This bumper collection of Usborne Dot-to-dot books has a bright new cover & is full of things to spot shapes to make & interesting facts. It should keep children occupied for hours on rainy days or long car journeys. Entertaining & educational these books both encourage children in the acquisition of number skills & help them practise drawing. ...

This new addition to Thames & Hudsons burgeoning Childrens List" is an illustrated flip-over picture book about a little girl called Dot from London & her grandmother also called Dot in New York. The pair share a birthday & desperately want to spend it together. Readers start at one end to find out Little Dots story; flip the book over & start at the other end to read about Grandma Dot. The story follows Little Dot as she tries everything to h&-deliver a special card to grandma Dot in New York: she tries to bounce on springs across the ocean; asks birds & butterflies to help her fly; & even digs a tunnel in her back garden. Meanwhile Grandma Dot is making a surprise trip to London but travels the long way round. At each stopover in Beijing Mumbai & Rome she gathers family & friends & buys a mystery present for Little Dot. But will Grandma Dot arrive in London in time for the big day? & will Little Dot be there?" ...

Packed full of exciting dot-to-dots this title lets you use the special pen to join the dots & find out what the pictures show. Each page is wipe-clean so that children can complete the dot-to-dots over & over again. It helps young children learn about numbers counting & pen control. ...

Part personal history part biography Dotter of Her Father's Eyes" contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia the daughter of James Joyce & that of author Mary Talbot daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations & gender politics thwarted ambitions & personal tragedy are played out against two contrasting historical backgrounds poignantly evoked by the atmospheric visual storytelling of award winning comic artist & graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot. Produced through an intense collaboration seldom seen between writers & artists " Dotter of Her Father's Eyes" is intelligent funny & sad
- a fine addition to the evolving genre of graphic memoir."
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Watching a rented video Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double & sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramagos novel explores the nature of individuality & examines the fear & insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter... ...

On the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War the double-agent Arthur Owens codenamed SNOW is summoned to Berlin & appointed Hitlers chief spy in Britain. Days later he finds himself in Wandsworth prison betrayed by the wife he traded for a younger model & forced to transmit false wireless messages for MI5 to earn his freedom
- & avoid the hangmans noose. A vain & devious anti-hero with no moral compass Owens motives were status money & women. He mixed fact with fiction constantly & at times insisted that he was a true patriot undertaking hazardous secret missions for his mother country; at other times Owens saw himself as a daring rogue agent outwitting British Intelligence & loyal only to the Fatherl&. Yet in 1944 as Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day Hitler was caught unawares tricked into expecting the invasion across the Pas de Calais in a strategic deception played out by Owens & the double-cross agents of MI5. For all his flaws Agent Snow became the traitor who saved his country. Based on recently de-classified MI5 files & previously unpublished sources Double Agent Snow is the story of a secret Battle of Britain fought by Snow & his opposing spymasters Thomas Tar Robertson of MI5 & Nikolaus Ritter of the Abwehr as well as the tragic love triangle between Owens his wife Irene & his mistress Lily Funnell. The evocative fast-paced narrative moves from seedy south London pubs to North Sea trawlers from chic Baltic spa resorts to Dartmoor gaol populated by a colourful rogues gallery of double-cross agents.
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Mma Ramotswe & Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife majestic grasslands & sparkling water. However it is also home to rival safari operators fearsome crocodiles & disgruntled hippopotamuses. What's more Mma Makutsi still does not have a date for her wedding to Phuti Radiphuti & is feeling rather tetchy herself. But Precious knows that with a little patience just as the wide river will gently make its way round any obstacle so will everything work out for the best in the end.. . ...

Just this once.. . Please let me get away with it just this once.. . Tobey wants a better life
- for him & his girlfriend Callie
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D-Day 6 June 1944 the turning point of the Second World War was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais & Norway not Normandy were the targets of the 150 000-strong invasion force. The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence
- the Bletchley Park code-breakers MI5 MI6 SOE Scientific Intelligence the FBI & the French Resistance. But at its heart was the ' Double Cross System' a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross. The key D-Day spies were just five in number & one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl a tiny Polish fighter pilot a Serbian seducer a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming & a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time. Under the direction of an eccentric but brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers working from a smoky lair in St James's these spies would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army & helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety. These double agents were variously brave treacherous fickle greedy & inspired. They were not conventional warriors but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives. Their codenames were Bronx Brutus Treasure Tricycle & Garbo. This is their story.
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D-Day 6 June 1944 the turning point of the Second World War was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais & Norway not Normandy were the targets of the 150 000-strong invasion force. The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence: the Bletchley Park code-breakers MI5 MI6 SOE Scientific Intelligence the FBI & the French Resistance. But at its heart was the Double Cross System a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross. The key D-Day spies were just five in number & one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl a tiny Polish fighter pilot a Serbian seducer a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming & a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time. Under the direction of an eccentric but brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers working from a smoky lair in St Jamess these spies would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitlers army & helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety. These double agents were variously brave treacherous fickle greedy & inspired. They were not conventional warriors but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives. Their codenames were Bronx Brutus Treasure Tricycle & Garbo. This is their story. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Double Cross Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Double Cross Judys Review I was both captivated & taken aback by Double Cross. Captivated by the sheer colourfulness & eccentricities of the small team of foreign double agents so carefully assembled by British spymasters; taken aback by their courage & determination in the face of a dangerous enemy
- an enemy who if the deception was discovered would deliver a ferocious rebuke. The shadow of torture & execution hovered close. There were only five D-Day spies & they were a strange bunch
- a bisexual Peruvian playgirl a tiny Polish fighter pilot a Serbian playboy a Spanish chicken farmer with an out-of-control imagination & a highly-strung Frenchwoman whose bizarre obsession with her pet dog almost capsized the whole enterprise. Macintyre is clearly very fond of them & as we are introduced into his undercover freak show we take them to our hearts as well. They were far from perfect human beings
- most were blatantly on the make happy to pocket wages from both sides; they could be two-faced sulky & infuriating
- but they were the beating heart of the most crucial intelligence operation of the"



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