Do You Mind If I Smoke? tells the story of Fenella Fielding's remarkable 65-year career in theatre radio TV & film Best known for her 1960s film appearances in classic comedies such as " Carry On Screaming" " Doctor in Clover" & " Carry On Regardless" Fielding's sublime talents also brought her success in serious roles on the stage including title roles in " Hedda Gabler" & " Colette" Spiced with star-studded anecdotes & personalized with moving stories about innocence & experience the early struggles of an aspiring actress & later professional rivalries " Do You Mind If I Smoke?" is a witty warm & wonderfully recounted memoir of an extraordinary life ...

In 2016 Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition' This collection of essays by leading poets & critics
- with a new foreword by Will Self
- examines Dylan's poetic genius as well as his astounding cultural influence over the decades From Orpheus to Faiz song & poetry have been closely linked Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition' Salman Rushdie The most significant Western popular artist in any form or medium of the past sixty years' Will Self For fifty & some years he has bent coaxed teased & persuaded words into lyric & narrative shapes that are at once extraordinary & inevitable' Andrew Motion His haunting music & lyrics have always seemed in the deepest sense literary' Joyce Carol Oates There is something inevitable about Bob Dylan A storyteller pulling out all the stops
- metaphor allegory repetition precise detail His virtue is in his style his attitude his disposition to the world' Simon Armitage


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'I love this book' Jacqueline Wilson'I just knew we were going to be friends Don't ask me to explain why I can't But i just knew' Jaz has found the best way to make friends with new girl Nadima who doesn't speak any English
- by offering her a chocolate bar Nadima grins & offers back some Turkish Delight the ice is broken & a special friendship begins Jaz is outgoing rebellious gumptious & a little bit bolshy
- but it doesn't stop her from finding it hard that she doesn't have a best friend at school any more Not since Lily went off with Kara She's not one to get down about things though
- & things start to look up when Nadima comes into their classroom Before long the girls are firm friends even when Nadima recently arrived from Syria can't speak much English The path of true friendship doesn't run smooth though Jaz ever the entrepreneur cooks up a plan to sell Turkish Delight at school with disastrous results A drama project with Nadima about family history proves impossible to manage & Charity Challenge Week puts the icing on the cake as Jaz puts every foot wrong possible Can she find a way to put things right & restore the wonderful & unique friendship that she has with Nadima? In a story of friendship family & entrepreneurial wizardry Cas Lester deftly navigates the trials & tribulations of girlhood & examines with the lightest of touches & gentle humour the thorny & compelling issues of integration belonging & identity


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A little boy getting ready for bed looks up at the moon & wonders whether it can speak English as it shines all over the world He tells the moon about his day
- it's not lonely falling asleep when you share your day's adventures with the moon A timeless bedtime picture book from bestselling Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon & Ben Cort illustrator of Aliens Love Underpants Audio read by Lenny Henry Lenny Henry has risen from being a cult star on children's television to being one of Britain's best known & loved personalities
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The brilliant offbeat guide to tackling Oxbridge's infamously challenging interview questions 256 pages Farndon John ...

Are your children ready to live out their faith in the real world? Most parents who value Christian faith want their children ...

Based on the popular video game DOA – DEAD OR ALIVE finds three high-kicking females competing in a martial arts tournament on a secluded island ...

Dobble is the smash-hit game of speedy observation! Each of the game's 55 cards has eight different symbols on it & between any two cards there is always exactly one matching symbol It's up to you to spot the match! There are five different mini-games to test your reflexes but all of them rely on one thing be the first to find the matching symbols! ...

Dobble is a simple pattern recognition game in which players try to find an image shown on two cards Each card in Dobble 1 2 3 features six different symbols with the symbols varying in size from one card to the next Any two cards have exactly one symbol in common Dobble 1 2 3 helps children learn numbers shapes & colours With different ways of playing children will never get bored! ...

Includes: a pivoting base which spins around so players have to guess the match even though both cards aren’t visible
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