The Crossing PlaceA revised and updated edition of Philip Marsdens classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas of the East

When the elderly Nathaniel Garridebs asks for the assistance of Holmes and Watson in tracking down a man with the same unusual surname in order to secure a great inheritance

Stout of the prestigious Pentagram Design firm

what is this relation

the town’s favorite bachelor and owner of the local barbecue joint

Scranimals gallivant under a pizza the size of the sun

and a Super Bowl championship

The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea

far from her roots

Scared for her life and that of her baby's she ran away from home carrying only a plastic bag stuffed with her few possessions

and why we need to laugh at it all

astonishingly

and Inspector Bucket