Shirley Valentine 42-year-old put-upon mother & housewife leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband packs her bags & heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads Gone to Greece back in two weeks." " It is a simple & brilliant idea...the profound & perennial point of the comedy is the problem we seem to have contemplating the idea of a woman alone
- in a pub on a beach in a restaurant. This is what Shirley learns to combat as she unravels her own sexual & social identity. The play is not only funny it is also moving." (Michael Coveney Financial Times) One for the Road "starts...with the mid-life hero torn between the security of married life in a dormer bungalow on a northern housing estate & dreams of being a rucksacked super-tramp. Mr Russell writes with knowledgeable venom about a world where Beethoven Underpass leads to Wagner Walkway & where anyone who doesn't join Weight Watchers or the Ramblers Club is regarded as a social deviant." (Francis King Sunday Telegraph)"
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Buying Shirley Whitehead's Madeira Walks qualifies you for a free Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map in Discovery Walking Guides Great Map Giveaway
- see Discovery Walking Guides website for details. Madeira is a wonderful destination for walkers offering a breathtaking diversity of landscape; lushly verdant slopes towering volcanic peaks dramatic gorges & soaring cliffs surprise & amaze the newcomer. Add to this the levada network primeval forests subtropical flora & the superb landscaped gardens
- little wonder that the island is fondly called The floating garden of the Atlantic". This second edition of Shirley Whitehead's Madeira Walks book offers a wealth of choice for every walker & explores the best areas the island has to offer guiding you on forty routes each re-researched for up-to-date accuracy. With this book in your pocket your visit to Madeira becomes an unforgettable adventure. Each walk description
Includes::- route summary giving overall view of the route & access information. ratings for Effort Time Distance Ascents/ Descents Refreshments & Vertigo risk where applicable in an easy to see pictorial ' Summary' box. fully detailed walk description including frequent timings to aid navigation & check your progress GPS waypoints at every key point on every route (subject to reception) full colour 1:40 000 scale mapping for each route taken from the latest edition of Madeira Tour & Trail Map. Madeira has such a wealth of walking routes that they cannot all be contained in a single pocket sized book so Shirley Whitehead has produced both Walk! Madeira & the latest edition of Shirley Whitehead's Madeira Walks so that the two books cover all of the island's walking adventures; without any duplication between her two books. Combined with the Madeira Tour & Trail Map for planning which routes you plan to hike & navigating around the island you have the 'complete' walking package for this remarkable isl&. With Shirley Whitehead's Madeira Walks Walk! Madeira & the Tour & Trail Map you will be able to choose which routes are most suitable for your walking adventures & your fitness level. There are routes suitable for strolling ranging up to adventurous routes that will thrill experienced mountain hikers. You can tackle all of these walking adventures with the comfort of knowing that all the walk descriptions have been researched in detail along with GPS surveying of every route. For GPS Users. Discovery Walking Guides (DWG) offer all purchasers of their ' Walk!' guide books the opportunity to download the GPS walking route information direct from their website free of charge. GPS files are provided in gpx file format so that the files may used with a wide range of gps software including Memory Map Mapyx Quo GPS Utility along with a range of smart phone/pad apps. Each ' Walk!' destination is provided as a Zip file containing the gpx files. Simply go to the website download the Zip file for your ' Walk!' destination to your hard drive unzip the Zip file to see the individual gpx files then start uploading those gpx files to your GPS or smart phone. The gpx file for a ' Walk!' walking route usually contains both the gps Waypoints for that route merged with the gps Track for that walking route though for some walking routes only the GPS Waypoints might be included in the gpx file. Digital versions of the Madeira Tour & Trail Map used for Shirlkey Whitehead's Madeira Walks & Walk! Madeira are available from Memory Map & Mapyx Quo as well as from Discovery Walking Guides."


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Shirts Shorts & Spurs is the revelatory account of the amazing history of Tottenham Hotspur as seen through the eyes of one of its most unlikely heroes: Roy Reyland the loyal kit manager who faithfully served the club for almost 30 years. From inside the dressing room & on the bench Roy has witnessed the agony & the ecstasy of three decades of seasons. Working under no less than 17 managers he has visited Wembley more times than many of the brightest stars of the Premiership. As Tottenhams official agony aunt he has got to know some of White Hart Lanes greatest players: from Ardiles & Gazza to Klinsmann & Ginola. ...

Grace is fascinated by the wolves in the woods behind her house; one yellow-eyed wolf in particular. Every winter she watches him but every summer he disappears. Sam leads two lives. In winter he stays in the frozen woods with the protection of the pack. In summer he has a few precious months to be human.. .until the cold makes him shift back again. When Grace & Sam finally meet they realize they can't bear to be apart. But as winter nears Sam must fight to stay human
- or risk losing himself & Grace for ever.
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When she swore off love he was the last man she imagined would steal her heart. If driving a tow truck through the seediest part of town with a gun beside her means putting a roof over her sons head then single mother Samantha is going to be the best repossession woman on the books. But when she hooks her truck up to a flashy BMW the last thing she expects is to find a beaten bloody man in the trunk
- or to be catapulted into a terrifying fight to survive. Daniel knows the drug runners who kidnapped him from protective custody will stop at nothing to see him dead. With his life on the line his only option is to take his pretty saviour hostage & force her to help him. Sam & her four-year-old son are in too deep. With ruthless killers on their trail she must reluctantly trust this handsome menacing stranger. & as Sam relinquishes control she feels an unmistakable desire. But what is the price of falling for a man who operates on the edge of danger
- her heart her life.. .or both?

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A gorgeous collector's set of this addictive & hypnotic trilogy exploring the all-consuming romance between two star-crossed lovers: a yellow-eyed wolf boy & a human girl. For years Grace has watched the wolves in the woods. Especially the yellow-eyed beast whose chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Every winter she watches him but every summer he disappears... Sam leads two lives. In winter he stays in the frozen woods with the protection of the pack. In summer he has a few precious months to be human until the cold makes him shift back again. When Grace & Sam finally meet they realize they can't bear to be apart. But can they find a way to stay together as the stakes grow higher & death comes closing in? ...

A school of whales a pod of dolphins: these are some of the aquatic collective nouns you may already know. But have you heard of a congregation of crocodiles or a battery of barracudas? Then turn the pages of this book to discover a collection of lesser-known & sometimes more fanciful ones... ...

They slowed as they reached the gate; two stone columns each with its own crumbling angel perched on top. The angels held up a rusty wrought-iron arch that read in curling serpentine letters: SHIVERTON HALL. Arthur Bannister has been unexpectedly accepted into Shiverton Hall which as it turns out is an incredibly spooky school full of surprises. & it is just as well that Shiverton Hall has made its offer because Arthur had a horrible time at his previous school & was desperate to leave. Timely indeed.. . But Arthur has no time to worry about the strange coincidence. He is too busy trying to make head or tail of Shiverton Hall dogged as it is by tales of curses & bad fortune. At least there are a few friendly faces: George who shows him around; also Penny & Jake. But not all the faces are friendly. There are the bullying Forge triplets for starters. & then there is the acid tongue of the headmistress Professor Long-Pitt who seems to go out of her way to make Arthur's life a misery. Luckily Arthur has his new friends to cheer him up. Although there are some friends that you don't want to have at all as Arthur is soon to find out. ...

From the bestselling author of No Logo" Naomi Klein's " The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" cracks open the secret history of our era to look at how from a privileged few are making millions from worldwide devastation. Around the world in Britain the United States Asia & the Middle East there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed & catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Exposing these global profiteers Naomi Klein discovered information & connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world
- & how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami plundering Russia exploiting Iraq
- this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed. " Packed with thinking dynamite.. .a book to be read everywhere". (John Berger). " If you only read one non-fiction book this year make it this one". (" Metro Books of the Year"). " There are a few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books". (John Gray " Guardian"). "A brilliant book written with a perfectly distilled anger channelled through hard fact. She has indeed surpassed No Logo". (" Independent"). Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist author & filmmaker. Her first book was the international bestseller " No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies" called 'a movement bible' by " The New York Times". " The Shock Doctrine" has been translated into more than twenty languages."

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