A playground sensation based on a game played with real bits of bone 2 000 years ago is selling out as soon as it hits toy store shelves! With 80 characters currently available the toy range is selling millions each week. & now here comes the Official Handbook! This is the ultimate read for any fan of Gogo's Crazy Bones. With amazing facts & top stats on all of the Gogo's loads of brilliant different games to play & a chance to design your own Gogo this is pure Crazy Bones fun! ...

Paul Winslow was old enough to know better when cricket finally gripped him in its thrall. Having ignored its myriad charms for years he let his guard down & found himself conscripted into the Barmy Army blindly following the England cricket team to Belfast Barbados Brisbane & beyond to feed his new addiction. His career stalled homelessness ensued & relationships came under strain but none of it mattered as long as there was a cricket tour to go on. Going Barmy is not a history of the Barmy Army; it is a story of gradual cricket obsession & a personal insight into what life is really like with the Barmy Army both on tour & as a business. This unique consideration of a sporting & cultural phenomenon opens the door on the songwriting the camaraderie & the relationship with the players one of whom England off-spinner Graeme Swann who wrote the foreword & says: Im glad that Winslow has written this book. Hopefully it will give you an insight into the life of the real & often misunderstood Barmy Army. They are not hooligans they are not troublemakers they are just cricket nuts who fly the flag for this brilliant country we live in. They are the very heartbeat of our Test team abroad. & I love them for it."" ...

Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. Shes not even sure she likes boats. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model she finds her options alarmingly limited. Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. But as The Big Day approaches her cold feet show no signs of warming up
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A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition & assimilation between the Netherlands & England during the 17th century revealing the ways in which Dutch tolerance resilience & commercial acumen effectively conquered Britain by reshaping its intellectual landscape long before Dutch monarchs sat on the English throne. Working backwards from the bloodless revolution that set William & Mary of Orange on the English throne in 1688 this bold & ambitious work redefines the history of cultural & commercial interconnection between two of the world's most powerful trading empires at a time of great intellectual & geographical discovery. Weaving together the lives of the great thinkers of the time Lisa Jardine demonstrates how individuals such as Anton van Leeuwenhoek Christiaan Huygens & Margaret Cavendish usually depicted as instances of isolated genius in fact evolved within a context of easy Anglo-Dutch exchange that laid the groundwork for the European Enlightenment & the Scientific Revolution. Beautifully illustrated throughout this is a fascinating history of big ideas & remarkable individuals. It denounces the traditional view that the rise of England as a world power took place at the expense of the Dutch asserting instead that what is usually interpreted as the decline of the Dutch trading empire was in fact a 'passing on' of the baton to a Britain expanding in power & influence. ...

Capturing the glamour heartache & triumphs of Olympic figure-skating this stunning new series whisks readers off to
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It's 1950 & when Laura & Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seventh heaven despite the austerity that has been going on since World War II. But the euphoria gradually evaporates & they settle into a penny-pinching existence on Billy's teaching salary as babies & bills appear with alarming regularity. When Billy spots an advertisement for Education Officers in Kenya it sounds like the answer to all their prayers despite worries about the Mau Mau rebellion & the omnipresence of dangerous creatures. After much family debate Laura Billy & the junior Hopkins set off to Nairobi on a BOAC Argonaut & start on the biggest adventure of their lives... ...

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist...and a fraud & a man faced with a life choice: be hanged or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through come rain hail sleet dogs the Post Office Workers' Friendly & Benevolent Society the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company & a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice too... ...

The post was an old thing of course but it was so old that it had magically become new again. The post office is an ailing institution belonging to the olden days. New technology overshadows its mind-numbing bureaucracy & the creakingly slow pace of change. You can call them nostalgic but there are still people who believe in the post: in the beauty of stamps & cast-iron pillar boxes & the dignity of the postman braving hail wind & troublesome dogs. & sometimes it's worth standing up for what you believe in... ...

For the many amateur photographers looking to go pro this comprehensive guide from two industry icons is the go-to sourcebook packed with insider advice on how to launch a successful photo business in any genre. Going Pro is the fastest growing phenomenon in pro photography with a blog & podcast viewed by hundreds of thousands of photographers each month & numerous accolades including recognition by Alltop.com. Now a long-awaited book joins the movement giving amateurs all the information they need to turn their hobby into a business including a complete guide to building a social media platform from the ground up. Packed with advice from such industry icons as Chase Jarvis Vincent Laforet Matthew Jordan Smith Jules Bianchi Kevin Kubota & more this is the one guide amateurs have been waiting for. ...

Frances Lincoln are delighted to reissue Sarah Garlands classic picture book series featuring a warm & very down-to-earth family as they go about their daily life. Whether they are gardening swimming picnicking or going to playschool doing the washing the shopping enjoying Christmas or a tea party Mum daughter baby & dog are always rushing around getting things done & having lots of fun. Going Shopping follows the family as they pile into the car drive to the supermarket & do the shopping. ...