A poignant & very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War & into the 1950s from columnist Hunter Davies Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s & rationing persisting until the early 1950s life could still be sweet Especially if you were a young boy playing football with your pals saving up to go to the movies at the weekend & being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio Chocolate might be scarce & bananas would be a pipe dream but you could still have fun In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades Hunter Davies captures this period beautifully His memoir of growing up in post-war North of England from 1945 onwards amid the immense damage wrought by the Second World War & the dreariness of life on rationing very little luxuries & an archaic educational system should be one that will resonate with thousands of readers across Britain In the same vein as Robert Douglas's Night Song of the Last Tramand Alan Johnson's This Boy Hunter's memories of a hard life laced with glorious moments of colour & emotion will certainly strike a vein with his generation ...

Patrick Mouratoglou; Serena Williams' coach; host of his own daily TV Show for Eurosport International sports commentator on ESPN founder & President of the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy & Resort & Philanthropist is the most followed coach on the Tennisphere The Coach is Patrick Mouratoglou's hugely motivational & inspirational story As a child he was full of suffering enduring anxiety attacks at night In his own words puny & very timid paralysed by the shame of not being able to do better Now as one of the world's leading tennis coaches he is responsible for transforming the career of Serena Williams & helping her become the greatest of all times His story is a great example of trial over adversity ...

A wealthy landlord's son & a coal miner's daughter Growing up in poverty one of six siblings Hannah Armstrong never thought she'd know anything other than her little mining town But then she falls for Timothy Durkin a wealthy Oxford student Following her heart Hannah sacrifices everything she holds dear & follows her new husband to Oxford But will her new life of luxury be everything she expected
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Map of the 190 miles (300km) Coast to Coast Walk between St Bees Head in Cumbria & Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire This booklet is included with the Cicerone guidebook to the trail & shows the full route on OS 125000 maps This popular long-distance route typically takes a fortnight to walk ...

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It won't happen to me That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela But it did
- I got caught' Caught smuggling half
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Their feckless mother Edith has fallen into the clutches of unscrupulous pimp Todd Hardiman whose evil presence threatens their daily existence Befriended by Ned Hawkes & his kindly mother Nell Clemency struggles to escape from life in the slums of Stew Lane 544 pages Court Dilly ...

The Cocktail Book first published in 1900 is the earliest book devoted purely to the art of the cocktail For thirty years including the prohibition it was a staple of well-stocked bars although originals are now extremely rare This collection in a beautiful new edition allows a modern audience to rediscover the joy of classic cocktails with early recipes for the Whisky Sour Mint Julep Manhattan & many more The Cocktail Book was published at the precise time that the modern cocktail found true success & is both a connoisseur's curiosity & a practical guide to mixing classic drinks at home ...

Master Mixologist
- The Daily Telegraph" Imaginative daring & flying the flag for the savoury-beverage trend"- Harper's Bazaar"
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The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions As in Fermat's Last Theorem Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles codes languages & riddles that reveals man's continual pursuit to disguise & uncover & to work out the secret languages of others Codes have influenced events throughout history both in the stories of those who make them & those who break them The betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots & the cracking of the enigma code that helped the Allies in World War II are major episodes in a continuing history of cryptography In addition to stories of intrigue & warfare Simon Singh also investigates other codes the unravelling of genes & the rediscovery of ancient languages & most tantalisingly the Beale ciphers an unbroken code that could hold the key to a 20 million treasure ...