One of the most inspiring talents to emerge from British pop culture Jessie J's message is loud & clear: be strong be determined & never shy away from Who You Are. An international sensation & a multi-award-winning superstar she took the music industry by storm selling 11 million singles & 2.5 million albums worldwide. In this fully illustrated & highly personal book Jessie J tells her own story in her own words with all the strength honesty & passion you would expect. This is Jessie J's real story opening the doors on the individuality & unique voice that have made her an inspiration to young women around the world. She talks openly about her health issues & a heart condition her thoughts on body images & how she discovered her own identity whilst breaking into one of the world's most competitive industries. The bold & intimate tale of this young woman will shock & enthral as she delivers her personal message with an unshakable confidence & modesty that will cement her place in pop culture as a much-loved star. ...

When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringles engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose sparks fly as their lifestyles & ideologies collide head on. What after all are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each others worlds
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Niche Tourism" examines one of the fastest growing areas within the tourism sector. This book provides an integrated picture of speciality/niche tourism as a whole looking at both the 'macro' & 'micro' niche area. It has a comprehensive theoretical framework & discusses initiatives policies & strategies adopted internationally. With an emphasis on linking theory to practice it is underpinned by up-to-date international case studies from around the world. Divided into 3 parts it covers a variety of aspects under the headings of special interest tourism tradition & culture base tourism & activity-based tourism. This is the only book to provide an integrated picture of speciality/niche tourism as a whole. It examines one of the fastest growing areas of the tourism sector. It looks at a vast array of aspects of tourism from dark tourism looking at 'ground zero' in the US gastronomic tourism in the Yarra Valley Australia to tribal tourism in Africa." ...

In this commanding book Robert K Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs. Nicholass political naivete Alexandras obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin & little Alexiss brave struggle with haemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury & intrigue Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion & history
- the story of a doomed empire & the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
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Glasgow 1492. Gil Cunningham remarked later that if he had known he would find a corpse in the university coalhouse he would never have gone to the Arts Faculty feast. In this mysterious adventure Gil Cunningham returns to his old university for the Nicholas Feast where he & his colleagues are entertained by a play presented by some of the students. One of the actors William Irvine is later found murdered & Gil assisted by Alys begins to disentangle a complex web of espionage & blackmail involving Williams tutors & fellow students. Matters are further complicated by the arrival of Gils formidable mother who is determined to inspect his betrothed. Little do Alys & Gil realise that it will be she who provides the final vital key to unmask the murderer & lay his motives clear. ...

One of the touchstones of the English comic novel the Penguin Classics" edition of Charles Dickens " Nicholas Nickleby" is edited with an introduction by Mark Ford. When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his fathers death he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work & to protect his mother & sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted & unscrupulous & Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues & eccentrics: Wackford Squeers the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys Hall a school for unwanted boys the slow-witted orphan Smike rescued by Nicholas the pretentious Mantalinis & the gloriously theatrical Mr & Mrs Crummels & their daughter the infant phenomenon. Like many of Dickens novels " Nicholas Nickleby" is characterised by his outrage at cruelty & social injustice but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work whose loose haphazard progress harks back to the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett & Henry Fielding. In his introduction Mark Ford compares " Nicholas Nickleby" to eighteenth-century picaresque novels & examines Dickens criticism of the Yorkshire schools his social satire & use of language. This edition

Includes:: the original illustrations by Phiz Dickens original preface to the work a chronology & a list of further reading. Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books including " Oliver Twist" " Great Expectations" "A Tale of Two Cities" " David Copperfield" & " The Pickwick Papers" have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions. If you enjoyed " Nicholas Nickleby" you might like Dickens " David Copperfield" also available in " Penguin Classics". " The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama with a supporting cast of heroes villains & eccentrics set in a London where vast wealth & desperate poverty live cheek-by-jowl." (Jasper Rees " The Times")."

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Left penniless after his feckless fathers death young Nicholas Nickleby has no choice but to make his own way in the world. For the sake of his mother & sister he is forced by his hard-hearted uncle to take a post as an assistant master at Dotheboys Hall a school for unwanted boys run by the cruel & tyrannical headmaster Wackford Squeers. But this is only the beginning of Nicholass adventures in this most entertaining of Charles Dickenss novels. We follow the progress of Nicholas & his slow-witted companion Smike on their travels & encounter a supporting cast of delectable characters including the rambunctious Crummles theatre company & their talented performing pony the dastardly Sir Mulberry Hawk the delightful Mrs. Nickleby the preposterous Kenwings & many more. Like many of Dickenss novels Nicholas Nickleby is characterized by his criticism of cruelty & social injustice but is above all one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-century literature. ...

One of Dickens earlier novels dating from 1839 it charts the fortunes of an honourable young man Nicholas Nickleby who has set out to make his way in the world. Dickens presents his remarkably vivid display of Victorian characters & the life they lead from the generous to the fated to crushed. Hope springs eternal however & righteous persistence brings rewards. Anton Lesser the outstanding Dickens interpreter brings all his narrative expression to bear on this exciting tale. ...

When Nicholas father dies he his mother & sister Kate are left penniless. To earn his keep Nicholas becomes a tutor at Dotheboys Hall but soon discovers that the headmaster Wackford Squeers is a one eyed tyrant who insists on a harsh regime. Nicholas embarks on an adventure that takes him from loathsome boarding schools to the London stage. Dickens confronts issues of neglect & cruelty in this blackly comic masterpeice. ...

Nicholas Parsons has enjoyed a long & varied career encompassing theatre television film & radio. He is perhaps best known as the straight man to Arthur Haynes in the 60s as the presenter of Sale of the Century in the 70s & today as the chairman of the long-running Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute". Along the way he has performed impersonations in the lavatories of a Clydebank engineering yard during the war been the voice of a Gerry Anderson Texan sheriff roller-skated in Charlie Girl at the Victoria Palace & appeared in a series of Doctor Who. His comedy chat show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is now in its tenth consecutive year. Here he recalls an extraordinary career that has led him to star on the West End stage work with some of Britains finest comedians including Kenneth Williams Tony Hancock Benny Hill & Paul Merton & appear in stockings & suspenders in " The Rocky Horror Show". Funny thoughtful & at times moving " Nicholas Parsons: With Just a Touch of Hesitation Repetition & Deviation" celebrates a fascinating life in comedy." ...