' Somewhere in the weird badlands between Forrest Gump A & Richard Ford... A winningly digressive all-American Bildungsroman.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent A riotous & dazzling autobiographical novel of resilience & love from the US National Book Award-winning author Pete Dexter, ...

The war is over but Elsie is still fighting her own battles. She's bullied because she's the only scholarship pupil at the grammar school, & she has an awkward relationship with her father as he struggles to assume a normal life after fighting in the war. But when she begins working at the local theatre, Elsie discovers she can escape. ...

Clare Balding presents the landmark BBC Radio 4 series which charts how sport has shaped the British & how Britain has shaped sport. Apart from the English language itself, the invention of modern sport has been our major cultural legacy to the rest of the world. In this 30-part narrative history series, with the help of the academic team from the International Centre for Sports History & Culture at De Montfort University, Clare looks at the unique & vital role sport has played, & continues to play, in our national life. From the birth of broadcasting, to the way television has changed our relationship with sport, this is a historic series about our national passion & how the British took sport to the world. (Due to copyright reasons, this contains edited versions of the episodes that were originally broadcast.). ...

Designed to aid the applicant in studying for the Sport Pilot Knowledge Exam by providing answers & explanations for each question in the FAA exam database, this resource encourages self-testing & promotes memory recall & better understanding. Each of the questions from the exam are arranged by subject category. ...

For the armchair athlete in all of us! This is the ultimate sporting knowledge trivia game about almost every sport known to man.

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The world of sport has produced some memorable characters
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Stay organised in 2013 with this great Sporting Wit themed 42cm x 15cm calendar & week to view diary set with plenty of space to write down birthdays, anniversaries & other important dates as well as selected public holidays & religious celebrations. ...

Details: Who won gold in Olympic hot-air ballooning? Which sport has produced the most elected politicians? Which sports
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Is there a sport you could turn professional at with only a year of coaching? How much would it cost to run a Formula One car as your family runaround? How can you maximize your chances of playing international soccer against Lionel Messi? Why does being born in the summer prevent you from becoming a professional sports star? Which sport is the most profitable to participate in for the least amount of effort? These, plus many more, are the questions posed & answered by " Sportonomics", a unique new book, which, through painstaking research, challenges us to use figures to take a quirky & sideways look at sport. Packed with well-investigated observations & explanations of hidden phenomenon, Sportonomics explores the many incredible idiosyncrasies that lay within world sport & will change your perceptions of the games we all love. Written in a fun & accessible style by a bestselling author & featuring astute observations that range from the technical & serious to fun & entertaining, Sportonomics will be a major sports talking point for the coming year. ...