The new heart-warming & hilariously brilliant story, beautifully read by number one bestselling author David Walliams. Dads come in all sorts of shapes & sizes. There are fat ones & thin ones, tall ones & short ones. There are young ones & old ones, clever ones & stupid ones. There are silly ones & serious ones, loud ones & quiet ones. Of course, there are good dads, & bad dads... A high-speed cops & robbers adventure with heart & soul about a father & son taking on the villainous Mr Big
- & winning! This riches-to-rags story will have you on the edge of your seat & howling with laughter! Bad Dad is a fast & furious, heart-warming story of a father & son on an adventure
- & a thrilling mission to break an innocent man into prison!

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The phonecall came from out of the blue, just when Sir Hilary Synnott was looking forward to retirement after helping steer India & Pakistan back from the verge of nuclear war. ” It`s about Iraq. We need a King of the South...” Bad Days in Basra” is the story of Synnott`s time as Britain`s most senior representative in Southern Iraq, trying to keep the region together as the rest of the country descended in to murderous violence. By turns wryly comic, revealing & heart-breaking, it offers a never seen before glimpse in to the high politics of the occupation. Shuttling between the gilded palaces of the Green Zone & the leaky outhouses which constituted Coalition HQ in Basra, Synnott had to negotiate his boss, Paul Bremer`s brash indifference to what was going outside Baghdad, the indecisiveness of his London masters, & the brutal political realities of a country under occupation. Bearing witness for the first time to the chaotic fashion in which the coalition was run at the highest levels, Synnott`s unique insider account is the most important primary source we yet have on how the South was lost. It offers new insights in to the style & motivations of key characters such as Bremer himself, US commander General David Petraeus & the then UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw. It provides an entertaining & witty portrait of the absurdities of life inside the occupying coalition, a devastating critique of CPA policies & controversial revelations about the real relationship between the two occupying powers, Britain & America. ...

Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance & a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping & unsettling stories, the ordinary is made extraordinary & the real things that happen to people turn out to be every bit as mysterious as their dreams. ...

In these short stories it`s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric, say, & a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance & a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, strange in the dark; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point & a new life are made so easily & carelessly: the stories focus in on crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys, or a young woman reads the diaries she comes across when she`s housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, & some of them reverberate across decades; things fantasised in private can reach out to affect other people, for better & worse. An older woman recovering from serious illness speaks to a lonely young man on a train; an old friend brings bad news to a dinner party; a schoolteacher in the throes of a painful affair in 1914 has mixed feelings about her pupils` suffragette craze. The real things that happen to people, the accidents that befall them, are every bit as mysterious as their longings & their dreams. Bad Dreams shows yet again that Tessa Hadley is a master of her art, one of the very finest writers at work in Britain today. ...

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history`s most despicable villains & conmen
- Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator & ` Commissioner
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Map No. 040, Bad Gastein
- Bad Hofgastein
- Dorfgastein, printed on strudy waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper with

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Map No. 040, Bad Gastein
- Bad Hofgastein
- Dorfgastein, printed on strudy waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper with

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Map No. 040, Bad Gastein
- Bad Hofgastein
- Dorfgastein, with a panorama map on the reverse, in a series of hiking maps from

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Bad Gastein area of the Tyrol at 1:35, 000 on a GPS compatible, double-sided map from Kümmerly+ Frey printed on sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper; contoured, with hiking, cycling & ski routes, accommodation facilities, locations for other recreational activities, etc. Maps in the K+F recreational series covering the Austrian Alps are either at 1:50, 000 or 1:35, 000. Contour interval is 40m, enhanced by relief shading & finely drawn additional graphic relief to provide an excellent representation of the terrain. The maps have plenty of names of peaks, valleys, etc, plus colouring/graphics indicating different types of vegetation, & show boundaries of national parks or other protected areas. An overprint, graded according to the difficulty of the route, highlights local hiking trails & long-distance paths indicating, where appropriate, their numbers or names. Also marked are local & long-distance cycle routes, plus a selection of mountain-bike trails, cross-country & alpine ski routes & horse-riding paths. Symbols mark locations for other outdoor activities (climbing, paragliding), different types of accommodations including alpine huts, campsites & youth hostels, sites of botanical or cultural interest, etc. The maps have a 1- km UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also provides a small road map of the region around the area covered by it. To see the complete list of all the titles please click on the series link.

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Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist & abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett, godmother of punk. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were bad in the best sense of the word: they challenged the status quo & changed the rules for all who followed. From pirates to artists, warriors, daredevils, scientists, activists, & spies, the accomplishments of these incredible women vary as much as the eras & places in which they effected change. Featuring bold watercolour portraits & illuminating essays by Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History is a distinctive, gift-worthy tribute. ...