BY THE DIRECTOR & CO-AUTHOR OF THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING THE GREAT BEAUTY THE FILM OF YOUTH, STARRING MICHAEL CAINE, HARVEY KEITEL, RACHEL WEISZ, PAUL DANO & JANE FONDA IS RELEASED IN THE UK ON 29 JANUARY In a luxury spa hotel in the Swiss Alps, octogenarian friends Fred Ballinger & Mick Boyle look back on their eventful & successful lives as composer & film director, surrounded by a host of colourful & eccentric fellow guests. But despite the tranquil setting, trouble is brewing. Fred`s daughter & Mick`s son are having marital problems, & both men, without knowing it, are entering a critical stage in their careers
- for it is never too late to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Shabba me whiskers! It`s one of those Mr Gum books by Andy Stanton. They`re only the craziest, funnest most amazing books for children in the world. You`re A Bad Man, Mr Gum! Good evening. Mr Gum is a complete horror who hates children, animals, fun & corn on the cob. This book`s all about him. & an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub. & Jake the dog, & a little girl called Polly & an evil, stinky butcher all covered in guts. & there`s heroes & sweets & adventures & EVERYTHING. You`re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! is the first book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) the Roald Dahl Funny Prize & the Red House Children`s Book Award. Praise for Mr Gum: ` Smooky palooki! This book is well brilliant!`
- Jeremy Strong ` Worryingly splendid`
- Guardian NOT FOR BORERS!

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This is the 10th anniversary & modern classic edition of the bestselling & award-winning, You`re a Bad Man, Mr Gum ` It`s time for action, ` said Mr Gum to nobody in particular. ` Nasty action.` Good evening. Mr Gum is a complete horror who hates children, animals, fun & corn on the cob. This book`s all about him. & an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub. & Jake the dog, & a little girl called Polly. & there`s heroes & sweets & adventures & everything. You`re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! is the first book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize & the Red House Children`s Book Award. This edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of its first publication. ” Worryingly splendid.” (Guardian). You can discover all the Mr Gum books: You`re a Bad Man, Mr Gum Mr Gum & the Biscuit Billionaire Mr Gum & the Goblins Mr Gum & the Power Crystals Mr Gum & the Dancing Bear Wat`s for Dinner, Mr Gum? Mr Gum & the Cherry Tree Mr Gum & the Secret Hideout. ...

” Precise & wryly hilarious... Gauld`s both a literature nerd & a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman, & Kate Beaton.”--NPR, Best Books of 2013A new collection from the ” Guardian” and” New York Times Magazine” cartoonist The ” New York Times Magazine” cartoonist Tom Gauld follows up his widely praised graphic novel ” Goliath” with ” You`re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, ” a collection of cartoons made for ” The Guardian.” Over the past eight years, Gauld has produced a weekly cartoon for the Saturday Review section of Britain`s best-regarded newspaper. Only a handful of comics from this huge & hilarious body of work have ever been printed in North America--and these have been available exclusively within the pages of the prestigious ” Believer” magazine. ” You”`”re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack” distills perfectly Gauld`s dark humor, impeccable timing, & distinctive style. Arrests by the fiction police & imaginary towns designed by Tom Waits intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about human behavior & whimsical imaginings of the future. Again & again, Gauld reaffirms his position as a first-rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary & cartoon history. ...

A board book edition of a gorgeous story of unconditional family love, from the creators of Guess How Much I Love You. In this heart-meltingly gorgeous, comforting story told by the creators of Guess How Much I Love You, three little bear siblings one day begin to wonder: how can they all be the ”most wonderful baby bears in the whole wide world” to their parents? Mummy Bear & Daddy Bear must set about reassuring their three little bears
- who are all different
- that each one of them is equally special & equally loved.

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Policing rural Yorkshire is a far cry from Mike`s old job hunting down drug gangs & knife crime in Central London. Settled back in his native Yorkshire, the former Metropolitan Policeman finds that life as a rural beat bobby is no picnic. After a crazed swordsman threatens to take his head off, he finds himself confronting a knife-wielding couple bent on carving each other up. When a stag night turns ugly he ends up with the groom, the best man & the bride-to-be all banged up in the cells
- & the wedding just hours away. With record-breaking floods & politicians to escort, will Mike find time woo the woman of his dreams?
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You`re It! is a brilliantly observed hop, skip & jump down memory lane; a celebration of the days when you used to get home from school, hop out of your school clothes, skip over to your best friend`s house & jump around all afternoon until Mum called you in for tea. Nowadays, those classic
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- games of Hopscotch, Skipping, Bulldog & Hide & Seek are almost forgotten, rarely played, rarely passed on as generations come & go. With You`re It! you can relive those fun & silly games in this beautifully illustrated, wonderfully nostalgic book celebrating the games we remember from our childhoods as well the days themselves.

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Ypres in War & Peace from Pitkin, richly illustrated with colour photos, provides not only a guide to the evens & memorials of the World War I, but also an introduction to the city’s history as an important centre of the wool trade & to its present day sights. The guide

Includes:: a plan of the city centre highlighting places of interest & a recommended walking route.

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The Ypres Salient & Passchendaele map at 1:45, 000 in from T V Holt Associates, showing present-day road network overprinted with WWI-related information: six front lines from different stages of the conflict, memorial sites including cemeteries, monuments & plaques, bunkers, demarcation stones, etc, all cross-referenced to extensive lists on the reverse side. Centred on Ypres (Ieper, “ Wipers”), the map extends east to Passchendaele (Passendale) & Zonnebeke, south to Messines (Messen) & Ploegsteert, & west to Poperinge. On the reverse is an index to the information shown by the overprint, including list of war cemeteries, winners of the Victoria Cross buried or commemorated on the Salient, etc. The markers on the map & their corresponding lists are colour-coded for easier reference. Also provided is a list of 15 key locations around Ypres with their GPS coordinates. Current 9th edition of this title was updated in 2011. ...

This is the most complete guide to the First World War Battlefield of Ypres that has ever been published. Tonie & Valmai Holt, have condensed the knowledge gained from almost a quarter of a century of researching, writing about, visiting & conducting groups around Ypres into this remarkable book. Here are concise descriptions of the military elements of the battles woven into a kaleidoscope of human, literary & travel information. There are recommended, timed itineraries, in each itinerary representing one day`s travelling. Every stop on the routes has an accompanying description & often a tale of heroic or tragic action. Memorials large & small, private & official, sites of memorable conflict, the resting places of personalities of note
- they are all here & joined together by a sympathetic & understanding commentary that gives the reader a sensitivity toward the events of 1914-1918 that can only be matched by visiting the battlefield itself. This is a guide book written by people who, because they have been directly involved in taking tours themselves, know the form & type of information that best serves the visitor to the battlefield.NEW, FULLY UPDATED EDITIONPACKAGED WITH A FREE, FULL COLOUR FOLD-OUT MAP WORTH `3.99
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