What makes a man put politics & ambition before family? Ed Miliband is perhaps the least understood political leader of modern times. This book reveals where he has come from & where he is going. It charts his unique upbringing against the backdrop of tragedy & with a prominent Marxist thinker for a father. But Eds story cannot be fully understood outside the context of his struggle to emerge from the shadow of his elder brother David. Ed followed David to the same college at Oxford into Parliament & into the Cabinet before at the eleventh hour snatching away Davids dream of the leadership. ...

In 1962 when Walter Cousins sleeps with his British au pair Diane Burroughs he can have no sense of the magnitude of his error: this brief affair sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions upending Sophocless immortal tale of fate free will & forbidden desire. At the centre is Ed King an infant given up for adoption who becomes one of the worlds most powerful men. But beneath the gripping story of Eds seemingly inexorable rise to fame & fortune is a dark & unsettling destiny one that approaches with ever-increasing suspense as the novel reaches its shattering conclusion. ...

He's the Suffolk school drop-out who's become Britain's hottest musical property. Ed Sheeran is the double Brit Award-winning singer songwriter with a tiny guitar & a huge talent. But how did a young musician who described himself as a 'spotty chubby ginger teenager' go from selling CDs from his rucksack to playing in front of Royalty at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
- not to mention a worldwide TV audience of a billion? From his bohemian childhood to international stardom David Nolan traces the story of Sheeran's musical life & times featuring exclusive interviews with friends relatives musical collaborators & key figures in his rise to stardom A+ shows how Ed Sheeran made his mark on the music industry playing the game via his own set of fiercely independent rules & winning fans like Elton John & Jamie Foxx along the way.
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Poor Ed Cooper seems to have one problem after another. From Going potty to Eds funny feet Eds life is never boring. This time around Ed is having problems in school he just cant get his head around his time-tables. At home things are bad too
- Ed has started to wet his bed. What is Ed to do? This title is Flyer number 7.
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Awful End": When both of Eddie Dickens parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow go a bit crinkly round the edges & smell of hot water bottles its agreed he should go & stay with relatives at their house Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack & Even-Madder Aunt Maud & it doesnt look as if the three of them are ever going to reach their destination..." Dreadful Acts": Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids an explosion a hot-air balloon & arrest only to find himself falling head-over heels for a girl with a face like a camels & into the hands of a murderous gang of escaped convicts who have one little job for him to do. " Terrible Times": Eddie had been given the task of travelling to America to look after his familys interests there. But his life is never that simple; especially with a potential stowaway in his trunk & Lady Constance Bustle at his side. Shes a professional travelling companion whose previous employers seem to have died under the most remarkable & unfortunate circumstances..." ...

Eddie Bereskin wants to change the world & stop the war instead his life unravels after he is arrested on a Halloween protest in 2002. An incredible story about loss & hope set in London Eddie the Kid takes us to the anti-war movement & two generations of activists where amid rioting & arrests the destinies of Eddie & his sister Esther have been shaped. ...

Eddie Van Halen is one of the most revolutionary & influential guitarists ever to play the instrument
- his music & his playing
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What makes Eddies garden grow? Earth rain sun & all sorts of creatures of course! Eddies garden is magnificent from his stringy bean house to his tall sunflowers. How Eddies garden grows & develops is clearly told in this gentle story with lively characters & colourful illustrations. The book

Includes:: full information on growing a garden like Eddies in a home garden or even indoors.

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The whole point of a race is to find a winner.. .I chose to race so I chose to win. For 14 years between 1965 & 1978 Edouard Louis Joseph Merckx simply devoured his rivals their hopes & their careers. His legacy resides as much in the careers he ruined as the 445 victories
- including five Tour de France wins & all the monument races
- he amassed in his own right. So dominant had Merckx become by 1973 that he was ordered to stay away from the Tour for the good of the event. Stage 17 of the 1969 Tour de France perfectly illustrates his untouchable brilliance. Already wearing the yellow jersey on the col du Tourmalet the Tours most famous peak Merckx powered clear & rode the last 140 kilometres to the finish-line in jaw-dropping solitude eight minutes ahead of his nearest competitor. Merckxs era has been called cyclings Golden Age". It was full of memorable characters who at any other time would all have gone on to become legends. Yet Merckxs phenomenal career overshadowed them all. How did he achieve such incredible success? & how did his rivals really feel about him? Merckx failed drug tests three times in his career
- were they really stitch ups as he claimed? & what of the crash at a track meet in Blois France that killed Merckxs pacer Fernand Wambst which Merckx claimed deeply affected him psychologically & physically? Or the attack by a spectator in 1975? Despite his unique achievements we know little about the Cannibal beyond his victories. This will be the first comprehensive biography of Merckx in English & will finally expose the truth behind this legendary man."


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Andrew an advertising executive in his mid-30s returns to his hometown in upstate New York for his mother's funeral. He does not intend to stay in the slow rural backwater he left seventeen years before. But the dreams & memories persist & in the darkened farmhouse he relives that hot bloody night when Eden Close was blinded
- by the same gun that killed her father. The enigmatic Eden had been Andrew's childhood companion. Together the two roamed summer cornfields smoked their first forbidden cigarettes skated fished & fought until the tomboy turned temptress
- then their friendship ended. Now despite warnings Andrew is drawn again to this lost blind girl of his youth drawn to save her from the cruel neglect she has endured for seventeen sightless years without him. But first he must discover the grisly truth about that night...

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