The Playwright rather enjoys a quiet moment in the local park. It is a good place to mentally sort his ideas, & is often frequented by pretty young ladies. He once saw a pigeon defecate onto a businessman's shoulder. It struck him as absurd that such an event is often considered lucky. ...

The harrowing true story of a terrorised childhood, torn apart by violence & overcome with courage. From the age of 5 John was beaten, mercilessly & relentlessly, by his father. After enduring years of cruelty, John finally snapped when he was thirteen & threatened his father with a kitchen knife. His response? He sent John to the notorious St Vincent's school, run by a group of Catholic Irish Brothers. St Vincent's taught a very different set of Christian principles from love & forgiveness. Tormented physically & sexually by one boy in particular, & by the Brothers in general, John realised he would have to fight to survive. Please Don't Make Me Go tells in heart-rending detail of beatings, the weapons fashioned from toilet chains & stones, & the loneliness - but we also see John's friendship with his only protector at the school, Father Delaney & best friends Bernard & his unstinting love for his mother who continued to suffer at the hands of his violent father. Please Don't Make Me Go is the heartbreaking story of a forgotten boy & an example of the resilience of the human spirit. ...

Please May I Have My Football Back? is the story of the Alexander family & how they helped run Manchester City football club from its foundation in 1880 until the club was sold to Peter Swales a century later. Written by Eric Alexander, former Chairman & current Honorary President of the club & board member throughout the glorious 60s & 70s, it contains wonderful behind-the-scenes stories detailing what it was like running one of the world's biggest football clubs at that time. Crammed full of stories about players such as Rodney Marsh, Colin Bell, Franny Lee, Mike Doyle & Mike Summerbee, this book also tells many boardroom stories of the kind of shenanigans that go on in negotiations between clubs, how Eric's grandfather, then Chairman of Manchester City was asked to drive the victorious Manchester United team on their tour of the city following the 1909 FA Cup final victory, his dealings with football's administrators & referees, which would often leave him incredulous & how City won bundles of silverware throughout that successful era. Eric followed in the footsteps of his grandfather & father as Chairman of the club & he tells the tale in full of how he stood aside to allow the controversial Peter Swales to assume the mantle in 1972 amidst a battle within the club between manager Joe Mercer & coach Malcolm Allison that split the club & cost it the chance of further Championship glory. But there are splendid tales about City's summer tours abroad, the decision-making process behind the appointment of Joe Mercer, which saw Don Revie, Bill Shankly & Peter Doherty all rejected, & the strange tale of the confusion over the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968. There are also intriguing stories about the likes of Matt Busby, Adi Dassler (founder of Adidas), Nancy Sinatra, Billy Mc Neill, King George V, Josef Goebbels, Denis Law, Bobby Robson & Trevor Francis. " Please May I Have My Football Back?" looks back at a bygone era, bids farewell to Maine Road in tear-jerking manner & allows fans of all hues to understand how much the game has changed from its humble roots to the multi-million pound industry of today. ...

With a fresh new look for a brand new generation of school children to take to its heart, every teacher, parent & child should have a copy. Nobody leave the room. Everyone listen to me. We had ten pairs of scissors At half-past two, & now there's only three. This title offers a collection of school poems. ...

One of the most harrowing child abuse memoirs you'll ever read... Please Save Me is a story of the sickening abuse to which a father subjected his daughter, which led to her giving birth to two children conceived from that abuse. Mandy's father was seen as a pillar of society but no one knew what went on behind closed doors. From the age of 11, he raped his daughter four times a week, like clockwork, forcing himself on her even when she was pregnant. After being dismissed & ignored for years, Mandy finally found someone to believe her & help bring her father to justice. This remarkable woman now tells her story in the hope of shedding light on the horrors so many children endure, as well as exploring the stigma of conception through rape. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781789467840 • Author: Mandy Yousaf • Publisher: Bonnier Books UK Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 272 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.7cm ...

Award-winning neuroscientist David Linden shows how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level, in our brains, & why ecstatic activities can easily become addictive. On this trip into cutting-edge science, he explores why nicotine & heroine are addictive while LSD is not; why the search for a safe appetitie suppressant has failed; if sex can be addicitve; & if we might someday control the part of the brain that makes us addicted in the first place. ...

Addresses the issue of sport as a form of pleasure, contending that sport, like any form of popular culture, reveals a lot about the society in which it appears. This book examines sports through Marxist, feminist, & poststructuralist viewpoints. It explores the intersections of sport & politics, sport & class, & sport & identity. ...

Tayla Mancuso is a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure
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Perhaps the best novel yet about the collapse of the Berlin Wall, 'at once cinematic, intimate & epic' (The Times)
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Originally published in 2002, The Pleasures of Slow Food was one of the first books on the subject of the Slow Food movement. The movement, whose mission is to protect food artisans & promote regional food culture, has continued to grow & now

Includes:: more than 85, 000 members around the world. We now offer this wonderful volume devoted to local, sustainable, & traditional foods in paperback with a redesigned cover, ready to inspire a new generation of home cooks who also want to preserve the traditions of growing, cooking, & eating good food.

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