Though John Price had lived in Iowa all his life, the allure of the prairie had somehow eluded him until a brief glimpse of native wildlife suddenly brought his surroundings home to him. This is a memoir of Price's rediscovery of his place in the American landscape & of his search for a new relationship with the life of the prairie. ...

Aimed at children aged 9 to 12 years, this book presents an illustrated tale that intends to stimulate thought on issues of responsibility. It tells the story with a series of powerful images of global strife, making the connection between simply not stepping in to help someone & standing by while wider atrocities go on. ...

Discusses the state of the food production industry in Britain. This title takes a look at popular foods we eat at home to show how the food industry in Britain causes ill health, environmental damage, urban blight, starving smallholders in Africa & Asia, & illegal labourers smuggled & exploited in Britain. ...

Not One Step Back tells the dramatic stories of historty's greatest sieges. From the dusty plains of Texas to the great walls of Constantinople, & from the trenches of Vicksburg to the jungles of Vietnam, Martin Windrow, author of renowned The Last Valley, details twenty remarkable episodes of heroism & defiance. ...

IRRESISTIBLE FORCE Darius Carrington is a spectacularly handsome rake with a rare intelligence & no heart. A man of science, he divides his time between bedding loose-moraled women & writing scholarly papers about livestock breeding. He finds the eligible ladies of the ton thoroughly dull. That is until he meets Lady Charlotte Hayward... IMMOVABLE OBJECT Lady Charlotte is so beautiful, charming, & gracious that no one has noticed what an expert she is at Not Getting Married. Early on, she learned a hard & painful lesson about trust...and temptation. In the years since, she's built impenetrable defences that no man has overcome. She's devoted her life to being everything she ought to be
- & she's not about to let a man like Carsington entice her to do everything she shouldn't. A SPLENDID COLLISION But the rules of attraction can easily overpower the rules of manners & morals, & sometimes even the best-behaved girl has to follow her instincts, even if it means risking everything.
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Flora is a Girlie Monster. She's sweet, modest & polite in every single way except one... Burrppp! She adores pink things, stripy tights & glitter, & having tea parties with her (not so) Scary Monster friends. Why don't you have some girlie fun of your own? With a surprise pop-up & a special touchy feely cover. Measures approximately: 13cm x 12.5cm x 0.8cm. ...

Egbert is a Noisy Monster. He's a grunting, groaning, burping monster who loves to shout, bang & BOOM! He guffaws loudly at everything & anything & loves to have deafening beastie fun! Why don't you make a (not so) Scary Monster racket of your own? With a surprise pop-up & a special touchy-feely cover. Measures approximately: 13cm x 12.5cm x 1cm ...

Based on Clare Wises blog, which she started when she was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013, Not That Kind of Love charts the highs & lows of the last three years of Clares life.

The end result is not a book that fills you with despair & anguish. On the contrary, Not That Kind of Loveshould be read by everybody for its candour, & for its warmth & spirit. Clare is an astonishingly dynamic, witty & fun personality, & her positivity & energy exude from every page.

As she becomes too weak to type, her brother
- the actor Greg Wise
- takes over, & the book morphs into a beautiful meditation on life, & the necessity of talking about death.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781787478565
• Author: Clare & Greg Wise
• Publisher: Quercus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 313
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm













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In this inspiring & intimate autobiography, Lisa speaks openly for the first time about her rocky road to fame. Both entertaining & heart-warming, Lisa reveals how she was by age 11 she picked up her first onscreen role & entered the world of musicals, presenting Children's TV & appearing on primetime sketch shows. But behind the laughter, fun & early success, was a south London girl hiding a personal life packed full of drama. ...

From doing the Twist in front of a room full of adults when she was a toddler, to cracking silly jokes at school to make all the other kids laugh, Lisa was a born entertainer. From cockney teen dabbling in petty crime, to young misguided love & troublesome forays in LA, Lisa experienced a lot before finally finding popularity as the fiercely intelligent & resilient DI Samantha Nixon in The Bill. In this inspiring & intimate biography, she speaks openly for the first time about her rocky road to fame. Told with Lisa's natural spark, candid approach & effortless humour, it is as entertaining, revealing & heart-warming as the little lady herself. ...