The moon & back before bathtime? Whatever next! Join Baby Bear as he finds a rocket makes friends with an owl & has a picnic on the moon! A beautiful story of innocence & imagination full of Jill Murphy's characteristic warmth & humour this is the second Bear family adventure following the bestselling Peace at Last"." ...

Billy Hopkins is thrilled to be released from the trials & tribulations of teaching when he takes early retirement. He's just buzzing with ideas for filling his time & making a spare buck
- whether it's investing in apparently fail-safe business enterprises starting up himself as an entrepreneur specialising in doll's houses or writing up the story of his life. Only one of those is likely to have the desired result on the financial front
- but Billy's hilarious descriptions of his efforts together with lovely glimpses of his ever-expanding family make WHATEVER NEXT! a delightful & absolutely satisfying novel which will update on-going readers & introduce many new ones to the unique world of the Hopkins household.

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This is the extraordinary life story of Robert Shirley the thirteenth Earl Ferrers tracing his aristocratic upbringing in the 1930s through his wartime childhood national service in the jungle of Malaya Cambridge in the 1950s & finally his life a government minister in every Conservative Government from Macmillan to Major. More importantly he has some hilariously off-the-wall tales to tell. Often including hiding fish in the Chief Whips briefcase. Earl Ferrers writes amusingly & movingly about his twelve predecessors one of whom was hanged after he shot his manservant. His at times hilarious accounts of his careers in farming business & politics have the reader crying tears of both joy & sadness as he relates the bizarre events in his political life & some of his family tragedies. When his fellow members of the House of Lords voted which 92 hereditary peers to keep Earl Ferrers topped the vote. Reading this book it is easy to see why. Always enjoying a sense of the ridiculous & with the ability to write with humour & charm he is without question the most popular member of the current House of Lords. This book shows why. It contains dozens of reminiscences from a life well led. Its seeringly honest painfully blunt but at all times retains the authors supreme sense of charm & elegance. ...

To say this is not a political autobiography would be an understatement. In fact the author reckons it is not an autobiography at all. This book is more Downton Abbey than 10 Downing Street. It traces Earl Ferrers aristocratic upbringing in the 1930s in the stately surroundings of Staunton Harold through his wartime childhood national service in the jungle of Malaya Cambridge in the 1950s & finally his life immersed in the political world. Robert Shirley was a government minister in every Conservative Government from Macmillan to Major & he has some hilarious tales to tell. Robert Shirley is the thirteenth Earl Ferrers & he writes amusingly & movingly about his twelve predecessors one of whom committed suicide after he shot his manservant. His at times hilarious accounts of his careers in farming business & politics have the reader crying tears of both joy & sadness as he relates the bizarre events in his political life & some of his family tragedies. When his fellow members of the House of Lords voted which 92 hereditary peers to keep Earl Ferrers topped the vote. Reading this book it is easy to see why. Always enjoying a sense of the ridiculous & with the ability to write with humour & charm he is without question the most popular member of the current House of Lords. This book shows why. It contains dozens of reminiscences from a life well led. Its seeringly honest painfully blunt but at all times retains the authors supreme sense of charm & elegance. ...

This is the matching songbook to the most anticipated debut album of 2006! Following their meteroic rise straight to No.1 with their debut single I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" the album followed suit even surpassing The Beatles as the fastest-selling debut album ever! Perfectly soundtracking the times the album is a melting pot of jerky angular guitar riffs & frenetic beats whilst remaining fresh & innovative with gnarled poetics & insightful lyrical humour. Recently picking up a Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act plus three NME Awards this is already destined to be the album of 2006. This matching songbook features transcrptions of every track for voice guitar tab & bass tab as well as eight pages of exclusive never-before-seen photographs of the band perfoming live." ...

Eminem is currently the worlds biggest & most controversial music star. He has been blasted for what many of his critics regards as overtly homophobic & misogynistic lyrics & resented both for his record-breaking commercial success & being a white man in a black genre. But Eminems sheer talent has transcended such condemnation & established him as the most important figure to come out of popular music since Kurt Cobain. Whatever You Say I Am
- based on exclusive interviews with members of Eminems family key figures in the music business sociologists & reviewers & featuring previously unpublished photographs
- is the first book to reveal the man behind the controversy. Most crucially Anthony Bozzas unprecedented access to Eminem himself makes him uniquely qualified to answer the big question
- why does Eminem matter? The answer is found in Eminems unlikely life story in his extraordinary ascent to super-stardom & in an analysis of his music & lyrics. Whatever You Say I Am will keep Eminems legions of fans riveted & will enlighten his critics.


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The bestselling author of Its Not How Good You Are Its How Good You Want To Be" Paul Arden turns logic & common sense on its head in " Whatever You Think Think the Opposite "and gives you the confidence to take bigger risks & enjoy your work more than you can imagine. Have you ever considered the extraordinary power of making bad decisions being unreasonable & taking dangerous unadvisable risks? Has it ever occurred to you that nothing is more dangerous than playing it safe or that the straight & narrow path may lead you right off a cliff? Paul Arden has become a global business guru on the strength of such radical insights. His first book " Its Not How Good You Are Its How Good You Want to Be" became a word of mouth classic selling more than half a million copies. Instead of the usual boring advice he offered daring quips aphorisms & paradoxes
- all seeking to revise what we habitually hold as our common sense. " Whatever You Think Think the Opposite" is an even more daring attack on the way we look at our work & our world. Whether you sell manage or buy Arden will inspire you with his counterintuitive axioms startling anecdotes brilliant photographs & offbeat"ations from artists scientists & philosophers. " Whatever You Think Think the Opposite" will force you to rethink everything. & it will give you the confidence to take bigger risks & enjoy your work more than you can imagine. " Brilliant bad charming irascible & totally off the wall Paul Arden is an original with extraordinary drive & energy blessed with a creative genius allied to a kind of common sense that just isnt well common". (Roger Kennedy Saatchi & Saatchi). Paul Arden spent 14 years as the Executive Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi. He was responsible for some of the UKs most successful advertising campaigns
- British Airways Silk Cut Anchor Butter Inter City & Fuji. In 1993 he set up the film production company Arden Sutherl&-Dodd. His first book sold over half a million copies. He has a weekly column in the " Independent" & recently opened a photographic gallery in his hometown Petworth."

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Oor Wullie is Scotlands favourite boy with his trademark spiky hair dungarees & upturned bucket as a seat. In Whaurs Oor Wullie? Oor Wullie travels around Scotlands most famous & popular places with some of the familiar characters who appear in his Sunday Post weekly comic strip. The challenge is to spot them in the crowd! Each spread is illustrated in full colour with a list of items & characters to spot. The Oor Wullie comic strip was originally created by D C Thomson editor R D Low & drawn by cartoonist Dudley D Watkins. Whaurs Oor Wullie? is illustrated by Jimmy Glen. Find Oor Wullie & his pals at the following places among others: *the Edinburgh Military Tattoo * The Open Golf Championship at St Andrews * Stirling Castle * Kelvingrove Museum * Hogmanay * Braemar Highland Games * Dundees Comic Characters Convention * The biggest-ever Burns Supper * Largs Viking Festival *T In the Park * The Royal Highland Show * Falkirks re-enactment of the Romans being fought back by the Picts. Oor Wullie was launched in 1936 in The Sunday Post in Scotland & is still going strong. The frequent tagline on the strip is Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! Abodys Wullie! ...

The original Wheat Belly helped spawn a wheat-free revolution. Now the principles articulated in the first book have caused many readers to ask for more information on just how to accomplish this shift in food choices away from wheat & towards foods that are least harmful & most nutritious. This cookbook is a response to the demand for wheat-free recipes including baked goods like cookies & muffins that are limited in carbohydrates & sugars & still promote good health from head to toe. The cookbook

Includes:: upfront chapters explaining the science & plan of the original Wheat Belly diet with the latest scientific updates plus a Wheat Belly kitchen guide & all-new testimonials from readers who have lost their wheat bellies by following the program. The cookbook also gives readers over a hundred recipes for rise-&-shine breakfasts like Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes & Breakfast Souffle; hearty midday meals including Fish & Chips & the Tuna Wrap; savoury dinners the whole family will love such as Spaghetti Bolognese & Bruschetta Chicken on Angel Hair; & satisfying sweets like Peanut Butter Pie & Creamy Coconut Pudding
- all wheat-free heart-healthy & utterly delicious.


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Robert Godwin's tumultuous ride on the Wheel of Fortune begins with his passion for his sensual cousin Ginevra as they waltz to ' The Blue Danube' beneath the chandeliers at Oxmoon his beloved family home in Wales. As Robert discovers his rational well-ordered mind will be forever altered by his obsession for Ginevra & his destiny will be forever linked to Oxmoon by the skeletons which lurk in the family closet... For fifty years from the sinister summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s the Godwin family are sucked into a maelstrom of passion disorder madness & murder. Fortunes rise & fall in this sweeping compulsive tale until the Wheel of Fortune finally comes full circle. ...