I loved it.. .extremely funny. A must-read for anyone who loves football. Peter Crouch In the late 1960s in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup Dave Roberts like most teenage boys his age was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United Daves team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club
- one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division. This book is the story of Bromleys worst ever season. It is a funny & heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score. Its easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. The Bromley Boys is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin & even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch the more there is to gain on the terraces.
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Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement. He has been locked in dungeons in iron boxes concreted into the middle of cells & famously in a cage. When he is unlocked up to 12 prison officers
- sometimes in riot gear & with dogs
- are standing by. Yet this is a man of great warmth & humour who has never killed anyone & has often dealt with his gruelling life with humour
- during a siege in 1993 he demanded an inflatable doll & a cup of tea. Now his story is being turned into a Hollywood film. Now in this amazing new edition of his best selling autobiography Charlie reveals the truth about his extraordinary life behind bars.


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Charles Bronson is the most feared & most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for his serial hostage-taking & his rooftop sieges he is a legend in his own lifetime. The recent film of his life was a critically acclaimed box-office hit. Yet he is a man of great warmth & humour; a man of huge artistic talent who exhibits his drawings around the country; a man with an overpowering urge not to let the system get him down. More Porridge Than Goldilocks is a crazy look into the mind of a true individual. ...

Charlie has taken his 30 years of prison dwelling & condensed it into one handy & comprehensive volume. Moved around the prisons of the British Isles regularly he has sampled all that prison life has to offer taking in both the historic & the pre-historic buildings that comprise Britains prison system. Its all in here
- from the correct way to brew vintage prison hooch & how to keep the screws from finding it; to prison food & its many alternative uses. Read about Charlies special taming techniques for prison wildlife such as spiders rats & cockroaches; creatures that may be your only friends on long streches in solitary. With over 70 000 people (and rising) currently residing at her Majestys Pleasure Charlie Bronsons Good Prison Guide is essential for young offenders & old lags alike. Dont go away without it!
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This handsome boxed set contains the following unabridged novels: Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"; " Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre"; & Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights". This elegant boxed set of the three most popular novels by the Bronte sisters
- Anne Charlotte & Emily
- makes a perfect gift or addition to a home library. Beautifully designed with a real cloth padded top & matt laminated printed sides over 3mm boards it will be as much at home in the living room as on the bedside table or bureau. With 1 680 pages of text as well as a free box the price represents a saving on the purchase of individual volumes. Each book is produced to the highest standards bound in real cloth with gilt edges head & tail bands ribbon marker illustrated matt laminated jackets that bring to the books a period feel unequalled in any other edition. It

Features: padded real cloth tops; 3mm boards; red ribbon pull-out; four colour matt laminated sides; liner on 120gm wood-free paper; shrink-wrapped; top edge gilt; real cloth binding; section-sewn; ribbon marker; head & tail bands; & matt laminated jacket with period front cover picture."



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The three Bronte sisters
- Anne Charlotte & Emily
- moved to Haworth Parsonage as children in 1820. It was there on the edge

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This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies. Dan Howard describes the development of weapons armour & chariots how they were made & their tactical use in battle. Spanning from the introduction of massed infantry by the Sumerians (c. 26th century BC) through to the collapse of the chariot civilizations (c. 12th century BC) this is the period of the epic struggles described in the Old Testament & Homers Iliad the clashes of mighty empires like those of the Babylonians Egyptians & Hittites. rn The author draws on the latest research & archaeology as well as his own experiences of using & making replica weapons & armour to challenge established views & bring fresh insights to this fascinating period of military history. The main regions of discussion are the Aegean the Near East & the Middle East but some reference is also made to other relevant cultures such as the Aryan Indians & the Shang Chinese. ...

Chariots the first mobile fighting vehicle seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot carrying a driver & an archer armed with a short compound bow revolutionized military tactics after 1700 BC. This expensive weapon spread throughout the Middle East & is thought to have reached Egypt with the conquering Hyksos. It spread into Asia Minor Greece & was known in Northern Europe by 1500 BC. This book covers the evolution of the War Chariot throughout the Bronze Age including the design development & combat history B in particular its fundamental involvement at the battle of Qadesh. ...

A magnificent epic of love war & Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY & ROAD TO PARADISE Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces & avenues speak of a different age when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters Tatiana & Dasha share the same bed living in one room with their brother & parents. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family for Leningrad & particularly for Tatiana life will never be the same again. On that fateful day Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler's army advances on Leningrad & the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling & the city under siege Tatiana & Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart & at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by Hitler's vast war machine & on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit Tatiana & Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history at a turning point in the century that made the modern world. ...

Every child who grew up in the Fifties & Sixties remembers the Brooke Bond collecting cards that came with every packet of tea. Some were lucky enough to have the specially-produced albums in which to collect the cards that had either come with the latest packet of tea or been traded in the school playground. This beautifully printed nostalgic book presents the best 12 original albums reproduced slightly larger than they were forty years ago to bring out the best in the wonderfully detailed illustrations. Collecting original Brooke Bond tea cards is a hobby that has a huge following with serious collectors never daring actually to glue the cards into the albums as was originally intended
- that would mean losing the information on the back & devaluing the card. In this book however you can see how each album was intended to look with every card printed in its correct position making every page an enormously colourful feast for the eyes. The albums that have been included are: Out Into Space" " British Wild Life" " Wild Flowers series 2" " Freshwater Fish" " African Wild Life" " Asian Wild Life" " British Butterflies" " Wild Birds In Britain" " Transport Through The Ages" " Trees in Britain" " Flags & Emblems of the World" & " History of the Motor Car"."
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