The Blair Years" is the most compelling & revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries it charts the rise of New Labour & the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life. Here are the defining events of our time from Labour's new dawn to the war on terror from the death of Diana to negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland from Kosovo Afghanistan & Iraq through to the Hutton Inquiry of 2003 the year Campbell resigned his position at No 10. But above all here is Tony Blair up close & personal taking the decisions that affected the lives of millions under relentless & often hostile pressure. Often described as the second most powerful figure in Britain Alastair Campbell is no stranger to controversy. Feared & admired in equal measure hated by some he was pivotal to the founding of New Labour & the sensational election victory of 1997. As Blair's press secretary strategist & trusted confidant Campbell spent more waking hours alongside the Prime Minister than anyone. His diaires
- at times brutally frank often funny always compelling
- take the reader right to the heart of government. " The Blair Years" is a story of politics in the raw of progress & setback of reputations made & destroyed under the relentless scrutiny of a 24-hour media. Unflinchingly told it covers the crises & scandals the rows & resignations the ups & downs of Britain's hothouse politics. But amid the big events are insights & observations that make this a remarkably human portrayal of some of the most powerful people in the world. There has never been so riveting a book about life at the very top nor a more human book about politics told by a man who saw it all."

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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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In Pennsylvania Olrik escapes a federal prison by helicopter after a bloody attack. With Blake forced to cut short his holidays at the news a disappointed Mortimer turns his attention to Greece where an earthquake has uncovered an ancient chapel. Before long people are trying to kill Mortimer over a mysterious Roman silver coin. Could the long-lost relic be one of the 30 denarii paid to Judas for his betrayal of Jesus? & who exactly covets it so much? ...

A Soviet rocket falls back to Earth carrying deadly bacteria. KGB Professor Voronov turns the extraterrestrial threat into a terrifying weapon that could be used to devastate the Western world-but he doesnt take into account the vigilance of Her Majestys intelligence services. Soon Blake & Mortimer are drawn into a lethal shadowy war from Moscow to London where the stakes are no less than international peace & the real enemy may not be so obvious. ...

Ben Blake an eighteen year old British Intelligence agent brimming with gifts; intellectual genius striking appearance impeccable acting skills & a heightened sixth sense...gifts that all guarantee the success of his first undercover assignment. He effortlessly infiltrates university life in Cambridge & befriends Cathy the daughter of billionaire Edward Carter one of the most influential & politically secure titans of the time. Samantha Black known as the elusive & exquisitely petite Sam. She rises from the ashes & battles her dark legacy. Her cryptic past & deep secrets become firmly intertwined with Bens investigations shredding his carefully thought out plan to bits. Jake Snell the young rugged Earl of Yorkley the enigma the rogue full of vices...but possessing abundant resourcefulness creativity & determination. He is Bens only lifeline in this treacherous game. The Blake Curse is all about heartrending choices fast paced suspense & that faith in the thread of human goodness. ...

This title is a comprehensive guide to the biological mysteries that lie behind teenage behaviour. Contrary to popular (parental) opinion teenagers are not the lazy unpleasant
- frankly spotty
- louts they occasionally appear to be. During the teenage years the brain is undergoing its most radical & fundamental change since the age of two. Nicola Morgan's carefully researched accessible & humorous examination of the ups & downs of the teenage brain has chapters dealing with powerful emotions the need for more sleep the urge to take risks the difference between genders & the reasons behind addiction or depression. The revised edition of this classic book contains important new research including information about the discovery of mirror neurons & their effect on the teenage brain. It is shortlisted for the 2006 Royal Society's Aventis Prize for Science Books.

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Quitting her husband's house & moving back in with her horrible family Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council & the only person who can explain anything Lord Akeldama unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs indicating as only ladybugs can the fact that all the London vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated & Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition but they may be worse than the vampires
- & they're armed with pesto. *** Also available as a manga adaptation***
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Now a major BBC drama starring Timothy Spall David Walliams & Jennifer Saunders. Published to coincide with the star-filled BBC production of Blandings this superb new anthology sees these celebrated stories together for the first time. Set in the delightfully dysfunctional mess of Blandings Castle these 6 gems follow the trials of poor Earl Emsworth & his beloved pig Empress as they clash with a panoply of friends & family servants & spongers bookies & hucksters. & all served up with great lashings of comedy from that rarest of geniuses: P.G. Wodehouse. ...

This is a Blandings collection. The ivied walls of Blandings Castle have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories
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From bestselling author Stephen Pinker The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" shatters the myths surrounding human behaviour & 'nature versus nurture'. Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing & culture with innate abilities playing little part. " The Blank Slate" shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature. Violence is not just a product of society; male & female minds are different; the genes we give our children shape the more than our parenting practices. To acknowledge our nature Pinker shows is not to condone inequality but to understand the very foundations of humanity. " Magnificent & timely". (" Sunday Telegraph"). "A passionate defence of the enduring power of human nature.. .both life-affirming & deeply satisfying". (Tim Lott " Daily Telegraph" Books of the Year). " Brilliant.. .enjoyable informative clear humane". (" New Scientist"). Steven Pinker is a best-selling author & Professor of Psychology & Director of the Center for cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. Pinker has been awarded research prizes from the National Academy of Sciences & the American Psychological Association graduate & undergraduate teaching prizes from MIT & book prizes from the American Psychological Association the Linguistics Society of America & the " Los Angeles Times". He is the author of " How the Mind Works" " The Blank Slate" " The Better Angels of Our Nature" & " The Language Instinct"." ...