Olivia is sad & lonely & angry
- angry that shes been dumped with her sister eel at her grandmothers school & angrier still that
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From the bestselling author of A Rural Affair" & "A Crowded Marriage" comes Catherine Alliotts brilliantly warm & funny take on taking control of your life in " Olivias Luck". I dont care what colour you paint the sodding hall. Im leaving. When her husband Johnny suddenly walks out on ten years of marriage their ten-year-old daughter & the crumbling house theyre up to their eyeballs renovating Olivia is at first totally devastated. How could he? How could she not have noticed his unhappiness? But shes not one to weep for long. Not when shes got three builders camped in her back garden a neighbour with a never-ending supply of cast-off men she thinks Olivia would be drawn to & a daughter with her own firm views on.. .well just about everything. Will Johnny ever come back? & if he doesnt will Olivias luck ever change for the better? Step into Alliott country with " Olivias Luck". Praise for Catherine Alliott: " The writing is both intelligent & sparkling". (Marian Keyes). " Alliotts joie de vivre is irresistible". (" Daily Mail"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire." ...

Its winter at the Swan Academy & that means panto! While Olivia practises being the back end of a horse everyone else is auditioning for a major new movie. Soon the school is full of rivalry & suspicion nasty tricks & strange mysteries. To lighten the mood Eel organises a festive ice-skating trip. But as the skaters twirl & leap among the twinkling lights Olivia realises that the season of goodwill is anything but - ...

Six-year-old Ollie is given his first pair of real skis. As soon as the snow begins to fall he heads off into the woods & meets sparkling Jack Frost who shoos away damp Mrs Thaw. Jack Frost takes him on an adventure to the palace of King Winter. Ollie has a wonderful time in a huge snowball fight! But will Mrs Thaw return too soon for Ollie to enjoy the snow? ...

This is a delightful introduction to numbers & counting
- from Shirley Hughes one of the best-known & most-loved picture book creators.
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Leni Riefenstahls Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935) her propaganda film for the Nazi Party Riefenstahl secured Hitlers approval for her grandiose plans to film the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The result was a work as notorious for its politics as celebrated for its aesthetic power. This revised edition

Includes:: new material on Riefenstahls film-making career before Olympia & her close relationship with Hitler. Taylor Downing also discusses newly-available evidence on the background to the films production that conclusively proves that the film was directly commissioned by Hitler & funded through Goebbelss Ministry of Propaganda & not as Riefenstahl later claimed commissioned independently from the Nazi state by the Olympic authorities. In writing this edition Taylor Downing has been given access to a magnificent new restoration of the original version of the film by the International Olympic Committee.

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Kirsty & Rachel are on an exciting day out to watch a triathlon
- a three-part race where the athletes have to swim cycle & run.
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The Leyland Olympian was probably the last mass-market double-deck bus produced in the UK with several thousand constructed both for the domestic & export market. Apart from the UK significant sales for the type occurred in for example Hong Kong where a three-axle version was hugely successful. The Olympian's origins date back to the 1970s with Leyland looking to build upon the earlier B15 (the integrated Titan bought in large numbers by London Transport) & the B45 project (effectively the replacement for the Bristol VR). The first of the Olympians was constructed in 1980 with 350 supplied to London Transport with customers ranging from many of the PTEs through to municipal operators & constituents of the National Bus Company. Under Leyland the bulk of the production was handled at the company's Workington factory but in 1988 Leyland Bus was acquired by Volvo & production was subsequently shifted to Volvo's factory at Irvine in Scotl&. Production of the type ceased in 2000 although many including some in London remain in service. ...

The Olympic Games is the biggest sporting event on the planet & has developed beyond all proportion since Baron Pierre du Coubertin first raised the idea of reviving the Ancient Olympic ideal in 1889. The first modern Olympic Games appropriately held in Athens in 1896 featured only 241 athletes from 14 countries; by the time the event hits London in 2012 4 200 athletes from up to 208 countries will compete in front of a global television audience of 6.7 billion. In the intervening 116 years some of the greatest stories in world sport have been written & names have been etched into sporting folklore. The Olympic Games & World Records Book" is a collection of the finest achievements on sports greatest platform & a celebration of the legends created by some of the most distinguished names in sporting history. It is essential reading for any fan of the Olympic Games
- the greatest & most revered spectacle in world sport."
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Restlessly vital & possessed of great physical strength Jose Beyaert lived many lives. During the Second World War he boxed & trafficked arms for the Resistance on his bicycle. After it he became an international cyclist. In 1948 a mile from the end of the Olympic road race around Windsor Park he broke away alone to take the gold medal & started an adventure that would last the rest of his life. A Tour de France rider in the sports golden age Jose was invited to open a new velodrome in Colombia South America. He travelled intending to stay a month. Instead driven by his thirst for adventure he stayed for fifty years becoming by turns athlete coach businessman emerald-trader logger smuggler perhaps even hired killer. Matt Rendell who knew Jose Beyaert & met many of his family friends & associates tells the fascinating story of an almost-forgotten sporting hero who incapable of living by other peoples rules lived his many lives on his own terms. ...