The blood-curdling history of Britain & Ireland from Terry Deary! All the foul facts from the murky pasts of Engl&, Irel&, Scotland & Wales revealed in full-colour in a great, eye-catching foil format. It`s an adventure packed with romance, war, murder & gore that begins around 300, 000 BC & ends circa now. Taking in such horrible highlights as the Black Death, the Battle of Culloden & the London of Jack the Ripper. Local history with the nasty bits left in! ...

` Stuffed with entertaining detail.. . Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty & enlightening` The Times Nothing inflames the language purists like an illogical irregardless or a hideous otherization. But is it enough simply to dismiss these words as vile & barbarous howlers? Taking a genial tour far & wide through our linguistic badlands, Rebecca Gowers finds answers that are helpful, surprising & often extremely funny. ` Exuberant, erudite, informative & fun.. .a call on all English-speakers to trust their own feel for their language, to relish their verbal inventiveness & to do battle against the pedants who tell them they are wrong` Michael Skapinker, Financial Times `A very useful book, packed with good historical sense` Lynne Truss, The Times ...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Horrid Henry hates car journeys
- especially when it means going to visit Prissy Polly & Pimply Paul, & missing Rude Ralph`s birthday party. Watch out, Mum & Dad, because Henry is prepared to do whatever it takes to get out of this trip.
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Go for gold with this utterly wicked & totally brilliant Olympics-themed colouring & puzzle book from bestselling author Francesca Simon, illustrated by David Walliams artist, Tony Ross. Full of gruesome games, puzzles & activities, plus a range of sporting scenes to colour, Horrid Henry`s Gold Medal Games also features his fiendish friends & evil enemies. Offering Horrid Henry fans hours of fun, this interactive colouring book features a brand new collection of black & white illustrations from the artist of bestselling David Walliams` novels, Tony Ross. ...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Horrid Henry is up to high jinks, causing chaos on his family holiday. ...

The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a thirty-five-year-old writer for a New York arts & culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with the handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, & almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict brownstones of the Lower East Side in the late eighties, among the coked-out restauranteurs & art world impresarios of the supposed `downtown scene, ` the narrator wanders through the fog of passion. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic is spreading through the city, & New York friendships sputter to an end. Here is a novel where the only moral is that thwarted passion is the truest passion, where love is a hallucination & the gravest illness is desire. Angela Carter wrote ` This is what Love in the Time of Cholera is like for real` when Horse Crazy was first published in 1989. This new edition brings the `razor sharp` & `frequently brilliant` (Publishers Weekly) novel back into print after many years. ...

There is more than a touch of romance about a coach & horses, whether in a royal procession & drawn by a team of ornately harnessed greys, or a mail-coach clattering over the cobbles of an inn`s courtyard, pausing to replace its steaming horses with a fresh team. In the eighteenth century regular stage-coaches linked London with principal towns, & although railways took over long-distance traffic in the nineteenth century, horse-drawn vehicles continued to serve as cabs, station wagons, omnibuses & private conveyances until their eventual replacement by motor vehicles. This book explores the various types & their history & employments, & is fully illustrated. ...

The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London & Marrakech in Deighton`s second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator & milieu of The IPCRESS File, but finds Dawlish now head of the secret British Intelligence unit, WOOC (P). The Ipcress File was a debut sensation. Here in the second Secret File, Horse under Water, skin-diving, drug trafficking & blackmail all feature in a curious story in which the dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London & Marrakech, & to all the neo-Nazis of today`s Europe. The detail is frightening but unfaultable; the story as up to date as ever it was. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent, fallible, capricious
- in other words, human. But he must draw on all his abilities, good & bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal & greed every bit as murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.
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Horsehay & Dawley in 1901 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers Telford around Horsehay, extending eastward to Dawley High Street & westward to Coalmoor. Features include Horsehay Pool, Bridge & Roof Works, Foresters Arms, Horsehay Dingle, Prospect House, Coalmoor Farm, Doseley, St Luke`s church, Coalmoor Colliery, Poolhill, Brandlee, Dawley High Street, Deepfield Colliery, etc. The GWR line is shown with Horsehay station. A directory for Dawley Magna & a railway timetable for the Wellington-Craven Arms line are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Learn all about horses & ponies, from mane to tail, in DK`s Horses & Ponies Ultimate Sticker Book, with more than 250 reusable stickers. Including facts about fillies & pictures of ponies, Horses & Ponies Ultimate Sticker Book is packed with information on all breeds from horses in stables to wild ponies roaming free. Kids can read all about mucking out & test their knowledge of tack with a fun quiz. Packed with fun facts for kids which support Key Stage 1, Horses & Ponies Ultimate Sticker Book is perfect for children obsessed by the equine. Fact filled & packed with reusable stickers, Horses & Ponies Ultimate Sticker Book is one that children will pick up time & time again. ...