Welcome to the age of JOMO: The Joy of Missing Out.

Fed up with having to attend events that you hate? Well then,

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Each book in this charming collection of Bible Stories contains favourite tales from the Old & New Testaments, which have been simply retold to capture a child s interest. Engagingly illustrated, each title contains up to ten stories, which introduce young readers to some of the main characters & events of the Bible. ...

Exploring the ups & downs of his career & anything else that occurs to him along the way, Jonathan is frank, forthright & undeniably entertaining. This book of stories about 'stuff that has happened to me' is often revealing & very funny indeed. ...

Susanna Clarke's novel is an epic tale of nineteenth-century England & the two magicians who emerge to change its history. In the year 1806, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England
- until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers & becomes a celebrity overnight. Another practising magician emerges: the young & daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil & the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic & soon he risks sacrificing not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything else he holds dear.
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects & introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems & by the personal & critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible & passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin, of English parents, & educated at Trinity College Dublin. London-based for many years, & a noted satirist during the reign of Queen Anne, he returned to Dublin in 1713 as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Gulliver's Travels appeared in 1726. Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941, studied at Trinity College, Dublin, & has held journalistic & academic appointments in London & New York. He has received numerous awards including a Lannan Award & the Scot Moncrieff Translation Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 1999. ...

Jonny Wilkinson's career has crossed three decades & four World Cups. He has accumulated phenomenal achievements, world points records, an impressive list of broken body parts, & a drop goal that will be remembered for ever. But the peculiar calmness with which he played the game masked a very different reality. In JONNY, he reveals the extraordinary psychology that he had to tame in order to be able to dominate his sport. For most of his life, he was driven by a quest for perfection & an obsession to be the best player in the world; here he shows how these two facets of his competitive mind took such a hold of him that they sent him to the top of the world, then swept him up & dragged him down into a spiral of despair. Jonny's career has spanned the far reaches: amazing highs & iconic moments, then a fight against injury that culminated in a battle with depression. Here he tells of the physical toll he knew his body was taking from rugby, even from his youth; he tells of how he never wanted to be a kicking fly-half but learned to adapt his natural game to play the style that Clive Woodward believed necessary to win a World Cup, & how he nearly walked out on Martin Johnson's England team 13 years later. Praise for Jonny Wilkinson: 'I consider myself really lucky to have had him as a player' Sir Clive Woodward 'I'm humbled to have played alongside him' Lewis Moody ' Jonny has been the best player to play for England in any of the leading ball games this century. He has been brilliant, he has been the rock on which success was built, he has won the biggest prize of all & done so with style & grace & elegance' Simon Barnes, The Times ' Exceptional has been a word commonly associated with Wilkinson throughout his career' The Guardian ' Thanks for the memories, Jonny. English supporters will never forget how you made them feel' Robert Kitson, The Guardian ' Jonny Wilkinson was English sport as it likes to imagine itself: intrepid, handsome, physically indomitable & blessed with grace under pressure' Paul Hayward, Daily Telegraph ' There are not many like him: humble, self-effacing & utterly devoted to his cause. He may not have considered himself a superstar. But everyone else did' Mike Cleary, Daily Telegraph ' No one came close to squeezing so much from his God-given talent, & for that alone, Wilkinson is worthy of undying regard' The Independent ...

The traveller guides are informative & concise, & are aimed at mainstream travellers wanting to discover something a little different on their trip. So whether you are looking for a walking tour in Apollina in Albania or a boat trip down the Mekong River in Vietnam there is a traveller guide for you. ...

Presents the personal account of the author who has led a rollercoaster life. This book tells how she overcame a string of emotional challenges: she has battled post-natal depression, endured a traumatic miscarriage & continually fought fears for the safety & health of her children & husb&. ...

There were those who doubted Jordan Henderson in the past...

Now he is a Liverpool captain with a trademark trophy lift,

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Jorge Lorenzo really came of age in 2010 when he took the Moto GP season by storm & became the runaway World Champion, winning nine of the season's 18 races, finishing on the podium 16 times & accumulating the biggest points score ever achieved in the championship. This autobiography of Lorenzo covers the 2010 season. ...