France early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins & is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents two vast French & British fleets meet in the mid-Atlantic following a week of skirmishing. After fierce fighting both sides claim victory. In The Glorious First of June Sam Willis not only tells with thrilling immediacy & masterly clarity the story of an epic & complex battle he also places it within the context of The Terror the survival of the French Revolution & the growth of British sea-power. ...

Bruce Sandison takes the reader on a magical journey as seen through the eyes of some of Scotlands best-known & most respected gillies stalkers & keepers
- men who have spent their whole lives on river moor & hill caring for the iconic salmon in our rivers & the red deer on our hills. The stories they have to tell are full of humour kindliness & patience; sometimes under difficult circumstances as they help their guests old & young alike novice or experienced in pursuit of the best possible chance of sport. Your guide Bruce Sandison is a highly regarded author & conservationist well known for his passionate love for his native l&. Everything that is finest about Scotland will be found along the way & above all this is a unique opportunity to spend time in the company of these glorious very special gentlemen.
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In general " Glory" is my happiest thing". " The fun of " Glory" is.. .to be sought in the echoing & linking of minor events in back-&-forth switches which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to ones chest or in the casual vision of Martins mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists & a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale although nothing much happens at the very end
- just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day". (Vladimir Nabokov)."
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They are called The Glory Boys by those who regard their exploits with envy or contempt. Bob Kearton is one of them. Already a veteran & survivor of the close action in the English Channel & North Sea in January of 1943 he is ordered to the Mediterranean & beleagured Malta a mere sixty miles from occupied Sicily. Unexpectedly promoted to lieutenant-commander he is given charge of a newly formed & as yet incomplete flotilla of motor torpedo boats. The tide of defeat is thought to be turning the enemy no longer advancing along the North African coast with Egypt & India as final objectives & Keartons is a new war of stealth subterfuge & daring in which the Glory Boys are only too expendable. ...

Hooker Azzie Erica & the rest all play cricket in their spare time but theyve never taken it very seriously until now. Kiddo one of their school teachers suggests they form an official team & play proper matches
- & Glory Gardens C.C. is formed. Hooker as captain soon finds out that cricket teams werent built in a day: some players squabble some cant catch & some have tantrums & go home at half-time! So will Glory Gardens go all out for victory.. .or will they be out for a duck?
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It really doesnt look like being Hookers season. Not only does he spend the first match of the league suffering a dropped-catch jinx but now there civil war in the team over the selections. Sometimes captaining the Glory Gardens Cricket Team isnt the fun you might think. Its not the matches that prove the most trouble for poor Hooker
- its the infighting. He has one solution that might work but making Ohbert captain in his place! Thats not strategy
- thats suicide.

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The atmosphere is electric the pitch an impossibly brilliant shade of green & Spurs in all-white of course are playing with that famous swashbuckling style zipping the ball off the greasy surface with devastating precision & purpose. Their quick-passing game rips open the usually immaculately drilled defence of their illustrious European opponents & as the ball hits the back of the net White Hart Lane erupts in a thunderous jubilant roar which echoes with magical memories from 50 years of fantastic floodlit European evenings
- the glory glory nights! European football has a special resonance at Tottenham Hotspur. The spirit of adventure the romance of taking on the very best matching their style & technique & when it all goes to plan blowing them away with skill pace & passion has always fitted in exactly with what Spurs are all about. To dare is to do! In 1963 Spurs became the first British team ever to win a European trophy when they beat Atletico Madrid to lift the European Cup Winners' Cup & in total the club has won three trophies across more than 50 seasons of European campaigns. The Glory Glory Nights tells the story of every one of them
- from the first competitive foray onto foreign fields when Bill Nick took the great Double side into the unknown of the European Cup to Bale Modric & van der Vaart marauding their way to the quarter-finals of the Champions League in 2010. The complete & official story of Tottenham Hotspur in Europe this beautifully put-together book is packed with spectacular photography much of it previously unseen match reports & statistics from every European game the club has ever played plus first-hand memories & recollections from club legends like Danny Blanchflower Jimmy Greaves Steve Perryman Martin Chivers Ossie Ardiles & Gareth Bale. On top of that there are new & highly illuminating conversations with some of the greats of the key decades in Spurs' European history
- Cliff Jones & Terry Dyson on the Sixties Martin Chivers & Phil Beal on the Seventies Micky Hazard & Paul Miller on the Eighties & Gareth Bale & Michael Dawson on the 2010 Champions League campaign. The Glory Glory Nights is a spectacular & fitting tribute to Spurs' glorious European history.


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The dead were her business. She lived with them worked with them studied them. She dreamed of them. & because that didn't seem to be enough in some deep secret chamber of her heart she mourned for them. The first victim is found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second murdered in her own apartment building. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas has no problem finding connections between the two crimes. Both victims are beautiful & highly successful women; their glamorous lives & loves were the talk of the city. & their intimate relations with men of great power & wealth provide Eve with a long list of suspects
- including her own lover Roarke. As a woman Eve is compelled to trust the man who shares her bed. But as a cop it's her job to follow every lead...to explore every secret passion no matter how dark. Or how dangerous.
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On a rainy night in Gothenburg in May 1983 twelve young Scotsmen turned the footballing world on its head. Against all the odds those players took on the might of Spanish giants Real Madrid & beat them convincingly. Aberdeen were winners of the European Cup Winners Cup. The manager Alex Ferguson would go on to become one of the greats his team Pittodrie legends. The tale of that season the remarkable triumph in the Ullevi Stadium & of the men who made it possible has never fully been told
- until now. Glory In Gothenburg" goes behind the scenes deep into the inner sanctum & through a series of in-depth interviews with all the main characters reveals what made that side & those players so special & what drove them on to achieve unparalleled success. Thirty years later the story remains one of the most astonishing in the history of Scottish football."
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The votes have been counted the results are in. Just what was the Greatest Game in Nottingham Forests history? Who is the fans choice as the Best Player of All Time
- & who else made the Top 11? Whos the best manager? & the worst? Just as importantly what are the Top 20 Terrace Anthems? The Twelve Most Irritating Opposition Players? The Seven Most Pompous Referees to have darkened the City Grounds door? Alex Walker has been canvassing opinions from Forest fans across the globe & here presents the definitive Nottingham Forest hall of fame shame & the hard-to-explain. Not selected by the club or by pundits but by the people who really know what matters: the fans.
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