On paper Kenny Everett's qualifications did not look promising
- not much in the way of education physique or social skills just
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Transform Your Looks Energy & Life. Award-winning writer Leslie Kenton is renowned for her expertise in all matters relating to health & wellbeing. Now with The Cura Romana Weightloss Plan she shares the secrets of this revolutionary diet & guides you through its fast effective three-step programme...STEP 1
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In this accomplished autobiography Jackson describes his early days long before he became a household name. In describing his childhood in Portsmouth & the early classical training in music that changed his life he manages to convey both the excitement & liberation he felt as a youth when he realised he was musically gifted & the take he has on it with the benefit of hindsight now that he is older & wiser. Jackson who separates himself from other rock star writers by virtue of having written this book himself ends his account just as stardom beckons. He is far more interested in where he came from rather than where he got to... Jackson can write. He has almost as acute a sense of how to shape a simple but emotive sentence as he does a pungent melody line. Out of a miserable childhood of soul-destroying assumptions & parental beatings which seemed guaranteed only to block any possibility of a creative life he manages to create something beautiful. He describes a monochrome existence cut through by sudden bursts of Technicolor forever provided by music... Putting the power of music into words has always been difficult & Jackson manages it better than most. He is one of those people without whom life would be duller & greyer. Hes written some great pop songs & recorded some great albums. Now hes come up with a great rock memoir". (Jay Rayner " Observer"). " Honest funny wise & inspiring; tells you more about music & the love of music than a shelf-full of textbooks ever could". (Ian Banks). " Wise funny & honest "A Cure for Gravity" charts his life to the point where his career takes off.. .hugely informative on music & the ways of working with it as well as how to stay true to your beliefs". (Glyn Brown " Sunday Telegraph")." ...

Black poles against the pale night...like a site laid out for a mass-crucifixion.' In Herefordshire's hop-growing country where the river flows as dark as beer a converted kiln is the scene of a savage murder. When the local vicar refuses to help its new owners cope with the aftermath diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins is sent in by the Bishop. Already involved in the case of a schoolgirl whose mother thinks she's possessed by evil the hesitant Merrily is drawn into a deadly tangle of deceit corruption & sexual menace as she uncovers the secrets of a village with a past as twisted as the hop-bines which once enclosed it. ...

Revealing the breadth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's gift for the short story form this Penguin Classics" edition of " The Case of Benjamin Button & Six Other Stories" spans multiple genres & styles to dazzling effect. Full grown with a long smoke-coloured beard requiring the services of a cane & fonder of cigars than warm milk Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. & as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing & the other stories collected here
- including " The Cut-Glass Bowl" in which an ill-meant gift haunts a family's misfortunes " The Four Fists" where a man's life shaped by a series of punches to his face & the revelry mobs & anguish of " May Day"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories. ' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' originally published in 1922 was made into a major motion picture directed by David Fincher & starring Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett & Tilda Swinton. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history & his masterwork " The Great Gatsby" is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre dubbed 'the first American Flapper' & their traumatic marriage & Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories Fitzgerald wrote five novels " This Side of Paradise" " The Great Gatsby" " The Beautiful & the Damned" " Tender is the Night" & incomplete at the time of his death " The Last Tycoon". After his death " The New York Times" said of him that 'in fact & in the literary sense he created a "generation" '. If you enjoyed " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" you might like Fitzgerald's " The Great Gatsby" also available in " Penguin Classics". "A master of the American short story". (" The Philadelphia Enquirer"). " His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings". (Ernest Hemingway)."

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In The Curious Gardener Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters
- one from each month of the year
- 72 pieces on all aspects

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The Curious Gardeners Almanac" contains over 1000 entries of remarkable information about flowers vegetables fruits trees herbs insects birds water soil tools composts climate recipes gardens & gardeners myths superstitions biodynamics. In short it is a collection as profuse & variegated as gardening itself. Woven into this wealth of knowledge are famous"ations anecdotes traditional sayings lines of verse & words of rural wisdom. The spirit & focus of the Almanac is British but the wider picture is international as so much of our gardens originated from overseas. Dry or dull information has no place in the almanac & its presentation is as appealing as the content." ...

There are so many fun things for Curious George to do at the park: see his animal friends admire the trees & flowers fly a kite play soccer &-his favourite one of all-have a picnic! The varied touch-&-feel materials-which include soft bunny fur bumpy tree bark shiny kite material a rubbery soccer ball & patterned blanket fabric-help young readers experience & enjoy all that the park has to offer through the curious eyes of everyone's favourite little monkey. ...

This title features two favourite stories from the Emmy Award
- winning show Curious George Plants a Seed" & " Curious George:
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George is thrilled to get a thank-you card in the mail from his friend Betsy. It makes him want to send thank-you cards to everyone he knows. Who can he thank? George tries to remember all the people who have been nice to him but tracking them down to deliver his homemade cards soon becomes a challenge. Now published for the first time as a st&-alone title this light-hearted lesson in good manners

Includes:: two perforated Curious George thank-you cards for personalizing. For more monkey fun investigate website & discover all the latest on Curious George books promotions games activities & more!

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