In this very funny sports book (a cross between Nick Hornby & Bill Bryson) young journalist Lawrence Donegan tells the story of the summer he spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond ranked over 400 in the world on the European Tour. This is the inside story of the geniuses the cheats the gurus & the hangers-on that make up the golf scene. A joy to read. Not since Bill Bryson plotted a random route through small-town America has such a breezy idea for a book had a happier or funnier result
- Lynne Truss The Times". Funny beautifully observed & it tells you things about sport in general & golf in particular that nobody else had thought to pass on
- Patrick Collins " Mail on Sunday"."

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Beverley a bit of a snob cooks up a plot to visit the island off the coast. She manages to convince the somewhat cautious Elizabeth & her slob of a brother Gerard to come along. A surprise companion is Kevin the cool guy who works in the local shop. This motley crew must find ways to support each other & put up with one anothers shortcomings when they become stranded on the island & encounter a strange inhabitant. ...

By the late 1970s boxing had lapsed into a moribund state & interest in it was on the wane. In 1980 however the sport was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet: Sugar Ray Leonard Marvelous Marvin Hagler Thomas Hearns & Roberto Duran. The Four Kings of the Ring would fight one another nine times throughout the decade & win sixteen world titles between them. Like Ali & Frazier Dempsey & Tunney Robinson & La Motta these four boxers brought out the best in each other producing unprecedented multi-million-dollar gates along the way. Each of the nine bouts between the four men was memorable in its own way & at least two of them
- Leonard-Hearns I in 1981 & Hagler-Hearns in 1985
- are commonly included on any list of the greatest fights of all time. The controversial outcome of another
- the 1987 Leonard-Hagler fight
- remains the subject of heated debates amongst fans to this day. Leonard Hagler Hearns & Duran didnt set out to save boxing from itself in the post-Ali era but somehow they managed to do so. In Four Kings award-winning journalist George Kimball documents the remarkable effect they had on the sport & argues that we will never see their likes again.



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The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal & from the unfurling of a leaf to the course of life itself
- everything is directed & constrained by four simple laws. They establish fundamental concepts such as temperature & heat & reveal the arrow of time & even the nature of energy itself. Peter Atkins powerful & compelling introduction explains what the laws are & how they work using accessible language & virtually no mathematics. Guiding the reader from the Zeroth Law to the Third Law he introduces the fascinating concept of entropy & how it not only explains why your desk tends to get messier but also how its unstoppable rise constitutes the engine of the universe.
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When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didnt say much. He told my father to be a painter & left it at that.. . So begins Niall Williams magical tale about love & destiny. Nicholas Coughlan & Isabel Gore were made for each other
- but fate doesnt always take the easiest or the most obvious route to true love. For a start Nicholas & Isabel have never met & nor are they likely to without some kind of divine intervention. But as God ghosts a series of coincidences & seemingly chance events & encounters conspire to bring the couple together other
- often more human
- forces attempt to keep them apart. What will be will be of course but that doesnt guarantee a happy-ever-after ending nor answer the question Will they wont they? Written in a lyrical lilting tone Four Letters of Love" is a glorious uplifting story about faith about seizing the moment believing in your instincts & acting on impulse
- & about following your heart no matter where it may lead."



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Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen this collection of Ibsens plays

Includes:: A Dolls House Ghosts

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Come listen listen to the story of the curse that foreshadowed every fathers disappearance. Be comforted by your four mothers" Shifra Horns lyrical novel spans five generations of women & one hundred years of life in Jerusalem. While Amal is despondent at her husbands desertion after the birth of her first child her mother grandmother & great-grandmother realise that the birth of a healthy boy means their familys curse has been broken. Motherhood initiates Amal into the secrets of her familys history & the rich tapestry of the lives of her four "mothers": Mazal whose ill-fated marriage brought about the curse; her daughter Sara who has healing powers; Saras daughter Pnina-Mazal who can read others thoughts; & her daughter Geula
- Amals mother
- whose sharp intellect & idealism are both a gift & a burden."

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Meet the Diamond Brothers the world's worst private-detective agency in four hilarious & action-packed stories from the creator of the Alex Rider" series. It's a dangerous life being the younger brother of the world's worst private detective
- but Nick Diamond has survived...so far. However these four mysteries are set to test his survival instincts to the full: a school reunion on a remote Scottish island a dream holiday to Paris an investigation into the whereabouts of a man in a blurry photo & the high profile visit of a world famous singer. What connects them? Murder! & if the Diamond Brothers don't play their cards right they too could end up dead... These are four diamond stories in one collection including " The French Confection" "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" " The Blurred Man" & " The Greek Who Stole Christmas". The Diamond Brothers' exposure is at an all-time high with br&-new covers for the entire series. The 2007 World Book Day edition of "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" shot to No. 1 in the Nielsen/ Bookscan Children's Chart."
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At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart an alternative reality can slip through like a blade between the ribs & switch you into a new & terrifying world.FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense the fragments spinning away from the desperate clutching reach of sanity.. . ...

Despite her broken heart when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensens new band the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blondes with the souls of poets they could be made for each other. But before they have chance to declare themselves Dillys friend Nell confides that she has a huge crush on Magnus & Dilly nobly steps down in order to play reluctant matchmaker. Nell returns the favour by setting her friend up with her dashing twin brother Flipper. But Flipper the bounder is not a good rebound for a true romantic. He hides a secret that could break Dillys heart all over again.. . ...