This is a three-decade survivor's tale a scenic search for elusive human happiness through music magazines silly jokes stupid shoes useless blokes hopeless homes booze drugs love loss A&E death disillusion & hope
- while trying to make Prince laugh startle Beyonce cheer Eminem up annoy Madonna drink with Shaun Ryder & finish off Westlife forever (with varying degrees of success) In 1986 Sylvia Patterson boarded a train to London armed with a tea-chest full of vinyl records a peroxide quiff & a dream to write about music for ever She got her wish Escaping a troubled home Sylvia embarks on a lifelong quest to discover The Meaning of It All The problem is she's mostly hanging out with flaky pop stars rock 'n' roll heroes & unreliable hip-hop legends As she encounters music's biggest names she is confronted by glamour & tragedy; wisdom & lunacy; drink drugs & disaster & Bros Here is Madonna in her Earth Mother phase flinging her hands up in horror at one of Sylv's Very Stupid Questions Prince compliments her shoes while Eminem threatens to kill her She shares fruit with Johnny Cash make-up with Amy Winehouse & several pints with the Manics' lost soul-man Richey Edwards She finds the Beckhams fragrant in LA a Gallagher madferrit in her living room & Shaun Ryder & Bez as you'd expect in Jamaica From the 80s to the present day I'm Not with the Band is a funny barmy utterly gripping chronicle of the last thirty years in music & beyond It is also the story of one woman's wayward search for love peace & a wonderful life & whether or not she found them
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This practical guide to Transactional Analysis is a unique approach to your problems Hundreds of thousands of people have found this phenomenal breakthrough in psychotherapy a turning point in their lives In sensible non-technical language Thomas A Harris explains how to gain control of yourself your relationships & your future
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Though they have never met Cassie is coming to think of EL as her truest friend Lately it feels as though Cassie's life has been slowly collapsing around her
- her beloved grandfather has died her father has just moved out of the family home & her mother is drinking more than she used to But when she talks to EL she feels less alone However Cassie isn't entirely sure that EL is real A slave girl living in 1840s South Carolina EL visits Cassie first in her dreams then begins to speak to her while she's awake Are their conversations a sign that Cassie has inherited her grandfather's gift of communicating with the dead or is Cassie slowly losing her mind? As the young women become closer across the miles & years that separate them they find solace in each other & as Cassie learns of the horrors of EL's reality she resolves to help her escape But is EL's future already written? & could Cassie's obsession damage her own life beyond repair? Powerful moving & unforgettable I'm Right Here is a beautifully-told story of friendship love & courageous hope
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play When it appears as though the end is in sight the pilots flight crew & passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment & face the greatest danger which we carry within ourselves Directed by the internationally acclaimed Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar with cameo appearances from Penelope Cruz & Antonio Banderas ...

Pirate Pete I'm Starting Nursery is a new interactive story starring the famous Pirate Pete part of Ladybird's best-selling Pirate Pete & Princess Polly series Starting nursery is an exciting & anxious time for children & parents alike & this reassuring sound book is a fun way to prepare little ones for their own first day at nursery school The simple text & colourful illustrations help children to understand what happens at nursery & reassure & motivate them about staying at nursery themselves It covers visiting the nursery to look around all the different activities to do there going to the loo having lunch & making new friends Pressing the cheer button on every page is also a fun way to involve your child in the story! ...

Give your children a head start at primary school with these essential flash cards These fun & engaging Times Tables Flash Cards will give children a head start as they get to grips with learning their times tables at school Designed to complement the National Curriculum & covering times tables from 1 to 12 these flash cards are perfect for learning & practising times tables together Educationally sound flash cards brilliantly illustrated with funny pictures that children will love The first steps to school success! Also available First Phonics Flash Cards First Phonics First Writing First Day First Numbers ...

A modern-day Sleeping Beauty story of love & hope perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes 'A rare & beautiful novel' (Daily Mail) Elsa has been in a coma for five months With all hope of reviving her gone her family must face the devastating fact that it might be time to turn off her life support What they don't know is that in the past few weeks Elsa has regained partial consciousness
- she just has no way of telling them Thibault is in the same hospital visiting his brother & seeking a retreat finds his way into Elsa's room When he begins to talk to her he doesn't realise she can hear every word
- & that he is giving her a reason to wake up And so begins a love story that might just save both their lives

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Oscar-nominated WALK THE LINE star Joaquin Phoenix announces that he's retiring from acting to launch a hip-hop career as his brother-in-law Casey Affleck captures the curious transition on camera in the film some are labeling an elaborate Andy Kaufman-style prank In the fall of 2008 Phoenix shocked his fans with the announcement that he would no longer be appearing in features but instead trying his hand in the music business In the wake of a particularly bizarre appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman everyone began to wonder if the eccentric actor had finally fallen off the deep end In this film Affleck follows Phoenix as he attempts to convince Sean Combs to produce his debut album & responds to a request by Ben Stiller to appear in director Noah Baumbach's GREENBERG with casual indifference ...

‘I didn’t want you to come here’ So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings But young Kingshaw & his mother have come to live with Hooper & his father in the ugly isolated Victorian house for good To Hooper Kingshaw is an intruder a boy to be subtly persecuted & Kingshaw finds that even the most ordinary object can be turned by Hooper into a source of terror In Hang Wood their roles are briefly reversed but Kingshaw knows Hooper will never let him be Kingshaw cannot win not in the last resort He knows it & so does Hooper & the worst is still to come… This extraordinary evocative novel boils over with the terrors of childhood & won the Somerset Maugham Award ‘ Hill’s exploration of a juvenile ghoul & his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force’ Guardian ...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award this tale is linked in its poignancy & humour to Lord the the Flies This edition is part of a series of pre- & post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds The series features fiction anthologies poetry plays & non-fiction ...