' Someone called & said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter rivalry, from breathless highs to lifeless lows, Paul Brannigan gives an unparalleled, intimate & extraordinary account of the life & times of Dave Grohl. In 1990, little-known punk-metal upstarts Nirvana added a new drummer to the b&. They were soon to become a global phenomenon -- but as we all know, things went wrong. Dave's friend Kurt, frontman of Nirvana, took his own life, plunging the band & their future into chaos. His friends' grief was mirrored by worldwide sorrow to an unprecedented degree. Defying expectations, a knack that was soon to become his trademark, Grohl refused to see it as the end. In 1995 his new b&, the Foo Fighters, rose to join the pantheon of rock deities. The 'wonder years' were by no means calm. The spotlit existence imposed by his celebrity status, the bellowed vilification by his critics & his high-speed lifestyle proved a dangerous cocktail. With an account of Grohl's life that is more personal than anything written before, more startling, more thrilling, more heart-rending & more inspiring, Paul Brannigan reveals Dave fully for the first time. This is the story of the man who changed music forever. ...

Record your own Horrible History in this brilliantly foul fact-packed diary.

Maybe... Charles I got the chop on dads birthday,

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Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life & death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, & the hospital parking meter earns more than you.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights & missed weekends, Adam Kays This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line.

Hilarious, horrifying & heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – & more than a few things you didnt – about life on & off the hospital ward.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781509858613
• Author: Adam Kay
• Publisher: Picador
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 268
• Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 x 3cm











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Discover the multi-million copy bestseller & Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben

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Patrick is a loner. An intelligent but disturbed young man struggling to find his place in the world. He ventures out on his own & as he begins to find happiness commits an act of violence that sends his life horribly & irreversibly out of control. But should a person's life be judged by a single bad act? This is How is a compelling & macabre journey into the dark side of human existence & a powerful meditation on the nature of guilt & redemption. ...

This is Jane, Jim. Our new sister. Very small & very red, Tiny toes & baby fingers. Button nose & big, bald head. Jim's got a new sister & he doesn't think she's at all lovely. No one has time to cook Jim's favourite eggy or read, & Jim is very cross indeed. Until one night when he's the only one who hears little Jane crying... ...

Ian Thorpe's achievements in the water are nothing short of phenomenal. He has won a record-holding eleven World Championship titles & ten Commonwealth Games gold medals. He has broken twenty-two world records & won five gold, three silver & one bronze Olympic medals. Having been under the spotlight since he was a young teenager, Thorpe retired from competitive swimming in 2006 because of the intense pressure he felt, but five years later he decided to make a hugely publicised comeback. Ian is one of the world's most successful sportsmen, but it is the way he has managed his triumphs & his commitment to helping others that have earned him respect & admiration internationally. Thorpe's autobiography follows him all the way from his childhood in Sydney right up to the London Olympics. This is a man who has had highs & lows away from the pool, who has led an extraordinary life of an elite athlete that most of us will never know, who has faced up to his own demons, & who has the courage to come back & stake his claim for the ultimate goal once more. ...

Encourages children to talk about different parts of a duck, including his shiny beak & fluffy tail, while finding out what he likes to do all day. This book

Includes:: a repetitive story, which children can interact with by pressing the sound-chip on the page to make the duck say 'quack'.

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With intriguing prompts, this book helps you discover: a secret message, a recording device, an instrument. It engages readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, ' If it's not a book, what is it then?'
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The outrageous sequel to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I m a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) brings more great stories from the far side of civilization
- hilarious, full of humour, colourful characters & dramatic action! Just another glorious day in the oilfield for Paul Carter! He s stuck in the middle of the Russian sea on a rig staffed by a crew from Azerbaijan. The choppers are older than him & can only fly by line of sight, turning back regularly due to the weather which gets particuarly interesting when they are past the point of no return with half there fuel gone & they are committed to finding the rig in a fog that s thicker than a Big Brother housemate. The closest thing to a hotel for miles around is the Asylum, a former soviet mental institution that now houses offshore personnel en-route to the rig, where his room mates are Vodka Bob
- who drinks Guinness for breakfast when he s not on the rig
- Sick Boy, who snores like a pit bull being hot-waxed & Sealbasher. In his inimitable style Paul Carter regales us with his colourful adventures from the front line of thee oil industry & the far side of civilization!


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