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111 Places in Bristol That You Shouldn't Miss by Martin Booth; Barbara Evripidou (Photographer)
Category: Travel | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- The ultimate insider's guide to Bristol - Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides - Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide - Appeals to both the local market (more than 520,000 people c ...Show more
A Stone Is a Story by Leslie Barnard Booth; Marc Martin (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Follow a stone's journey through time as it faces ice, water, wind, and scorching heat in this beautiful nonfiction picture book that is Seeds Move! meets A Stone Sat Still. "Where do rocks come from?" The answer may be more incredible than you think! After all, a stone is not just a stone: a st ...Show more
Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth
Category: Biography
Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire...An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole o ...Show more
The American by Martin Booth
Category: Fiction
The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla - Mr Butterfly. He is a discreet gentleman who spends his time studying rare butterflies. But Farfalla's real profession is deadly. He considers himself an artisan, not for the butterflies he paints but for the guns he creates for ...Show more
The American by Martin Booth
Category: Fiction
The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla-Mr. Butterfly-for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous-mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafés, and evenings talking with his friend, the town priest, ...Show more
The Dragon Syndicates by Martin Booth
Category: History
Over the last three centuries, wherever the Chinese have emigrated, they have taken their outlawed secret brotherhoods. Booth tells the story of the Triads, from their beginnings over two thousand years ago to the unrivalled criminal empire they operate today.
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
Category: Fiction
Arrested for spying in the early 1950s and presumed dead by the British Government, Alexander Bayliss, survives 20 years in a Soviet labour camp. Eventually freed he has no reason to return to the West and instead finds his way to the village of his best friend at the camp. Now, on his 80th birthday Rus ...Show more
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