Violent abuse & poverty in Southern Ireland
- the perfect ingredients required to mould young jimmy Curtis into the only thing
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Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility, using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. ...

The Drenai King is dead
- murdered by a ruthless assassin. Enemy troops swarm into Drenai lands. Their orders are simple
- kill

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A biography of the legendary American triple 500cc world motorcycle champion Wayne Rainey. It covers his two lives
- from childhood
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He's the most talented striker in Britain
- if not the world
- today. He has been likened to football legend Pele & has burst

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‘ My Decade in the Premier League’ is Wayne’s first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level

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This is no hagiography. Irreverent, hilarious & surprising, Rooney s Gold is a tarts-&-all biography of England s most famous sportsman & the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh. This is the story of a boy from the mean streets of broken Britain few streets meaner than Croxteth in Liverpool lifted out of poverty by his footballing genius to play for Manchester United & Engl&. Wayne Rooney can be bad-tempered & he can use bad language, but there s no doubting his passion for the beautiful game
- & a basic, street-level sense of fair play. Rough, working class, surrounded by an unlikely crew including a controversial agent, a crooked lawyer, tarts & gangsters
- Rooney s Gold looks at the characters who have been attracted to the fabulous money Rooney gets for kicking a pig s bladder around a field. Some of them have tainted his gold. However, in the wake of a disastrous World Cup 2010, further tabloid revelations of his paying prostitutes for sex, & the comically unedifying spectacle of his grotesque contract negotiations with Manchester United in October 2010, that Rooney is perfectly capable of tarnishing his own gold.

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Art has changed. Those reassuringly familiar styles & movements that characterised art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished. This book provides six-step programme for understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa a clean slate & a fresh mind. ...

Seeing comes before words. The child looks & recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see & what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages. ...

When Sir Henry Maxted falls from the roof of his mistress's apartment building in unexplained circumstances, their first instinct is to suppress all suspicious aspects of the event. But Sir Henry's son, ex Royal Flying Corps ace James ' Max' Maxted, has other ideas. He resolves to find out how & why his father died. ...