This collection of poems draws on many themes that will be familiar to the readers of Catherine Cookson's novels: love, work, class & the beauty of nature. She also shares more personal thoughts, reflections on her own writing, marriage to her beloved Tom & life in the north of Engl&. From the earliest poem included here, written in 1925 when Catherine Cookson was nineteen years old, to poems written just before her death in 1998, this anthology spans the gamut of her life & work. The poems are characterized by her down-to-earth common sense & the hard-won philosophy she developed for herself. In ' Brushed Nylon' she tackles the subject of a failed relationship while ' The Daily Round' takes a look at working life. In more personal moments poems such as ' Slow Me Down' talk of her feelings about growing old & ' The Joy of the Country' recalls a holiday in Wales. Catherine Cookson remains one of the nation's favourite storytellers. She completed an astonishing 104 works in her lifetime, books which continue to bring pleasure to millions of readers. Just A Saying is her final work to be published & shows Catherine Cookson at her most intimate & inspirational. ...

STEPHEN KING--who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times best-sellers, & many unforgettable movies--delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007, King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of Just After Sunset. The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Mc Sweeney's, The Paris Review, Esquire, & other publications. Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, The Gingerbread Girl is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable--and resourceful--as Audrey Hepburn's character in Wait Until Dark. In Ayana, a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss & the touch of her h&. For King, the line between the living & the dead is often blurry, & the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, N., which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside... or keep the world from falling victim to it. Just After Sunset--call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness & living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King. The size of this book is 24cm in height & 15.8cm wide with 353 pages ...

Roxy, Jack & daughter Joey, three, are building a new life for themselves in sunny Sydney, Australia, but Roxy's finding it hard to settle down. When she discovers she's pregnant again, things become even more complicated
- how will she cope with a second child? Frustrated at the lack of places for stressed-out mums to go, Roxy & her new friend, Shoshanna, set up Just Another Manic Mum-Day
- a cafe catering exclusively for parents. But when an opportunity arises for Roxy to return to Engl&, she realises just how much she misses home...

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All big-hearted Katie Mehan has ever asked from life is health & happiness for her family & the love of her stevedore husb&, Pat. But, as she nears forty & times seem to get harder rather than easier, she wonders if even this is too much to ask. The battle to keep order amongst her brood of children is an unequal one, & as work at the docks gets scarcer & political unrest of the 1930s begins to impinge on the terraced house in Poplarï ½s Plumley Street, Pat begins to show the strain ï ½ in fits of temper aimed, to her astonished fury, at Katie herself. For Katieï ½s sixteen-year-old daughter Molly, Number 12 Plumley Street is increasingly a place to escape from ï ½ to the world of boys where her good looks are beginning to get her noticed, in particular by the confident Bob Jarvis whose masterful generosity soon wins her over. But Jarvis has a darker side ï ½ his links with the violent Blackshirts. & when Molly meets another boy, Jewish Simon Blomstein, she begins to realise life isnï ½t as simple as she thought it was ï ½ ...

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, & wonderfully made.
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Just Brick It is made up of 20 different projects, including objects for the home & holiday decorations,

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Nobody who saw Depeche Mode in 1980 could have predicted that those four fresh-faced, synth-pop innocents would transform themselves into stadium-filling rock gods within a few years. Yet Depeche Mode went on to become one of the Top 10 best-selling British acts of all-time, ranked alongside such exalted company as the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin & David Bowie. &, after three decades together, the group continues to thrive, both critically & commercially. In " Just Can't Get Enough", author Simon Spence charts that transformation, from a tiny nightclub residency in their native Essex to facing tens of thousands in huge stadiums in Europe & America by the mid-80s; a musical journey that took them from early 'ultra-pop' hit singles to the stark Black Celebration album. Hailing from Basildon, an experimental post-war New Town, the all-electronic Depeche Mode were, in the words of singer Dave Gahan, a new sort of band from a new sort of town. & Basildon itself, Spence argues, defined them
- its brutal Modernist architecture imposed on a rural landscape dotted with primitive shacks a mirror for the angular sound & dark loneliness of the band's music. Part musical odyssey, part cultural history, Spence draws on dozens of first hand interviews to give us an inside view of one of the most unlikely stories in pop & rock.
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Have hours of fun piecing together this lovely image of Just Cat Things.

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All Duncan will eat is custard
- cold custard from a tin, slurped up through a stripy straw. Dad gets cross & tells him not be
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The Just Football quartz watch has a white dial with a football motif, as well as luminous hands on a blue canvas strap with velcro fastening. The set also

Includes:: two black wristbands embroidered with a football motif & a football-shaped key fob. The ideal gift for young football fans.

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