On the south coast of England sits the little town of Horse-sur-mer. Settled by Huguenots fleeing France before expulsionor worseit seems to attract the strangest people. People like Roddy Lewis, who talks to dead Huguenots; Laura Tregarthan, a vicar who cant quite stick to Anglicanism; and Police Sergeant Eileen Sturgeon, whos not quite sure whats going onbut shes going to fight to protect everyones right to be as weird as they want. But not everyone loves Horse-sur-mer and its unusual ways, and the mysterious stranger with the Jesuit Hat who comes to stay causes problems for the town. Two unexpected deaths bring Gwyneth Gladwell and Gladys Grinski from Llanprytherch to help the Horsefolk and their Celtic cats sort out exactly whats going on and how to fight it. And then there is the dog who can predict the weather, but youll have to read to find out about himor is it her?

Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he found one, a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields, and over the next twenty years he transformed it into an enchanted time-capsule, transporting us back to the eighteenth century. From cellar to roof, he filled 18 Folgate Street with original objects and furniture, found in the local markets, lit by candles and chandeliers. More than that, he invented a family to live here, the Jervis family, Huguenot weavers who fled persecution in France in 1688, and bought the house in 1724. Sounds and scents bring their world to life, always just out of sight - floorboards creak, fires crackle, a kettle hisses on the hob. Visitors step through the frame of time, like entering an old master painting. As we move from room to room on a tour you will never forget, we follow the Jervis story from the days of the Georges and the Regency to harsher Victorian times - and even to the attic room of Scrooge himself.

An account of the early days of the Press by its former Managing Editor along with an introduction and epilogue which bring the story up-to-date; and a detailed list of publications up to 2000.

Something happened to Charlie when he was just eight years old. He went on a journey - and he's been trying to get back for over four hundred years! Yikes! Charlie has been whisked into outer space. Get ready for alien encounters and a totally cosmic adventure. Will Charlie EVER get safely back home? GADGETS, INVENTIONS, MONSTROUS CREATURES, EVIL VILLAINS... No adventure is too BIG for Charlie Small!

Given the extent of his influence on 17th-century life, and his lasting impact on the British landscape it is remarkable that no book has been written before about John Evelyn. He was a longstanding friend of Samuel Pepys (who wrote of him, ' A most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others.'), a founder-member of the Royal Society and a prolific writer and diarist. He was an early advocate of the garden city but his most important work was Sylva: a Discourse of Forest Trees. Sylva was presented to the Royal Society to promote the planting of timber trees 'for the supply of the Navy, the employment and advantage of the poor as well as the ornamenting of the nation.' He was responsible for the first great raft of tree-planting and for a great influx of tree introductions to Britain. Maggie Campbell-Culver's book, like Sylva, has at its core a section detailing the characteristics, history and uses of 33 trees incorporating the advice Evelyn gave and demonstrating its relevance still in the 20th-century. Not only was Evelyn probably the first horticultural writer to show an appreciation of the aesthetic benefits of trees in our landscape, he is shown to be a founder-father of the modern conservation movement.

The Vietnam War placed unexpected demands upon American military forces and equipment.The principal US naval fighter, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom, had originally been designed to defend the Fleet from air attack at long range. However, its tremendous power and bomb-carrying capacity made it an obvious candidate for the attack mission in Vietnam from 1965 onwards. Its opponent was the MiG-17, a direct descendant of the MiG-15, which had given USAF Sabre jets a hard fight in the Korean War. This book brings to life their dangerous duels and includes detailed cockpit views and other specially commissioned artwork to highlight the benefits and shortcomings of each plane type. It was in the skies over Vietnam that many of the techniques of air combat evolved as pilots learned how to use and to defeat supersonic fighters for the first time.

"Examines how postcolonial literature depicts the clash of traditional and European cultures, reflects the impact of the Macias reafricanization process, and addresses the themes of individual and national identity, Hispanic heritage, and the Equatoguinean diaspora"--Provided by publisher.