One night a great big, white polar comes to stay with Tilly. The bear's got black hooked claws & huge yellow teeth; but his white furry coat is warm & soft & Tilly decides he's the cuddliest thing in the whole world. Tilly soon finds out that a big bear can cause big problems
- he takes a LOT of looking after! But when she describes the bear's latest antics to her parents they think he's a figment of her imagination
- but is he?

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The bear is behaving very strangely indeed: collecting moss, logs & branches to build a winter house. The other animals think this is silly, & laugh at him, but when winter comes, bear is cosy in his winter house while the other animals suffer in the cold. Being a very kind bear, he invites the others in. Unfortunately for the bear, they are too excited to sleep, & it seems he will get no rest at all this winter! But when spring arrives, he finds a solution... ...

Anthony Patch & Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry & embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure & scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity. ...

Anthony Patch & Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry & embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure & scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity. ...

Once, football proudly claimed to stand for passion, community, honour, even beauty. Today, football is about money. Its richest club, Manchester United, earned £175 million last year; yet since 1992 thirty-six of the Football League's seventy-two clubs have been insolvent. The game is in danger of losing its lifeblood
- & its soul.

David Conn, the game's most respected investigative journalist, sets out on a journey through the heart of our national game, exploring how the sport has failed
- & who is to blame. Travelling to football's every outpost, Conn interviews players, managers, chairmen & fans, building up a picture of a game mired in crisis. At its heart, football is a game deeply loved by millions. This is a book for those who keep the faith, who believe that the sport itself, stripped of the greed & self-interest blighting its organisation, still has values, & can still be beautiful.



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