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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Travel to Skagen & find him. Give him my letter. Seek a better life Marianne! Promise! Bound by a vow made to her dying mother Marianne sells her few belongings & leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark where she will search for her father Lars Christensen-the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before. The journey will be long-and dangerous for a young girl travelling alone. As Marianne boards the fishing boat that will carry her across the North Sea she wonders: will Denmark be the fairy-tale land she has dreamt of? Will she find happiness there? Will the father she has never met welcome the arrival of his illegitimate child? & why didnt he return for her mother as he promised he would? ...

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 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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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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