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The House with Eyes by Carol Lee	The Caucasus, from Elbrus to Ararat by Richard Baerug	Character in Georgia by Aka Morchiladze with Peter Nasmyth	SVANETI, the Essense of the Caucasus by Richard Bærug	Twenty-Five Years in the Caucasus by Arnold Zisserman	Dark Wings 1, Angel by Katie Ruth Davies	The Knight in the Panther Skin - Shota Rustaveli Translated by Lyn Coffin	Excursions in the Caucasus by Mme Carla Serena	Literature and Landscape in East Devon by Peter Nasmyth	Georgia The Land Below the Caucasus by Peter F. Skinner	Be My Guest by Anna Saldadze and David Gigauri	The Lure of the Orient by Edna Fortescue	Who Am I Today? by Peter Nasmyth	Songbook by Giya Kancheli	Songbook 2 by Giya Kancheli	The Art Nouveau Dacha by Vladimir Story	Walking in the Caucasus by Peter Nasmyth	Timeless by Nicholas Tchkotoua

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What they say about Mta Publications

'Literature and Landscape in East Devon' 'Nasmyth writes the kind of delightful, delighting prose that one associates with another era and with the work of, say, Arthur Mee and S.P.B. Mais - glad and gleeful prose which occasionally throws up the most extraordinary insights.' Ian Samson The Times Literary Supplement 5852 May 29th 2015 'A wonderful new book... [that] celebrates places and landscapes loved and immortalised by Sir Walter Raleigh, Jane Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Beatrix Potter, John Betjeman and others (the link with Ottery St. Catchpole in the Harry Potter books is speculative but persuasive).' Shaun Spiers CPRE's Chief Executive Read review	'Who am I today?' ‘This is a must-read book. Brilliant concept combined with excellent short stories and superb writing. I wasn't sure which story I liked best, as each has a different sort of impact. Each, however, had that tendency to creep back on you when you thought you'd moved on, and get you thinking: Now that was interesting.’? Gordon Stevens (author of ‘Provo’ and ‘Peace on Earth.’)	'Timeless' ‘A tumultuous, Romeo and Juliet-ish tale of love between a Georgian Prince and a Russian Princess… the melodrama shifts effortlessly from Swiss mansions to castles in the Caucasus… This strange and touching romance reminds us of a happier side to Russian-Georgian relations.’ David Winner Financial Times, Sept 20th 2008 Read review 'Essential reading for anyone interested in the Caucasus, "Timeless" will sit on your shelf between "Ali & Nino" and "The Sabres of Paradise"'. Tony Anderson (author of ‘Bread and Ashes: a walk through the mountains of Georgia’) Amazon.co.uk Jan 2009) Read review
'Walking in the Caucasus, Georgia' ‘…This is the region’s first comprehensive walker’s guide. Nasmyth’s excellent book contains details maps and GPS references for a number of hikes, as well as fine colour photographs and fascinating nuggets of history…’ Clover Stroud Sunday Telegraph, Jan 15th 2006 Read review ‘The Caucasus have long been neglected by walkers - surprising given the beauty and cultural history of the region… Nasmyth’s guide details 44 treks through this walker’s paradise.’ Wanderlust, March 2006 '…We are impressed by the book and like its walk summaries, excellent maps, sumptuous photos, high-quality print - all in one gorgeous, shiny, pocket-sized format….’ Tbilisi Pastimes, May/June 2006	'The Art Nouveau Dacha' “The particular appeal of this book (is how) its arts-and-crafts ethos, echoing that of William Morris in Victorian Britain, speaks directly to our contemporary traditionalists, but its embrace of functional simplicity speaks just as directly to the 21st-century heirs of the Bauhaus movement.” Michael Church The Independent, Jan 16th 2010 Read review ‘The Art Nouveau Dacha reprints a remarkable architectural pattern book from 1917 St Petersburg, which records the astounding variety of styles and levels of sophistication achieved by the traditional wooden country house in the Russian suburbs…. [It] draws attention to the architectural loss of a form of building that was both uniquely Russian and yet uniquely eclectic in its styling, and which the long Soviet period had consigned to virtual oblivion. They might give gardeners and self-builders in Britain today something to think about.’ Ismene Brown The Arts Desk Read review	'Georgia The Land Below the Caucasus' ‘The release of the book Georgia the Land Below the Caucasus is a very important event for a worldwide array of readers interested in Georgian history and culture.’ Dr. Vazha Kiknadze Director, IV Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, State University of Tbilisi, Georgia

'Nasmyth writes the kind of delightful, delighting prose that one associates with another era and with the work of, say, Arthur Mee and S.P.B. Mais - glad and gleeful prose which occasionally throws up the most extraordinary insights.'

Ian Samson
The Times Literary Supplement
5852 May 29th 2015

'A wonderful new book... [that] celebrates places and landscapes loved and immortalised by Sir Walter Raleigh, Jane Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Beatrix Potter, John Betjeman and others (the link with Ottery St. Catchpole in the Harry Potter books is speculative but persuasive).'

Shaun Spiers
CPRE's Chief Executive
Read review

‘This is a must-read book. Brilliant concept combined with excellent short stories and superb writing. I wasn't sure which story I liked best, as each has a different sort of impact. Each, however, had that tendency to creep back on you when you thought you'd moved on, and get you thinking: Now that was interesting.’?

Gordon Stevens
(author of ‘Provo’ and ‘Peace on Earth.’)

‘A tumultuous, Romeo and Juliet-ish tale of love between a Georgian Prince and a Russian Princess… the melodrama shifts effortlessly from Swiss mansions to castles in the Caucasus… This strange and touching romance reminds us of a happier side to Russian-Georgian relations.’

David Winner
Financial Times, Sept 20th 2008
Read review

'Essential reading for anyone interested in the Caucasus, "Timeless" will sit on your shelf between "Ali & Nino" and "The Sabres of Paradise"'.

Tony Anderson
(author of ‘Bread and Ashes: a walk through the mountains of Georgia’) Amazon.co.uk Jan 2009)
Read review

‘…This is the region’s first comprehensive walker’s guide. Nasmyth’s excellent book contains details maps and GPS references for a number of hikes, as well as fine colour photographs and fascinating nuggets of history…’

Clover Stroud
Sunday Telegraph, Jan 15th 2006
Read review

‘The Caucasus have long been neglected by walkers - surprising given the beauty and cultural history of the region… Nasmyth’s guide details 44 treks through this walker’s paradise.’

Wanderlust, March 2006

'…We are impressed by the book and like its walk summaries, excellent maps, sumptuous photos, high-quality print - all in one gorgeous, shiny, pocket-sized format….’

Tbilisi Pastimes, May/June 2006

“The particular appeal of this book (is how) its arts-and-crafts ethos, echoing that of William Morris in Victorian Britain, speaks directly to our contemporary traditionalists, but its embrace of functional simplicity speaks just as directly to the 21st-century heirs of the Bauhaus movement.”

Michael Church
The Independent, Jan 16th 2010
Read review

‘The Art Nouveau Dacha reprints a remarkable architectural pattern book from 1917 St Petersburg, which records the astounding variety of styles and levels of sophistication achieved by the traditional wooden country house in the Russian suburbs…. [It] draws attention to the architectural loss of a form of building that was both uniquely Russian and yet uniquely eclectic in its styling, and which the long Soviet period had consigned to virtual oblivion. They might give gardeners and self-builders in Britain today something to think about.’

Ismene Brown
The Arts Desk
Read review

‘The release of the book Georgia the Land Below the Caucasus is a very important event for a worldwide array of readers interested in Georgian history and culture.’

Dr. Vazha Kiknadze
Director, IV Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, State University of Tbilisi, Georgia