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?'
- with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.
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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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Looks at the postmodern presidency
- from Reagan & George H W Bush, through the administration, & including Hillary. The author
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The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. & what a planet it is.

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Tom & Ella Barclay think they have life all worked out: with a smart house in suburbia, two lovely children at private school, creative & interesting jobs. & best of all, a happy marriage. But beneath the surface, things are not so serene. Tired of his progress through life thus far, Tom decides to embark on an adventure
- to have an affair.
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Tom & Ella Barclay think they have life all worked out: they have a house in suburbia, two lovely children at private school. But then fate turns the Barclays' lives inside-out in a way they could never have imagined. Forced to look the world from a different perspective, Tom & Ella begin to fall through the cracks of their self-made facades. ...

A big bear & a little bear are getting ready for bedtime – a process with lots of lovely stages.

They wave goodbye to

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WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013 With the voice of Anthony Sonaghan
- a modern-day Traveller born to a powerful, mythic inheritance
- Gavin Corbett summons a world we thought we knew as we have not seen or heard it before: ' There I was now. In a room, a tidy room, tidier than any room I been in before. The bed was hard. The walls they gave no sound. A heavy window thumped itself shut. Good I says. Peace I says.' Anthony, the son of a Sonaghan father & a Gillaroo mother, is descended from two families whose enmity is a matter of legend. Though he belongs to a storytelling tradition, Anthony has grown up away from his people, & is only dimly aware of their disputes. That is until the blood feud touches him, & he comes to Dublin to lie low. His time in the city is a reckoning. Only there does he appreciate the strength of his heritage but also its otherness. In an unforgettable feat of imposture, Gavin Corbett has found a startling idiom
- vivid & innocent
- with which to speak for Anthony & that other, Travelling world.



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