At 30 Duncan Bannatyne had no money & was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story of someone who had made himself a millionaire & decided to do the same. Five years later he had done it & now he is worth GBP168 million. In this remarkable book Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches from ice cream salesman to multi-millionaire explaining how anyone could take the same route as he did
- if they really want to. Hugely articulate & with numerous fascinating & revealing stories to tell this is an autobiography & a business book unlike any other
- but then Bannatyne isn't like any other businessman either.

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Anyone Can Do It chronicles the start & evolution of a successful business dream. Beginning with the Hashemi siblings' first conversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it follows the progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the present day. Coffee Republic is now worth around 50m with 90 outlets around the UK. This is a start-up business book for real people. Sahar & Bobby take the reader step by step through every aspect of starting & growing a business from asking 'why?' & writing the plan to hiring staff & letting go. The book is illustrated throughout with inspirational anecdotes from their own experience. It is a very personal story of dreaming acting & succeeding offering a myriad of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs & blowing apart the myth that only 'special' people start successful businesses. ...

Even a small town girl can have big dreams... Marcie Brooks has returned to her home town with a baby & a ring on her finger. But for all her grandmother's insistence that she's a young widow the truth is the only boy Marcie has ever loved tragically died before he could make good his promise to wed her. Sometimes she still feels his presence near her which is both a comfort & an unnerving sign that she's inherited her grandmother's psychic gifts... However defending herself from unwanted attention has devastating consequences
- Marcie has to leave Sheppey in a hurry. The offer of a job in a smart boutique on the Kings Road in London arranged via her father's dodgy connections seems to offer an ideal escape. But it doesn't take Marcie long to discover that her new Sicilian bosses have other business interests besides fashion...
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The autobiography of one of the most significant & beloved of songwriters writer of fifty-two UK Top 40 hits from ' Walk On By' to ' Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head'. Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated & legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre Marlene Dietrich to Elvis Costello. Anyone Who Had a Heart is the story of one of the greatest song writers of all time. It traces for the first time in his own words the life & times of the man who created the music that has become the sound track for the lives of his millions of devoted fans all over the world. Bacharach's songs include: ' Magic Moments'
- Perry Como ' Baby It's You'
- The Shirelles / The Beatles ' Please Stay'
- The Drifters / Marc Almond ' Wishin' & Hopin
- Dionne Warwick / Dusty Springfield / Ani Di Franco ' Walk On By'
- Dionne Warwick / The Stranglers 'I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself'
- Dusty Springfield / The White Stripes ' (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me'
- Sandie Shaw 'A Message to Martha'
- Adam Faith ' What's New Pussycat?'
- Tom Jones ' Trains & Boats & Planes'
- Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas ' Alfie'
- Cilla Black / Cher / Rumer 'I Say a Little Prayer'
- Dionne Warwick / Aretha Franklin ' Do You Know the Way to San Jose?'
- Dionne Warwick ' Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'
- B.J. Thomas / Sacha Distel / Johnny Mathis 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again'
- Bobby Gentry ' Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)'
- Burt Bacharach / Barry Manilow / Shirley Bassey."















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Anything Goes" traces the life & career of John Barrowman from his Glaswegian childhood & American adolescence to his first big break starring alongside Elaine Paige in " Anything Goes". Since then John has made a name for himself with outstanding West End achievements including an Olivier Award nomination & success in the movies the " Producers" & " De-Lovely". His triumphant transition into television was confirmed when " Torchwood" won a Best Drama BAFTA. John also lays bare his personal life: his emigration as a child coming out to his family & his 2006 civil partnership with long-term boyfriend Scott Gill. " Anything Goes" is revelatory & insightful told with real heart & characteristic Barrowman charm. This is a wonderful tale of how one boy achieved his dreams." ...

The Anzac legend was born on the shores of Gallipoli during the historic morning of 25th April 1915. Landing on a hostile beach under the cover of darkness the Anzacs moved inland rapidly but the response of the Ottoman forces was equally quick. The outcome of the campaign was arguably sealed during the first day when the door for an Anzac victory was closed. With the order to dig dig dig & to stick it out a stalemate was secured from the clutches of almost total disaster. After the Australians & New Zealanders received their baptism of fire they became a stubborn thorn in the sides of the Ottoman army. Futilely after eight gruelling months of fighting the campaign came to an end with the complete evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Failure did not mar the actions & sacrifice of the Anzacs who bestowed a powerful legacy as well as being a landmark in the birth of modern Turkey. Almost a century later with all the veterans now sadly gone their legacy still survives in Anzac Day & with the ever increasing numbers of pilgrims who visit the battlefield today. This attractive & well-written book will serve as either a handy guide or concise history (or both). ...

This important book traces the evolution of the Australian Imperial Force from the enthusiastic amateurs of Gallipoli to the skilled warriors of the Western Front where fighting in conditions of unspeakable horror & brutality they won their legendary reputation as the best infantrymen of the war & perhaps of all time. By wars end the Australian Corps
- a mere 9 per cent of the total British force
- accounted for 22 per cent of total captures: a massive & disproportionate contribution to victory. Combining detailed battle narratives with soldiers accounts Peter Pedersen moves from Gallipoli through Palestine to the Western Front graphically recreating the campaigns of a war in which over 200 000 Australians
- two out of every three combatants
- were killed or wounded. Including the New Zealanders at every stage he also covers the war in the air & at sea in dressing posts & hospitals & on a home front devastated by casualty rates & riven over conscription. Illustrated with over 300 photographs & artworks this epic work recalls to memory the forgotten heroes & the bloody campaigns of a war that brought glory to the Australian nation but tragedy to every Australian family.



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Ed Macy is an elite pilot one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters the worlds deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. After a brutal accident forced him out of the Paras Ed Macy refused to go down quietly. He bent every rule to sign up for the Armys gruelling Apache helicopter programme & was one of the handful to pass the nightmare selection process. Dispatched to Afghanistans notorious Helmand Province in 2006 his squadron were on hand when a marine went MIA behind enemy lines
- & they knew they were his only hope. From the cockpit of the mighty Apache helicopter comes this incredible true story of a rescue mission so dangerous they said it couldnt be done & of the man who dared to disagree.
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The Apache attack helicopter is the British Armys most awesome weapons system. Deployed for the first time in Afghanistan it has already passed into legend. The only thing more incredible than the Apache itself are the pilots that fly her. For the first time Apache Dawn tells their story
- & their baptism of fire in the unforgiving battle of Helmand province. Their call-sign was Ugly
- & there was no better word for the gruelling 100-day deployment they endured. Day after day four of the Army Air Corps finest pilots flew right into the heart of the battle testing their aircraft to the very limit. Apache Dawn takes the reader with them on a series of unrelenting & brutally intense combat missions from daring edge-of-the-seat rescues to dramatic close-air support in the white heat of battle. Bestselling author Damien Lewis has been given unprecedented access to these heroic aircrews & to the men on the ground whose lives they saved. It is an astounding story of bravery skill & resilience in the face of unbelievable odds. & it is the story of the Apache itself
- the ultimate fighting machine.


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In the early 1980s a new scourge is unleashed upon an unsuspecting America. Crack cocaine. The tenuous grip on law & order is finally broken as organized gangs run amok. None of their leaders is more evil than Lucia Carney whose drug empire grows & grows at the cost of thousands of lives many of them innocent ones. With the forces of law & order incapable of breaking the gangs a new type of enforcement is required; a rogue force outside the restrictions of the police code. These men & women are called the Apaches. They have little left to loose having already lost their police badges as a result of the wounds & disability sustained in the course of duty. They are the avenging angels who will descend on Carney's empire & irrespective of personal cost destroy it forever. ...