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The Autobiography Of A
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8 August 1963; a railway track in Buckinghamshire. The moon shines clearly over Bruce Reynolds & sixteen other men robbing a train of its sacks of money. The Great Train Robbery has entered British folklore as one of the most audacious & extraordinary crimes of the twentieth century. The haul £2, 631, 684
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Bruce Reynolds, the leader of the gang, was sentenced to 25 years in prison; even the Commissioner of the Met, Sir Robert Mark, thought that excessive. On its first publication in 1995 Bruce Reynolds autobiography was widely acclaimed & it is now regarded as a classic in the true crime genre. Now reissued with a new introduction & final chapter, the story is brought up to date to include the return of Ronnis Biggs to the UK, the deaths of Buster Edwards, Roy James & Taters Chatham & the continuing story of Reynolds life since his release from jail, as well as dozens of previously unseen photographs.


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The Autobiography Of
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When they were not yet twenty years old three young Jews left their families in Western Poland & came to the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna. Abba, leader of the young people in the ghetto & Rushka & Vitka were his deputies. Together they organised the first underground movement in Europe, mapping the sewers & using the tunnels beneath the city to smuggle food & weapons into & out of the ghetto. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto & led their band of resistance fighters deep into the forests of Pol&, where they lived for the remainder of the war. From here, they bombed the occupied city they loved. When the war was over Abba, Vitka & Rushka went to Israel, but they did not forget what they had learned in Vilna & in the forest. ...
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The Average Human
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The Mayborn family has cast its shadow over the small town of Loomis for generations. Accompanied by rumours of unnatural family unions, the Mayborns have sunk from their position as powerful landowners to become a white trash clan of pariahs. June Mayborn, a fourteen-year-old with a preternatural sense of smell & a dubious code of morals, lights a deadly fire, accidentally killing an aging cult leader. The subsequent funeral draws the beautiful & capricious Iris Utter & her sombre daughter, Lee, back to Loomis where eight years earlier Iris's son mysteriously disappeared. Needing answers to the past, they begin a dangerous & disturbing relationship with the Mayborns. This bold & original novel, spiked with dark humour, explores the boundaries of family ties & consequences of crossing them. ...
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The Awakening
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The Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. No-one expects that Edna Pontellier should be preoccupied with anything more than her husband & children. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas & longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, & cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of Louisiana society.

Kate Chopin's compelling, candid portrait of a woman attempting to break free caused an outcry when first published in 1899.

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The Awakening Letters
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The Awkward Age
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The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Written when James was recovering from the shock od failure as a playwright, THE AWKWARD AGE is one of his greatest masterpieces. Conceived like a play terms of scenes & conducted largely through witty dialogue, the novel bears the triumphant signs of his painful apprenticeship in the theatre ...
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The Average Life Of The Average Person: How It All Adds Up

If you had to pack a huge container full of everything you will need in a lifetime, what would you take with you?

A human lifespan is, on average, 79 years. In that time a person living in the UK will eat on average 479 fish fingers, take 7163

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If you had to pack a huge container full of everything you will need in a lifetime, what would you take with you?

A human lifespan is, on average, 79 years. In that time a person living in the UK will eat on average 479 fish fingers, take 7163 baths, shed 121 pints of tears, dream 104, 390 dreams, go through 1033 chickens, buy 733 balloons & spend £658 on Christmas crackers.

The average man will celebrate 76 birthdays, owns 15 ties & will spend a total of 144 days standing in front of a mirror shaving.

The average woman will celebrate 81 birthdays, owns between 40 & 50 pairs of shoes & will spend nearly two years in round the clock washing, styling & restyling her hair.

And who would have thought that in the UK the Tooth Fairy currently has a turnover of more than£20 million?

This endlessly surprising & diverting almanac approaches each essential item from a surprising angle to tell the untold stories behind the everyday things we take for granted & builds up a fascinating picture of the numbers that make up a human life.

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UK - United Kingdom - An island nation in Europe
Clock - A device used for telling the time
Shoes - An item of footwear made from Leather or other synthetic materials
Human - A highly developed and adapted mamal and deminant species on earth
Fish - A creature that lives in water. A fish uses gills to breath unlike mammals
Hair - The fine strands growing on all over bodies.

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