My wife is a magician, yesterday she turned our car into a tree. A big white horse walks into a pub. The barman says, 'we have a drink named after you.' The horse says, 'what? Eric?' I said, 'waiter, what's that in my soup?' he said, 'I'd better call the boss, I can't tell one insect from another.' I'm reading a book called ' Sex Before 20'. Personally I don't like audiences. I said, 'it's serious, doctor, I've broken my arm in 20 places'. He said, 'well stop going to those places.' I call my car flattery. It gets me knowwhere. ...

For the first time, Tommy Cooper's biographer, writer & producer, John Fisher, collects between two covers the cream of the comedian's personal archives, with photographs, memorabilia & documents that have never been seen before. Had Cooper kept a scrapbook, this is what he would have produced. Souvenirs from his many stage & television triumphs jostle side by side with candid shots of him at play with his family, many revealing a side to the man the public never really saw. Here is the authentic side of Tommy in the forces, the early show business struggle, the backstage world of his magic, the newspaper coverage of the most recognisable man in Britain, the crazy japes at home with wife Gwen, & so much more. This book, with its brilliant colour images & hilarious text, puts the successive stages of Tommy's life in full context. & if you don't want to follow his life in biographical detail, just sit back & relax by laughing at the many jokes that crowd the pages. They tell their own story! ...

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Tommy Gemmell is the only Scottish player
- & one of only two UK players
- to have scored in two European



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Join one of Ireland's most acclaimed & passionate comedians. The irrepressible Tommy Tiernan on DVD for the very first time, playing to a packed house in his adopted home town of Galway. This is a truly sparkling & lively experience that will leave yo ...

Lance Corporal Henry Buckle's drawings & writings are a window onto the Western Front as one man saw it. His charming colour sketches are a rare & exquisite insight into trench life that cannot fail to amuse & move the observer. This book truly allo ...

For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored & lonely & missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, & examines their relationship with a strange & unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs & cats to monkeys & birds
- even in one case a golden eagle. Animals became mascots
- some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. & then there were the animals & insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice & larger animals such as deer & rabbit. Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches & how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme. Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author's own extraordinary collection.

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Megan & her husband Jack have finally found stability in their lives. But the threat of Megan’s troubled son Billy is never far from their minds.

Billy’s release from the local asylum is imminent & it should be a time for celebration. Sadly, Megan & Jack know all too well what Billy is capable of...

Sarah & Billy were inseparable as children, before Billy committed a devastating crime. While Billy has been shut away from the world, he has fixated on one thing: Sarah. Sarah knows there’s only one way she can keep her family safe & it means forsaking true love.

Twins Theresa & Terrence Crompton are used to getting their own way. But with the threat of war looming, the tides of fortune are turning.

Forces are at work to unearth a secret that will shake the very roots of the tight-knit community...

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781447267461
• Author: Mary Wood
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 423
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm















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Victor has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion
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Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when
- in the bedroom, half-undressed
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For Alan Carter the hardest personal sacrifice of the Great War of 1914-18 is being called up after only one week of marriage. Leaving his new bride is even more painful than the wound that, months later, interrupts his war at sea & sends him to Cornwall to convalesce. For there he has time to think about Dora & about the career as a writer that he secretly nurtures. A career that seems possible when he finds himself accepted by the established colony of Newlyn artists. There is one artist in particular
- Vicky Haxelton
- who encourages Alan's leanings towards the arts. & she stirs other feelings: inappropriate & impossible ones. For Vicky & her set inhabit a different world from Alan. He, as one of Vicky's friends makes clear, belongs to London's East End & to Dora...

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