Michael Phelps is one of the greatest competitors the world has ever seen. From teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenomenon in Athens he is now
- after the Beijing Games
- a living Olympic legend. With an unprecedented eight gold medals & seven world-record times his performance at the 2008 Games set a new standard for success. He ranks among the most elite athletes in the world & is both an inspiration & a role model to millions. In No Limits Phelps reveals the secrets to his remarkable success from his training regimen to his mental preparation & finally to his performance in the pool. Having been raised by a single mother & diagnosed with ADHD Phelps's success is imbued with defeating obstacles & earning one's way & No Limits explores the hard work commitment & sacrifice that go into reaching any goal. Filled with anecdotes from family members friends team mates & his coach No Limits gives a behind-the-scenes look at the makings of a real champion & reveals a step-by-step guide to realizing one's dream.

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No Logo was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For its 10th anniversay Naomi Klein has updated this iconic book. By the time youre twenty-one youll have seen or heard a million advertisements. But you wont be happier for it. This is a book about that much-maligned much-misunderstood generation coming up behind the slackers who are being intelligent & active about the world in which they find themselves. It is a world in which all that is alternative is sold where any innovation or subversion is immediately adopted by un-radical faceless corporations. But gradually tentatively a new generation is beginning to fight consumerism with its own best weapons; & it is the first skirmishes in this war that this abrasively intelligent book documents brilliantly. ...

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders & corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl
- to the disapproval of his parents
- he sinks further into emotional & financial turmoil. The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse & Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape. Showing a man lost in cultural limbo & a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment No Longer at Ease" concludes Achebes remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism the first two volumes of which are " Things Fall Apart" & " Arrow of God"."

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The limits of his control Rowan OBrien will always be the thorn in Nic Marcussens side. She was the only woman to tempt him beyond his steely control...the only woman strictly forbidden to him. Years later Nics sole focus is business
- the boy who grew up under a cloud of shame now has the world at his feet. Until tragedy brings Rowan back into his life & his facade begins to crack. In the seclusion of the Marcussen mansion in the Mediterranean their deeply buried secrets surface & they are forced to confront their darkest desires! What a debut full of emotion & drama. Cant wait for Danis next book!
- Caroline 32 Exeter

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A teenager throws a party while her parents are away with horrific consequences. The invitation to Rachels party is put out on Facebook & more than a hundred kids descend on the house in the affluent suburb. The party turns into a riot & the property is trashed. & before the night is over Rachel & her boyfriend are dead. With two bodies one the daughter of a high-profile judge a massive crime scene & over a hundred suspects DI Faraday is confronted with a nightmare investigation. But someone else wants to find the killer... The judges neighbour who has promised to keep a eye on things while he was away feels he owes the man a debt. & he has his own reputation to think about. He wants the name of the killer. The neighbour? Bazza Mackenzie a man who made his fortune supplying the city with class-A drugs. The man in his organisation charged with getting the job done? Ex D/C Paul Winter. ...

Olympic rowing hopeful & senior Metropolitan Police officer DCI Rebecca Meredith goes out alone to train on the river in Henley on a dark afternoon in late October -- & doesnt return. When a desperate search by the police & a K9 team reveals the possibility of foul play Scotland Yard wants one of their own on the case. Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid returning from celebrating his marriage to long-time partner Detective Inspector Gemma James is called to Henley to investigate. He soon finds that the world of elite rowing can be brutal & that Rebecca Merediths ex-husband was not the only person with good reason for wanting her dead. Then when a search-&-rescue team member is threatened Kincaid realizes the case may be even more complex & more dangerous than he believed. But it is only when he enlists Gemmas aid that they find that the answers lie closer to home than they could have imagined -- & are infinitely more deadly. It seems that more than one innocent life depends on their ability to track down the killer. ...

A little fox is in a big bad mood & is worried that its mother won't love it forever. In this beautiful & lyrical picture book we see a clever & resourceful mother prove to her child that a parents love is limitless
- no matter what! In this reassuring & warm picture book the hugely talented Debi Gliori manages to treat the familiar subject of childhood worries in a very fresh original & inventive way. ' This is an instant childhood classic for anyone over the age of three.'
- Independent On Sunday". " The literary equivalent of a big hug."
- " The Times". " With gentle rhyming text humorous pictorial detail & themes which can be explored & re-explored this is a brilliant gem of a book."
- " The Guardian"."



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'I love you no matter what.' This book tells the uplifting true story of an ordinary couple who build an extraordinary family
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No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935 it is the story of Johnnie Stark son of a violent father & a downtrodden mother the ' Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld the Gorbals. The savage near-truth descriptions the raw character portrayals bring to life a story that is fascinating authentic & convincing. ...

In his last book The Real Gorbals Story" Colin Mac Farlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area home to wonderful characters & grand old buildings disappear before his eyes. By the time Mac Farlanes tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s he had left school & been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days he took a job as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgows top restaurants where he soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile Mac Farlane struggled to integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved to & soon found himself returning to his old haunts & back in trouble again. In " No Mean Glasgow" Mac Farlane charts his eventful fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of humour sadness & delight. It is a book for those people living all over the world who remember the old Glasgow
- a city teeming with warmth passion patter & characters who could brighten up even the darkest of days."
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