Product Description: This depiction of Horace Walpole's famous villa, where he wrote the world's first Gothic horror novel, includes essays explaining the importance of such a portrayal Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's "little castle" southwest of London, is the finest building in the Gothick style—the playful antiquarianism that flourished at the end of the 18th century...read more

Product Description: The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France...read more

Product Description: Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.      In France, Waterloo is still an open wound...read more

Product Description: This book is a collection of captioned cartoons about life's ups, downs and sideways curves. It is the author's take on the absurdity, frustration, injustice and serendipity of living and working today.

Product Description: Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French. But just recently, things have been going TRES wrong. His apartment is so small, he has to cut his baguette in two to fit it into the kitchen...read more

Product Description: After escaping the cruel life of an orphanage, Jason Jakson wakes up in a baffling new world -- the Citistate of Haven, a massive and magnificent metropolis where the Underground struggles in a battle for Souls, against the ruthless government, Capitol Corporation...read more

Product Description: Paris - one of the most visited cities in the world. But do you know...Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest? Where to see fantastic art, away from all the crowds? Why Parisian men feel compelled to pee in the street? How to choose a hotel room where you might actually get a good night's sleep? Stephen Clarke goes behind the scenes to reveal everything Parisians know about their city - but don't want to tell you...read more

Product Description: What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find out … Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine...read more

Product Description: This essential companion for aspiring secondary English teachers in the UK has been extensively reworked to help students meet the very latest professional and academic standards, while also equipping them with the knowledge and skills they will need for the beginning of their teaching career...read more

After his disastrous American adventures, Paul West is back in France, and this time he’ll be kicking up merde all along the Cote d’Azur. Hooking up with an English girl nicknamed M that he met in Vegas, it’s a peaceful working holiday—at first. Suddenly, M becomes secretive, going off to meetings and overreacting to questions about her whereabouts. Then, a bombshell. While M is at one of her meetings, Paul is told that she is not who she seems to be. That she is involved in a plot so sinister that she and Paul’s every move has been watched since they arrived. And if Paul doesn’t agree to stick with M and find out who she’s working for, then he’s going to prison for a long, long time as an accomplice. Suddenly the Cote d’Azur doesn’t feel quite so sunny…

Paul West's only way out of debt is to accept a job that involves him crossing the USA in a Mini, while pretending to be a British. Adding to the crush in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend Jake whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world.

A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West mutates into a Parisian waiter and, on a return visit to Britain, witnesses the full horror of a British office party through Parisian eyes, all the while continuing his search for the perfect French mademoiselle, in the whimsical sequel to A Year in the Merde. Reprint.

The best-selling author of A Year in the Merde offers a tongue-in-cheek guide to understanding the French, in a series of essays, each illustrating a theme, followed by or interspersed with essential French phrases, anecdotes, and advice. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: Have you ever received a prophetic word and have questioned, "When Will it Come to Pass?" This timely and riveting book reveals principles to receiving what God has promised you.

An entertaining memoir of the author's adventures and experiences as an expatriate living in Paris describes the life and times of a young British man brought to Paris by a French company to open a chain of British tea rooms, detailing his dealings with lazy French employees, a scheming boss, lusty girlfriends, and French culture. Reprint.

Product Description: A study of social work, taking into account lessons from community development and international experiences applicable in developed countries. This edition is revised and updated. It should be useful for the UK DipSW/MScEcon in Applied Social Studies and MScEcon in Community Care Studies as well as for students of community development and social work in the USA, Asia and Australia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Looking at present developments in English teaching, this study explores what the English curriculum might look like in the year 2010. The analysis is firmly rooted in present day classroom reality and is concerned with the changing nature of texts and our understanding of how they are composed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the second book in the Modes of Writing series which aims to bring a wide range of writing to the attention of students aged 14 and upwards. The three anthologies are Narratives, Arguments and Descriptions. Narratives is a collection of stories, anecdotes, tales, comic strips, myths, fables and letters, all of which depend on the linking of events and states of mind in a sequence...read more

Explains terms, phrases, quotations, allusions, and references in the Wimsey novels and short stories, shows important settings and landmarks, and identifies major characters