Michel Ronay, a Marseille taxi driver, & his fiance, Josette, head north to Le Touquet to start a new life together. Michel's cousin, Henri, has invited him to start a business providing services to tourists. Meanwhile, Michel meets Madame Christiane, a wealthy customer at Henri's shoe shop & they begin a torrid affair. ...

The only life Dove Mc Kenna has ever known has been one on the open road. Living in a show wagon with her parents & her brother, they travel from town to town, performing for folk happy enough to pay them for their entertainment, while dismissing them as 'gippos' & 'thieves' behind their backs. But it is not until after their mother's death that they settle in one place long enough for Dove to feel her difference. The Mc Kennas set up camp on a patch of barren land just outside Leeds, & Dove & Harry finally get the chance to go to school. Dove begins to dream of acceptance, & perhaps even a better home life. For when sober, their father is an amiable enough soul, but when drunk, he can be a monster. & Malachy Mc Kenna is drunk more often than not... ...

Tense political thriller set against the backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa & based on true events. Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke) is a 31-year-old black South African living the straight life in 1981; foreman at an oil refinery, football coach, fami ...

In a dramatic account of violence & espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers & a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth & a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move & weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family. All the while, Farrow & his producer faced a degree of resistance that could not be explained
- until now. & a trail of clues revealed corruption & cover-ups from Hollywood to Washington & beyond. This is the untold story of the tactics of surveillance & intimidation deployed by wealthy & connected...
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An easy introduction to the game of catch using sticky pads to catch with. Catch ball set for two players with two catching pads

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Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams & Ringo Monjo, was a daring conman, forger, impostor & escape artist. Known by the police of 26 countries & all 50 US states as " The Skywayman", Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the run
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It’s no fun being a small fish who can’t swim like the other fish. When Terence tries to impress Dad with his swimming, things don’t go according to plan. Luckily, Dad knows exactly what to do &, before long, Terence undergoes an amazing change! Come & enjoy this fin-tastic story about a little fish with big ideas. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781783436569 • Author: David Styring, Jo Byatt • Publisher: Igloo Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 28 • Dimensions: 25 x 25 x 0.5cm ...

Holly Krauss lives life in the fast. A successful young business-woman with a stable home life, she is loved & admired by all who meet her. But that's only one side of holly. The other sees her take regular walks on the wild side where she makes ever more reckless mistakes. And when those mistakes start mounting up, the two sides of Holly blur together & her life quickly spirals out of control. She thinks she is being stalked, someone is demanding money from her- threats lurk around every corner & those closest to Holly are running out of patience. But is she alone responsible for what's happening? Are her fears just paranoia or an illness-or intimations of very real danger? And if she can no longer rely on her own judgment, who can she trust to catch her when she falls? Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of ...

Details: Find out what it is that the people in the picture are seeing. Use your imagination as well as your curiosity
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Unleashed by Hitler in 1942, the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank ever built at the time?the 60-ton monster could destroy any Allied tank from more than a mile away. Desperate to discover the secret technology used in its manufacture, Winston Churchill chose a brilliant young army engineer, Major Doug Lidderdale, as his special agent. In a late-night briefing in the subterranean war rooms under Whitehall he ordered him " Go catch me a tiger." By February 1943, Doug was facing Rommel's desert army. After several hair-raising efforts to bag a Tiger on the battlefields of Tunisia, Doug & his team put their lives on the line in a terrifying shoot-out with the five-man crew of a Tiger, capturing the tank intact. The morale boost to the Allies was such that both Churchill & King George VI flew to Tunisia to examine the Tiger firsth&. But the Germans were not finished with Doug ? constant attacks by the Luftwaffe & U-boats pursued him & his men on the journey back to Engl&. But by October 1943, the Tiger was gifted to Churchill, who had it placed on London's Horse Guards Parade. Lidderdale went on to use some of the Tiger technology to develop war machines for the D-day landings & was promoted to Colonel. Tiger 131 is now kept at Bovington Tank Museum & is the only working Tiger in the world. The full extent of Doug's adventures only came to light after his son, Dave Travis, revealed the existence of his father's diaries. ...