Sporting Events unite people & can have as much a political as a competitive motivation. This is certainly true of the English Olympick games, first played in 1612 on a small hill in the Cotswolds. These games stood as a testament to the ordinary people of England in their fight against the Puritan movement & ran almost continuously for more than two hundred years. Celia Haddon vivdly captures the intensity & enthusiasm of those involved & how the camaraderie of sporting competition united an entire region at a time when division within England was gathering momentum & the seeds of civil war were being sown. Revived in the 1960s, the games are still immensely popular today & draw thousands to the original Dover Hill every year. ...

Before Al Capone & Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello & his murderous coterie of brothers. Had it not been for Morello, the world may never have heard of 'men of honour', the first family of New York, & how this extended close-knit clan of racketeers & murderers left the backwaters of Sicily to successfully establish themselves as the founding godfathers of the New World. Combining strong narrative & raw violence, The First Family is a compelling portrait of the early years of organised crime. This is how it really happened. ...

From Number One bestselling picture book duo, David Walliams & Tony Ross, comes this explosively funny space adventure for children of 3 & up.

Two big hippos. One ENORMOUS dream. Who can make it to the moon first?

3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!

Introducing a wonderfully charming & funny new picture book from two superstars!

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780007494002
• Author: David Walliams
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Format: Hardback
• Dimensions: 28 x 28 x 1.5cm












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Some would give everything just to live one more year...

To live another hundred, some would destroy everything.

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President Tucker is caught up in a media firestorm. 

The scandal of his affair has sent shockwaves through his re-election

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Over a 100 years ago, London hosted the Olympics, far from the modern day budgets & stadiums of the modern era but the history was there, the US team fresh from a series of rows & boycotts took the Olympics by storm with the Germans increasingly getting angrier & angrier, this fascinating book is a very good read for those who want to know & learn about the Olympic past. 20.9cm x 13.4cm x 1.8cm, pages 272 ...

From the discovery of anti-gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen travel to the Moon.

Encountering the extraordinary

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A lively & highly readable account of the origins, invention & discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global

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One hot summer night, a young woman falls from a rooftop to her death. Detective Alex King is called to the quiet terraced street.

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Frank Meyer had got out of ' the life' safely. He had put an end to his mercenary days, turned over a new leaf & settled down with his wife & children. It had been a hard decision but, encouraged by his boss & friend Joe Pike, he had walked away. Ten years later, a group of armed men break into his Los Angeles home & brutally gun down him & his family. It's a vicious, cold & professional job. The crew leave no trace behind except the bodies. But they have made one catastrophic, & almost certainly terminal, mistake
- Joe Pike. Because Pike is now determined to hunt down & eliminate everyone involved in the attack, one by one. & it doesn't matter that, as he starts to investigate, he discovers that these criminals are bigger & better organised than he ever could have imagined, because they are about to learn the first rule... Don't make Joe Pike mad...
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