The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times perhaps. For Theo Bernstein however it is far far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. & he doesn't have any money. Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own existence news arrives that his good friend Professor Pieter van Goyen renowned physicist & Nobel laureate has died. By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit to Theo however the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions. A journey that will rewrite the laws of physics. A battle to save humanity itself. This is the tale of a man who had nothing & gave it all up to find his destiny
- & a doughnut.
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Spectacular. Bathsheba is back
- & off to Dramarama Camp! Bathsheba can't wait to go to Dramarama camp with her best friend Keisha.
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The Douglas DC-3 Dakota revolutionised air transport in the 1930s & 1940s. Because of its lasting impact on the airline industry
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The lives of four sensuous bold & remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD in the desperate days of the siege of Masada when supplies are dwindling & the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers & all are keepers of secrets
- about who they are where they come from who fathered them & whom they love. There is Yael the assassins daughter whose heartbreak leads to her true path in the ruins of the desert; Revka the bakers wife who loses her dearest treasure on earth & yet finds the strength to protect her family; Aziza the warriors beloved who leads a secret life not even those closest to her could imagine; & Marit beautiful witch of Moab a woman as loyal as she is dangerous.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Making full use of archival sources studies by other scholars & information provided by family members Vincent Orange has completed the first biography of Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to cover his entire life. Soldier pilot wireless pioneer squadron commander spiritualist champion skier Stuffy Dowding is perhaps best known as the creator of the first radar-based air defence system & his no less remarkable management of such throughout the Battle of Britain. Dowding served in delightful & dangerous Iraq helped to pacify unrest in the Holy Land was involved in the R.101 airship disaster & oversaw the creation of Britains first eight-gun monoplanes the Hurricane & Spitfire. Controversially dismissed from Fighter Command & refused the RAFs highest rank he nevertheless became the first airman elevated to the peerage since Trenchard. Westminster Abbey was packed for his memorial service in March 1970 with more that 46 air marshals in attendance; & in 1988 HM the Queen Mother unveiled a statue in his honour. With his expert eye respected historian Orange has analysed & evaluated every episode of Dowdings exceptional career to produce what will be seen as the definitive biography. ...

Michelle Williams is young & attractive she has close family ties as well as a busy social life
- but she is far from usual. She
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' You have talked so often of going to the dogs
- & well here are the dogs & you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir
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This is Orwells record of a period in the late Twenties when he lived among the tramps dregs & plongeurs of London & Paris. It is the white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant compassionate young man to poverty injustice & the callousness of the rich.. . It offers insights rather than solutions; but always insights have to precede solutions.. . No one has ever claimed Down & Out" is its authors best book yet many of his admirers describe it as their favourite Orwell. Its flaws are numerous but oddly endearing." ...

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor & destitute Down & Out in Paris & London" is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of "1984" published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in " Penguin Modern Classics". ' You have talked so often of going to the dogs
- & well here are the dogs & you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery & squalor
- sleeping in bug-infested hostels & doss houses of last resort working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile ' Hotel X' surviving on scraps & cigarette butts living alongside tramps a star-gazing pavement artist & a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking previously-hidden world to his readers Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time
- & in doing so found his voice as a writer. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) better known by his pen-name George Orwell was born in India where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author & journalist Orwell was one of the most prominent & influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory " Animal Farm" was published in 1945 & it was this novel together with the dystopia of " Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949) which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels & non-fiction including " Burmese Days" (1934) " Down & Out in Paris & London" (1933) " The Road to Wigan Pier" (1937) & " Homage to Catalonia" (1938) are published in " Penguin Modern Classics". If you enjoyed " Down & Out in Paris & London" you might like " Homage to Catalonia" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " Orwell was the great moral force of his age". (" Spectator"). " The white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant compassionate young man to poverty". (Dervla Murphy)."


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