' Well now prove it Sheila. As John would say Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone or get on with life. Your choice.' In The Two of Us Sheila relived her life with John Thaw
- years packed with love & family delight & despair. & then she looked ahead. What next? Gardening grannying & grumbling while they all had their pleasures weren't going to fill the aching void that John had left. ' Live adventurously' a Quaker advice was hovering around her brain. Putting her & John's much loved house in France on the market she embarked on a series of journeys. She tried holidaying alone contending with invisibility & budget flights. She tried travelling in a group but the questions she wanted to ask were never the ones the guide wanted to answer. She tried relaxing
- harder than you might think. Finally heading out of her comfort zone she found her travels & the things she discovered led her back to her past; to consider her generation
- the last to experience the Second World War
- & the kind of person it made her. Just Me is a book about moving on but it is also about looking back & looking anew. Sheila whether facing down burglars & Easyjet staff or making friends with waiters & taxi drivers whether unearthing secrets in Budapest getting arrested in Thailand exulting in the art of Venice or searching for a decent cup of coffee in Dorset is never less than stimulating company. Honest
- because if you can't say what you think at seventy-three when can you?
- insightful & wonderfully down to earth she is a woman seizing the future with wit gusto & curiosity on her own."





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Continuing the bright & breezy best-selling series about all the fun of summer camp: competitions & cookouts gossip & games boys & bunk warfare...and a whole lot of girly secrets! Jenna loves Colour War but this summer shes devastated when she breaks her leg & cant compete. On top of that new boy Blake is seriously stuck-up & getting on her nerves. When mystery pranks start happening everyone blames Jenna assuming shes bored of being stuck on the sidelines. Can she work out whos really pulling the pranks before they go a step too far? Girls will be lining up to get their hands on the next batch of Summer Camp Secrets" which are sure to attract a new legion of fans too!" ...

This is a non-fiction Christmas bestseller. Just My Type" is not just a font book but a book of stories. It is: about how Helvetica & Comic Sans took over the world; about why Barack Obama opted for Gotham while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco; about the great originators of type from Baskerville to Zapf or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook or Margaret Calvert who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi; about the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset & were loaded onto computers...and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the " Sunday Times" review put it the book is "a kind of Eats Shoots & Leaves for letters revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live"." ...

From the sublime to the ridiculous Just My Typo is a hilarious collection of typographical errors slips of the pen & embarrassing misprints which like any typo of any kind should never have happened cannot be excused & must not in any way be glorified. Enjoy. Youll travel back in time to meet great figures from history: Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a small ship) Queen Victoria (who pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge) & Rambo (the famous French poet). Youll find moral instruction (Blessed are the meek for they shall irrigate the earth) & pearls of wisdom (love is just a passing fanny). Youll be outraged by politicians who exploit disasters to boost their pubic profiles; entranced by lambs that gamble in the fields; concerned for a man who was admitted to hospital suffering from severe buns; & appalled to meet 11-year-old twins Helen & Ugh. ...

From the sublime to the ridiculous Just My Typo is a hilarious collection of typographical errors slips of the pen & embarrassing misprints which like any typo of any kind should never have happened cannot be excused & must not in any way be glorified. Enjoy. You'll travel back in time to meet great figures from history: Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a small ship) Queen Victoria (who pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge) & Rambo (the famous French poet). You'll find moral instruction (' Blessed are the meek for they shall irrigate the earth') & pearls of wisdom ('love is just a passing fanny'). You'll be outraged by politicians who exploit disasters to boost their pubic profiles; entranced by lambs that gamble in the fields; concerned for a man who was admitted to hospital suffering from severe buns; & appalled to meet 11-year-old twins Helen & Ugh. ...

Grace Lawson is living a happy straightforward life in the suburbs with her husband Jack & two young children. But that security is about to come to a brutal end. For when Grace picks up a set of holiday snaps amongst them is one shot that doesnt

Fit: a faded image of a life that Grace doesnt recognise & of her husband as she never knew him. Within twelve hours Jack has disappeared a brutal hitman is stalking her family & the safe world she knows has been turned upside down. & all Grace can see is that the past is coming back to haunt the present & people are getting hurt...

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In 1960s Bristol a family is overshadowed by tragedy. While Susan a typically feisty seven-year-old is busy being brave her mother Eddress is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestructible love their journey through a world that is darkening with tragedy is fraught with the kind of misunderstandings that bring as much laughter as pain & as many dreams as nightmares. How does a child cope when faced with a wall of adult secrets? What does a mother do when her biggest fear starts to become a reality? Because it's the Sixties & because it's shameful to own up to feelings Eddress tries to deny the truth while Susan creates a world that will never allow her mother to leave. Set in a world where a fridge is a luxury cars have starting handles & where bingo & coupons bring in the little extras Just One More Day" is a deeply moving true-life account told by mother & daughter of how the spectre of death moved into their family & how hard they tried to pretend it wasn't there." ...

Peter Falk came to prominence as an actor in 1956 in the highly successful off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh" with Jason Robards. Although he worked continuously for the next three years bouncing from one off-Broadway theatre to the next a theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of his glass eye. Later a talent scout for Columbia Pictures described Falk as a second John Garfield but Harry Cohn the head of Columbia Pictures unfortunately disagreed: ' For the same price I can get an actor with two eyes'. But in 1958 Twentieth Century Fox came to New York to make a movie
- " Murder Inc"
- & Falk landed a juicy role for which he received rave reviews & incredibly was nominated for an Academy Award. He was then nominated again for his second film " Pocketful of Miracles" starring Bette Davis. Falk went on to become a favourite among filmgoers yet it was through television that he reached his widest audience as Lt. Columbo winning four Emmys for the role. Interestingly " Columbo's" raincoat came out of Falk's bedroom closet. He bought it years before he became an actor. He's been"ed as saying 'I wanted to wear something people would remember. Bottom line it's the world's most famous raincoat'. " Just One More Thing" is pure Peter Falk & reads as if he's sitting next to you chuckling as he recalls his remarkable past."

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Just One Night Finding Rob sleeping in the bed of a house for sale estate agent Hailey figures shes either in property hell...or her own heaven where wickedly hot men appear in beds. But when Rob decides to stay until they find a buyer Haileys libido goes crazy. Her only option is a no-holds-barred sex-fest. & her commission...is his submission! Long Road Home Cowboy Wyatt is returning to the Last Chance Ranch to make peace with a family he hardly knows when he comes across beauty therapist Olivia stranded on the side of the road. She proves to be a very delicious & sexy distraction... ...

Presents more than fifty simple practices readers can do each day to wire the brain for increased happiness positive thinking & wisdom. Written by Rick Hanson author of Buddhas Brain" this pocket-sized book helps readers reap the benefits of meditation through simple five to ten-minute practices they can access anytime anywhere. Building on the success of " Buddhas Brain" each practice is grounded in neuroscience & positive psychology. The book offers information on why the practice is important & how it works guidance for performing the practice & additional resources readers can use to delve deeper into that particular type of practice. Some of the practices encourage readers to focus on gratitude for what they have while others offer guidance for taking refuge & slowing down in stressful times. All of the practices are designed to gradually change the way readers process their emotions & create new neural pathways for greater happiness & fulfillment." ...