The Macdonald sisters
- Alice, Georgiana, Agnes & Louisa
- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes. But as

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Roll up, roll up! Be prepared as it is time to be amazed in Shanks impossible circus because it is coming to town!

Hannahs

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Fantasy adventure from director Paul Weitz adapted from the children's book series by Darren Shan. Chris Massoglia stars as Darren, a 14-year-old boy who unintentionally disrupts a 200-year ceasefire between two rival vampire gangs. Darren is then drawn i ...

Fantasy adventure from director Paul Weitz adapted from the children's book series by Darren Shan. Chris Massoglia stars as Darren, a 14-year-old boy who unintentionally disrupts a 200-year ceasefire between two rival vampire gangs. Darren is then drawn i ...

Cissie Hamm, free-spirited & glamorous, once served early-morning coffee to Jackie Kennedy Onassis & believed that housework consisted of matching belts to the correct coats. A ray of light in the puddle-grey town of Waterford in the 1960s & 1970s, she was both abattoir-owner & guest-house landlady. She was exactly what every self-proclaimed nancy boy needs in his life. Aeibhear's personal voyage takes us through the buildings of his childhood city, his grandmother's abattoir, the mental hospital where his father works, & the Folly Church where he serves as an altar boy. It is the story of a city & the story of his journey from fear to pride. But the most important character throughout is the entertaining, fashion-conscious, poker-playing Cissie, his lively & witty little grandmother. She taught him by example how to survive & prosper, & how to live with style & verve. From the book: ' Living happily on the edge of Cissie's life all through my childhood had been all that I had wanted, but it, amongst other things, meant that I could never talk to the very ones I now longed for: boys of my own age. At the core of my dawning understanding of sex & romance was the absolute certainty that I would always be outside it, undesired, unwanted. I could imagine sex between men quite easily; I just couldn't imagine ever being involved in it. In this disturbing world of unfulfillable desire, I was scared. Cissie's abattoir saved me.' ...

This book is renowned as the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to referencing available. Tutors rely on the advice to guide their students in the skills of identifying & referencing information sources & avoiding plagiarism. This new edition has new & expanded content, especially in relation to latest electronic sources. ...

Renowned as the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to referencing available, this book guides students in the skills of identifying & referencing sources & avoiding plagiarism. This fully revised & expanded edition

Includes:: coverage of more sources across the referencing systems & the addition of guidance on Chicago referencing.

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A reconstruction of lost civilizations, based on hard archaeological fact, this book refers to the extensive red ochre mines of Southern Africa, the bear skull altar of Drachenloch in Switzerland & the flower graves of Iraq, in an attempt to prove the existence of women-dominated cultures. ...

In 1940 newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies after uttering the word ' Rosebud'. An anonymous reporter (William Alland) is assigned the task of uncovering the meaning of Kane's dying word, & in the course of his enquiries he receives ...

During the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across globe in battleships & claustrophobic corvettes & silent submarines. They endured nerve-wracking convoys, fought epic gun battles, carried out secret missions, rescued armies & landed the largest invasion force in history. ...