• Bedford, Huntingdon, St. Neots & Biggleswade by Ordnance Survey

    The OS Landranger Active Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps, perfect for day trips and short breaks. Tough, durable and weatherproof, covered in a lightweight protective plastic coating that can be written on, so that your favourite routes can be easily highlighted. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area and includes places of interest, tourist information, picnic areas and camp sites, plus Rights of Way information for England and Wales. OS Landranger Active now includes a digital version of the paper map, accessed through the OS smartphone app, OS Maps.

  • A Naturalist’s Guide to the Birds of India by Bikram Grewal (Paperback Book)

    A Naturalist’s Guide to the Birds of India is an introductory photographic identification guide to 280 bird species and 100 closely related species most commonly seen in India. Aimed at first-time birders, it is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from one of India’s top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, vegetation, opportunities for naturalists and the main sites for viewing the listed species. This new 2nd edition includes updated taxonomy and over 300 new images. Also included is an all-important checklist of all of the birds of India encompassing, for each species, its common and scientific.

  • France – Mini Atlas Mini Atlas Spiral by Michelin (Spiral bound)

    Small and practical, France mini-road atlas is a must have in your car’s glove compartment. This pocket sized atlas will give you an overall view of your journey thanks to its scale 1/1000 000. This compact atlas is very convenient to use thanks to its pocket sized format, a complete index of localities and a very clever distance and time chartSmall and practical. France mini-road atlas features:* Scale: 1/1,000,000* Key to map page* Distance table* Exhaustive town index* Primary and secondary road network* Indication of tourist sights and scenic routes.

  • The Cooking of Books A Literary Memoir by Ramachandra Guha (Paperback Book)

    It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir.It started in Delhi in the early 1980s, when Guha was an unpublished PhD scholar, and Advani a greenhorn editor with Oxford University Press. It blossomed through the 1990s, when Guha grew into a pioneering historian of the environment and of cricket, while also writing his pathbreaking biography of Verrier Elwin. Over these years Advani was Guha’s most constant confidant, his most reliable.

  • The Wonder of It All by Barbara Taylor Bradford (Paperback Book)

    James Falconer returns in the third House of Falconer historical novel from multi-million copy bestseller Barbara Taylor Bradford.The Somme, 1916. James Falconer, once a barrow boy on a London market, stands in the trenches, awaiting the command to go over the top. Away from his business empire in London, he is simply a soldier, war the great leveller.But, unlike his men, and unknown to them, deep down, Falconer doesn’t care if he lives or dies.When a face from the past offers James the chance to repair his fractured relationship with his estranged daughter, Leonie, he must decide if he can hold different things dear – and make space in his life for love.But the war has left terrible scars, both personal and professional, and swept huge changes through the glittering world he once.

  • The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis (Paperback Book)

    WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDEN POPPY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER AWARD ‘A brilliant and luminous writer’ Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe ‘Riveting, sublime, magical, and wildly subversive’ Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban ‘A natural storyteller’ Washington Post Theirs was a love that defied the gods… Beautiful, headstrong Psyche has captured the eye of every suitor – but also the jealous gaze of Aphrodite. When she is tied to a rock to be sacrificed to a ‘monstrous husband’, no monster arrives: instead, she is spirited away by Aphrodite’s daughter Eros. Eros, goddess of desire, can change gender at will. In her.

  • The Unlikely Diary of Prince Kal the Alien by Ross Welford (Paperback Book)

    The first book in a hilarious new diary format series from Ross Welford, the bestselling author of Time Travelling with a Hamster. ‘Great fun.’ – The Observer Prince Kalimonka Evergreen Wildgore – Prince Kal, to you – is in big trouble. Two days ago, back in his home realm of Imaginaria, he stepped into the Anywhere Cabinet – a magical, interdimensional portal – and things did not go according to plan. He ended up here, on Planet Earth. Worse, his beloved (and extremely smelly) pet is missing, and unless he can recharge the Anywhere Cabinet, he’s stuck here forever. Unfortunately, Earthlings don’t believe in magical cabinets, stranded princes, or Imaginaria at all. So Kal starts a diary – to record his adventures,.

  • The Taking of Irene Hart by Madeleine Reiss (Paperback Book)

    ‘Not just a tale of suspense; it’s also a poignant exploration of familial love, resilience, and the consequences of misplaced trust. Reiss’ evocative writing and rich historical detail make this an unforgettable read for fans of historical fiction with a psychological edge’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A gothic historical novel perfect for fans of Sarah Waters, Stacey Halls and Laura Purcell***1859. Somerset, England.When widow Hester Hart decides to sign over all her family’s worldly goods – and their freedom – to a secretive religious community, her daughters, headstrong Ruby and fragile Irene, have little say in the matter.Led by the charismatic Reverend Peters, the women enter a world with its own set of rules and where Irene, cursed with seizures and ill health, is believed to have second sight. But as.