This book is packed with simple, easy-to-understand explanations of how diabetes works & practical, positive advice for preventing

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When author Giancarlo Caldesi was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2012, he had never imagined that his family life would transform...



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A  Diabolic is ruthless. A  Diabolic is powerful. A  Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect. 
 
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It's Christmas 1845 & Haworth is in the grip of a freezing winter. 

Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë are rather losing

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Meet Mr Tiddles
- he's not your everyday cat. He's a cat with attitude! When Harry gets a cat of his own, he does everything to
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Meet the Diamond Brothers, the world's worst private-detective agency, in this Chandler-esque spoof from the creator of the

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Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She & her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamourous Rochelle & tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other but their Mum's tried to teach them the value of sticking together. Now Mum's expecting yet another baby & she's convinced this one is a boy. Time to move to a bigger place, she insists, & the girls scarcely have time to protest before they find themselves at their new house. Its rough, dilapidated & filthy & before they've even unpacked the furniture, Mum goes into labour! By the time Mum comes home with the new baby, Jude's been in a fight, Rochelle's found a new boyfriend & Martine's stormed off. ...

The jet was a solid eighteen-inch column, a pillar of brown mud & yellow gravel & sea water that beat against the steel plates of the hull with a hollow drumming roar. In the few seconds since the explosion the cyclone was already half-filled with a slimy shifting porridge that rushed from wall to wall with the movement of a ship. It was like some monstrous jellyfish which each second gathered weight & strength. The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer him the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. Destroy Johnny is the old man's implacable message. & so, consumed with envy for his own foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal
- & Johnny is plunger into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance & murder.
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As Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, Andrew Marr offers a vivid account not only of the Queen, but also of the country over which she has reigned for six decades. Turning his attention to the monarch
- & to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen's pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from public gaze & making a strong case for the institution itself. Thematically arranged, rather than chronologically, Marr dissects the Queen's political relationships, crucially those with her prime ministers; examing her role as Head of the Commonwealth of Nations; he looks at what the Queen actually does
- from opening hospitals to meetings with visiting heads of state & other dignitaries
- & looks at why she spends 3 hours every night reading the contents of the red boxes sent over from Downing Street. Marr also looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 & how the monarchy
- & the monarch
- have had to change & adapt as a result. indeed, he argues that under her watchful eye, the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized & made as for for purpose in the 21st century as it was when she came to the throne & a 'new Elizabethan age' was ushered in.




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With the flair for narrative & the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch ? & to the monarchy, chronicling the Queens pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from the public gaze, & making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, Marr dissects the Queens political relationships, crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth, & her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 & how the monarchy ? & the monarch ? have had to change & adapt as a result. Indeed he argues that under her watchful eye, the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized & made as fit for purpose in the twenty-first century as it was when she came to the throne & a ?new Elizabethan age? was ushered in. ...