A companion to the Adventure Golf TV show combining the pleasures of golf and travel in one spectacular book. It s the perfect guide to the world s best golf get-aways and ultimate travel experiences. Ships with a free, multi- region Adventure Golf Scotland DVD.
 This lavishly illustrated guide combines two strong passions - golf and travel - in one spectacular book. It's a perfect planning dream book for those who want to play unusual courses and sample culture and environment around the globe. As a companion volume to the multi-part public television series airing in 2005, this spectacular book both inspires and involves the reader on vicarious visits to Japan, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, Southern California, and South Africa. As an additional bonus, a full episode featuring Scotland on DVD is included inside. Join the intrepid Pilot Productions team as they play top courses and golf resorts worldwide, and then share with them their outings off the course, as they celebrate national festivals, visit top tourist and historic sites, and enjoy relaxing or thrilling activities such as wine tasting, volcano hikes, and gliding. Each chapter covers the history of golfing in a particular country, advice on when to go and what to bring, as well as practical information to help readers plan their trip. Selected courses are identified for each region, with full descriptions complemented by fabulous photographs and specially produced course graphics. In all, this is the perfect gift book for golfers and those who travel along with them.

Adventure Golf: From Fairways to Fun Days--Attractions On and Off the World's Most Remarkable Golf Courses (Pilot Guides)

Sports & Outdoors

Ian Cross

Golf

Pilot Productions

Reading ‘The Little World of Don Camillo’ is to travel to the Valley of the River Po, Italy’s widest and most fertile plain, with its unique atmosphere, culture and natural history. And to do so in the incomparable company of a cast of fictional characters who testify to the exquisite humour and humanity of their creator. In the Little World, eternal forces grapple with the absurd drama of everyday life, and hilarious and unearthly things can happen. If you keep this in mind you will have no difficulty in getting to know the village priest, Don Camillo, and his adversary, Peppone, the Communist Mayor. Nor will you be surprised when a third person watches the goings-on from a big cross in the village church and not infrequently intercedes . . . In story after story, the hot-headed Catholic priest, Don Camillo, and the equally pugnacious Communist mayor, Peppone, confront one another, sometimes in a serious and violent manner. The clever bit is the way Guareschi engineers a resolution to the conflict and transforms the situation to the great benefit of the local community, so that the two men put their political convictions aside and, however begrudgingly, develop respect for one another. To enable this, the author creates a third main character, his finest creation and the most surprising. Il Cristo presides over proceedings from above the altar of the town church and counsels Don Camillo, exposing and undermining the stubborn priest’s personal politics and prejudices and, with fascinating insights and gentle humour, suggests paths of action which, with the benefit of hindsight, we come to see make things right. Guareschi claimed that the voice from above the altar was simply the voice of his own conscience, but in the stories it is a living reality which enables solutions so simple that they are beyond the reach of political minds clouded with ideology and the need to win. Guareschi’s message is that what works at the level of the Little World can be made to work universally, the world over. More than fifty years on, these enchanting, wise and strangely moving stories of life in the Lower Plain continue to enthral millions of readers of all ages around the world. They have been feted not only in books but in films, in series on TV, on radio and most recently on YouTube. In this newly translated volume, many are available in English for the very first time. ‘Written with such warmth and simplicity, so concerned with the trivialities of everyday life and giving us so shrewd a glimpse into the minds of the people . . .’ London Evening News 'Inimitable, delicious, full of pure fun' --The Observer 'Charming and enchanting . . . Witty and wise' --Edinburgh Evening News 'You'll find Don Camillo not just enchanting and lovable, and at times hilariously funny, but also strangely moving in his simple but certain faith.' --BBC Radio Books by the Fire

The Complete Little World of Don Camillo (Don Camillo Series)

Literature & Fiction

Giovanni Guareschi

Humor & Satire

Set in the 1960s in an Oxford college, when being gay was still an offence punishable by imprisonment, 'Sandel' tells the story of a love affair between an undergraduate (David Rogers), and a cathedral choir boy (Antony Sandel). Tony - beautiful, provocative, mischievous, sensitive and sometimes overwhelmed by the intensity of his own feelings - bewitches Rogers. Both are talented musicians, and Sandel's astonishing voice, which Rogers explores as his accompanist at the transient moment of glory which precedes it breaking, is soon central to the relationship. Sensual, profound, often funny and never sentimental, Stewart provides a definitive analysis of same-sex love in the context of a relationship that puts sex in its place and reveals love as the one agent of the human condition that can set us free. The setting of the novel in an Oxford college (actually Christ Church, which the author attended) and the well-observed description of life in an English choir-school - short trousers, boats on the river, afternoon tea and cricket before Evensong - along with the stylistic quality of the writing, places 'Sandel' in a tradition made famous by Evelyn Waugh ('Decline and Fall' and 'Brideshead Revisited'). There are echoes too of 'Maurice', the novel by E M Forster published after his death in 1970. On both sides of the Atlantic, 'Sandel' became formative reading for a generation of boys growing up in the 1970s who knew their feelings fell outside the heterosexual male stereotype, and it remains a gay cult novel today, with prices on Amazon reaching thousands of dollars a copy. But its fundamental message holds good for all people in all eras whatever their sexual persuasion, and is delivered with great subtlety and skill by a master craftsman. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Angus Stewart was born in 1936, the son of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, the novelist and Oxford academic who wrote bestselling crime fiction as Michael Innes. He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, and later at Christ Church Oxford. Stewart's first published work was ‘The Stile’ (1965), which won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize. His first novel, 'Sandel’, which is in many respects autobiographical, came in 1968 and is now a cult classic, recently commanding very high prices on the internet. Before and after its publication, Stewart lived for long periods in Morocco. In 2016 his personal memoir, ‘Tangier’ (1977), was reissued in a new edition, including photographs by the author. His experiences there explain a great deal about the author of 'Sandel’, and his exposure to Tangier’s legendary artistic community, which included Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Francis Bacon, Alan Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight, Rupert Croft-Cooke, Alec Waugh, William Burroughs, Gavin Maxwell, Francis Bacon, Joe Orton and others, prepared the way for his second novel, ‘Snow in Harvest’ (1969). ‘Sense and Inconsequence: Satirical Verses’ followed in 1972, with a Foreword by W H Auden. A third novel, ‘The Wind Cries All Ways’, which includes a startling description of the author’s incarceration in a Tangier mental asylum, has yet to be published. After his mother's death in 1979 Stewart returned to live in England, and died in Oxfordshire twenty years later.

Sandel

Stewart, Angus

Literary

Reading Age: 8 to 12. Based on a true story and the inspiration of a 6-part film (see YouTube), 'Scruffy is a classic for perfectly catching a dog's-eye view of the world.' (School Library Journal) One of three pups born to a mother abandoned by her owner when bulldozers clear the street where she lives, Scruffy alone survives. Forced to run with a pack of strays who know better than to trust humans, she finds what she craves most: companionship. Only to be rescued and put in the Tuesday cage of the big-city dog pound with one week to live. This is a sad, touching, but ultimately joyful tale of a dog abandoned to the lonely life of a stray. You will read it again and again, marveling that the canine characters are so real.REVIEWS'A heart-warming story for dog lovers everywhere.Full of fun and love.'--Children s Book Review Service'Scruffy is one of the best books I have read. I liked it because it was very sad and touching. You wanted to find out more and you felt as if you were really there. All the characters seemed real and sometimes I wondered if they were. When you read this book, you felt bad for Scruffy and scared that something would happen to her. The book is also funny at times. It's a very exiting story about a brave dog who's mother has died. The dog, who is named Scruffy, lived with three human family's and one dog one. What happens when she ends up in the pound? Read the wonderful book and find out!!' --Turtleback (11)'Scruffy is a classic for perfectly catching a dog's-eye view of the world.' --School Library JournalTHE AUTHORJack Stoneley was a dogged reporter for the Daily Mirror and later northern editor, a man who loved animals as much (and sometimes more) than he loved humans. Scruffy, which is the basis of a cartoon film made by Warner Brothers for TV,was inspired by the real story of a dog Jack discovered in the Tuesday cage of a dog's home, as readers will discover at the end of this long-awaited new edition of the classic story.

Scruffy: The Tuesday Dog (Scruffy Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Stoneley, Jack

Pets & Animal Care

Set against the post-war backdrop of a rural village in the Emilia-Romagna, this is the second in a new series of hilarious and incisive Don Camillo anthologies, which offer 215 stories translated into English for the very first time. As ever, the townsfolk, riven by their disparate allegiances to the hot-headed Catholic priest and his equally pugnacious adversary Peppone, the Communist Mayor, are relieved of their prejudices by the gentle humour and insights coming from high above the altar in the village church. REVIEWS ‘Written with such warmth and simplicity, so concerned with the trivialities of everyday life and giving us so shrewd a glimpse into the minds of the people . . .’ London Evening News 'Charming and enchanting...witty and wise' -- Edinburgh Evening News 'You'll find Don Camillo not just enchanting and lovable, and at times hilariously funny, but also strangely moving in his simple but certain faith.' -- BBC Radio Books by the Fire ABOUT THE AUTHOR Giovannino Guareschi, known as Giovanni to his millions of English language readers, was born at Fontanelle in the Valley of the Po on the 1st of May, 1908. His father wanted him to become a naval engineer. He, for the very enjoyment of going the opposite way, determined to become a lawyer, but found his vocation when he sent some cartoons he had drawn to the satirical magazine, 'Bartoldo'. Later he founded a satirical magazine, 'Candido', and wrote 346 stories featuring Don Camillo, a character who has done for Italy what Cervantes Don Quixote did for Spain.

Don Camillo and His Flock (Don Camillo Series)

GUARESCHI, GIOVANNI

The Don Camillo Series, beloved by 23 million readers worldwideMore timeless, bittersweet stories of life in Italy’s Lower Plain, most of which appear in English for the first time. They begin, as the last collection ended, with Don Camillo in exile in the mountains. But it isn’t long before this lightning conductor for problems in the Little World draws Peppone and all human nature to his door.The rains follow with biblical ferocity and when the river bursts its banks, threatening his people, the priest is recalled and the gentle wisdom of the third member of the triumvirate directs proceedings from high above the altar in the village church once more…‘The innumerable friends of The Little World of Don Camillo will give thanks that this Italian priest is back with us!’ The Observer

Don Camillo and Peppone (Don Camillo Series)

Number 4 in the Don Camillo series, beloved by 23 million readers. When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience he must accept the battling priest's presence among a group of communist activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia. Travelling incognito, Don Camillo becomes the life and soul of the Party and picks off his totalitarian comrades one-by-one in a hilarious riot of shrewd manipulation. But then fate intervenes and the travellers discover a surprise common denominator more radical than any political ideology... ‘Those who read The Little World of Don Camillo will need no more than the news of this new volume to send them quickly to their bookshops so lovely, so humorous, and so wise.’ Harpers &amp; Queen REVIEWS ‘Written with such warmth and simplicity, so concerned with the trivialities of everyday life and giving us so shrewd a glimpse into the minds of the people . . .’ London Evening News 'Inimitable, delicious, full of pure fun' --The Observer 'Charming and enchanting . . . Witty and wise' --Edinburgh Evening News ABOUT THE AUTHOR Giovannino Guareschi, known as Giovanni to his millions of English language readers, was born at Fontanelle in the Valley of the Po on the 1st of May, 1908. His father wanted him to become a naval engineer. He, for the very enjoyment of going the opposite way, determined to become a lawyer, but found his vocation when he sent some cartoons he had drawn to the satirical magazine, 'Bartoldo'. Later he founded the satirical magazine, 'Candido', and wrote 346 stories featuring Don Camillo, a character who has done for Italy what Cervantes Don Quixote did for Spain.

Comrade Don Camillo (Don Camillo Series)

This is the first wholly new collection of Don Camillo stories to be translated into English for over forty years - novel enchantments for those who already know the hot-headed village priest and his adversary Peppone, the communist mayor, and a very special entré for those who don't. Set against the background of the rise and fall of fascism (Mussolini, Hitler) and post-war communism (Stalin, Khrushchev and Mao's China), the author looks down with hawk's-eye vision into the lives of the ordinary people of La Bassa, and delivers his message with great humour and insight - to cut through prejudice and political correctness and follow one's inner voice rather than any political dogma. 'So concerned with the trivialities of everyday life ... and so shrewd.' London Evening News ABOUT THE AUTHOR Giovannino Guareschi, known as Giovanni to his millions of English language readers, was born at Fontanelle in the Valley of the Po on the 1st of May, 1908. His father wanted him to become a naval engineer. He, for the very enjoyment of going the opposite way, determined to become a lawyer, but found his vocation when he sent some cartoons he had drawn to the satirical magazine, 'Bartoldo'. Later he founded the satirical magazine, 'Candido', and wrote 346 stories featuring Don Camillo, a character who has done for Italy what Cervantes Don Quixote did for Spain.

Don Camillo and Company (Don Camillo Series)

Reading Giovanni Guareschi's stories about the little world between the Great River and the Mountains, is to travel to the Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, and to do so in the incomparable company of a cast of characters which testifies to the exquisite humour and humanity of their creator. Place and people are as one: 'The river country of the little world created them;' the author wrote. 'I crossed their path, linked their arms with mine and made them run through the alphabet, from one end to another.' The year is 1953. All is peaceful in the village we know so well. The people are cheerful and friendly, and exercise their famous sense of humour. But the national elections hang like a shadow over proceedings. The Soviet Union is the West's No. 1 enemy and the Vatican has issued its famous 'Decree against Communism', which makes voting communist a mortal sin. No.6 in the Don Camillo series provides the sharpest real-life context yet for the often hilarious feud between the battling village priest and the communist Mayor, Peppone. Although, as ever, the author's message as to what truly lies at the heart of being human is for all times and peoples. 'These haunting stories about this haunting place... Somehow Guareschi made people laugh at their own predicament at a time when humour was sorely needed.' BBC Radio 4

Don Camillo's Dilemma (Don Camillo Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

The Postcard Murder: A Judge's Tale

Worsley QC, Paul

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