Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, & even a novel, while his journalism, speeches & broadcasts run to millions of words. From 1940 he inspired & united the British people & guided their war effort. Behind the public figure, however, was a man of vast humanity & enormous wit. His most famous speeches & sayings have passed into history but many of his aphorisms, puns & jokes are less well known. This enchanting collection brings together hundreds of his wittiest remarks as a record of all that was best about this endearing, conceited, talented & wildly funny Englishman. Also available in the series are collections from Shakespeare, To Be or Not To Be, & Oscar Wilde, I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation. ...

Meet the first Mrs Ford. Beautiful. Accomplished. Wealthy beyond imagination. Married to a much younger man. & now… dead.

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It was a tough, wiry wig with plenty of personality. It rode around on his head like an animal. It was a vigorous brown. I was very fond of it as a child. I thought that it liked me back.' Anne Enright's extraordinary first novel is narrated by Grace, a TV producer, whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge-builder in Canada before he killed himself, but now that he has come to stay with Grace he spends the night hanging by the neck in her shower, to help himself think. Needless, to say, she falls in love, moving steadily from the spiritual to the anatomical. Meanwhile as her TV day job on the ' Love Quiz' begins to spiral out of control, on the other side of her life is her father, benign, bewigged & stricken by a stroke -apparently mad but probably the sanest person in her life. As the three worlds meet & merge in a forest of contradictions, we watch Grace take the pacific path from cynicism to innocence, as all around her the novel thinders to a conclusion. ...

It’s never too late to follow your dreams… Twenty years ago, Abigail Patterson put her promising tennis career on hold to have her baby son, Robbie. But after a wild card entry to Wimbledon, she suddenly finds herself swept up in a world she thought she’d left behind – & against all odds, she’s winning! Yet as those long-buried dreams of lifting the sparkling silver trophy on centre court inch closer, Abi knows that it’s only a matter of time before the press start digging into her past & uncover the secret she’s kept hidden for so long. The stakes are raised, but this time nothing – & no one – is going to stand in her way. But could the greatest comeback of all time destroy everything she’s sacrificed to protect? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398711358 • Author: Judy Murray • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.4cm ...

In the wild, windswept Welsh marches a noble young lord rides homewards, embittered, angry & in danger. He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husb&-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his lands but they have yet to meet. This is the turn of the twelfth century where dynasties forge & fight for dominance, & behind the precarious throne of William Rufus political intrigue is raging. Bound in marriage but poles apart, Guyon & Judith are caught up in the turmoil. As a dark secret from the past is revealed, the full storm of war crashes over them. If they are to stand any chance of surviving, they must unite ...

The enchanting illustrated sequel to the 1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT, by award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown Roz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote & wild isl&, she learned to adapt & make it her home, befriend its animal inhabitants & even adopt a small orphaned gosling, Brightbill. But a new life is now beginning for Roz
- she has been taken away, far away from her isl&, back to civilisation. Where she must pretend that she is a robot like any other
- there to follow orders & to carry out tasks on the farm where she now works. She knows she must never let anyone find out who she really is. & more than anything, she must find a way to escape, back to the island & her beloved Brightbill
- a journey that will be fraught with danger & drama, & some very unexpected surprises.. . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781848127517 • Author: Peter Brown • Publisher: Bonnier Books UK Limited • Format: Paperback • Page...


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Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a brilliant, intelligent & witty exploration of a glorious & passionate British subject
- footpaths & our rights of way. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape & why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Provocative, funny & personal, this book celebrates Britains unique & extraordinary network of footpaths. It examines their chequered & surprisingly turbulent history, from the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century to the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; & from the hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails like the Pennine Way to the dramatic latter-day battles by the likes of Nicholas van Hoogstraten & Madonna to keep ramblers off their l&. The story ranges far & wide, to all corners of the country & beyond, & is filled with the many characters that Mike engages with along the way
- the poets & artists, farmers & ramblers, landowners & Rights of Way officers & campaigners, historians, archivists & anyone else who crosses his path (or even tries to block it).

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Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent & witty exploration into a glorious & passionate British subject
- footpaths & the history of land ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape & why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Provocative, funny & personal, this book celebrates Britain's unique & extraordinary network of footpaths. It examines their chequered & surprisingly turbulent history, from the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century to the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; & from the hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails like the Pennine Way to the dramatic latter-day battles by the likes of Nicholas van Hoogstraten & Madonna to keep ramblers off their l&. The story ranges far & wide, to all corners of the country & beyond, & is filled with the many characters that Mike engages with along the way
- the poets & artists, farmers & ramblers, landowners & Rights of Way officers & campaigners, historians, archivists & anyone else who crosses his path (or even tries to block it).

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In 2009 scientists discovered dolphins playing football with jellyfish off the coast of Wales...

Some believe they have

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Nature holds the answers for Raynor & her husband Moth & after walking 630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the windswept

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