Wahoo Cray has grown up with a zoo in his backyard
- alligators snakes rats monkeys parrots but it's his dad who's the unpredictable
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Through tunnels rattling at stations stopping. Clickety clack! Off they go! This noisy busy bestselling book with fun rhyming text & bright bold artwork is jam-packed with trains planes racing cars sailing boats & more! Perfect for machine-mad little ones! ...

Through tunnels rattling at stations stopping. Clickety clack! Off they go! This board book edition of a noisy busy bestselling book with fun rhyming text & bright bold artwork is jam-packed with trains planes racing cars sailing boats & more! Perfect for machine-mad little ones! ...

Whether applying for a job writing a letter of complaint or simply talking with colleagues or friends the people who get listened to are those with a confident command of language. Choose the Right Word is a fun guide to using English effectively & to avoiding common mistakes. It is both a valuable work of reference & an enjoyable read. While plotting a path through a minefield of rules & conventions the book acknowledges that English is an ever-changing language & points out those rules that can at times be broken. 70 light-hearted quizzes show you how to use words that will make your point powerfully & usage tips set you right on contextual issues. Curio Corners tell the fascinating stories behind dozens of everyday words & phrases. Whats the difference between affect & effect; abjure & adjure? Does AD for Anno Domino come before or after the year
- & the century? Should you write all right or alright; adviser or advisor? How did the word alcohol come into our language? Just how sure are you about your apostrophes?
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A new edition of Adam Zamoyski's definitive biography of Chopin first published in 1979 & unavailable in English for many years. Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. Few have been more revered & cherished. & few have had so much sentimental nonsense written about them. Published to coincide with the bicentenary of Chopin's birth Adam Zamoyski's compelling new biography cuts through the mass of anecdote & myth that has sprung up around the composer's life & the ebullient & striking personalities of Romantic Paris among whom he lived including Liszt Berlioz Victor Hugo & George Sand in search of the real Chopin. Zamoyski brings to the subject an unrivalled knowledge of the historical social & cultural background of the composer's native Poland as well as of the France in which he spent most of his creative life. He has scoured the archives of Warsaw Krakow Paris & London in his quest for the truth & has based his account exclusively on primary sources & contemporary accounts. The result is a biography of authority perception & wit. Chopin emerges from the sugary romantic mist in which he has been shrouded as a real palpable personality a man of intelligence & humour; in music an innovator of genius; in business a feckless spendthrift; in love hesitant & tender; in friendship passionately loyal but often intolerably exacting. Through a close reading of his letters & the use of everyday detail Zamoyski draws the reader into the private world of this most complicated & reticent of men
- 'a man made for intimacy' as the poet Heinrich Heine called him
- & reveals the real passions suffering & ultimate tragedy of his life.

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Bullied at school & growing up dreaming of revenge Mark ' Chopper' Read determined to be the toughest in any company. He became a crime commando who terrorised drug dealers pimps thieves & armed robbers on the streets & in jail
- but boasts never to have hurt an innocent member of the public. Streetfighter gunman & underworld executioner he has been earmarked for death a dozen times but has lived to tell the tale. This is his story.
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Mark Brandon Read known to his friends & enemies alike as Chopper" has spent more than 17 years in prison & has a reputation for violence earned in a blood-spattered career as a streetfighter standover man gunman & underworld executioner. He has been shot stabbed hit with a claw hammer & nearly kicked to death. In " Chopper 3" Read reveals more stories from the underworld bringing his humour & sharp eye to bear on prison life brutality corruption & the warped code of the values of the criminal fraternity." ...

If you dont know Chopper by now then where on earth have you been hiding? Since the movie of his life & the eight bestselling books that followed hes been shocking & amusing his fans in all corners of the globe. Now hes back with another of his intriguing blends of fact & fiction
- Pulp Faction as he calls it
- in this his ninth book. Based on his extensive experience in the underworld these hilarious tales of violence allow Chopper to draw from some of the tales hes never before shared in a series of stories thatll make you laugh & wince in equal measure. A motley crew of characters lies in these pages ready to shock you with the kind of extreme & hysterical criminal antics that only Chopper has the nerve & verve to put down on paper. Guaranteed to storm the charts & upset the public at large all over again this latest volume is a must-read for any self-respecting Chopper fan.

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Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy recently widowed is a cook & food journalist; Joanna a successful business woman never married; Rebecca is a divorced interior decorator. Each of the women is at a crossroads & they quickly form a bond. The trio decide to combine their talents to restore a crumbling pile in Cornwall & turn it into a cookery school & spa. The project brings its own conflicts both professional & personal. The novels themes touch on the sustaining power of female friendship & how a woman copes with mid life & onwards. Prues narrative voice is warm witty wise very accessible. Her characters are sympathetic & engaging: very different women but each with demons to face as she gets older & confronts a future without
- perhaps
- a man in it. Her knowledge of food & business adds detail & zest enriching an already compelling tale.

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