the world has never seen before... An emotionally charged & highly imaginative book that explores themes of love & support between children & their parents but is also great fun, with incredible inventions, crazy contraptions & a wonderfully inspiring pioneering spirit at its heart.

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A magical, captivating picture book about the power of love between a son & his father Tom & his dad are good at making things. Their inventions start out simple, but they quickly become bigger, faster, crazier
- & they almost always involve wheels. But then Dad loses his job, & everything changes. Sadness clouds the house like a winter sky. That is, until Tom comes up with a brilliant plan that takes their amazing vehicle inventions & creates something astounding
- something the world has never seen before... An emotionally charged & highly imaginative book that explores themes of love & support between children & their parents but is also great fun, with incredible inventions, crazy contraptions & a wonderfully inspiring pioneering spirit at its heart.

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Tonbridge in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map shows the town of Tonbridge, broadly running north-south in the western half of the map, with countryside stretching eastward as far as the hamlet of Postern Heath. Coverage stretches from Tonbridge School southward to Quarry Hill Road & Pembury Road. Principal features include the castle, a surprisingly dominant feature on the map; the railway station with engine shed & junctions; Great Bridge, Medway Wharf, St Peter & St Paul`s church, St Stephens church, Agricultural Hall, Hectorage, Walter`s Farm, Tonbridge School, Priory Road, High Street, Hadlow Road. The River Medway meanders across the map & numerous rivulets are running into it. On the reverse is an extract from Kelly`s Directory of 1905, listing the private residents. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Topographic survey of Denmark at 1:100, 000 from Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen, the country’s national survey organization. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, with colouring and/or graphics showing various types of terrain & land use: woodlands, orchards, heath, sand & dunes, tidal flats, meadows & marshl&, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of the road & rail networks & other information expected of topographic mapping at this scale. No specifically tourist information such as waymarked cycling or hiking routes is shown. Standard size sheets cover an area of 56 x 45km / 35x 28 miles approx. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING:AVAILABILITY: all the maps are now printed on dem&. Delivery from Denmark can take over 4 weeks. Once an order has been placed we cannot accept any returns for credit.COORDINATES: although the maps are meant to have UTM coordinates for EUREF 89 (WGS 84) datum, sheets are sometimes delivered printed without any grid or margin ticks for UTM or latitude & longitude.

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Tong in 1905 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the village of Tong, just south of Pudsey. Features include Tong Hall, Raikes Hall (at western edge of the map), Ryecroft, Charles Pit, Lousy Wood, Scholebrook, mineral tramway, Alexandra Incline, St James church, etc. On the reverse are directories of Tong for 1889 & 1903. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...