No one is more qualified to answer the time-honoured question who was the greatest fighter? than Bert Randolph Sugar. In Boxings Greatest Fighters" the former editor of " The Ring" magazine not only tells us who the greatest fighters are but tells us the order of their greatness. Could Sugar Ray Robinson have beaten Sonny Liston? The answer most experts agree would be no. But what if as Bert Sugar has done here one were to take all the boxers & reduce them in the minds eye to the same height the same weight the same ring conditions? The answers are very different. & while some fans may express outrage that Rocky Marciano is not in the top 10 & Marvelous Marvin Hagler is barely in the top 50 others will nod sagely when they read why Sugar selects Henry Armstrong & Willie Pep as better than just about anybody else. So whether you read " Boxing Greatest Fighters" cover-to-cover or merely flip to your favourites be prepared at the bell to come out arguing. For Sugar makes The Sweet Science one helluva sweet quarrel." ...

In Boxings Hall of Shame" Thomas Myler tells the inside stories of the real fight game. He reveals the sports heroes & villains mobsters & fixers its shame & sorrows providing the reader with a ringside seat at boxings greatest & most controversial contests along the way. This no-holds-barred volume

Includes:: the enraged Mike Tyson taking a chunk out of Evander Holyfields ear; Roberto Durans baffling retirement against Sugar Ray Leonard; the Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota fiasco that ended in an ugly full-scale riot; Sonny Liston
- whose mobster background was not unknown to boxing authorities
- going down under Muhammad Alis phantom punch; & Jake La Mottas botched dive against Billy Fox which turned the Raging Bull into boxings bad boy overnight." Boxings Hall of Shame" sensationally revisits the boxing scandals the fixed fights & the powerful influence of the underworld taking the reader behind the scenes of the glove sport to reveal the shady underbelly of boxing through the ages."



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This sturdy boxset contains the first six books from the Key Words with Peter & Jane reading scheme (1a 1b 1c 2a 2b & 2c). 100 Key Words make up half of all those we read & write. This essential vocabulary is carefully introduced practised & developed throughout the scheme. ...

Roald Dahls life was as bizarre exciting & funny as the stories he wrote & here is the whole of his own extraordinary autobiography in one volume. With a new Quentin Blake cover & a whole new end section of fascinating facts about Roald Dahl. ...

Boy: Tales of Childhood" is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood. Including takes of sweet-shops & chocolate mean old ladies & a Great Mouse Plot
- the inspiration for some of his most marvellous storybooks in the years to come. These tales are full of exciting & strange things
- some funny some frightening all true. ' An autobiography is a book a person writes about their own life & it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiogrpahy'
- Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations."


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Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death.. . We the few who survived the war & the majority who perished in the camps did not use & would not have understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march'. These were coined later by outsiders." Boy 30529 tells the story of a boy who at the age of twelve lost everything: hope family & even his own identity. As Nazi persecutions grew in intensity young Felix's father went to England to obtain travel papers to allow the family to emigrate from Czechoslovakia. But they never made it out of Prague. Felix spent the next three years in a series of concentration camps
- Terezi´n Auschwitz-Birkenau Blechhammer Gross-Rosen & Buchenwald
- & survived the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. The book is a meditation on memory & of how to forget & how the Holocaust remains an event at the center of historical debate."

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A boy & a bear go to sea equipped with a suitcase a comic book & a ukulele. They are only travelling a short distance & it really shouldn't take long. But then their boat encounters 'unforeseeable anomalies'... Faced with turbulent stormy seas a terrifying sea monster & the rank remains of The Very Last Sandwich the odds soon become pitted against our unlikely heroes. Will the Harriet their trusted vessel withstand the violent lashings of the salty waves? & will anyone ever answer their message in a bottle? Brilliantly funny & tender this beautiful book maps the growth of a truly memorable friendship & tells the story of how when all becomes lost the most unexpected joys can be found. ...

A boy & a bear go to sea equipped with a suitcase a comic book & a ukulele. They are only travelling a short distance & it really shouldn't take long. But their journey doesn't quite go to plan... Faced with turbulent storms a terrifying sea monster & the rank remains of a very dangerous sandwich the odds are against our unlikely heroes. Will the Harriet their trusted vessel withstand the violent lashings of the salty waves? & will anyone ever answer their message in a bottle? Brilliantly funny & tender this beautiful book maps the growth of a truly memorable friendship & explores how when all else is lost the most unexpected joys can be found. ...

Don't just read
- read aloud! With a treasure-trove of favourite tales each accompanied by an audio retelling from a professional
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Danny Ellis was a survivor strong & resilient. A successful singer/songwriter he was proud of the way hed handled his painful past: the grinding poverty of the 1950s Dublin slums & the brutality of the orphanage the notorious Artane Industrial School where he was left. Hed safely buried it. Or so he thought. Then one night while writing a powerful song that would launch his acclaimed album 800 Voices his past came flooding back to haunt him. Long-forgotten memories of betrayal & abandonment burst forth in a shocking revelation: his eight-year-old self was still lost in the orphanage. Although badly shaken Danny began a courageous journey that would lead him back to the streets of Dublin to the tenement slums & eventually to the brutality & scallywag shenanigans of the Artane playground. What he found with each twist & turn of his odyssey would change his life forever. The Boy at the Gate" is a poignant profoundly moving memoir of forgiveness & redemption & an inspiring testament to the healing power of music & love." ...