No-one can ever be like a mother to us.
NO-ONE. NO-ONE AT ALL.
ESPECIALLY NOT STUPID FRIZZY DIZZY ROSE.

Ruby & Garnet



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No-one can ever be like a mother to us.
NO-ONE. NO-ONE AT ALL.
ESPECIALLY NOT STUPID FRIZZY DIZZY ROSE.

Ruby & Garnet



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Jacqueline Wilson's hugely popular book, DOUBLE ACT, about how twins Ruby & Garnet cope with being identical but different, has been adapted for the stage by hugely experienced children's theatre director, Vicky Irel&. Playing to sell-out houses in the Polka Children's Theatre & then on tour across the UK, this has been seen & loved by thousands of children. The book was also adapted as a highly rated Channel 4 TV drama in 2002. Adaptable for use by casts with as few as 6 or as many as 30 members & offering staging opportunities from the simplest to the most sophisticated designs, this script will be eagerly seized upon by English & Drama teachers, youth workers, theatre groups & many others. ...

When Bill Nicholson died aged 85 in 2004, many in the world of football paid moving tributes to a manager who ranked alongside footballing gods such as Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly, Jock Stein & Sir Alf Ramsey.

Bill Nicholson had a highly successful playing career at Tottenham Hotspur as a hard-tackling & reliable wing-half in the Arthur Rowe-managed Tottenham side that won the Second & First Division championships in successive seasons. He was also capped by Engl&, if only once.

But it was as a manager that Nicholson made his biggest impact. In 1961, his Tottenham team became the first side to win the Double of League Championship & FA Cup since Aston Villa achieved the feat in 1897. Two years later, Nicholson became the first manager to lead a British team to a European trophy, when Spurs beat Atletico Madrid 5



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When Ed Strachan's parents were killed in a horrific car crash eighteen years ago, they left their son a miserly inheritance: the memory of a mangled nursery rhyme & a cufflink inscribed with a single set of coordinates.

But eighteen years later when a beautiful girl tries to poison Ed & steal the cufflink he guesses it may have greater significance than he had imagined. Christine Molyneux is just the first of many who will stop at nothing to get hold of it.

Ed is soon prime suspect in a complicated homicide & immersed in a mystery that goes back way before his parent's death. It is a mystery that lies hidden off a coral island in the South China Sea; that has already cost thousands of lives & that will cost many more before it sees the light of day again.
Fans of Clive Cussler will love Double Cross: a breathtaking mixture of mystery, action & undersea adventure.




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Since the 1950s, some of the world's greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers & books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The originals, often irreplaceable, are cut up to be sold as birthday gifts, or are pulped. In this passionately argued book, the acclaimed author Nicholson Baker reveals the real motives behind the dismantling of our recorded heritage. The libraries argue that paper is too fragile to be stored in their archives, & point to the so-called brittle paper crisis; Baker shows us that paper can be stored for years without deterioration, & that libraries are under budgetary pressure to save space. The players include the British Library, the Library of Congress, the CIA, NASA, microfilm lobbyists, newspaper dealers & a colourful array of librarians & digital futurists, as well as Baker himself
- who eventually discovers that the only way to save one important newspaper archive being disposed of by the British Library is to buy it.
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