Hilary Devey is one of our most remarkable entrepreneurs & was an instant sensation when she appeared on Dragon's Den. Now in this powerful memoir she reveals the full story of her turbulent life. She describes how her father's bankruptcy sparked a fierce determination in her not to end up the same way. When her father started working in the pub trade Hilary did too
- at the age of seven
- & has been grafting hard ever since. She built her own company Pall-Ex which today has an annual turnover of GBP100 million never giving up even when she was so broke she couldn't afford to give her son a Christmas dinner. Admitting to terrible taste in men Hilary opens up about her marriages & the destructive relationship she thought would break her. She tells how she faced a mother's worst nightmare her son's heroin addiction & fought back from a stroke that almost killed her. Bold as Brass is candid brave & laced with the warmth & humour that have made Hilary so popular. Ultimately it's as inspirational as the woman herself.

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Hilary Devey is one of our most remarkable entrepreneurs & was an instant sensation when she appeared on Dragon's Den. Now in this powerful memoir she reveals the full story of her turbulent life. She describes how her father's bankruptcy sparked a fierce determination in her not to end up the same way. When her father started working in the pub trade Hilary did too
- at the age of seven
- & has been grafting hard ever since. She built her own company Pall-Ex which today has an annual turnover of GBP100 million never giving up even when she was so broke she couldn't afford to give her son a Christmas dinner. Admitting to terrible taste in men Hilary opens up about her marriages & the destructive relationship she thought would break her. She tells how she faced a mother's worst nightmare her son's heroin addiction & fought back from a stroke that almost killed her. Bold as Brass is candid brave & laced with the warmth & humour that have made Hilary so popular. Ultimately it's as inspirational as the woman herself.

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From the bestselling author of ' The Other Boleyn Girl' Philippa Gregory comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII & his final queens. The year is 1539 & the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir Henry has to take another wife & the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father in a country where to her both language & habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings she senses a trap closing around her. Katherine is confident that she can follow in the steps of her cousin Anne Boleyn to dazzle her way to the throne but her kinswoman Jane Boleyn haunted by the past knows that Anne's path led to Tower Green & to an adulterer's death. The story of these three young women trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval & political uncertainty is Philippa Gregory's most compelling novel yet. ...

Simon Bolivar's life makes for one of history's most dramatic canvases a colossal narrative filled with adventure & disaster victory & defeat. This is the story not just of an extraordinary man but of the liberation of a continent. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents Marie Arana brilliantly captures early 19th-century South America & the explosive tensions that helped revolutionise the young Simon Bolivar. In 1813 he launched a campaign for the independence of Colombia & Venezuela commencing a dazzling career that would take him across the rugged terrain of South America. From his battlefield victories to his ill-fated brief marriage & legendary love affairs Bolivar emerges in this compelling biography as a man of many facets: fearless general brilliant strategist consummate diplomat passionate abolitionist & gifted writer. A major work of history Arana colourfully portrays this dramatic life & explores the rivalries & turmoil that bedevilled Bolivar's tragic last days. ...

The British Lawnmower Museum Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music & Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks interactive exhibits over-priced merchandise & queues don't worry these are names to stir the soul. They are reassuring evidence that there's still somewhere to turn in search of the small fascinating unique & dammit British. In a stumbling journey across the country in search of the best we have to offer our intrepid heroes discovered dinosaurs in South London a cold war castle in Essex grown men pretending to be warships in Scarborough unexplained tunnels under Liverpool & a terraced house in Bedford being kept warm for Jesus' return. & along the way they met the people behind them all: enthusiasts eccentrics & you know those who just sort of fell into looking after a vast collection of gnomes.. . Makes you proud! ...

On Friday 25th May 1934 a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridges Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier as the First World War ended Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitfords character The Bolter painted by William Orpen & photographed by Cecil Beaton Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered & branded her the high priestess of White Mischiefs bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Sackvilles life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal & heartbreak behind Sackvilles road to scandal & return painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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' Afghanistan is just like Iraq
- hot dusty & full of people who want to kill you' SSgt Simon Fuller Royal Engineer Search Advisor
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The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing raid. Bomber is a novel of war. There are no victors no vanquished. There are simply those who remain alive & those who die. Bomber follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of twenty-four hours in the summer of 1943. It portrays all the participants in a terrifying drama both in the air & on the ground in Britain & in Germany. In its documentary style it is unique. In its emotional power it is overwhelming. Len Deighton has been equally acclaimed as a novelist & as an historian. In Bomber he has combined both talents to produce a masterpiece. ...