Forgive your enemies they say Keep their addresses & keep notes I say In Access All Areas you'll learn how to buy three Premier League points for just GBP25000 what it's really like to face a Football Association disciplinary hearing & why every footballer in the country shuddered when they heard about the Ched Evans case Add to that The Secret Footballer's no-holds-barred tour of the country's Premier League clubs
- telling us what it's like to play in each ground & revealing the one that all players really hate to go to
- & you get an entertaining glimpse into a world that's normally off-limits to the fans Unapologetically opinionated witty & honest Access All Areas is every thinking fan's guide to the beautiful game I am The Secret Footballer & all bets from here on in are off

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The Secret Footballer is 'recklessly honest' (Loaded); 'insightful & opinionated' (Morning Star); 'the Banksy of the beautiful game' (Shortlist) Since his first book was published in 2012 The Secret Footballer has been able to take the reader behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been able or will ever be able to do Anonymity has been a potent weapon in revealing the real world of football stars & five years on he has now penned the work that all his fellow professionals have been urging him to do from the start The Secret Footballer What Goes on Tour & it isn't going to stay on tour any more From Marbella & Ibiza to Dubai & Las Vegas The Secret Footballer lays bare the worst most embarrassing & most hilarious excesses of these fit & mostly fickle young men whose million-pound salaries to use his own words 'open up a host of recreational opportunities' Fuelled by rampaging desires for sex drugs booze & rock'n'roll these footballers think up ever more extreme ways of splashing the cash & needless to say it doesn't always end well ...

Since his first book was published in 2012 The Secret Footballer has been able to take the reader behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been able or will ever be able to do 352 pages The Secret Footballer ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Classic Tale As You&ve Never Imagined It Experience the magical world of The Secret Garden as never before in this beautifully filmed production of the classic tale When her parents are lost in a tragic airship accident Mary Lennox must seek comfort in the strange & forgotten corridors of Misselthwaite Factory While investigating the secrets that lie within the crumbling walls Mary makes unexpected friendships & discovers the magic & mystery of The Secret Garden Actors Glennellen Anderson Erin Leigh Bushko Mark Ashworth Directors Owen Smith Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics & Where you tend a rose my lad A thistle cannot grow& Orphaned & sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors Mary Lennox is a lonely & unhappy child A meeting with Dickon her servant&s brother begins her adventure & it is through their friendship & her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden ...

When a cholera epidemic kills Mary Lennox&s family in India she is taken to her Uncle Craven&s house in the sprawling Yorkshire moors Misselthwaite Manor Previously angry & lonely Mary grows calmer & gradually makes friends with her maidservant Martha Sowerby who tells her that the late Mrs Craven used to love tending to a private garden in the grounds but following her death her Uncle Craven had locked the garden & buried the key Mary becomes fascinated by this secret garden & one day miraculously discovers the key down a badger&s hole As she becomes accustomed to life in Yorkshire & tending to the secret garden Mary becomes convinced that she can hear a mysterious crying sound from within the house With the help of Martha&s younger brother Dickon Mary discovers that she has a secret young cousin Colin who has been locked away in the house for years & it is he who has been crying Mary & Dickon take it upon themselves to nurture Colin back to health exploring the secret garden as they do Eventually there is a happy ending for all the children thanks to the Secret Garden ...

& She put her hand in her pocket drew out the key & found it fitted the keyhole she held back the swinging curtain of ivy & pushed back the door which opened slowly Then she slipped through it looking about her & breathing quite fast with excitement & wonder & delight She was standing inside the secret garden& Everybody at Misselthwaite Manor agrees that Mary Lennox is the most disagreeable child they have ever met Pale selfish & spoilt the ten-year-old orphan has been sent from India to her uncle&s estate & she is determined to hate everything about it But the isolated house on the Yorkshire moors holds secrets that Mary cannot resist exploring pitiful crying that echoes down the corridors at night & a hidden walled garden When a robin leads Mary to the buried key not only is the garden unlocked but also her heart & as the garden blooms for the first time in her life Mary discovers friendship This is where the magic begins & The mystery element kept me turning the pages but it was the superb characterisation that made the story stay with me It taught me that it&s never too late to remake yourself into someone better& Malorie Blackman& There is an old-fashioned tenderness & joy to it; the sense that magic happens if you are observant & quiet & know it will& Sophie Dahl A collection that will be coveted by children & adults alike this list is the best in children&s literature curated by Virago These are timeless tales with beautiful covers that will be treasured & shared across the generations Some titles you will already know; some will be new to you but there are stories for everyone to love whatever your age Our list

Includes:: Nina Bawden (Carrie&s War The Peppermint Pig) Rumer Godden (The Dark Horse An Episode of Sparrows) Joan Aiken (The Serial Garden The Gift Giving) E Nesbit (The Psammead Trilogy The Bastable Trilogy The Railway Children) L M Montgomery (The Anne of Green Gables series) & Susan Coolidge (The What Katy Did Trilogy) Discover Virago Children&s Classics

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Frances Burnett Hodgson’s novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing & uplifting It is regarded as one of the best children’s books written in the twentieth century Mary Lennox a sickly ten year old girl adrift in the world after both her mother & father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle whom she has never met at his isolated house Misselthwaite Manor Initially Mary is seen as a rude aggressive & selfish child She dislikes her new home & the people living in it But now the scene is set for her transformation & the introduction of the author’s engaging theme of rejuvenation & renewal In exploring the grounds Mary finds the key to the locked garden which is neglected & overrun with weeds She sets her mind to bringing it back to life In doing so Mary finds a purpose & an excitement in her lonely existence However apart from the garden there are other secrets to be revealed at Misselthwaite Manor such as the strange cries in the night & the identity of Colin a disabled boy whom she discovers in the hidden bedroom The popularity of this novel bears witness to its universal appeal & its timeless hold on the imagination ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A BBC dramatisation of Francis Hodgson Burnett&s classic children&s story about an orphaned little girl who goes to live with her gloomy & secretive old uncle The girl soon makes friends with a young boy & together they play behind the locked gates of the secret walled garden with unexpected consequences
- but never-the-less a happy outcome Set in Victorian Yorkshire
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Celebrate an unforgettable classic with this beautifully illustrated 100th anniversary edition This 100th anniversary paperback



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