The Sunday Times bestseller Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon ` Funny, touching & unpredictable` Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive
- but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day & buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted
- while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she`s avoided all her life. Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than... fine? An astonishing story that powerfully depicts the loneliness of life, & the simple power of a little kindness

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The Sunday Times bestseller Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon ` Funny, touching & unpredictable` Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive
- but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day & buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted
- while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she`s avoided all her life. Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than... fine? ` Heartwrenching & wonderful` Nina Stibbe ` Deft, compassionate & moving` Paula Mc Lain `I adored it. Skilled, perceptive, Eleanor`s world will feel familiar to you from the very first page. An outstanding debut!` Joanna Cannon

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There are a multitude of ` London Calling` cards in the collection at Rocket 68. This lively illustrated range of London themed prints & cards aims to portray the vibrancy & beauty of London`s architecture, areas, life & communities. Each card is supplied with quality Gunpowder grey envelope in a cellophane wrapper. These cards are all illustrated by Jill White & printed in the UK on a lovely soft Calisto FSC accredited board. ...

” Electric Bicycles” covers all aspects of this rapidly growing form of transport & leisure riding, with chapters on history & development, classic models, choosing & using & much, much more. Little known until recently, electric bikes are advancing rapidly, both in terms of popularity & technology. Why ride an electric bike? Once you know the advantages you`ll ask why not: effortless pedalling up hills; so-sweat commuting
- literally; greater acceleration & so greater safety; ever-increasing battery range, with some models achieving 70km plus. David Henshaw has edited & published A to B magazine, specialising in folding & electric bikes, since 1997; Richard Peace is founder of Excellent Books, specialising in cycle publishing, & has been writing about cycling for more than 15 years.
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This is an electrical book with a difference. Based on one of Practical Boot Owner magazine`s most successful series, Alastair Garrod`s cutting edge computer generated artwork & clear uncomplicated text succeeds in simplifying an extremely complicated subject in a new & exciting way. The magazine series was nominated at the British Nautical Awards 2000 for the most outstanding piece of published work on any nautical subject. Electrics Made Simple is a ground-breaking book with several unique

Features: * very clear, well illustrated explanations of boat electrical systems * no offputting formulae or calculations * a four-page fold out illustration of a yacht`s complete electrical layout * a resume of the world`s leading marine electrical websites * troubleshooting information * the only colour illustrated boat electrics book on the market

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It was a public transport revolution. London had led the world in the development of a subterranean railway system. The first sub-surface lines, constructed by the cut-&-cover method, were operated with steam locomotives. In theory the tunnels & stations were ventilated into the outside air, but in practice they became dingy, miserable, smoke-filled spaces. As one early traveller recorded in his journal, `I had my first taste of Hades today.. .the atmosphere was a mixture of sulphur, coal dust & foul fumes`. The railway companies desperately needed to clean up their act. It was only with the arrival of exhaust-free electric traction
- combined with improvements to the tunnelling shield, pioneered by Sir Marc Brunel
- that the engineers were able to tunnel far deeper to create London`s ` Tube` system. Graeme Gleaves traces the development of the Underground from the early years & through the introduction & development of the electrified system

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All the words
- in 2 languages. Type in your word in one language & find out the equivalent word in the other. Many words also
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All the words
- in 2 languages. Type in your word in one language & find out the equivalent word in the other. Many words also
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The international bestseller about friendship, second chances, & a tiny glow-in-the-dark pink elephant ` The most enjoyable novel I`ve read all year` Elizabeth Mc Kenzie, author of The Portable Veblen `I loved Elefant! It was a complete tonic` Seni Glaister, author of The Museum of Things Left Behind ` It`s easy to fall in love with this novel because it`s easy to fall in love with its main character, a tiny, glowing, pink elephant.` Homer Hickam, author of Carry Albert Home What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you`re anything like Schoch, who lives on the streets of Zurich & is decidedly down on his luck, you might well think it`s time to put away the bottle before your hallucinations get any stranger, & go back to sleep. But what if the tiny pink elephant is still there when you wake up? & clearly needs someone to take care of it? & what if you discover that it`s been created through genetic engineering, by a group of scientists who just want to use it to get rich & don`t care about the elephant`s welfare? & that they`re in cahoots with a circus & will stop at nothing to get it back? What if this little elephant is about to change your life? ...

On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British & 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited ` Big Push` on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre & Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German machine-guns
- manned by troops who had sat out the storm of shellfire in deep dugouts
- inflicted terrible losses on the British infantry. The British Fourth Army lost 57, 470 casualties, the French Sixth Army suffered 1, 590 casualties & the German 2nd Army 10, 000. & this was but the prelude to 141 days of slaughter that would witness the deaths of between 750, 000 & 1 million troops. Andrew Roberts evokes the pity & the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army
- a summer`s day-turned-hell-on-earth by modern military technology
- in the words of casualties, survivors, & the bereaved.



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