In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance-his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweigs only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour & love realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire. ...

Wily Wolf is back in a third hilarious story! Wolf is once again extremely hungry & decides he has to go to school
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Brian Moore or ' Pitbull' as he came to be known during nearly a decade at the heart of the England rugby team's pack established himself as one of the game's original hard men at a time when rugby was still an amateur sport. Since his retirement he has earned a reputation as an equally uncompromising commentator never afraid to tell it as he sees it & lash out at the money men & professionals that have made rugby into such a different beast. Yet for all his bullishness on & off the pitch there also appears a more unconventional complicated side to the man. A solicitor by trade Moore's love of fine wine career experience as a manicurist & preference for reading Shakespeare in the dressing room before games mark him out as anything but the stereotypical rugby player & in Beware of the Dog Moore lays open with astounding frankness the shocking events both personal & professional that have gone towards shaping him over the years. Presenting an unparalleled insight into the mind of one of British rugby's greatest players & characters Beware of the Dog is a uniquely engaging & upfront sporting memoir. ...

Every night Herb's mother reads him a bedtime story. Sometimes it's about a big bad wolf who terrifies little girls & their grandmothers with his chilling growl & big yellow teeth. The story gets very nasty in the middle & everybody nearly comes to a sticky end. But by the last page it all turns out well & happy-ever-afterly. But what will happen to Herb when the wolves escape from his book? Will they gobble him up? Or will this too end happily-ever-after? Read this thrilling tale to find out
- & learn what to do if the wolves ever escape from your storybook!
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Jacks in trouble big trouble. Not only is he in hospital with a leg in traction (boring) but he knows the police are coming for him: because of an accident
- a tomato-related accident
- involving a supermarket pyramid & an old-age pensioner. Whoops! Jeremy Strong knows exactly what makes kids laugh & hes on top form in this very funny detective spoof. A major rebranding & repackaging programme in 2007 will ensure theres not a child in the country who hasnt laughed their socks off with Jeremy! Rowan Cliffords illustrations add to the fun.

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One of the greatest of all sports books now reissued with a new introduction. C L R James one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing watching & writing about the sport he recounts the story of his overriding passion & tells us of the players whom he knew & loved exploring the games psychology & aesthetics & the issues of class race & politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood part passionate celebration & defence of cricket as an art form part indictment of colonialism Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture & asks the question What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? ...

The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of TO LOVE & TO CHERISH It is 1945 & the war is finally over. For sisters Sophie & Maria though the upheaval is just beginning. For they have no choice but to leave their beloved home on the Isle of Man. It is a huge wrench for eighteen-year-old Maria who can't forget Hans Bonhoeffer a young Austrian interned on the island during the war. For widowed Sophie Liverpool offers a new beginning with her daughter Bella. She has no room for distractions
- until she falls in love with Frank Ryan a man married to a woman who although she doesn't love him has no intention of letting him go. Without the men they love will the sisters ever find happiness?
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Has your child learned their ABCs? This activity book will help your child to confidently go on to learn how letters come together to make new sounds in words
- with the help of the friendly Letterland characters. Beyond ABC Activity Book is packed full of puzzles & activities that make learning fun! It comes complete with 50 reusable stickers that your child can use time & time again.
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June Thomson & Giselle Ross are inextricably linked by two unspeakable acts of evil. On the same day a few miles apart their estranged husbands slaughtered their children. The murders were not driven by rage or committed in moments of madness. They were planned & carried out with chilling precision to inflict the worst pain imaginable. June & Giselle did not know each other. Tragedy is all that binds them; they were destined to come together as sisters united by pain grief & a sense of loss so immense that it would drive both to the brink of madness. Junes life with Rab Thomson had been a dark & turbulent existence characterised by mental torture physical violence & rape. Giselles relationship with Ashok Kalyanjee had been a strange & distant affair of lives spent apart before during & after marriage. But both relationships had produced two beautiful children & the women believed that their misery was in the past. Both mothers believed it was important to allow the fathers access to their children. On that fateful Saturday in May 2008 neither could have conceived that the men they had once loved would do anything to harm their children. But they were wrong so terribly wrong. Nothing can bring their children back. But June & Giselle have one solitary comfort: they are no longer alone. Their lives may have been torn apart but they have each other. Together they are stronger. This is the story of their parallel journeys: of the dreadful days before during & after the murders of their children. Told in their own words with searing honesty of their pain & guilt it is a story of endurance friendship & survival against the odds. It is not a story for the faint hearted but it is a story that must be told for in the end it is a testament to the human spirit. ...

On D-Day Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment & prepared to parachute into German-held north France. Ground troops landing on Utah beach were relying on Easy Company to secure one of the causeways that were vital if the troops were to get off the beaches & reach the solid ground of Normandy. The plane carrying many of the commanding officers was shot down leaving Dick Winters suddenly in command of his company. But during the drop he & many of his men had been separated from his equipment & was unarmed except for a trench knife. In this remarkable World War 2 memoir Dick Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose in his 1992 epic Band of Brothers. Starting with an account of the gruelling training designed to make the 506th the most elite unit in the US Army Beyond Band of Brothers is fascinating account of one man's experience of commanding Easy Company from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge & into Germany. Dick Winters gives real insight into leadership under the most difficult conditions
- every man in the company had been injured by the time they reached Germany
- & tells the real story of the Allies' final defeat of Hitler from the point of view of someone who was really there.

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