Escaping the mass market to find unusual hotels, bed and breakfast properties as well as holiday lets, this guide lists UK and Ireland properties providing value-for-money memories that will last long after the bill has been paid. Selected from the award-winning online guide, this selection of properties offers unusual and unique accomodation choices for all budgets, from 25 for singles to suites costing more than 550 a night. Take your pick from vintage Airstream caravans, a converted naval gunboat, an enchanted manor, water towers, windmills, monuments and lighthouses, peaceful retreats in tipis and Mongolian yurts, as well as prisons, chapels and churches. Try staying at a property where you have to be accompanied by a dog. Enjoy the...
ISBN: 9782915807523
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Have your hair cut on the night of the full moon, take a siesta while shopping, make a cast of your foot, top a birthday cake with your own photo, issue your own stamps, take pictures of your aura, visit a designer at home, join an art gallery open 24/24, buy shoes in a theatre, offer your cat or dog a massage or special cookies, relax in a flotation chamber, try out extraordinary Japanese Shopping in Paris has never been so stimulating, although you have to know where to As a change from traditional retailers, here are over a hundred unusual places where you can find really original presents.
ISBN: 9782915807219
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Take your diving gear along to reach an underwater hotel; stay in a disused US Air Force radar tower in the heart of the equatorial rainforest; slide back the roof of your bedroom to gaze at the stars; sleep in the cabin of a dockside crane that you can rotate, or in chalets hidden in the forest, a survival pod from an oil rig platform, a giant shoe, a coffin, lighthouse, tree, plane, train, chapel, prison, igloo, or even a red cube lost in the countryside... All these strikingly unusual hotels have grown up around the world in the last decade or so. So that you'll never get bored and spoil your holiday, we've taken great pleasure in tracking down and testing some exceptional places to stay that are really out of the ordinary....
ISBN: 9782915807257
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
In "Up at the Villa", W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days. But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger. And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered. For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion. Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings. Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly...
When Carl was a boy,he often wore goggles and a helmet because he imagined he was an explorer. Now Carl is an old man and he has to go to live in a home for the elderly. But when two men come to take Carl to the home, they hear a loud noise and see something amazing! Thousands of balloons on ropes are coming out of the chimney, pulling the house UP into the air! Read about Carl`s amazing adventure.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8876-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Juliet, Nicole and Yasmin are best friends forever. They are stunning, sexy and anything but sensible. Yasmin is a straight-talking game player who`s got no-strings sex down to a T. So why is she suddenly craving commitment from the one man she can`t have? Nicole is trapped in a passionless marriage but tangled up in a passionate affair. Should she risk the safety of her happy-ever-after for something that`s oh so sexy but oh so risky? They both envy Juliet who seems to have it all. She`s bagged a gorgeous toyboy of a husband but is she still entertaining naughty thoughts about a dangerous old flame? These girls will go to the ends of the earth for one and any lengths to get their men. But when everything starts to unravel, will they...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103705-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian, the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army`s Criminal Investigation Division, the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing him into early retirement. But when an old friend calls in a career`s worth of favours, Paul finds himself moonlighting for the Army as he investigates a puzzling murder that took place thirty years before in the midst of the Vietnam war. Forced to return to the country that haunts him and work for the people who cast him aside, Paul must engage in the battle of his life as he attempts to find justice in a world of staggering corruption.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-2824-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Ryan Bingham has a simple goal: to accumulate one million miles in his frequent flyer account. This story follows his life in the transient realm he calls "Airworld" as he wings his way to his goal. Soon to be a major motion picture from Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures, starring George Clooney and directed by Jason Reitman ("Juno").
ISBN: 9780307476296
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2009
Ryan Bingham`s job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. He hates his job, but loves `Airworld, finding happiness in pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, and pursuing a noble ultimate goal: one million frequent flier miles. With sharp wit, and wisdom, `Up in the Air` combines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the modern mind. It is a story for unsettled times.
ISBN: 978-1-84854-327-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sweet Honey Deal`s not sure what compelled her to marry Walter Schoen, possibly the most boring man on Earth. So she quickly rectified the situation by leaving the dour German-born butcher to start a new life. A good thing, too, now that America`s at war with Adolf Hitler and Walter`s loyalty to his adopted country was always questionable. Even better, now Marshal Carl Webster wants to come up to Honey`s room for an official "chat" . . . and for something more intimate, if Honey has anything to say about it.
Playful, whimsical and wry, this is a beautiful picture book with a simple message at its heart. It is also classic Margaret Atwood and a wonderful gift for any lover of her words. Written, illustrated and hand-lettered by , Up In the Tree was first published in 1978, and is the story of two children who make their home up in the branches of a tree, where they are free to do whatever they choose. But when the ladder they rely on to get back down again is destroyed, some of their freedom disappears, too, and the children begin to wonder what they might be missing, down amongst the ground dwellers - until they have an ingenious idea, which helps them to decide what they really prefer once and for all!
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9417-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
All Nella wants is somewhere to flake out for a couple of weeks. So a cottage in France with a pool, a group of friends and a lot of local wine sounds perfect. But things start going wrong as soon as she arrives.
ISBN: 0-7472-6513-5
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Flame-haired Cedar’s dog Stinky has gone missing and the house feels thuddingly empty. Her puddle of people usually consists of three, but since her brother Barnaby ran away it has been just Cedar and her mother. And Stinky. But when a mysterious boy called Kite finds the dog, Cedar discovers through him a new and liberating world of daring acrobatics. Kite is about to turn Cedar – and her life – upside down!
ISBN: 978-0-330-45061-4
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Presents information about the people, places, birds, insects, flowers, endangered species, and more associated with each of the fifty states and the nation`s capital.
With the help of Olly the Owl and his friends, children can explore the rules of written English. The activities in this book build confidence in using capital letters, punctuating sentences and using plurals.
This is a new edition of the Children`s Bible, which will be treasured and enjoyed by children and adults of all ages. Stunning, full-page illustrations include maps of the ancient lands to bring stories from the Old and New Testaments vividly to life. It also features a comprehensive `Who`s who in the Bible` to help children remember the characters and their stories. This carefully written text is suitable for reading aloud to young children or for older children to read independently.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-0845-8
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This beautifully illustrated book is a perfect introduction for young children. Budding scientists can explore the world around them, from plants and animals to magnets and mirrors - and try some hands-on experiments along the way. With Quicklinks to specially selected websites with videos and quizzes.
Guided by a friendly group of woodland animals, children can learn simple spelling rules to improve their writing. The activities in this book build confidence in joining words together, forming plurals and adding different endings.
Lets children explore the world one flap at a time. This atlas features a page for each continent. It allows children to discover the animals, buildings, foods and cultures that they would find there.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9847-9
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This delightfully illustrated workbook will help children develop their spelling skills. A variety of common prefixes and suffixes are introduced and explained, with lots of opportunities for children to practise what they`ve learned.