The brilliantly funny Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Alan Carr tells his life story in his own words from growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton to his rise as one of Britain's best-loved comedians. ' Puberty had been unkind. Whereas it had come in the night & left the other boys with chiselled stubbly chins & deep masculine voices I'd been left with a huge pair of knockers & the voice of a pensioner.' Alan Carr Alan Carr grew up in one of the most boring towns in England
- Northampton. A place known for making shoes. It was also known for its football club Northampton Town FC. Alan's dad as manager of the club was a local hero. A dream come true for most lads but not Alan. Alan wore glasses & had man boobs at 14. He did not like P.E. In his very first book Alan tells his life story ('oh & what a life') with his unique twist of natural observational humour
- 'I'm not saying I'm a fantasist but there have been times when things that I've seen on television when I was younger have tended to seep into my subconscious & blended into my own life. I remember telling my Mum about the time I stopped that woman from having a diamond encrusted necklace stolen & she'd say ' No Alan that was Poirot.' With his tongue-in-cheek end of pier humour that made him famous Alan describes an ordinary life in bursts of technicolour. His journey from awkward schoolboy hiding his man-boobs on the pitch drinking tea with the dinner ladies & working in a call centre to becoming one of our best-loved comedians likened to the great Frankie Howerd make his book a guaranteed tickler with a laugh-out-loud gag on every page.

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This is an authoritative family guide to caring for rabbits guinea pigs hamsters gerbils jirds rats mice & chinchillas with more than 250 photographs. It features all the practical advice you need to ensure a happy home for your small pet: choosing & buying housing feeding & nutrition general care handling exercise breeding grooming & showing. It provides instructions for all the most familiar types of small pet
- including smooth-coated & long-haired varieties
- as well as more unusual pets such as chipmunks spiny mice & sugar gliders. It is an authoritative guide to health care & first aid: common problems to watch out for in your pet & what to do when things go wrong. It is an informative text from one of the subject's leading petcare experts & fully illustrated with over 250 photographs for identification & to show how to do each practical task. Rabbits guinea pigs hamsters gerbils jirds rats mice & chinchillas make excellent animal companions particularly for children. For anyone unable to decide which pet to buy the range & depth of information covered here will ensure an informed choice. There are descriptions of the temperament & physical characteristics of each species & practical advice on indoor & outdoor housing handling & exercising your pet nutrition grooming showing & pet health. Beautifully illustrated with over 250 photographs this expertly written manual will provide all the knowledge you need to care for your pet with complete confidence.

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Do you know who you really are? Or just how powerful you can be? You may not believe it yet but there's a lot more to you than meets the eye. In this book world-famous psychic James Van Praagh will show you how to connect with your special 'supernatural' talents & step into the full power of your personality. You will discover: -Your own psychic abilities & ways to develop your sixth sense -The real deal about soul mates (and why you have more than one!) -The truth about spirit guides
- what they are & how they can help you -How to use dreams to increase your creativity -Why you have the parents you do -The lessons you were born to learn here on Earth & much more. In Looking Beyond you'll set out on the journey towards the real you
- the person you were born to be. Once you have learned how to use your psychic powers well there will be no stopping you! ' (Van Praagh) has changed people's lives' Newsweek.

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This striking new publication a sequel to Phaidons 2000 publication South Southeast" is a selection of Steve Mc Currys most astounding & powerful portraits from South & Southeast Asia. Mc Curry takes photographs all over the world for " National Geographic" magazine & his own projects but it is the people places colours & forms of Afghanistan India Sri Lanka Cambodia & Myanmar (Burma) that have inspired his most sublime images
- photographs which transcend their original editorial purpose to become classics of photography. Like " South Southeast" this book features a remarkable range of photographs with brief captions & a short essay introduces the book."
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How do you know it is the real thing. How do you know if it is really love?" India Jane emails Erin. India Jane is feeling frustrated. She knows that there is a connection between herself & Joe & yet their relationship isnt working out the way she thinks it should. Perhaps what she feels for him isnt "love" after all
- whatever that is. Gathering her new friends around her & emailing Erin
- who has boy problems of her own- she sets out to find the meaning of love for the first time in her life. Her exploration seems to get her nowhere but just when she is in total despair two fit boys surface
- does this mean that Joe is now out of the picture?"


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The unmissable first novel from bestselling & award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. If people were rain I was drizzle & she was a hurricane." Miles Halter's whole life has been one big non-event until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous clever & undoubtedly screwed-up Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world & irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles nothing can ever be the same again. ' Looking for Alaska' brilliantly captures the exquisite painful joy of living & loving. Poignant funny heartbreaking & compelling this novel will stay with you forever." ...

When her father becomes ill single city girl Laney Barwell moves to the Cotswolds to look after him. Shes been looking for fireworks in her love life ever since she broke up with her predictable ex-boyfriend Giles but she has no thoughts of kindling the spark shes looking for here. If she cant find love in a big city like London -- with all its internet dating singles nights & socials -- how can she ever hope to meet the man of her dreams in the tiny village of St Pontian? But there are two prospects when she gets there: Martin who can always be depended on for a kind word of advice. & Toby who is distant but who sets her heart ablaze. When it comes to love should Laney trust the logic of her head or the racing of her heart? ...

A gripping & emotionally searing novel from a talented author Looking for JJ explores the circumstances & motives behind the murder of a child
- by her friend. Six years later JJ has now been released & has a new identity. But is there any way that she can lead a normal" life?"
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David Wilson is one of the UKs best-known & most innovative criminologists. This thought-provoking book stems from the authors parallel experiences in the public eye
- as a reporter for Sky News & contributor to BBC ITV & both national & local newspapers & magazines especially in relation to high profile cases & fast-moving events in the field of crime & punishment. Looking for Laura provides a window through which to appreciate the media pressures that this can create even for a professor in this field & former prison governor with considerable experience of working with offenders who hit the headlines. The book also looks at the way in which crime is packaged & presented for consumption by a news-hungry public. By considering a range of media situations in which the author has been involved it provides an absorbing context within which to understand the still relatively new field of public criminology. It has a Foreword by the award-winning investigative journalist Donal Mac Intyre
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Abbie Martin has grown up in squalor in one of Liverpools most deprived areas. The youngest of three she longs to be loved by her mother but Ellen spends all her time with her eldest son while Abbie & her brother Sam take refuge with their neighbours Sandra Lewis & Peter Ryan. Although vibrant & attractive Abbie pushes people away with her constant need for reassurance. Infatuated with Peter she longs for the day when he tells her that he loves her. & Sam is courting Sandra. But Peter & Sandra have a secret
- one that could destroy the friends relationship should it become known. Will Abbie finally find the security & affection she has been searching for all her life or will she always be looking for love...?
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