This is the true story of the Afghanistan cricket team & their extraordinary attempt to join the world's elite cricketing nations. That this devastated nation should be able to field a cricket team at all, let alone one as successful as this, is an unbelievable achievement. Seven years ago, in a country which does not have a real cricket pitch even today, there was no national team. But a group of young Afghan men, exiled by war, learnt to play in the smashed concrete of refugee camps, & have risen from obscurity to the groomed grass pitches of international cricket.

With unlimited access, Tim Albone has travelled alongside the team for the last two years, charting the players' progress from refugees in Pakistan to the brink of international sporting stardom. Far from being bogged down in cricket jargon, this tale of a gang of dedicated, charismatic, occasionally exasperating young men seeking triumph out of disaster is one that will move & inspire everyone.

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Florence Fontaine has still not recovered from a family tragedy when she discovers a
strangely dressed young man asleep in her
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Florence Fontaine has still not recovered from a family tragedy when she discovers a
strangely dressed young man asleep in her
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Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife & mother, she should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned & breathless. On the face of it there is no rational explanation for the way she feels. Linda believes there is something malign inside her. But in the back of her mind a voice tells her over & over again that everything will be OK. When it finally gets too much, she can always simply die. ...

Times move on for the Adams family in east London, & as business prospers, there are new worries to deal with. A young woman arrives who is intent on ruining Sammy Adam's winter fashion show, & Sammy must deal with her unwelcome attention. Boots has to find a solution when one of his female employees tells him about a sinister visitor, & he also does some match-making. But he doesn ...

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London & subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth.



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Martin Luther changed Europe &, through Europe, the world. It was he who finally exposed the myth of a unified Latin Christendom, in fact only held together by crusades, heresy hunts, Inquisition, & priestly magic. Though not the first radical thinker to challenge papal pretensions & the doctrines they were founded on, by his defiance Luther created the biggest cause célèbre of the age. But this renegade monk did not just split Europe into rival Protestant & Catholic camps. By urging Christians to read & interpret the Bible for themselves, he gave a religious boost to that emancipation of the individual we associate with the Renaissance. By putting men & women in charge of their own destiny he made a cultural impact which is incalculable.


This first major biography in English for many years, by leading historian Derek Wilson, responds to recent Reformation scholarship to assess Luther


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