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How to Identify – The Night Sky (How to Identify)

(Illustrations are best viewed on a tablet.)

An introductory guide to navigating your way around the night sky and identifying what you can see on any given night.

Please note that this is the 2004 edition. Chart data is accurate to the end of 2009.

Tommy’s War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918

The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.

What the Traveller Saw

This outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newby’s travels all over the globe – and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds.

The Knot

From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted ‘The Book of Fires’, an extraordinary tale of love and science.

The Main Cages

The acclaimed first novel by one of Harper Perennial’s most gifted young writers, author of ‘The Bronski House’ and ‘The Spirit Wrestlers’.

The Gentry: Stories of the English: Unabridged edition

Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write – the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. In this vivid, lively book, history has never been more readable.

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café.

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