A wonderful counting book from Judith Kerr the best-selling author of the Mog series & The Tiger Who Came to Tea One moonlit magical night in the zoo An elephant jumped in the air & flew. But nobody knew." Its only once all the visitors have gone home that the real fun starts in the Zoo! Learn to count in a fun & wonderfully imaginative way as you follow all the animals through the night in this gorgeous picture book & find out what mischief they get into." ...

A wonderful new counting book from Judith Kerr the best-selling author of the Mog series & The Tiger Who Came to Tea. One moonlit magical night in the zoo An elephant jumped in the air & flew. But nobody knew." It's only once all the visitors have gone home that the real fun starts in the Zoo! Follow all the animals throughout the night in this gorgeous picture book & find out what mischief they get into." ...

Lord Alec Knight the most daring & handsome rogue in all of London is a smooth-talking aristocrat who has left a trail of broken-hearted ladies in his wake. With his irresistible wit lucky hand at the gaming tables & enticing charisma he can have any woman he wants. But when the only girl he would have considered marrying ties the knot with someone else Alec realises he doesn't want to be with just any lady
- he wants to find the love of his life. The beautiful & boldly spirited Miss Becky Ward takes his life by storm after he rescues her from peril. Alec soon learns that Becky is on the run having uncovered a menacing secret about her cousin the murderous Prince Mikhail Kurkov. In the midst of danger Alec & Becky find themselves deeply drawn to each other. After the two spend an all-consuming night of sin Becky's knight in shining armor vows on his honor to protect her until the end. But can this once notorious rake truly be tamed?
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It is a time of unrest in the Book World. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the Real World or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego & quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very Book World itself. ...

John Pearsons The Profession of Violence" created the myth of the Kray twins & remains a classic of " True Crime" the best book ever written on East London villians & a book that started a mini publishing industry. Pearson knows the London crime scene as well as anyone which is why he was surprised while attending Ronnie Krays funeral to see a man to whom all the other villians deferred but whom he didnt recognise. Investigation revealed that this man the Englishman never mentioned in any of the previous books on villiany because everyone was scared to mention his name was as legendary a figure on the streets of New York as on the streets of London. When the Englishman learned that someone was asking about him he introduced himself to Pearson who persuaded him to write his story
- a story even more extraordinary than that of the Krays. Because the Englishman is the only man of non-Italian blood to be admitted to the heart of the Mafia. He became the adopted son of Joey Pagano the head of one of the major New York families & his adventure included gun battles fighting shoulder to shoulder with John Gotti capo du tutti capi. Here the Englishman tells the story that no-one else dared to tell."
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101 chance meetings juxtaposing the famous & the infamous the artistic & the philistine the pompous & the comical the snobbish & the vulgar told by Britains funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They speak or dont speak. They get on or fall out. They laugh they cry are excited are indifferent. One on One is a chain of 101 extraordinary but true encounters from Tolstoy rumbling Tchaikovsky in 1876 to George Galloway baiting Michael Barrymore in 2006. The Royal Family giggle at T.S. Eliot Walter Sickert draws the curtains on the carol-singing Edward Heath Youssoupoff assassinates Rasputin Marilyn Monroe commissions Frank Lloyd Wright. Circular in its construction panoramic in its breadth One on One is a book like no other. Browns glorious book is an original & a complete delight Miranda Seymour Sunday Times Books of the Year ...

The Love Diaries" is a wise sometimes hilarious always witty new novel from Dyan Sheldon in which our heroine learns that 'love' is not always what it seems... Hildy D' Angelo is seventeen & this is the summer she falls in love for the first time. She isn't what you'd call experienced when it comes to boys but Connor is good looking smart charming & sweet (with a melt-that-ice-cap smile). Hildy is a sarcastic & funny down-to-earth girl with lots of friends & yet she proves to be a little bit of a fool for love. When Connor uses the L word Hildy already half in love with the idea of falling in love releases her hold on the Earth. & because it's all very new to her she thinks that Connor's irrational bursts of jealousy are signs of affection. Teething pains. No big deal. She ties herself in knots trying to appease him & not let on to her suspicious friends (or herself) that there is anything wrong. Until finally poor tortured Connor goes a step too far
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Business planning has finally been simplified to One Page! Bankers require them. Business educators advocate them. Consultants make their living writing them. & venture capitalists wont give you the time of day without one...but most entrepreneurs or small business owners cant or wont write a business plan; its just too difficult. The One Page Business Plan is designed to act as a catalyst for ideas. Its a powerful tool for building & managing a business. Entrepreneurs like to think & move fast & the concept of a traditional business plan may be out of the question. This is an innovative fresh approach to business planning which is short concise & delivers your plan quickly & effectively. Content on CD: Sample business plans Powerful Sales Calculators One Page Budget Worksheet Sales Budgeting System One Page Performance Scorecards Bonus Tools Some reviews: Tim Clauss Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work: The One Page Business Plan is an easy-to-use process that helps you capture your vision & translate it into concrete results. Jim has truly streamlined a tiresome complicated chore. With a return to simple values simple truths planning can be fun & creative. A little chicken soup for busy minds & tired souls!" Paul & Sarah Edwards The Self Employment Experts Authors of Working from Home Getting Business to Come to You & Secrets of Self Employment: " Writing a business plan is something every business guru advises but few actually do. Jim Horans book helps the reluctant change good intentions into a plan."" ...

Life was a wordless battle of wits between us with her keeping a sharp look-out for signs of neglect & me trying to disguise my slovenliness by subterfuge. I became an adept at sweeping dust under the bed & always used the same few pieces of silver. Unimpressed by the world of debutante balls Monica Dickens shocked her family by getting a job. With no experience whatsoever she gained employment as a cook-general. Monicas cooking & cleaning skills left much to be desired & her first few positions were short lived but soon she started to hold her own. Monica discovered the pleasure of daily banter with the milkman & grocers boy & the joy of doing an honest days work all the while keeping a wry eye on the childish pique of her employers. One Pair of Hands" is a fascinating & thoroughly entertaining insight into worlds both upstairs & down in the early 1930s." ...

Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control & led to the State of Israel which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century. When they arrived the country lay in a Levantine nirvana; by the time they left it had become the arena for one of the centurys major international conflicts. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Lawrence of Arabia Winston Churchill the archaeologist Flinders Petrie King Feisal Chaim Weizmann & David Ben Gurion. One momentous consequence of these 30 years was that the Jewish population increased by a factor of ten. ...