This large Guess How Much I Love You activity playmat is suitable from birth & packed with activities to help stimulate babies senses as they grow

Includes:: detachable baby safe mirror 2 removable shaped teethers a cute peek a boo flap crinkle & a squeaky frog! This mat is extra large in size to easily fits two babies & is hand washable Baby safe detachable mirror Squeakercrinklepeek a boo flap X2 removable teethers Machine washable 100 x 143xm

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' Although he feared death he could not stop ' If I stopped now after coming all this way
- well they'd call me an idiot!'A pair
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Let Mitchell Symons be your guide into the weird & wonderful world of trivia Camels are born without humps Walt Disney creator of Mickey Mouse was scared of mice Only 30 of humans can flare their nostrils A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink & an elephant produces an eye-wateringly pongy 20 kilos of dung a day! 320 pages Symons Mitchell ...

' Nobody has ever measured not even poets how much the heart can hold' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a singular concept In this collection seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love from Philautia self-love to Agape love for humanity; & from Storge a natural affection for family to Mania a frenzied obsessive love Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold

Includes:: the winning short story from the Sceptre Loves short story Prize

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What links Taylor Swift to a factory worker? Kanye West to a German engineer? Beyonce to a boardroom mogul? They've all changed the face of the music business in the most unexpected ways How Music Got Free is the incredible true story of how online piracy & the MP3 revolutionised the way our world works one track at a time This brilliant book tells you exactly how the perfect storm that forever changed the way we consume music took shape Like many great works of investigative journalism it makes it clear that this is one of those stories you think you know Until you realise you don't' John Niven The Spectator Reads like an underworld crime story concise & very funny The most remarkable thing about Witt's book is that virtually none of the names is familiar Witt finds unlikely heroes in unlikely places' New Statesman ...

Have you ever listened to an incredible piece of music & wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry? Are you mystified by how musicians just 'know' what notes to play next when they're improvising? Or why certain notes sound great together & others clash? This title lets you discover the answers to these questions 272 pages B&W integrated Powell John ...

Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today with the West End & Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera there are dozens of casualties that didn't fare quite so well In this book Julian Woolford explores the musical-theatre canon to explain why & how some musicals work why some don't & what you should (and shouldn't) do if you're thinking of writing your own Drawing on his experience as a successful writer & director of musicals & as a lecturer in writing musicals at the University of London Woolford outlines every step of the creative process from hatching the initial idea & developing a structure for the work through creating the book the music & the lyrics & on to the crucial process of rewriting He then guides the reader through getting a musical produced with invaluable advice about generating future productions & sustaining a career The book

Includes:: dozens of exercises to assist the novice writer in developing their craft & detailed case studies of well-known musicals such as Les Miserables The Sound of Music Miss Saigon Little Shop of Horrors Godspell & Evita An essential guide for any writers (or would-be writers) of musicals How Musicals Work is a fascinating insight for anyone interested in the art form or who has ever wondered what it takes to get from first idea to first night

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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
- Robert Webb's part-memoir part call-to-arms 336 pages colour plate sections Webb Robert
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RULES FOR BEING A MANDon&t Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don&t Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life from schoolboy crushes (on girls & boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell) & from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband & father Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys & men have thrust upon them at every stage of life Hilarious & heartbreaking How Not To Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man the lessons we learn as sons & daughters & the understanding that sometimes you aren&t the Luke Skywalker of your life
- you&re actually Darth Vader
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An anecdote-driven narrative of the classic footballer's DOs & DO NOTs' from the ever-popular Arsenal legend & football pundit Paul Merson aka The Merse' When it comes to advice on the pitfalls of life as a professional footballer Paul Merson can pretty much write the manual In fact that's exactly what he's done in this hilarious new book which manages to be simultaneously poignant & gloriously funny Merson was a prodigiously talented footballer in the 80s & 90s gracing the upper echelons of the game
- & the tabloid front pages
- with his breathtakingly skills & larger-than-life off-field persona His much-publicised battles with gambling drug & alcohol addiction are behind him now & football fans continue to be drawn to his sharp footballing brain & playful antics on Sky Sports cult results show Soccer Saturday The book delights & entertains with a treasure chest of terrific anecdotes from a man who has never lost his love of football & his inimitable joie de vivre through a 25-year association with the Beautiful Game The DO NOTs include DO NOT adopt ' Champagne' Charlie Nicholas as your mentor DO NOT share a house with Gazza DO NOT regularly place GBP30000 bets at the bookie's DO NOT get so drunk that you can't remember the 90 minutes of football you just played in DO NOT manage Walsall (at any cost) How Not to be a Professional Footballer is a hugely entertaining moving & laugh-out-loud funny story

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