With this wonderful set of books to treasure Pushkin Press celebrates the very best work by the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb (1901
- 1945). His sharp intelligence & sparkling wit are evident in everything he wrote where the deepest meditations on the human condition are carried within darkly amusing tales. In this collection Szerbs ideas about identity history art & society are shown to be as vitally important today as they were when first written.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Kingston upon Thames over the years. The book offers an insight into the daily lives & living conditions of local people & gives the reader glimpses of familiar places during this century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Kingstons recent history are covered famous occasions & individuals are remembered & the impact of national & international events is witnessed. Drawing on detailed local knowledge of the community & illustrated with a wealth of photographs this book recalls what Kingston upon Thames has lost in terms of buildings traditions & ways of life. It also acknowledges the regeneration that has taken place & celebrates the character & energy of local people as they move through the first years of this new century. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Ignored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Here Andy Miller traces the perilous circumstances surrounding its creation & celebrates the timeless perfectly crafted songs pieced together by a band who were on the verge of disintegration & who refused to follow fashion.EXCERPTBig Sky contains some of the most beautiful thunderous music The Kinks ever recorded aligned to a vulnerability & warmth no other group
- & I mean no other group
- could ever hope to equal. It is a perfectly balanced production. On the one hand the mesh of clattering drums & electric guitar never threatens to overwhelm the melody; on the other the gossamer-light harmonies Ray & Daves vocal line traced by Rasa Davies wordless falsetto are bursting with emotion. When most of the instruments drop away at 1.20 the effect is effortlessly vivid
- two lines where Davies performance is both nonchalant & impassioned. The result is wonderfully enchantingly sad made more so perhaps by the knowledge that The Kinks will never again sound so refined or so right.


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Indulge your fantasies with this tantalizing & mouth-watering selection of 40 flirtatious & alluringly decorated cookies. With inspirational photography each cookie means that you can tease your friends with kitsch creations. Kinky Cookies helps you to create tasteful burlesque-inspired & sumptuous treats to bring the naughtiness back into baking. ...

My name is Kinsey Millhone. Im a private investigator licensed bonded insured; white female age thirty-two unmarried & physically fit. That Monday morning I was sitting in my office with my feet up wondering what life would bring when a woman walked in & tossed a photograph on my desk. Somebody killed my husb&. Thirty one years since A is for Alibi was first published Sue Grafton presents Kinsey & Me her first compendium of short stories. It features nine Kinsey Millhone short stories each a gem of detection as well as autobiographical pieces written in the decade after Graftons mother died. Together they show just how much Kinsey Millhone is a distillation of her creators past even as they reveal a child who free of parental discipline read everything & roamed everywhere. But the dark side of such freedom was that very parental distance.. . Kit walked through the empty house listening to her footsteps resounding against the pale dead floors.. .the windows stood open to the summer heat & a wind that smelled of lilacs touched at the screens. From her bedroom she could look out into the side yard where the cherry tree had blossomed every April since time began.. . And now the house was being sold & the land their mother was dead their father remarried: all of life everything was breaking apart breaking down being levelled destroyed razed rendered obsolete that childhood that life that family as odd & unhappy as it had been.. . Published in the UK for the first time this dazzling & often moving collection displays the depth & range of Graftons writing & reminds us of her unique talent as a storyteller. ...