Written shortly after World War II, this book is a loving tribute to the pre-war steam trains that were, even then, rushing towards their final days. This is not a reference book but a sympathetic attempt to recall what the old British railway systems and their trains were like. "Surely it was always summer when we made our first railway journeys! Only from later boyhood do we remember what fog was like at Liverpool Street, with the little North London engines puffing high-up and unseen, in and out of Broad Street next door, and with the Westinghouse pumps of the Great Eastern panting so furiously amid the Plutonian murk close at hand..." Illustrated with black and white photos as well as color frontispiece. Covers trains of London, Scotland, Ireland, carriages and racing day. 196 pages with index.

The Trains We Loved

Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis

Allen

Science for the Citizen

Lancelot Hogben

The Frozen City

ARSCOTT, David et al

Literature & Fiction

<p>At NORAD headquarters, Colorado...The radar-detected target races toward Los Angeles at five times the speed of sound. Then it vanashes without a trace.On Flight 902...Panic reigns as the stricken airliner, with 112 aboard, careens toward a treacherous landing on an ice floe in the North Atlantic. The crew, including co-pilot Karen Dempsey, believes they've been shot down by Russian MIGs. But it isn't the Russians who are responsible.Someone is forcing the U.S. and the Soviet Union toward the final nuculear showdown.Who?Why?Can they be stopped?</p>

Flight 902 Is Down

Fishman, Hal and Barry Schiff

Veronica

Veronica Lake

At a club like Hobo, there's no such thing as an impossible fantasy. It's the nightspot where the beautiful people hang out: people like Tony Blake, our host and guide, people like Fontaine Khaled, jet-setting beauty with a weakness for men, and people like Alexandra, Fontaine's nubile stepdaughter.

The Stud

Romance

COLLINS, JACKIE

Contemporary

Philosophy (Made Simple Books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Popkin, Richard H. and Avrum Stroll

Philosophy

Callas: Prima donna assoluta

Galatopoulos, Stelios

The widower's son

SILLITOE, ALAN.

Down the Kitchen Sink has much in common with its famous predecessor, Down the Garden Path, in which Beverley Nichols described his early forays into the realm of gardening. When he began to write the first, he could not prune a rose. When he began to write the second, he could not boil an egg. Perhaps this is why both books remain fresh and eminently readable. The phrase 'kitchen sink' may suggest squalor and disillusionment, but Beverley Nichols transforms it into a symbol of merriment and adventure. With a new foreword by Roy Dicks and Val Biro's charming drawings, the Timber Press edition of Down the Kitchen Sink deservedly takes its place among Beverley's classics on gardens, homes, cats, and other friends.

Down the kitchen sink

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

NICHOLS, Beverley

Gardening & Landscape Design

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