The story of Jack, the intrepid little boy whose courage & ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants several times his size, is an English folk-tale that must have been told often in the Victorian nursery of the Doyle family. Growing up in the 1830s, they were all gifted children, especially Richard, whose natural talent for draughtsmanship was matched by imaginative invention & a passion for legend & the grotesque. In 1842, when only eighteen, he created for his own delight a picture-book version of Jack The Giant Killer, writing the text by h&, & carefully placing on each page a water-colour illustration within a pictorial border. The new everyman edition has typeset the text for greater legibility & redesigned the book for contemporary appeal, while retaining Doyle's vivid & characterful illustrations, enlarged & enhanced by modern colour printing techniques. The result is a book that will satisfy the modern child's appetite for bloodthirsty exploits of wonder & magic, yet is at the same time a true collector's item for anyone interested in the history of children's book illustration. ...

Jack's grandfather tells tales so tall that the other children say they must be made up. Jack thinks they are too, until the night Grandfather takes him on an incredible trip in his boat
- & then Jack doesn't know what to believe...




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Written by his own son, JACKIE MILLBURN: A MAN OF TWO HALVES gives an unprecedented insight into the life & career of legendary Newcastle United forward Jackie Millburn. To this day, ' Wor Jackie' remains the Magpies top goalscorer, having notched up 238 goals in 492 League & Cup appearances in the black & white shirt throughout the 1940s & '50s. Milburn also won the FA Cup with Newcastle three times in six years &, in the third final in 1955, he scored one of the competition's fastest ever goals, after 45 seconds. This book delves beneath the surface of the glory to reveal how, in spite of his remarkable success as a player, Milburn was constantly tortured by his lack of self-belief. It deatils his days across the Irish Sea after becoming player/coach at Protestant Linfield FC, & explains why he felt the need to move on after receiving menacing death threats directed at his family. It reveals how, as newly appointed manager of Ipswich Town he had a totally unexpected fall out with the departing England supremo, Alf Ramsey. We also learn how the pressures of work led Milburn to the bottle, & how he spent his post-football days working in a scrapyard, before being rescued by the world of sports journalism. Later in life, many honours continued to be bestowed upon Milburn &, on his death in 1988, huge crowds lined the streets for his funeral parade, all the way from his home in Ashington to St Nicholas Cathedral in the centre of Newcastle. ...

Written by his own son, Jackie Milburn: A Man of Two Halves gives an unprecedented insight into the life & career of the legendary Newcastle United forward. To this day, ' Wor Jackie' remains the Magpies' top goalscorer, having notched up 238 goals in 492 appearances in the black-&-white shirt throughout the 1940s & '50s. Milburn also won the FA Cup with Newcastle three times in five years, & in the third final in 1955 he scored one of the competition's fastest-ever goals, after 45 seconds. Jackie Milburn delves beneath the surface glory to reveal how, in spite of his remarkable success as a player, Milburn was constantly tortured by his lack of self-belief. It details his days across the Irish Sea after becoming player/coach at Protestant Linfield FC & explains why he felt the need to move on after receiving menacing threats directed at his family. It reveals how, as newly appointed manager of Ipswich Town, he had a totally unexpected falling out with the departing England supremo, Alf Ramsey. We also learn how the pressures of work took their toll on Milburn & how he spent his post-football days working in a scrapyard, before being rescued by the world of sports journalism. Later in life, many honours continued to be bestowed upon Milburn, & on his death in 1988 huge crowds lined the streets for his funeral parade, all the way from his home in Ashington to St Nicholas's Cathedral in the centre of Newcastle. Throughout his life, few people had a bad word to say about Jackie Milburn & this candid biography, with contributions from Sir Bobby Robson & Alan Shearer, expertly demonstrates why he is still held in high esteem half a century after the peak of his career & 16 years after his death. ...

The story of JACKIE STEWART is a tale of inspiration & owe.

Born in Scotl&, Stewart overcame severe reading difficulties

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