The Golden Girl of British cycling opens up for the first time in searingly honest detail about what drives her to compete in a sport she no longer loves. Written with Donald Mc Rae 2-time winner of the William Hill Award Between the Lines" is a gripping story of success against the odds. Victoria Pendleton MBE is not your typical female athlete. Admired as much by the weekly glossies as she is the newspaper back pages she transcends her sport. In 2005 she became first British female to win Gold at the cycling World Championships in 40 years. She followed it up with gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 2006 & another World Championship in 2007. Arriving in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games Pendleton was on top of the world taking Gold & joining the ranks of British Olympic heroes. & then it started to go wrong. Feted by the press & the public alike behind the scenes the cracks & strains started to show. Despite retaining her World Champion status in 2009 it was a close run thing & her shield of invincibility started to drop. Victoria was falling out of love with her sport. The sport that had made her was starting to tear her apart. Between the Lines documents the considerable lows as well as the highs & reveals what it took to turn her life around & achieve glory at London 2012." ...

Dana De Lacey bestselling romance novelist has the world at her feet. The words on the page flow easily; an exciting new book deal beckons & life at home in Dublin is good. But Dana's self-confidence & success depend on one person: her gorgeous husband Gus. Without him she has no fall-back. No children no close family of her own to call upon. When Gus leaves her she is devastated. The words fail to come. The alcohol flows too freely. She cannot sleep. Then her estranged brother Ed arrives to take care of her out of the blue & memories which she has buried for many years begin to surface: startling recollections of a childhood & a little girl long-forgotten which inspire Dana at last to write from the heart. Which Dana was it that Gus walked out on -- the glamorous party girl whose romantic novels always have a happy ending? Or someone with a different name whose life tells a very different story? Forced to face up to the past can she find the real Dana recover her career & try to make Gus love her for the person she really is? ...

In 2013 Alan Hodgkinson marks 60 years spent playing & coaching at clubs including Sheffield United Manchester United & Engl&. This is the story of his life
- & the life of the game
- in that time. In 2013 Alan Hodgkinson marks 60 years spent playing & coaching at clubs including Sheffield United Manchester United & Engl&. In ' Between the Sticks' Alan tells the story of a life in football: from his days as a trainee at Worksopp Town in the 50s to his big-money move to Sheffield United (where his signing-on fee was a new suit for 'courting') to England duty as well as a glittering coaching career at Man United Rangers Villa among others. It is a story that features legends of the game such as Matthews Charlton Best & Pele all of whom Alan has played with or against. ' Between the Sticks' will transport the reader back to a golden age of football when pig skins were hoofed around with hobnail boots to the modern day where as a coach at Oxford United Alan sees the realities of 21st century football first-h&. It is a story that no football fan will want to miss.

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The acclaimed travel writers youthful journey
- as an 18-year-old
- across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts which

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When Dorothy set off on a night out with her sister she never dreamt it would lead to a car journey to Baghdad; but that night she met a dark mysterious stranger
- an Iraqi student named Zane- & almost before she knew it they were married & driving to Baghdad in a borrowed car with their baby daughter Summer. They moved into a house in the suburbs with Zane's family throwing Dorothy into the maelstrom of Iraqi culture: letters could take weeks to arrive there were no mobile phones or computers & there was no direct dial facility to the UK
- she might as well have been living on the moon. Between Two Rivers is an honest funny & moving memoir of Baghdad life from the perspective of a young woman from England transplanted into another culture by love.

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In Between Two Windows" his first book of poems Oli Hazzard takes language out to stretch & flex & bend itself into new shapes. Into the formal straits of sestinas sonnets & pantoums stray palindromes mirrored poems anagrams allusions & curiosities. His lyrics & satires dance in the spaces that open up between intention & expression the moment when the horse attempts to throw its rider." ...

When a hungry wolf meets a young boy he knows exactly what he wants for supper! But the boy has a very clever plan & suggests some very special & delicious recipes
- like Boy Soup Boy Cake & Boy Pie. Soon the greedy wolf is running round trying to find all the ingredients
- with hilarious results!

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When Wolf decides that a little girl would make a very tasty snack he tries to trick her by pretending to be her grandmother. But the little girl is smarter than Wolf & sends him away each time he knocks at her door. She sends him to collect various things that she says her grandmother would wear or bring. Finally she sends him for a big bunch of balloons & a huge rock & then tells him to put the rock down. The balloons then carry him up into the air & away for ever. ...

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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