365 days, 7 fights, 4 Kos, 3 decisions, 2 scandals, 1 missing ear, 1 wild year Chris Jones did not know what he was getting himself into. He looked for a sport to call his own when he was hired as a rookie reporter. He found boxing. Over the course of the year that followed, the dark trade would creep deeply inside him, set his heart pumping one minute & break it the next. Make him stare at violence & dare him not to flinch. In Falling Hard, Jones proves himself to the latest in a line of lyricists to be drawn into boxing's storied corruption plagued world. He gets dressed down by Don King, meets the troubled guy who found Evander Holyfield's ear, goes to Muhammed Ali's birthday party, & witnesses Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson implodes. Falling Hard is in equal measure victory & defeat
- an intoxicating mix that leaves Jones addicted to boxing's special brand of pain. Humorous, infuriating & suspenseful, this is boxing distilled to its essence by sports writing's brightest star.
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When Ginny became pregnant as an undergraduate years ago she never regretted her decision to leave university & raise her daughter as a single mum. Now, though, with nineteen-year-old Marie off travelling in her gap year, a blast from the past brings surprising news that threatens to throw her well-ordered life into disarray...

And then suddenly Ginny's sister, impulsive, free-spirited Charlotte, returns from abroad. She has always prided herself on taking the road less travelled but now, bringing with her a surprise of her own, is she finally ready to settle down? Or does her heart lie somewhere further afield?

And both Ginny & Charlotte are baffled by their mother's behaviour. Surely a woman whose husband has left her for another woman should be displaying more emotion than what Jane exhibits? Is she hiding her grief beneath her calm exterior or could she really be happier living alone?

Everything seems to be falling apart. But maybe it's just falling into place.





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When Ginny became pregnant as an undergraduate years ago she never regretted her decision to leave university & raise her daughter as a single mum. Now, though, with nineteen-year-old Marie off travelling in her gap year, a blast from the past brings surprising news that threatens to throw her well-ordered life into disarray...

And then suddenly Ginny's sister, impulsive, free-spirited Charlotte, returns from abroad. She has always prided herself on taking the road less travelled but now, bringing with her a surprise of her own, is she finally ready to settle down? Or does her heart lie somewhere further afield?

And both Ginny & Charlotte are baffled by their mother's behaviour. Surely a woman whose husband has left her for another woman should be displaying more emotion than what Jane exhibits? Is she hiding her grief beneath her calm exterior or could she really be happier living alone?

Everything seems to be falling apart. But maybe it's just falling into place.





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The Honourable Christopher Fancot, on leave from the diplomatic service in the summer of 1817, is startled to find his entrancing but incorrigibly extravagant mother on the brink of financial & social ruin
- & more than alarmed to find that his twin, Evelyn, has disappeared without trace. Christopher
- Kit
- is forced into an outrageous masquerade by the tangled affairs of his wayward family: his rigid uncle, Lord Brumby, the surprisingly wily Sir Bonamy Ripple, the formidable old Lady Stavely & Evelyn's betrothed, Cressy. But in the face of Evelyn's continues absence, Kit's ingenuity is stretched to the limit.. .


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Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday, FALSE PRETENCES is a contemporary novel in mosiac. Through the separate yet interlinked stories, it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love, private terrors, violence &
- most precarious of all
- hope. There is mystery, wry humour, sometimes tragedy beneath the jaunty surfaces glimpsed through the years, until, by the end, we have encompassed their lives.

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Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday, False Pretences is a contemporary novel in mosaic. Through the separate yet interlinked stories, it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love, private terrors, violence &
- most precarious of all
- hope. There is mystery, wry humour, sometimes tragedy be-neath the jaunty surfaces glimpsed through the years, until, by the end, we have encompassed their lives.

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WHAT DOES BIG BROTHER TELL US ABOUT ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY?



WHAT DOES THE FATE OF ACHILLES SAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF AYRTON



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What makes a family happy? Why do some marriages 'succeed' & others 'fail'. How can we free ourselves from the legacy of past mistakes & bring about positive change? Love, sex & marriage & parenthood, depression & sadness, independence & experience are just a few of the many issues explored in coversation by family therapist Robin Skynner & his former patient & comedian, John Cleese. Guiding us through the daily issues that confront us all, FAMILIES & HOW TO SURVIVE THEM offers vital advice in helping each of us to maintain a happy, healthy family life. Looking candidly at everything from our relationships with our parents to why & how we choose our partners, no emotional stone is left unturned: jealousy, rage, fear, envy, love, obsession, hope & despair
- all are featured-with practical advice on how to turn round a negative situation & bring about change for the better.
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What makes a family happy? Why do some marriages 'succeed' & others 'fail'. How can we free ourselves from the legacy of past mistakes & bring about positive change? Love, sex & marriage & parenthood, depression & sadness, independence & experience are just a few of the many issues explored in coversation by family therapist Robin Skynner & his former patient & comedian, John Cleese. Guiding us through the daily issues that confront us all, FAMILIES & HOW TO SURVIVE THEM offers vital advice in helping each of us to maintain a happy, healthy family life. Looking candidly at everything from our relationships with our parents to why & how we choose our partners, no emotional stone is left unturned: jealousy, rage, fear, envy, love, obsession, hope & despair
- all are featured-with practical advice on how to turn round a negative situation & bring about change for the better.
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