Mucker Boogster Cheesy & Bob are THE ABOMINATORS. Recently posh boy Cecil has jumped into their lives like a demented grasshopper & they're not at all happy about it. Having a gang member who wears ridiculous panty wanty woos is UNTHINKABLE! Will an adventure involving baked beans a midnight quest & an escaped bear help to change their minds? There's only one way to find out.. . ...

About a Boy" is Nick Hornby's comic & heart-warming million-copy bestseller. ' How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six he's as hip as a teenager. He's single child-free goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell & Mozart looks after his mum & has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will
- & won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? & can Marcus help Will just to grow up? This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film " About A Boy" starring Hugh Grant & Nicholas Hoult. Fans of " One Day" by David Nicholls & " Any Human Heart" by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere. "A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping". (" Marie Claire"). " About the awful hilarious embarrassing places where children & adults meet & Hornby has captured it with delightful precision". (" Irish Times"). " It takes a writer with real talent to make this work & Hornby has it
- in buckets". (" Literary Review"). Nick Hornby has captivated readers & achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic well-observed novels " High Fidelity" " How to be Good" "A Long Way Down" (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) " Slam & Juliet" " Naked". His three works of non-fiction "31 Songs" (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) " Fever Pitch" (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) & " The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" are also available from Penguin."

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About a Boy" is Nick Hornby's comic & heart-warming million-copy bestseller " How cool was Will Freeman?" Too cool! At thirty-six he's as hip as a teenager. He's single child-free goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell & Mozart looks after his mum & has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will
- & won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? & can Marcus help Will just to grow up? This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film " About A Boy" starring Hugh Grant & Nicholas Hoult. Fans of " One Day" by David Nicholls & " Any Human Heart" by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere. "A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping". (Marie Claire). " About the awful hilarious embarrassing places where children & adults meet & Hornby has captured it with delightful precision". (" Irish Times"). " It takes a writer with real talent to make this work & Hornby has it
- in buckets". (" Literary Review"). Nick Hornby has captivated readers & achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic well-observed novels " High Fidelity" " How to be Good" "A Long Way Down" (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) " Slam & Juliet" " Naked". His three works of non-fiction "31 Songs" (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) " Fever Pitch" (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) & " The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" are also available from " Penguin"."

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The brand new summer bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Tess Brookes has always been a Girl with a Plan. But when the Plan goes belly up she's forced to reconsider. After accidently answering her flatmate Vanessa's phone she decides that since being Tess isn't going so well she might try being Vanessa. With nothing left to lose she accepts Vanessa's photography assignment to Hawaii
- she used to be an amateur snapper how hard can it be? Right? But Tess is soon in big trouble. & the gorgeous journalist on the shoot with her who is making it very clear he'd like to get into her pants is an egotistical monster. Far from home & in someone else's shoes Tess must decide whether to fight on through or 'fess up & run...
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Scott Barnes defines beauty for the modern woman. He has created the hottest looks for the top magazines around the world with over a hundred covers to his credit & has worked with the A-list celebrities from Jennifer Lopez to Gwyneth Paltrow & Kate Hudson to Christina Aguilera. Here he shares all his secrets for creating show-stopping looks that you can use everyday. Dispensing with strange concoctions rare ingredients or time-consuming rituals Scott reveals practical methods that free the beauty each of us has trapped inside. He works wonders with a few strokes of the brush. You will be amazed at how easy it is to transform your look in ways youve always dreamt of. Scotts goal is a lofty one inspire the millions of women out there to be more beautiful & happier with their looks & themselves. Its not about trends he believes its all about discovering whats unique about you. Rather than covering it up Scott shows you how to bring it out in new wonderful ways so you can achieve the look & feel you want. About the author Scott Barnes is a highly sought after celebrity makeup artist who designs the latest looks of several of the leading ladies in film music & TV. His makeup artistry has been published on the magazine covers of Glamour Marie Claire Harpers Baazar In Style & Vanity Fair. Scott lives in New York. ...

Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works. This book asks: What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively? It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system. The book consists of 28 units each containing around ten tasks plus a diagnostic introductory unit. Units start at phoneme level & progress through words phrases & sentences on to complete texts. Task-types include recognition categorisation matching explanation & application tasks. Throughout the book the language is illustrated wherever possible from authentic sources so that the teacher can be sure that the English being studied represents current usage. ...

In this compelling novel of friendship family & trust Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks asks: how far would you go to save your best friend? I need you to say that I was with you. For thirty years best friends Steph & Pip have been through thick & thin. Theres nothing they would not do for one another. Until these simple words change everything. Steph eternally solid & dependable is begging her friend to lie to the police as shes desperately trying to conceal not one but two scandalous secrets to protect her family. Pip self-consigned to the role of scatty hot-head is overwhelmed; shes normally the one asking for help in a crisis. Its a big ask. So what would you do? *
Includes: bonus material for reading groups*
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The landscape of Scotland is full of dramatic contrasts. The high rugged peaks of the Cairngorms look down on the rounded hills of the southern uplands. Wild moorlands run into fertile flood-plains. The coastline ranges from soft sandy beaches & crystal-clear waters to jagged cliffs battered by the fierce waves of the Atlantic. Aerial photography provides unique & striking perspectives on how the people of Scotland have lived worked fought over worshipped developed & changed this land leaving no part untouched or unaltered by human activity. The Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) holds the national collection of aerial photography for Scotland with millions of images dating from the 1920s to the present day. These photographs
- many of which have never been seen before by the public
- tell the remarkable story of a changing nation from stone circles Roman remains & ruined castles to the growth of villages towns & cities the rise & fall of heavy industry the country at war & the proud engineering & architecture of the modern landscape. For the first time in one volume RCAHMS has brought together the finest images from its collection in a stunning illustration of Scotlands past present & future.

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Young Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case
- a series of killings that has shocked even the most hardened of
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Life for Maisie Jackson has been far from happy for a number of years
- ever since her mother re-married after her beloved father's
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