Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century Engl&, designing country estates & mansions, moving hills & making flowing lakes & serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe & the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's influence spread into the lowland landscape at large, & into landscape painting. He stands behind our vision, & fantasy, of rural Engl&.

In this vivid, lively biography, based on detailed research, Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man, his work, his happy domestic life, & his crowded world. She follows the life of the jovial yet elusive Mr Brown, from his childhood & apprenticeship in rural Northumberl&, through his formative years at Stowe, the most famous garden of the day. His innovative ideas, & his affable & generous nature, led to a meteoric rise to a Royal Appointment in 1764 & his clients & friends ranged from statesmen like the elder Pitt to artists & actors like David Garrick. Riding constantly across Engl&, Brown never ceased working until he collapsed & died in February 1783 after visiting one of his oldest clients. He was a practical man but also a visionary, always willing to try something new. As this delightful, & beautifully illustrated biography shows, Brown filled England with enchantment

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Bestselling Chicken Soup author Mark Victor Hansen & financial guru Robert Allen offer a practical inspiring lesson in creating ...

Bestselling Chicken Soup author Mark Victor Hansen & financial guru Robert Allen offer a practical inspiring lesson in creating ...

' Absolute peace is available to you in this moment, now. You don't need to have anything else, nor do you need anything else to happen. Real contentment is not a state of mind to be found just on holiday, or when you achieve your goals, or when you get more stuff. It can only be found now, the way things are.'

This superbly clear, short & practical book explains how to become the master of each single moment. It's clearly aimed at those of us who are living too fast, are confused about life, who spend hours with our iPods, mobiles & laptops, or who never seem to have any mental space. It's life-changing, & very simple & its benefits include becoming less stressed, better organised, a more effective communicator & less frantic.

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The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most talked about stories of courage & survival in modern warfare. Of the eight members of the SAS regiment who set off, only one escaped capture. This is his story.

Here Chris Ryan has also written an introduction detailing the aftermath of his extraordinary experience; how the former members of the patrol have fallen out & revealing documentary evidence that settles once & for all what really happened on that fateful mission. This edition also

Includes:: photographs censored at the time of the original publication.



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The heroic, real-life personal account of Chris Ryan's most famous mission, The One That Got Away, is now reworked ...

The heroic, real-life personal account of Chris Ryan's most famous mission, The One That Got Away, is now reworked ...

From the moment fourteen-year-old Kathy decides to lose her virginity & reels in her prey, she is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night, parked in a car on the outskirts of town with four boys she thought were her friends, she finds it. This is the story of a young girl
- the oldest daughter in a Catholic family of six children
- struggling to find her proper place in the world. Suddenly as 'the earth blossomed with men & boys', Kathy grasped her path towards power & freedom. But girls who break rules in small towns like hers are expected to pay a high price for their transgressions & Kathy soon learns the price. In this disturbing & powerful memoir Kathy reveals how she stepped out of that car forever altered, but not forever damaged, & how she learned to fight back after being labelled as a slut & ostracised in her own neighbourhood. Always aware that her ambitions were bigger & more complicated than the suburbs she grew up in, Kathy was determined to come through & to transform her fate.

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--Description--It's not easy for Chrysalis Moffat to tell the story of her life. The more closely she tries to set down the facts, the more she finds herself doubting them. Her father has been dead since she was ten; her mother has just succumbed to complications following plastic surgery. --Her bad brother Eddie returns to claim his inheritance & cunningly transforms the family house into the headquarters for a school of Tibetan Buddhism enlisting the help of trainee guru, Ralph. As the pair fleece credulous Californians of their cash, Chrysalis is drawn into a strange & compelling world: a realm of mind-blowing coincidences, obsessive gambling & mysterious siblings. --Sandra Newman has a marksman's skill for quick-fire dialogue, a passion for Byzantine plotting & a wicked sense of humour. But beneath the technical fireworks lies a brilliantly subtle understanding of human nature & our philosophical dilemmas. Is it Fate or Chance that dictates our lives? & who holds all the cards? ...