I was sick of Gordon Barraclough. Sick of his bullying. & I was sick of him being a good footballer. ' Listen Barraclough. My uncle is Bobby Charlton.' ' You're a liar.' I was. 'I'm not. Cross my heart & hope to die.' I spat on my h&. If I'd dropped down dead on the spot I wouldn't have been surprised. ' Funny & moving...a rare gift.'
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Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy MILES JUPP would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during Englands Test series in India wasnt his best idea. By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland & getting a job with the (Welsh) Western Mail Miles lands the press pass that will surely be the ticket to his dreams. Soon he finds himself in cricket heaven
- drinking with David Gower & Beefy sharing bar room banter with Nasser Hussain & swapping diarrhoea stories with the Test Match Special team. Amazing! But struggling in the heat under the burden of his own fibs reality soon catches up with Miles as
- like a cricket-obsessed Boot from Evelyn Waughs Scoop
- he bumbles from one disaster to the next. A joyous charming yet cautionary tale Fibber in the Heat is for anyone whos ever dreamt about doing nothing but watching cricket all day long.


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Glass reinforced plastic or fibreglass is a composite material made from strands of glass & liquid resin. This versatile material is used in the construction of cars trucks motorcycles boats & aircraft. Fibreglass is an easy material for the DIY modeller or repairer to use. Written with the layman in mind this book covers materials tools & equipment; health & safety; & repairing existing components. Modifying & strengthening existing mouldings; designing & making patterns; & making moulds is covered along with wet lay-up technique; curing times & methods; releasing compounds from moulds; & mould-less techniques. ...

Fibromyalgia is a debilitating disease that affects a large number of people
- an estimated to 500 000 people in the UK alone.
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The rules are few & basic: no meat no green peppers no eggplant. But these simple rules
- eating pure foods with no additives the
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Drawing from his own experiences as a novelist & creative writing tutor Richard Skinner takes you through the process of writing a novel from ways of generating ideas & beginning the actual process of writing through to producing a final draft. The book is a both a guide & an aid to writing a novel. The first part
- the guide
- offers solid practical suggestions for writers who are just getting started on a long piece of fiction. The second part of the book
- the aid
- operates more like a troubleshooting gallery for those who are well into a long piece of fiction. Eschewing formulas & prescriptions Skinner encourages readers to think differently about issues as they arise by means of lateral thinking oblique strategies aphorisms "ations & offers a range of ideas about the art of writing that stretches beyond the bounds of fiction.



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The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges' short stories Fictions" is a wildly original & influential collection of fantastic tales translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in " Penguin Modern Classics". Jorge Luis Borges' " Fictions" introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here that we find the astonishing accounts of ' Funes the Memorious' the man who can forget nothing; ' Pierre Menard Author of the " Quixote"' who recreates Miguel de Cervantes' epic word-for-word; a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in ' The Lottery in Babylon'; the mysterious world of ' Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius' which seems to be supplanting our own; & the ' Library of Babel' which contains every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories & the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries gaucho knife fights & dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later it remains endlessly intriguing. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires Argentina. A poet critic & short story writer he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim along with Kafka & Joyce to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. If you enjoyed " Fictions" you might like Italo Calvino's " The Complete Cosmicomics" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " Hurley's efforts at retranslating Borges are not anything but heroic. His visions are clear elegant crystalline". (Ilan Savans " The Times Literary Supplement"). " One of the most memorable artists of our age". (Mario Vargas Llosa)." ...

Fiddle Time Joggers is a first book of very easy pieces for violin with open string pieces & tunes using the finger pattern 0-1-23-4. There are well-known tunes & original pieces from rock to calypso using simple slurs & a few dynamics. Notice-boards introduce new notes & rhythms & there are easy duets to play. The book comes with CD providing performances of all the pieces with accompaniments using piano & other instruments. A separate book of straightforward piano accompaniments is available. ...

Fiddle Time Runners with CD is a second book of easy pieces for violin using finger patterns 0-12-3-4 & 0-1-2-34. It



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Fiddle Time Starters is a great beginner book for the budding violinist. Carefully paced to suit young learners it supports players through the important early stages step by step-from how to hold your instrument & bow through basic notation to exciting pieces in a range of styles. With plenty of entertaining illustrations & a CD to play along to with Fiddle Time Starters it really is fun to play! ...