This is a unique book conveying a vivid description complete with detailed scorecards of a series of matches that have never in fact taken place. The vaults of imagination are plumbed to allow anyone who has ever existed, real or fictional, to reveal themselves under the singular aegis of the game of cricket. ...

Cricket is the story of how the game has developed across the world from the birth of the famous Ashes rivalry between England & Australia in the late 19th century through to the glitz & glamour of the money-spinning Indian Premier League. The games history, rules, culture, & more are chronicled in this fact-filled encyclopaedia, packed with full colour photos. ...

Award-winning author Simon Hughes brings the history of the Ashes to life by selecting 10 of the most iconic matches from the fixtures 135 years. His gripping account not only recounts the highs & lows of each game but places you right at the heart of the action, explaining the social context, conveying the atmosphere, assessing the backgrounds & temperaments of the players wearing the three Lions of England & the baggy green of Australia & evaluating the result. ...

EXPOSED! Cricki Leaks lifts the lid on sport's fiercest rivalry, revealing the innermost thoughts of the greatest cricketers from Ashes history. It features 40 first-person diaries, each lampooning a well-known player or cricketing figure & presented as an imagined extract from their journal. ...

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Play this game alone, or with several players. Place the 15 Crilo cards randomly with hook velcro side uppermost, spaced out on the floor. Then take turns rolling the Crilo ball (the size of a tennis ball, & covered in velcro loop texture) from a distance of about a metre. Try to roll over as many Crilo cards as possible. Each turn, remove & keep the cards that stuck to the ball. Score based on the cards you won. Full instructions included. Why not buy an extra pack, & increase the possibilities in your game?! Great fun for all ages, & particularly useful for teaching simple adding skills. ...

An impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker & her sister, apparently for financial gain.

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This acclaimed BBC adaptation of Crime & Punishment remains faithful to Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel. Set in St Petersburg in the second half of the 19th century, the psychological thriller tells of a desperate young murderer caught in a web of his own guilt. Rodya Raskolnikov is a poverty-stricken student living among the fetid alleyways & crumbling tenements of St Petersburg. Intense & highly intelligent, Raskolnikov believes he is among a class of men destined for greatness & as such is permitted to breach 'normal' moral values. He decides to test his courage & integrity by killing a pawnbroker, a mean old woman whom he is sure nobody will miss. The murder, however, only serves to draw Raskolnikov into a nightmare world in which he is dogged by guilt, paranoia & alienation. Faced with the wily investigator Porfiry, who sets up a complex series of traps, encounters & conversations, can Raskolnikov escape his own conscience or the seemingly inevitable punishment? ...

Tony Robinson goes on a fascinating & sometimes bizarre journey to discover the origins of our laws & what we do to people when they break them. From trials by boiling water, though the decapitation of a king, to the emergence of modern democracy, it is a journey that starts two thousand years ago & remains unfinished today. We find out how the Normans created the first surveillance society, how today ...