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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visitsomeone who could have walked past, but chose not tobut what happens when we arrive home? how do our experiences shape us? the kindness of strangers explores what it means to be vulnerable and to be helped by someone we've never met beforethis is a collection of stories by accomplished travellers and adventurous souls like sarah outen, benedict allen, ed stafford and al humphreys, who have completed daring journeys through challenging terrain, adventuring from the calais jungle to the amazon, from land's end to the gobi desert, from new guinea to iran and many other places in betweeneach has a story to tell of a time when they were vulnerable, when they were in need and a kind stranger came to their rescueall royalties go directly to fund oxfam's work with refugeesthese are stories that make our hearts grow, stories that will restore our faith in the world and remind us that, despite what the media says, the world isn't a scary place - rather, it is filled with kind strangers just like us
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham barbara is an experienced travel writer and editor who has worked extensively with travel publishers such as fodor's and the aasee oxfam website for delivery information read moresince joining the travel publishing editorial team in , barbara has written several titles including east anglia, yorkshire, the welsh borders, scotland, kent, somerset, warwickshire, cornwall, sussex, england and walesborn in new york and educated at oberlin college in the usa, barbara moved to the uk in and now lives in south yorkshire with her family
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham complete third series of the channel 4 sitcom based on the testing times of bohemian, heavy-drinking misanthrope and second-hand bookshop owner bernard black (dylan moran) - who loves books but hates customersepisodes are: 'manny come home', 'elephants and hens', 'moo-ma and moo-pa', 'a little flutter', 'the travel writer' and 'party'help is at hand, however, in the form of mild-mannered manny (bill bailey), who proves to be something of a star at selling books, and fran (tamsin greig), who owns the 'nifty gifty' gift shop next door
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham on the day after halloween, in the year , four children slip away from the cathedral city of kingsbridgesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreone boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt noblemanone girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible lovethey will see prosperity and famine, plague and waras adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revengeken follett's masterful epic the pillars of the earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedralin the forest they see two men killedthey are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctorand always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood daynow world without end takes readers back to medieval kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham all of arthur csee oxfam website for delivery information read moreclarke's short stories collected in one volume, beginning with travel by wire - clarke's first ever published short storya volume which showcases his range and variety, each story a classic example of the unique mixture of speculation and fiction which has made clarke a household name
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham sisters of sinaitells an extraordinary tale of nineteenth century exploration; how two scottish sisters made one of the most important ancient manuscript finds of the ageonce they had overcome the stubborn reluctance of cambridge scholars to authenticate the find and had lead an expedition of quarrelsome academics back to sinai to copy it, agnes and margaret -in middle years and neither with any university qualifications - embarked on a life of demanding scholarship and bold travelhidden in a cupboard beneath the monastic library at st catherine's in the sinai desert the twins discovered what looked like a palimpsest: one text written over anotherwe enter the excitement and mystery of the gospel origins at a time when christianity was under attack in europeit was agnes who recognized the obscured text for what it was - one of the earliest copies of the gospels written in ancient syriacin this enthralling book, janet soskice takes the reader on an astonishing journey from the ayreshire of the sisters' childhood to the lost treasure trove of the cairogenizahcrucially this is the story of two remarkable women who, as widows, were undeterred in their spirit of adventure and who overcame insuperable odds to become world class scholars with a place in historywe trace the footsteps of the intrepid pair as they voyage to egypt, sinai and beyond, murray's guide book in hand coping with camels, unscrupulous dragomen, and unpredictable welcomes
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham time is an illusionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefinally, in a lucid and eloquent epilogue, the author speculates on the philosophical implications of his theory: does free will exist? is time travel possible? how did the universe begin? where is heaven? does the denial of time make life meaningless? written with exceptional clarity and elegance, this profound and original work presents a dazzlingly powerful argument that all will be able to follow, but no-one with an interest in the workings of the universe will be able to ignorebarbour believes that only the most radical of ideas can resolve the conflict between these two theories: that there is, quite literally, no time at allthis is the first full-length account of the crisis in our understanding that has enveloped quantum cosmologyin the end of time, the british theoretical physicist julian barbour describes the coming revolution in our understanding of the world: a quantum theory of the universe that brings together einstein's general theory of relativity, which denies the existence of a unique time, and quantum mechanics, which demands oneunifying thinking that has never been brought together before in a book for the general reader, barbour reveals the true architecture of the universe and demonstrates how physics is coming up sharp against the extraordinary possibility that the sense of time passing emerges from a universe that is timelessthe heart of the book is the author's lucid description of how a world of stillness can appear to be teeming with motion: in this timeless world where all possible instants coexist, complex mathematical rules of quantum mechanics bind together a special selection of these instants in a coherent order that consciousness perceives as the flow of timealthough the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there are only timeless 'nows'
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham from giles kristian, the sunday times bestselling author of lancelot, comes this brutal, bloody and captivating viking adventure, continuing the story begun in the bestselling raven: blood eyehave you read raven: blood eye, the first in the trilogy? see oxfam website for delivery information read moresailing in search of revenge, the pagan norsemen venture into the heart of a christian empire that would wipe their kind from the face of the earth, a place where danger lies in wait around every bend of the great river up which they travel" -- ben kane"an all-action adventureraven and the wolfpack plough the sea-road in pursuit of the saxon traitor, ealdred, who has left the fellowship for dead and fled to the frankish emperor charlemagne and the promise of untold riches"kristian can really writea young man with no memory and a blood-tainted eye, raven has found friendship and purpose amongst this fierce band of warriorshaving proved himself in battle, he is now certain that viking blood flows in his veinsraven: sons of thunder is the second title in the raven trilogyhis battle scenes are bone-crunchingly good, his descriptions of the viking world bright and evocative" -- ***** reader review"the action oozes energy" -- ***** reader review***************************************************if you betray a fellowship you are a dead manbut to survive this adventure, his cunning must be as sharp as his bladethe story continues in raven: odin's wolvesa brilliant story, beautifully told" -- sunday express"this was a brilliant read for me as a weathered historical fiction readerso that for those precious hours you are happily lost within this book's own universeperfect for fans of bernard cornwell, robert low and game of thronesgiles kristian is a great storytellerhe weaves in rich historical detail with a light touch
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham harry turtledove hailed island in the sea of time as "one of the best time travel/alternative history stories i've ever read," and jane lindskold called against the tide of years "another exciting and explosive talenow the official battle lines have been drawn" now the adventures of the nantucket islanders lost in the time of the bronze age continues with on the oceans of eternityand only one side can emerge the victorten years ago, the twentieth century and the bronze age were tossed together by a mysterious eventsome have turned instead to the renegade coast guard officer william walkerin the decade since, the republic of nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know-how retained from modern times to explore and improve conditions for the inhabitants of the pastsome of these peoples have become alliesand for ten years, the two sides have tested each other, feinting and parrying, to decide who will be the ones to lead this brave new world into the future
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham michael adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twentiessee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor michael is living a double life - he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by telling his wife he has to work through the night or travel up northand then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and childrendays are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of workit is a darkly comic confessional that is at once compelling, revealing and very, very funnyand while she is valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret flat, doing all the things that most men with small children can only dream abouthe thinks he can have it all, until is deception is inevitably exposedthe best a man can get is written with the hilarious eye for detail that sent john o'farrell's first book, things can only get better, to the top of the bestseller lists
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham vyvyen brendon's evocative, at times heart-tugging book, runs from the 18th century and the east india company, through the afghan wars, the indian mutiny and the more settled era of the queen empress, and culminates in the conflict leading to britain's hurried exit inuntil the coming of air travel these children often only saw their parents every few yearsthen there were the children born of anglo-indian marriages and affairssent back to britain they were often reviled as 'darkies', 'a touch of the tar-brush'and then there were the children educated in indiabrendon reveals appalling stories of abuse at the hands of servantswhat frequently unites brendon's wildly different subjects is their loneliness--drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs and interviews, she portrays children who had to discipline themselves to adapt (often ingeniously) to unfamiliar cultures, far away from family and forced to spend termtime in boarding schools and holidays with unfamiliar familiesits subject is the young progeny of traders, soldiers, civil servants, missionaries, planters, engineers and what should be done with them
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham brain games for clever kids is a fantastic bestselling puzzle book, brimming with memory, word and number workouts for the cleverest of kids!including battleships and mind-bending spot the differences to japanese puzzles including hanjie, kakuro, futoshiki, sudoku and lots morelet the brain games begin!other books in the series include: wordsearches for clever kids quiz book for clever kids crosswords for clever kids maths games for clever kids brain gaming for clever kids times tables games for clever kids word games for clever kids travel puzzles for clever kids 10-minute brain games for clever kids
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham bill bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, 'i come from des moinessee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut in bryson's hands, it becomes everyone's story, one that will speak volumes - especially to anyone who has ever been young' in this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of s middle americait was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including ddt, cigarettes and nuclear falloutthis is a book about one boy's growing upsomebody had to
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham explorer, scholar, travel writer and poet, charles doughty was the progenitor of a noble tradition that includes lawrence of arabia (to whom he was a mentor) and wilfred thesiger: british writers who have been fascinated by the bedouin, and in particular by that strange, mythic part of the world, the empty quarter (a phrase which doughty introduced to the west)in the s doughty spent two years wandering through arabia, first with the haj pilgrimage, then joining nomadic bands of arabs, sometimes staying as a virtual prisoner in far-flung desert townshe often seemed possessed by an almost messianic vision of himself and found among the bedouin a chivalry and honour that suited his temperament, as it did thesiger's";feted by the literary establishment, doughty risked all many times over in his obsesssive quests in arabiathe story of his archaeological investigations and his wide-ranging observations of arabia and desert life were published in as the famous arabia deserta, with its haunting opening sentence "a new voice hailed me of an old friend when, first returned from the peninsula, i paced again in that long street of damascus that is called straightunyielding in his independence of mind, the tall, red-bearded doughty's aggressive refusal to conceal his christianity made his travels all the more dangerous: he was threatened with death several times, spurned, insulted and often beaten by angry mobshis long, impassioned and often paradoxical life makes him one of the great british scholar-eccentricsoften, too, he found himself at odds with the authorities, his work and his genius, as he saw it, neglected
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham a story of love complicated by time travel'what a wonderful, strange, terrifying, brilliant novel this is' kamila shamsie, author of home fire see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham one journey will change their lives forever to follow her dreams, she must sacrifice everything? see oxfam website for delivery information read moresisters nora and delia have been given the chance of a lifetime - to escape their poor irish farm and travel on the titanic to a new life in americabut when disaster strikes, and nora dies, a small misunderstanding leads to delia taking nora's place as governessnora is to become a treasured governess for a rich family, while delia has only a lowly maid's positionas delia grows closer to her charge, and the girl's father, will she be able to reveal the truth to find a chance at happiness? and what will happen when she finds out that nora is actually alive, and coming to take what is rightfully hers
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham alfred the great has been dead for a decadesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe must travel secretly to the badlands of the north and find the bones of a long lost saintbut the northern territories are under the rule of viking invaderswhitworth also writes as victoria whitworth and is the author of the traitor's pit and daughter of the wolfwulfgar, a young priest in training, more at home with his books than with a sword, has been tasked with an impossible missionand if wulfgar is discovered, they will have his headhis legacy: an uneasy alliance between the neighbouring kingdoms of wessex and merciaa historical epic in the tradition of c
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham michael palin undertakes his most challenging journey yet in this bbc travel series, across the himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth, made up of a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching miles from the borders of afghanistan to south-west chinahis travels take him through afghanistan, across india to the feared 'death zone' near the base of mount everest, and then on to the bhutanese capital before finally arriving in the bay of bengalalong his journey michael palin encounters extremes of wealth and poverty, altitude and freezing cold, and meets, amongst many others, the dalai lama, the bhutanese royal family and the once-feared head hunting tribe of the konyak
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham western set in starring tommy lee jones as samuel jones, a wanderer who abandoned his family years before to travel with a band of apaches in new mexicocan he track down the bandits before they disappear with lily into mexico? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreover the years, his conscience eats away at him and he finally resolves to return to the family he left years beforebut on arrival at the homestead, he finds his wife long dead and his grown-up daughter maggie (cate blanchett) and her husband brake (aaron eckhart) filled with bitterness about the past, unforgiving and unwelcomingamid a tide of recriminations jones decides to leave the family - but when a band of ruthless bandits ransacks the homestead, killing maggie's husband and kidnapping her teenage daughter lily (evan rachel wood), he becomes maggie's only hope
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham violent crime comedy directed by martin mcdonagh, starring colin farrell, brendan gleeson and ralph fiennessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhile ken does his best to reign in ray's behaviour, word reaches harry that they have not been keeping their heads down as instructed and he decides to travel to bruges himself to deal with the wayward pairhowever, ray finds himself very much outside his comfort zone and his contrary ways lead him into increasingly dangerous situations with locals, tourists and a film crewwhen hitmen ray and ken (farrell and gleeson) are ordered to murder a priest in london, and the job goes wrong, they are told by their boss harry (fiennes) to lay low for a couple of weeks in the quaint city of bruges, belgium
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham over the course of several years, simon armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own rightsome have been published - such as the walking home and walking away poems - but the majority has not, and together they cover an eclectic array of subjects including sculpture, the environment, travel, drama, and mediathey vary from single poems, such as 'zodiac t shirt', written to be performed at the launch of beck's song reader, to the suite of ten poems about branwell brontë written at the time of the writer's bicentenarysandettie light vessel automatic represents the nature and scale of armitage's work - it is an important reflection of his public engagement as a poet and the astonishing range of his interests and talents
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham a darkly comic tale of exile, unrequited love and the redemptive power of booksbut the days of the bookshop and of the close community around it are numbered' karen joy fowler, bestselling author of we are all completely beside ourselves see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe area has been marked out for 'urban regeneration' and soon the faded glory of the bookshop, the small local theatre, the unique shops and small cafes will face the bulldozers and urban planners' guardian'surprising and moving meditation on the advantages (and disadvantages) of an entirely fictional lifebrilliantly original and richly allegorical, firmin is brimming with charm and wistful longing for a world that understands the redemptive power of literature and treasures its seedy theaters, one-of-a-kind characters, and cluttered bookshopsfirmin is born in the basement of a ramshackle old bookstorefirmin soon realizes his source of nourishment has given him the ability to read and this discovery fills him with an insatiable hunger for literature and a very unratlike sense of the world and his place in it'a wonderful celebration of the way reading enriches your lifeas firmin navigates the shadowy streets of his decaying area, looking for understanding, his excitement, loneliness, fear, and self-consciousness become remarkably human and undeniably touchingfirmin may be a rat - poisoned by people he thinks are his friends - but his imagination soars as high as that of any humaneloquent and witty, firmin speaks for the book-loving rodent in all of usbecause firmin is a rathe's a sensitive, creative soul but misunderstoodnot only that, but as the runt of the litter, he is forced to compete for food and ends up chewing on the books that surround him
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham complete second series of the situation comedy based on the testing times of bernard black (dylan moran, who also co-writes), misanthropic bookshop owner extraordinairein pursuit of michelin stars, manny and bernard transform the infested bookshop into a restaurantbut how will the three of them fare when they attempt to venture abroad together? see oxfam website for delivery information read morein 'the fixer', manny uses his underworld connections to find fran mysterious employment'fever' sees fran unable to sleep in the heat, so bernard helps her by brushing up on the law and finds himself a 'summer bunny'in 'hello sun', fran tries to discover her inner karma at the advice of her disapproving friend eva, and bernard finds positive proof that manny is madmeanwhile manny is worried about the reliability of his magic hot water bottlefinally, in 'a nice change', bernard and manny can't hear themselves argue because of the builders next door, so fran suggests a holidayin 'the entertainer', ever keen to distract herself, fran (tamsin greig) takes up the piano, ever keen to delude himself, bernard falls in love, and all manny (bill bailey) wants is a breakbut will they succeed in teaching dodgy danny to read? 'blood' sees an unemployed and restless fran taking comfort in the discovery of her exotic new found cousinsin return all bernard and he have to do is educate a psychopath
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oxfam bookshop carlisle match programme for this football league game at whaddon road, cheltenhamsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam bookshop truro hardback book in what appears to be a rebindingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe history of the cheltenham flyer, the fastest train at the timeetc along with descriptions of the route from paddington to swindon  with descriptions of how the locomotive works, the track, signals with a colour fold out frontispiece, black and white photographs, maps and drawings fair condition but showing signs of wear originally aimed at children but a fascinating book for any train enthusiast
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the first five series of the tv show presented by michael portillo that traces historic railway journeys across britainsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the first series portillo sets out to chart how the nation's love affair with the railways began, travelling from liverpool to scarborough, preston to kirkcaldy, swindon to penzance and buxton to london, amongst other journeysin the third, fourth and fifth series portillo traces more historic rail journeys across britain including 'great yarmouth to beccles', 'darsham to felixstowe', 'sudbury to southend', 'ballymoney to derry', 'high wycombe to stratford-upon-avon', 'woking to clapham junction', 'london victoria to abbey wood', 'stirling to invergowrie', 'manchester to birkenhead', 'southport to leyland', 'preston to rochdale', 'haworth to huddersfield', 'honley to chesterfield', 'london euston to cheddington', 'bletchley to newport pagnell', 'northampton to nuneaton', 'leicester to loughborough', 'nottingham to leeds', 'southampton to basingstoke', 'winchfield to crowthorne', 'wokingham to bradford on avon', 'chippenham to gloucester', 'cheltenham to wolverhampton', 'norwich to brandon', 'ipswich to chelmsford', 'ilford to rochester', 'faversham to dorking' and 'brighton to chichester'portillo travels to destinations including holyhead, newcastle, york and sheffield, stopping to visit historic landmarks and to talk to those whose lives have been changed by the railway systemthe second series sees the former politician take as his guide 'bradshaw's handbook', a pamphlet on the burgeoning british railway system written by 19th-century cartographer and publisher george bradshaw
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In travel narratives from the age of discovery, historian peter cmancall has compiled some of the most important travel accounts of this eraoxfam bookshop wallingford the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ushered in a new era of discovery as explorers traversed the globe, returning home with vivid tales of distant lands and exotic peoplesunlike other collections, travel narratives from the age of discovery offers a global view of travel at a crucial stage in world, and human, history, with accounts written by non-european authors, including two new translationsin addition to these travel narratives, this anthology features rare pictures from sixteenth-century printed books, including images of brazil, roanoke, guiana, and india, which, together with the accounts themselves, provide a detailed understanding of the many ways in which fifteenth and sixteenth century travelers and readers imagined other worlds see oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluded here are the mughal emperor babur's first thoughts of india upon establishing his empire there, the chinese chronicler ma huan's report detailing chinese travel to the middle east during the fifteenth century, and an account of africa written by the man known as leo africanusfrom christopher columbus to lesser-known figures such as the huguenot missionary jean de léry, this anthology brings together first-hand accounts of places connected by the atlantic, pacific, and indian oceanswritten by authors from spain, france, italy, england, china, and north africa describing locations that range from brazil to canada, china to virginia, and angola to vietnam, these accounts provided crucial insight into unfamiliar cultures and environments, and also betrayed the prejudices of their own societies, revealing as much about the observers themselves as they did about faraway landsaided by the invention of the printing press in europe, travelers were able to spread their accounts to wider audiences than ever before
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham a celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including ali smith, michael dirda, elif shafak and daniel kehlmanna dazzling collection of original essays about the bookshop by fifteen bestselling international authorscontributors include alaa al aswany, stefano benni, michael dirda, daniel kehlmann, andrey kurkov, yiyun li, pankaj mishra, dorthe nors, yvonne adhiambo owuor, elif shafak, ian sansom, iain sinclair, ali smith, sasa stanisic, and juan gabriel vásqueza cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magicin browse, henry hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a specific time and placethese inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham bringing sixteenth-century languedoc vividly to life, kate mosse's the burning chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyaltiescarcassonne : nineteen-year-old minou joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshopmeanwhile, as a long-hidden document threatens to resurface, the mistress of puivert is obsessed with uncovering its secret and strengthening her powersealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: she knows that you livefor piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need minou's help if he is to get out of la cité alivetoulouse: as the religious divide deepens in the midi, and old friends become enemies, minou and piet both find themselves trapped in toulouse, facing new dangers as sectarian tensions ignite across the city, the battle-lines are drawn in blood and the conspiracy darkens furtherbut before minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young huguenot convert, piet reydon, changes her destiny forever
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham complete first series of the situation comedy based on the testing times of bernard black (dylan moran, who also co-writes), misanthropic bookshop owner extraordinairesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebernard loves books but hates customers, and his approach to capitalism is only matched by fran (tamsin greig), the owner of the 'nifty gifty' giftshop nextdoorfurther episodes see this mismatched retail duo becoming obsessed with the sweeney, getting into hot water during some routine house-sitting, and suffer defeat at the hands of the new shop security systemwhen bernard's accountant goes on the run he is replaced by oddball accountant manny bianco (bill bailey) who saves bernard from the terrors of doing his own book-keeping, and proves a hit with the customers
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