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. ...

Prissy Polly is getting married to Pimply Paul, & Henry & Peter have to be pageboys. In green satin knickerbockers. Ugh. Wormy worm Peter can`t wait, of course. But Henry decides that if he has to be part of it, he can at least make sure that this is the most horrible wedding.. .ever. 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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

There can be no better way of getting to know Ireland than by visiting its racecourses: from the glamour of Leopardstown & the class of The Curragh to the majestic mountains around Killarney; from the warm welcome at Gowran Park & Clonmel to the summer holidaymakers` meetings & `industry` days in the winter months. At any one of these venues, you might catch a glimpse of a future Cheltenham Gold Cup champion or Derby winner in action.” Horses for Courses” guides readers through a typical year in Irish racing & highlights the individuality of each venue. All have their own special qualities & atmosphere but share two common traits: a warm welcome & good sport. & that is what the author believes Irish racing is all about. The country`s courses enjoy a huge level of support from the local population. It might be raining & some of the races may be `ordinary` but the stands will always be crowded. That is because racing is part of Irish culture & the nation`s way of life: with 27 courses, it has proportionately far more venues than Great Britain. Meticulously researched & passionately written, ” Horses for Courses” is the definitive guide to Ireland`s racecourses & is essential reading for horse-racing enthusiasts everywhere. ...

On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to the dump, is the shantytown of Sidi Moumen, where Yachine & his ten brothers grew up, in the aimless chaos of drugs, violence, unemployment, & despair. The barefoot boys started their own football team-the Stars of Sidi Moumen. They played amongst the rocks, detritus, & buried skeletons of the dump but they dreamed of becoming the best football players of all time. From the grave, Yachine remembers the ugliness but also recalls his fond memories of childhood: ”I`m not ashamed to tell you I was sometimes happy in that hideous squalor, on the filth of that accursed cesspit, yes, I was happy in Sidi Moumen, my home.. ” Then their dreams changed. Yachine`s older brother Hamid started growing a beard & attending religious meetings with Sheikh Abou Zoubeir. Week after week, the sheikh beguiled the Stars of Sidi Moumen into believing that there was a better world in the afterlife, where their faith in Allah would be rewarded. They needed only to choose between dying gloriously & together, or living disgracefully & alone. For Yachine & his brother, the choice was clear. ...

Based at the Skeldale Veterinary Centre, in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, the modern, relocated practice featured in the classic stories of James Herriot, & with a foreword by James Herriot`s son, this is a warm & evocative memoir from a young vet whose love for his vocation shines through on every page. From alpacas to exotic pigs, puppies to rabbits, Julian has treated them all & his book is packed with stories about his loveable patients & will prove a firm favourite with all animal lovers. Dealing with unexpected exotic pets
- & handling excitable humans too
- Julian has seen all sides of the veterinary world & writes about it all with humour & affection. Just as happy calving a cow, treating a dehydrated chameleon or tending to the overgrown teeth of a rabbit, his passion for his work shines through on every page, as does his love for Yorkshire. Julian Norton also stars in Channel 5`s fly-on-the-wall documentary series The Yorkshire Vet, one of the channel`s highest rated shows (with series four set to return in 2017). Warm, evocative always compassionate & often funny, Julian`s tales bring to life the world of the working vet & the highs & lows he & his colleagues face on a daily basis.

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