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April 2008 Newsletter

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Sawday's wins environmental publishing award

Featured properties - Paris Hotels in the Springtime

Book offer - Special Places to Stay: Paris Hotels

Advertisement - Stately Home Vacations

What better way to begin this month's newsletter than to proudly announce that Sawday's won an Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) award at a ceremony held at the Grand Hotel in Brighton on Saturday 8 March. We scooped the Environment Award for our continuing contribution to greener publishing!

Here's what the IPG say about us winning the award:

With green issues currently at the forefront of publishers’ minds, Alastair Sawday Publishing was singled out in this category as a model for all independents to follow. Its efforts to reduce waste in its office and supply chain have reduced the company’s environmental impact, and it works closely with staff to identify more areas of improvement. “Here is a publisher who lives and breathes green,” said the panel of judges. “Alastair Sawday has all the right principles and is clearly committed to improving its practice further.”

And here's Alastair's response:

Winning this award gives us a terrific boost! I admire the IPG for having the foresight to create it, thus bringing the urgent need for environmental awareness to so many small publishing companies. And our staff have been hugely encouraged by the award to make further efforts. In fact they will be even more ready, now, to challenge me when I don't come up to scratch. The die is now fully cast.

Hardeep Singh Kohli (IPG awards night MC), Alastair Sawday and Bridget Shine (IPG Executive Director)

Paris is beautiful all year round but most people will agree that in Spring it holds a particular, indefinable quality that makes it really special. Should we call it charm? Or perhaps magic? Or is there some perfect French expression that makes little sense when translated directly into English? Let's leave it to the poets and linguists to debate while the rest of us hop on the Eurostar to spend some time in one of the many gorgeous Parisians hotels that we've discovered for you.

Hôtel Lindbergh

Tucked in behind the most elegant department store with the most fabulous food hall in Paris, Le Bon Marché, this hidden gem is incredibly good value. Some of the newly decorated rooms are big enough for a family of three or four; the smallest under the eaves has a little balcony and a rooftop view featuring the top bit of the Eiffel Tower.

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Jardin de l'Odéon

Those at the back have views of the patio and birdsong, some have exquisite private terraces large enough for a table and chairs; those on the street glimpse the columns of the magically lit Odéon. All this on a quiet, tiny street leading down to the bustle of St Germain or up to the Jardins Luxembourg.

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Duc de Saint Simon

If Lauren Bacall chose this jewel over the Ritz, there has got to be a good reason. Perhaps it was the hideaway feel: terrifically peaceful on a tiny street, the discreet archway would go unnoticed if it weren't for the lanterns and the wisteria over the cobblestone terrace.

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There are over 120 hotels lovingly described in our Paris Hotels book - imaginative, colourful, elegant, cool or modern - they all stand out from the crowd. This is an ideal book to plan a Parisian holiday with and throw into your suitcase to take with you as it also contains detailed maps, useful words and expressions, and expert advice on how to make the most out of your stay.

We're offering Paris Hotels to Sawday's newsletter readers at a discount of 50% off the RRP of (plus p&p) when purchasing the book via our website with the special discount code AprilPH.

Simply click the link below, log in or register onto our website if necessary, place the book into your book basket and the then enter the special discount code when prompted during the checkout process.

Click here to purchase a copy of Paris Hotels

Offer expires Monday 5 May 2008.

Stately Home Vacations are offering Sawday's readers the once in a lifetime chance to experience the secret life of the English country house in a unique and privileged way, by taking you behind the red velvet ropes of some of the loveliest houses in the beautiful Peak District and its surroundings.

Derbyshire, ‘prince among counties’ and the Peak District have some of the greatest houses in England. Among them are Chatsworth, ‘the Palace of the Peak’; Hardwick Hall, ‘more glass than wall'; and Adam's great masterpiece, Kedleston. The extraordinary time capsule Calke Abbey is also near at hand.

Your stay from Monday until Friday, in a luxurious country house hotel, will be augmented by escorted daily tours of a number of stately homes that chart the evolution of the country house in England. More than that, you will be given the wonderful opportunity of dining with the owners of sumptuous houses, some not even normally open to the public, as a guest in the privacy of their own dining rooms. You will gain an understanding and insight into the private world of these extraordinary places - a way of life that is slipping away. At all times you will be given expert guidance into the history and development of the English country house on both sides of the green baize door.

A reduction of 10% is offered to Sawday's readers (special price of £2,250.00 inclusive of hotel, travel within the Peak District and food and drink). This is a carbon offset holiday.

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