First-time mum Roxy feels perennially ticked off. She & her partner Jack have left London for a new life in the village of Riverside with their ten-month-old daughter Joey. But their new house resembles a building site & Roxy is struggling to cope with parenthood. With no family or friends to turn to for help Roxy sets up a club in order to meet like-minded parents & so begins The Pissed-Off Parents Club. Hilarious & refreshingly original this is a story telling it like it is -- for mums & dads of all descriptions. ...

The work pistache (pis-tash) means a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [ Derivation uncertain possibly a cross between pastiche & p**stake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser the work of the great & the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four's The Write Stuff" but have been retooled for the printed page. Others such as Martin Amis' " First day at Hogwarts" have been written specially for this collection. Philip Larkin's " Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mother's 115th Birthday" first banned then cut by the BBC appears in its entirety for the first time. This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without." ...

Benjamin Disraeli & William Gladstone Edward Heath & Margaret Thatcher Gordon Brown & Tony Blair
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Affairs of honour between bucks & blades rakes & rascals; & affairs of the heart between heirs & orphans beauties & bachelors; romance intrigue escapades & duels at dawn: all the gallantry villainy & elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely revived in these eleven stories of the Regency. Georgette Heyer's historical accuracy & eye for a wonderful story of romance is unequalled & in Pistols For Two we can see the skills which won her a devoted audience that continues to this day. ...

Shaft sinking for the extraction of minerals has taken place for centuries & for much of this time coal mining was carried out in the North East of Engl&. Various methods of pit sinking developed from the use of shallow bell pits to the excavation of deep shafts in order to access rich seams of coal & other minerals for sale in rapidly urbanising areas such as London. In the close mining communities of Northumberland & Durham those who dug the initial shafts the sinkers themselves were regarded as the mining elite. This book not only tells the story of mining itself through upheaval & technological developments but also focuses on the lives of miners & their families above ground in the emerging pit towns adn villages; places where religion adn miners galas were an integral part of life. Peter Ford Mason descended from three generations of County Durham miners has written a fascinating investigation onto miming society which makes a compelling read for anyone interested in the social history of the North East or the mining industry as a whole. ...

The most effective CV youll ever write. The best interview youll ever give. This revolution in the way we sell ourselves in CV & at interview is based on the Elevator Pitch concept & has now been endorsed & recommended by over 40 of the worlds leading business schools & universities from Kellogg to Columbia in the US from Insead to London Business School in Europe & from Otago to Sydney in Asia-Pacific. The Elevator Pitch prioritises who you are & how you work the qualities that you are employed for rather than what you did & where you worked your past which is the emphasis of a traditional CV. The Elevator Pitch shifts the focus from your perspective to the employers perspective & from the past to the future. Its a way of presenting yourself that makes more sense to the employer & means that you can sell yourself more effectively. Its a way of writing a CV & preparing for interview that will vastly increase your chances of getting the job. Employers now are focused very much on competencies as a way of deciding who to employ. This is the book that shows you have to bring your competencies to the forefront. In a time when there are far more graduates than top class graduate jobs standing out from the crowd is vital. This is the book to show you how. The second edition incorporates feedback from the authors global seminar & lecture program meetings with careers advisors at these institutions as well as helping hundreds of people create their job winning CVs. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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With great recipes for meats sauces & rubs mixed with ideas for pickles slaws puddings & cocktails plus features on meats equipment & methods the Pitt Cue Co. Cookbook is your guide to enjoying the best hot smoky sticky spicy grub all year round. From Pitt Cue's legendary Pickle backs & bourbon cocktails to their acclaimed Pulled pork shoulder; Burnt ends mash; Smoked ox cheek toasts with pickled walnuts; Lamb rib with molasses mop & onion salad; Chipotle & confit garlic slaw; Crispy pickled shiitake mushrooms; Toffee apple grunt; Sticky bourbon & cola pudding & so much more it's all irresistibly delicious food to savour & share. ...

Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War: 1914-1918" is a provocative & boldly-conceived history that explodes many of the myths surrounding the First World War. The First World War killed around eight million men & bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm & were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war as is often asserted greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditions were so wretched? Was there in fact a death wish abroad driving soldiers to their own destruction? The war he argues was a disaster
- but not for the reasons we think. Far worse than a tragedy it was the greatest error of modern history. " Must take a permanent place at the top of the War's historiography. It is one of the very few books whose own scale matches that of the events it describes". (Alan Clark " Daily Telegraph"). " Possibly the most important book to appear in years both on the origins of the First World War... Ferguson can confidently claim to have inherited A. J. P. Taylor's mantle". (Paul Kennedy " New York Review of Books"). " At one massive stroke Niall Ferguson has transformed the intellectual landscape". (Economist Niall). Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College Oxford & a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of " Civilization" " The House of Rothschild" " The Pity of War" " The Cash Nexus" " Empire" " Colossus" " The War of the World" & " The Ascent of Money"."
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