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. ...

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
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• 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. ...

This is a story about life, death, healing & cancer. It is a story about a doctor diagnosed with a brain tumour in his early 30s who started a crusade to inform people about the disease & inspire them to take responsibility for their health. It is a story about a man who bravely overcame cancer against the odds. It is a story about the cancer returning & being told you only have 18 months to live. It is a story about saying goodbye. But most of all, it is a story about living. In this unsentimental & humbling memoir celebrated neuroscientist & psychiatrist David Servan-Schreiber discusses his diagnosis, his emotions, his fears, his hopes & his legacy. He recounts stories from his life & takes us with him on this extraordinary journey as he shows us not only how to live, how to take care of ourselves & how to fight for survival, but ultimately, how to die gracefully. This inspiring & heartbreaking book will change the way you look at yourself, your life & the world around you. ...

Alan & Irene first met in Rennie Road children's home when he was seven & she was nine. Both had lost their mothers when they were very young. When the car Irene was in drew up outside the Home, seven year-old Alan was staring out of the window. & when he saw the little girl step out of the car, he knew, in that instant, that she was someone special. Alan dashed outside to meet her, & promised to show her where everything was. Over the next year the children were inseparable. But close friendships weren't encouraged & when it was discovered how close they were Alan was sent away without any explanation & no goodbye. Despite being forcibly parted their bond was never broken & each started an incredible 45 year journey to find the other again. This is a love story that stretches across what is now 50 years & regardless of a series of amazing coincidences & almost insurmountable obstacles, they found each other at last & married in 2007. NOT WITHOUT YOU contains painful memories of lonely childhoods, cruelty & desperate attempts to escape the system, but it's an astonishing story that demonstrates the ultimate truth: that love can surmount all odds. ...