Can We Have Our Balls Back Please? is the acclaimed Sunday Times" Sports Book of the Year now updated for the London 2012 Olympics. Americans may like to think they invented baseball (even if Jane Austen wrote about it decades earlier). & the French might be proud of founding the modern Olympics (when in fact a Shropshire doctor beat them to it by forty years). But it was the British that gave sport to the world. From the beginnings of the beautiful game
- raucous matches of folk football with hundreds of players on each side
- to the original bowls
- a thin excuse for drunkenness & gambling
- games grew into sports here in Great Britain. & in " Can We Have Our Balls Back Please?" Julian Norridge tells their stories with wit & good humour. Including all the many sports we Brits have to be proud of
- boxing horse racing cricket football rugby hockey lawn tennis (nearly called sphairistike) & more
- & even those few that got away this is everything you need to know about the very British love of sports & all the great games its produced."





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Can We Still Be Friends" is the debut novel by Alexandra Shulman editor of British Vogue. Its the summer of 1983 & best friends Salome Annie & Kendra have left university to embark on adulthood. Three very different girls with very different paths ahead. Sal the aspiring journalist whose personal demons threaten to destroy everything she has achieved. Annie the capable domestic beauty convinced that marriage will give her everything she wants. Kendra the daughter of chic liberal parents who searching for her own identity encounters a life she never expected. As they navigate the decade of ra-ra skirts & shoulder pads Duran Duran & Margaret Thatcher they discover that the future is what happens to you not what you plan. Their interwoven tale captures brilliantly what it is to learn the exhilarating & painful truths about love work family & the ties of friendship. " Wonderfully evokes that ping-pong between trivial & tremendous so characteristic of the Eighties.. .great on atmosphere... An engaging debut alive with human sympathy". (Wendy Holden " Daily Mail"). " Warm & entertaining.. .captures the excitement of being young & glamorous at a time when the sky really did seem to be the limit". (Kate Saunders " The Times"). " Shulman has a terrific eye for the small yet telling detail". (" Observer Magazine"). Alexandra Shulman has edited British Vogue since 1992. She is a contributor to " The Times" " Daily Mail" " Guardian" & " Daily Telegraph" & lives in London. " Can We Still Be Friends" is her first novel." ...

Can We Travel Through Time? addresses 20 of the most fundamental & frequently asked questions in physics. What is the God particle? Does chaos theory spell disaster? Am I unique in the universe? What is light? Each 3 000 word essay examines these eternally perplexing questions in a way that is comprehensible to everyone providing the ultimate guide to understanding the very nature of the world we live in. ...

The punctuation workout for sticklers & rookies alike. The punctuation panda is back! Armed with a permanent marker a smidgen of confidence & a copy of Can You Eat Shoot & Leave? everyone now has the chance to become a member of the punctuation elite. Established punctuation sticklers: Fine-tune existing skills taking guilty pleasure from testing your (already somewhat unsettling) seventh sense. Confused novices: Never again inflict flawed & perplexing punctuation on your innocent readers. The only official workbook for the international bestseller Eats Shoots & Leaves. * Introductory Cosmo-style questionnaire helps readers identify their level of punctuation prowess. * Mirrors the structure & light-hearted style of Lynne Trusss hugely popular Eats Shoots & Leaves. Topics include apostrophes commas colons & semicolons hyphens & more. * Each chapter concentrates on one particular punctuation mark. Origin usage rules & their exceptions introduce the entertaining activities which have a challenge-yourself format. * The bite-sized exercises in each chapter & longer texts in The Final Challenge put punctuation skills to the test. ...

An ordinary suburban house hides a dark secret in this chilling mystery novel. Leah hates the house & hates living in a mess while her dad does the much needed renovations. The house gives her the creeps & her fears are realised when the ghost of a boy appears in her bedroom. She discovers he lived in the house in the 1970s
- but how did he die? & why does nobody seem to know he is dead? Leahs attempts to unravel the truth lead her into unexpected danger... This is a gripping tale in which Leahs story is interspersed with the ghosts own first person story keeping the reader one step ahead.
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If you choose to hide in the basement turn to page 15. If you want to grab the shotgun & head for the roof turn to page 35. Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? offers 150 Paths & 75 Endings (40 ending in death 20 ending in zombification & 15 ending in survival). No longer are you given the luxury of sitting back & watching the fools on the page or screen make all the wrong moves. All hell is about to break loose
- & this time you have a say in humanitys survival. Youre 27 years old. You live in a crappy over-priced studio apartment in Manhattan. You work a corporate job that youre not particularly fond of. Up until now your day-to-day life offered few surprises. But now on a hot & humid July morning zombies have come to Manhattan. You have choices to make now
- lots of them. Moral dilemmas. Strategic decisions. Weapons. Vehicles. Will you be a hero? Or will you cover your own ass at all costs? Will you survive the coming hours days weeks & months? Or will you die amidst the chaos & violence of a zombie uprising? Or worst of all will you become one of them...? The choice is yours. & if you dont make it youve got no one to blame but yourself.

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Books television shows & websites are forever ordering us around
- 100 things to do before youre 30; 50 albums you must own; this
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A 2.4-mile swim a 112-mile bike ride & a 26.2-mile run makes the Ironman triathlon one of the hardest one-day endurance challenges on the planet. Now take those events & transfer them to a volcanic rock with cruel winds searing sun rough seas & nosebleed-inducing hills & you have Ironman Lanzarote. Why then would Andy Holgate
- who admittedly has never swum in the sea who cant cope with the wind sun or even stairs
- take on such an extreme challenge? Simple: Because he can. Cant Sleep Cant Train Cant Stop! continues Andys inspirational journey from where Cant Swim Cant Ride Cant Run left off chronicling his attempt to complete two Ironman triathlons six weeks apart. Already in his fortieth year would Andy make it to his forty-first? Would Lanzarote prove one triathlon too far
- or will Andy succeed against the odds & live to swim ride & run another day?


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The St&-Up while Sitting Down Years... Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame & fortune managed to persuade someone to marry her & had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. In this second volume of her memoirs Jo recounts wild times on the comedy circuit the attempts to tart her up for the TV screen running the marathon rally driving her numerous occasionally extremely inebriated Edinburgh festival appearances her acting career & much much more. Jo Brand is one of our best-loved comedians according to a"e she made up. This memoir is full of hard-won wisdom hilarity & her views on life laughs friendships & all the good & bad things in the world. If she was Prime Minister the country would be in even more of a mess than it is. ...

This is a bestselling picture book
- brought to life with an animated DVD! Little Bear cant sleep. Hes frightened of the dark even
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