Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother & sister & none of his friends drowned in a canal. He has never stayed overnight in a hospital & has no emotional scars from his upbringing except a slight lingering resentment that Anita Barker once mocked the stabilisers on his bike. Where Did It All Go Right? is a jealous memoir written by someone who occasionally wishes life had dealt him a few more juicy marketable blows. The author delves back into his first 18 years in search of something
- anything
- that might have left him deeply & irreparably damaged. With tales of bikes telly sweets good health domestic harmony & happy holidays Andrew aims to bring a little hope to all those out there living with the emotional after-effects of a really nice childhood. Andrew Collins kept a diary from the age of five so he really can remember what he had for tea everyday & what he did at school excerpts from his diary run throughout the book & it is this detail which makes his story so compelling.

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The acclaimed best selling story of Tamla Motown records
- the most successful independent record label in the world. Now acknowledged
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Everyone has heard of say the Irish Fusliliers the Glorious Glosters or Royal Scots Greys. But where are these regiments today? What are they called? & what were they called a hundred years ago? The painful & much-resented rationalisation of the British regiments
- which meant amalgamation or simply disbandment
- has been going on since the first regiments were raised in the 17th century according to the perceived needs of the nation in war or peacetime. But it accelerated in the mid-1950s & the task has now been completed on General Jacksons watch in 2007. Anyone trying to follow the name changes of a particular regiment soon gets caught up in & confused by different histories in different books. By using clear family trees Gerry Murphy sorts out all the confusion in one indispensable volume. The appendices alone are invaluable showing the number of regimental antecedents honours colours & insignia.

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Fizzing with the one-liners & surreal humour for which Milton Jones is famous this is an authentic hilarious story of the life ...

The Junior Doctor is back! He's into his second year of medicine but this time Max is out of the wards & onto the streets working for the Phoenix Outreach Project. Fuelled by tea & more enthusiasm than experience he attempts to locate & treat a wide & colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for.. .from Molly the 80-year-old drugs mule & God in a Tesco car park to middle-class mums addicted to appearances & pain killers in equal measure. His friends don't approve of the turn his career is taking his mother is worried & the public spit at him but Max is determined to make a difference. Despite warnings that miracles are rare & that not everyone's life can be turned around Max is still surprised by those that can be saved. Funny touching & uplifting Max goes from innocence to experience via dustbin-shopping-trips without ever losing his humanity. ...

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. One winter night seven men & a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans. ...

Beautiful dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. With few clues as to her identity she endures a childhood of loneliness & loss. At eighteen she applies for a post as nanny with the family of a Captain Fairford a soldier in Ambala north India & his highly strung wife Susan. Lily is drawn into the emotional life of the Fairford family & adores her charge two year old Cosmo. When in 1907 Captain Fairford orders a new Daimler car it is brought out by a young motor mechanic Sam Ironside. Sam & Lily fall deeply in love & it is only later that Lily learns that Sam is married & feels utterly betrayed. When Cosmo is later sent home to school Lily finds another post with a Dr. Mc Bride & his invalid wife in a beautiful Himalayan hill station. The place is idyllic & Lily settles for a quiet life. However she is unprepared for the pain & misunderstandings that follow & force her to run from everything she has known... Where Earth Meets Sky" takes us from Edwardian England & the British Raj through the darkness of the Great War to the glamour of Brooklands Race Track in the 1920s. Spanning two continents it is a story of enduring friendships & two hearts which cannot be kept apart." ...

From every angle our daughters are bombarded by messages about looks & sexuality they are too young to underst&. Pressure to conform to a thin sexy" ideal can lead to self-destructive behaviour anxiety & low self-esteem. Until now there has been no practical help for parents on how to fight back against the Lolita Effect. Parenting author & mother of two young girls Tanith Carey has written the first hands-on guide for parents which will show you how to: * Screen out damaging messages about body image & sex from the internet & media * Build your daughters self-esteem so she is strong enough to deal with peer pressure * Say the right things at the right time so she is inoculated against the worst influences of the X-rated society Essential advice to help you safeguard your daughters childhood
- so she can grow into the healthy confident woman she deserves to be."
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Pauline Quirke was a skinny child a slim teenager a curvy woman then
- according to her bathroom scales (curse them)
- just

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Pauline Quirke was a skinny child a slim teenager a curvy woman then
- according to her bathroom scales (curse them)
- just

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