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A sweeping saga spanning 1898 to 1984 stretching from the mining fields of South Wales to the film sets of

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In & God Created Cricket, award-winning writer & broadcaster Simon Hughes casts his expert eye over this most English of sports, evaluating how the game took shape in eighteenth & nineteenth century England & assessing how the rest of the world soon started beating them at it. With his unique blend of sharp humour, biting analysis & deep affection for cricket, Hughes revisits its history & delves into the characters who have given the game its unique fascination. & through it all runs the seam of the Ashes, ending, rather conveniently, as England beat the Aussies again in 2009. ...

Messrs Barker & Corbett kept a nation laughing for two decades, & despite the work that went into writing, rehearsing & broadcasting almost a hundred episodes to millions of viewers each week, the pair never shared a cross word. This work tells the story of their rise from theatre, through The Frost Report & into their own legendary show. ...

Idealistic young lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) is determined to bypass the topsy-turvy madness of the US legal system & do his best for his clients. However, Arthur's idealism takes a battering when he is pressured to defend a judge (John Forsythe) he knows to be guilty of raping a young girl. Arthur now has to make the most important choice of his life
- the choice between his career & his conscience. Directed by Norman Jewison, with a screenplay by husb&-&-wife writing team Barry Levinson & Valerie Curtin.
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Calling all of Britain! We finally introduce to you, the first official BBC Weather book!

Celebrating the highs, lows,

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On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage & sank. Fifteen hundred passengers & crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck & continued to play. They were still playing when the ship went down. The violinist, 21 year-old Jock Hume, knew his fianc ...

On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage & sank. Fifteen hundred passengers & crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck & continued to play. They were still playing when the ship went down.

The violinist, 21 year-old Jock Hume, knew that his fiancée, Mary, was expecting their first child, the authors mother.

One hundred years later, Christopher Ward reveals a dramatic story of love, loss & betrayal, & the catastrophic impact of Jocks death on two very different Scottish families. He paints a vivid portrait of an age in which class determined the way you lived
- & died.

An outstanding piece of historical detective work, & THE BAND PLAYED ON is also a moving account of how the authors quest to learn more about his grandfather revealed the shocking truth about a family he thought he knew, a truth that had been hidden for nearly a hundred years.






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On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage & sank. Fifteen hundred passengers & crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck & continued to play. They were still playing when the ship went down. The violinist, 21 year-old Jock Hume, knew that his fianc ...

All aboard the train for this cumulative picture book, full of delicious read-aloud sounds!

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How would you feel if the only man youd ever loved was taken away from you? & imagine how hed feel if he hadnt really been taken away at all
- but couldnt find a way to let you know...

Mel Taylor was thirteen years old when she found Adam. Twenty years on, they are still blissfully in love. She has everything she ever wished for.

But Mels happiness is spoilt by a secret from their past & a niggling fear that her good fortune cant last forever.

Despite her husband Adams efforts to reassure her that nothing bad is going to happen, Mel cant shake the feeling that good things cant last forever. But what she isnt expecting, is something so terrible that their lives will be changed forever...

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781787477001
• Author: Linda Green
• Publisher: Quercus
• Format: Quercus
• Pages: 436
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3cm














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