Ronnie Wood is one of the foremost rock guitarists in the world but his artistic talents extend beyond music Throughout his stellar musical career from The Birds to the Faces & the Rolling Stones Ronnie has never lost his passion for painting drawing & sculpture Exuding the same irrepressible energy as Ronnie himself Ronnie Wood Artist is the first ever comprehensive collection of his paintings & other artworks created to mark the occasion of his seventieth birthday The bright bold volume brings together the fruits of a lifetime in the arts brimming with six decades of memorable & diverse work from his art college portfolio (he studied alongside Pete Townshend) to the intimate work of his personal life today Inside a generous selection of his Stones work including rare watercolours of Mick Keith & Charlie backstage meets acrylics of contemporaries Rod Stewart Jeff Beck & Keith Moon Portraits of formative jazz innovators Count Basie Miles Davis & Billie Holiday sit alongside blues heroes Howlin' Wolf Muddy Waters & Big Bill Broonzy Paintings of Hollywood's elite
- Paul Newman James Dean & Marilyn Monroe
- juxtapose real-time fashion sketches of Kate Moss & Naomi Campbell & deft pastel compositions from his residency at the Royal Ballet The artist himself provides the captions & insights into the thought & motivation behind each piece With an introduction by Emmanuel Guigon (director of the Museu Picasso Barcelona where Ronnie will be beginning a residency in 2018) & an afterword by none other than Keith Richards Ronnie Wood Artist exists where fine art & rock 'n' roll collide This extensive & eclectic collection offers unique insights into the entire world of Ronnie Wood & with close to 400 works is a fitting testament to the artistic range & ambition of rock 'n' roll's most successful artist

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This is the story of Roo a little dinosaur who one day meets a woolly mammoth in a hot-air balloon The balloon has a hole & gradually deflates floating down to the ground & leaving the little mammoth stranded Roo saves the day by giving the mammoth a piece of his precious comfort blanket (his moomie as he calls it) which they use to patch the hole A story about kindness & sharing with lovable characters created by the best-selling illustrator of the Lettice the Dancing Rabbit series Mandy Stanley ...

The cute noisy dinosaur is back for another adventure! When Erik a polar bear explorer spends a day on Roo's island Roo makes a big fun friend But he soon discovers that even big fun friends sometimes need help A heart-warming story about the ups
- & downs
- of friendship

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Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award & the Waterstones Children's Book Prize & shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal Already being proclaimed a classic in children's literature & compared to the likes of Roald Dahl & Eva Ibbotson Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers merges fantasy & historical fiction with sophisticated lyrical prose & vivid imagery that will delight middle grade readers tweens teens & parents & teachers alike Join plucky heroine Sophie her eccentric guardian Charles & her intrepid orphan allies on the rooftops of Victorian Paris as they encounter suspense & adventure that will keep kids of all ages on the edge of their seats right to the heartwarming end My mother is still alive & she is going to come for me one day Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan Found floating in a cello case & swaddled in a Beethoven score she is the only recorded female survivor of a shipwreck on the English Channel But Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help Charles a fellow survivor & an eccentric scholar finds Sophie & brings her home to his London bachelor flat Raised in a quirky home filled with music words & love (though questionable diet) Sophie grows into a free-spirited tomboy with a taste for Shakespeare & the unshakeable belief that anything is possible & you should never ignore a possible So when the child welfare agency in its bureaucratic wisdom threatens to send Sophie to an orphanage the optimistic girl & her odd guardian flee to Paris on a quest to find her mother starting with the only clue she has
- the address of the cello maker Secured in an attic to evade the French authorities Sophie escapes through the skylight & meets Matteo & his network of rooftoppers
- homeless urchins who tightrope walk above the busy streets below dining on pigeons & snails alongside the gargoyles & bell tower of Notre Dame Together they set out on an unimaginable adventure scouring the city for Sophie's mother before she is caught & sent back to London
- & most importantly before she loses hope Readers who enjoyed the Lemony Snicket books Ellen Potter's The Kneebone Boy Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord & Sally Gardner's I Coriander will want to put Rooftoppers on their Must Read list


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A poignant beautifully written novella about growing up & family A companion piece to the hugely successful Brock & Pike Mc Gowan warms hearts once more with the adventures of Nicky & Kenny Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant & dyslexic readers aged 13 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Based on a true story of Jim Morris a thirty-five year high school baseball coach who retired from baseball because of a shoulder injury who is persuaded to try out for a major league organisation Being able to throw a ball at 98 mph soon becomes second nature & the team with the oldest rookie finds itself on the way to the Championship ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play At the police academy they trained together argued & celebrated together Now Andy Mc Nally (Missy Peregrym Heroes) & her fellow rookie graduates are in the real world getting to grips with their tough job as well as their turbulent private lives This group of twenty-somethings is about to learn the hard way that no amount of training could have prepared them for the job or for real life Actors Missy Peregrym Gregory Smith Enuka Okuma Charlotte Sullivan Noam Jenkins Ben Bass Travis Milne Melanie Nicholls-King Matt Gordon Eric Johnson & Lyriq Bent Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play With two years under their belt the rookies of 15 Division are well on their way to becoming seasoned cops but experience isn&t everything & the boundary between job & personal life is no longer as black & white as it once seemed Actors Missy Peregrym Ben Bass Gregory Smith Enuka Okuma & Travis Milne Screen 169 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Rookies are back 6 months after Andy & Nick leave for their undercover operation we return to 15 Division with them but they quickly realise that everything s changed whilst they ve been gone & now they have some bold choices to make ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Season five returns with two officers having been shot in the line of duty & their lives are hanging in the balance but life at 15 Division must go on As the shell-shocked officers struggle to pull the pieces of their lives back together they realise that even making the right choices can sometimes lead to serious consequences ...