Christmas is a time for sharing & h&-knitted gifts for friends & family are the perfect way to spread a little festive joy. We Knit You a Merry Christmas has something for everyone. Traditional Christmas characters such as angels choir boys Father Christmas & the three kings make great decorations. Or add some fun & laughter to your Christmas celebrations this year with knitted animals such as sheep (Baa Humbug) crocodiles (Snappy Christmas) & Three French Hens as well as quirkier items like chillies sledging snowballs & of course the famous pea (Ha Pea Christmas). So forget gold frankincense & myrrh & give the gift of knitting this Christmas. Word count: 12 000 ...

A good job a decent flat in Los Angeles a quiet life
- Nick Horrigan has finally put his traumatic past behind him. Or so it seems
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Key Words with Peter & Jane" uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully & confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched & world renowned. " Book 6b" shows how Peter & Jane like to help in 53 news words including 'friends' 'before' 'finds' & 'teacher'. Once this book has been completed the child moves on to book "6c". " The Key Words with Peter & Jane" books work because each of the key words is introduced gradually & repeated frequently. This builds confidence in children when they recognise these key words on sight (also known as the 'look & say' method of learning). Examples of key words are: the one two he. There are 12 levels each with 3 books: a b & c. " Series a": gradually introduces new words. " Series b": provides further practise of words featured in the 'a' series. " Series c": links reading with writing & phonics. All the words that have been introduced in each 'a' & 'b' book are also reinforced in the 'c' books." ...

This book is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. ' To play the country-game we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA & Britain & Canada & Australia & Switzerland & them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo like Somalia like Iraq like Sudan like Haiti & not even this one we live in
- who wants to be a terrible place of hunger & things falling apart?' Darling & her friends live in a shanty called Paradise which of course is no such thing. It isn't all bad though. There's mischief & adventure games of Find bin Laden stealing guavas singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. They dream of the paradises of America Dubai Europe where Madonna & Barack Obama & David Beckham live. For Darling that dream will come true. But like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives far from home Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges
- for her & also for those she's left behind.

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Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. In fact your very existence tells you that this may not be the only universe but merely one among an infinity of others stacked like the pages of a never-ending book. Marcus Chown author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You" takes familiar features of the world we know & shows how they can be used to explain profound truths about the ultimate nature of reality. His new book will change the way you see the world: with Chown as your guide cutting-edge science is made clear & meaningful by a falling leaf or a rose or a starry night sky." ...

This title presents a film starring Tilda Swinton & John C. Reilly directed by Lynne Ramsay to premiere at Cannes in May 2011 with UK release in summer 2011. Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students a cafeteria worker & a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now two years later it is time for her to come to terms with marriage career family parenthood & Kevins horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices & social demotion of motherhood from the start Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. Adapted & directed by Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar" & " Ratcatcher") the film of " We Need to Talk About Kevin" stars Tila Swinton ("I Am Love") & John C. Reilly (" The Aviator") with Ezra Miller (" Californication") as the eponymous teenage murderer." ...

Sportsman Lover Bon vivant & Cad
- Ross OCarroll-Kelly is many things to many people. But ten years after he lifted the Leinster
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I went to the public baths & after I undressed I could hear someone whistling. I looked round to see if I could see anybody about but I couldnt so I got into the bath & lay back to relax. As soon as I did of course I looked up & saw a man putting in the glass windows that had been blown out the night before. Joan Adams Lichfield. On the night of 7 September 1940 bombs rained down on the defenceless & unprepared population of London for nine long hours. In November raids spread to the rest of the country
- starting in Coventry & taking in everywhere from Portsmouth Cardiff Belfast & Hull. During the nine months of the Blitz thousands of people were killed & injured & thousands of buildings & homes destroyed. But with stoicism & humour life went on. We Remember the Blitz is packed with vivid recollections from this time. Waking up in a damp shelter to the sound of bombing. Coming out of a cinema to discover that fires made night as bright as day. & worst of all the shock of seeing individuals & whole families killed in an instant. We hear from many who were there to pick up the pieces: ARP wardens firemen
- even the bakers who would return to work under tarpaulin to ensure their neighbours had their daily loaf. Filled with moving but often funny memories We Remember the Blitz is a celebration of the British spirit & clearly shows that the battle for Britain was won by the many.

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I remember standing on top of our local glen with a block of wood expecting thousands of Germans coming down from the sky. What was I going to do with the block of wood? I never knew." (Leonard Jackson). On 22 June 1940 France surrendered to Germany & the invasion of Britain seemed a very real possibility. The Home Guard was formed to defend our villages & towns. Members came from reserved occupations those who had failed their medicals the elderly & the young with miners & farmers training alongside former majors. Their weapons & ammunition were negligible at first but slowly these amateur soldiers began to produce professional results. In this unique book of reminiscences we see these men as they practise with pitchforks & fall into ditches after a pint or two of ale on the job. But we also see them learning how to fire grenades after a day studying engineering & undertaking night watches after exhausting factory shifts
- knowing they could be the last stop between the enemy & their families & homes."
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Through the diaries of nine men & women We Shall Never Surrender tells the story of the war as they experienced it whether at home struggling simply to keep going in high office with direct influence on its outcome or protesting against it. Some of them like Alan Brooke who became Chief of the General Staff the politician Harold Nicolson or the pacifist writer Vera Brittain are well known. Others -- Anne Garnett the wife of a country solicitor George Beardmore a young husband & father with ambitions to become a novelist or Clara Milburn a contended wife & mother of an adult son -- are not. But in their diaries they all -- together with the diplomat Charles Ritchie the novelist Naomi Mitchison & the resourceful & frequently unconventional Hermione Countess of Ranfurly --followed the war in their diaries from outbreak to victory. For some keeping a diary was a way of documenting their hopes & fears for an unforeseen future. For others it was a way of carefully preserving their lives on the page uncertain in what state they would find the world the next time they woke. Together they constitute a remarkable record of human endeavour & human cost at a time when the whole world was locked in conflict & it often seemed that the outcome rested on the shoulders of one small isl&. ...