John Candy plays the jobless, happy-go-lucky slob of an uncle who is asked to babysit his niece & nephew (Gaby Hoffman & Macaulay Culkin) at short notice. His hidden flair for childcare soon emerges, even as his relationship with long-suffering girlfr ...

Read With Biff, Chip & Kipper is the UK's best-selling home reading series. It is based on Oxford Reading Tree which is used in 80% of primary schools. Read With Biff, Chip & Kipper Level 5 Phonics storybooks have been specially written to allow children to practise their letters & sounds as they do at school. Fun plots, familiar characters & carefully levelled text create the perfect combination to build children's confidence & enjoyment of reading. The Level 6 stories practice various spellings of sounds such as 'oo' as in blue, cool, shoe, new as well as revising sounds introduced at the earlier levels. Level 6: oo ue ew oe; ow; s ss se ce c; air; ou ow; u oo oul; ear eer; le; oi oy. The stories are slightly longer at this level to increase reading stamina & fluency. Each book also

Includes:: practical tips & ideas for you to use when you reading with your child & fun activities. This series also provides essential support for parents through www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Visit the Oxford Owl for practical advice for helping children learn to read, all you need to know about phonics & lots of fun activities & free e Books. With plenty of support available inside the book & online phonics practice at home has never been so fun or so easy!

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential & controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in & responsible for the sin of slavery, & resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice & mercy' will prevent the onset of 'the wrath of Almighty God!'. ...

Kenton a journalist travels to Nuremberg to investigate a top-level meeting, but he boards a train bound for Austria after a bad night of gambling. Stranded with no money, he decides to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities. He soon discovers that the documents he holds have far more than cash value & that they could cost him his life. ...

From a prison cell, in which he has been held on suspicion of breaking the Official Secrets Act, Charles Thoroughgood awaits not only his bail, but also the reappearance of the woman whom all the major roads in his life have led back to. After his years in the army & then with MI6, Charles has begun a new chapter in his life with the Secret Intelligence Agency, shadowing the movements of a suspected double agent. Charles knows that he has nothing to hide, & as he casts his mind over the course of recent events, he begins to suspect a more sinister motivation, both personally & politically, behind his incarceration... ...

Features none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. Her reading naturally changes her world view & her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister & his repellent advisers. The consequence is surprising, mildly shocking & funny. ...

Lexi spends her life at conventions, thanks to her dad's job as top organizer
- it's her world. So when she finds smug (but cute)
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In the grip of the War of the Roses in January 1457, a thirteen-year old girl gives birth to a boy that was to become the most famous dynasty in British history... the Tudors.

Descended from Edward III, Margaret Beaufort proved to be a critical threat to the Yorkist cause & was forced to separate from her son for fourteen years.

But remaining steadfast in the enemy Yorkist court, Margaret only just escaped the headmans axe when plotting to overthrow Richard III to secure her son the throne.

With Henry Tudor succeeding in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, her son was crowned King Henry VII & Margaret became the most powerful woman in Engl&.

Delve into this gripping account of her life, unmasking the myths of Margaret & revealing the real woman: an extraordinarily independent & vibrant character, who would risk everything to become Queen.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781782439929
• Author: Nicola Tallis
• Publisher: Michael OMara Books Limited
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 362
• Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 4cm

















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Featuring interviews with & articles on each of the biggest artists of the decade, this book takes the reader on a journey through the decade, not only covering the music & how it was made, but the people behind it
- & what made them. It also features hundreds of photographs as well as iconic album covers & posters.
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Details: George A. Romero's classic 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, introduced a new era of gut-munching cinematic
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