Capturing the glamour heartache & triumphs of Olympic figure-skating this stunning new series whisks readers off to
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This book is designed to introduce young children to unfamiliar situations in an amusing & friendly way. It features Stephen Cartwrights delightful illustrations providing lots to look at & talk about. It provides an ideal starting point for young children & adults to discuss first experiences. Other titles in this series include: Going to the Hospital"; " Going to a Party"; & " The New Puppy"." ...

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... ...

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. ...

Going Solo" tells of how when he grew up Roald Dahl left England for Africa & a series of daring & dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites read all about Roald Dahl's life before becoming the world's number-one storyteller. This book is full of exciting & strange things
- some funny some frightening all true. 'I have only written about those moments that I consider memorable'
- Roald Dahl Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations."

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In 1950 only 22% of adults were single. Today more than 50% of adults are. Eric Klinenberg explores the dramatic rise of solo living & the seismic impact it's having on our culture business & politics. Though conventional wisdom tells us that living by oneself leads to loneliness & isolation most 'solo dwellers' compared with their married counterparts are more likely to eat out & exercise sign up for art & music classes attend public events & lectures & volunteer. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews with men & women of all ages & every class Klinenberg reaches some startling conclusions. With eye-opening statistics original data & vivid portraits of people who go it alone Going Solo upends common preconceptions to provide the definitive take on the rise of this major trend & how it is transforming modern society. ...

A provocative look at how & why Britain has fallen into decline from being a superpower in 1914 to being a third world economy in 2014 by two of Britains leading Economists journalists With a second recession looming Britain is facing a moment of truth. Going South examines how the leader of the Industrial Revolution came to exhibit the features of a developing country." The symptoms of this vertiginous plunge in the worlds rankings are already starkly apparent: a chronic balance of payment deficit a looming shortage of energy & food a dysfunctional labor market volatility in economic growth & a painful vulnerability to external events. & if these are the big indicators of imminent relegation to the Third World many smaller ones are too numerous to fully catalogue. So stark is the evidence that it is our contention that Britains looming relegation is not in doubt. The names change with intellectual fashion--the developing world the Third World less-developed countries "emerging markets " or simply the Global South. But the destination is the same. Britain is going south--rapidly. Assuming that Britain faces up to its plight there is no easy model for the redevelopment of the national economy. Whichever path is taken will be a hard one. The age of the quick fixes is over." ...

America is a grotesquely polarized society & becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp funny & terrifying collection of pieces Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between rich & poor over the past eight years has left the country increasingly divided between the gated communities on the one hand & the trailer parks & tenements on the other. She describes a country where the super-rich travel by private jet while low-paid workers make multiple bus trips to get to their jobs; where a wealthy minority obsessively consumes cosmetic surgery while the poor often go without basic health care for their children; where members of the moneyed elite can buy congressmen while a troubling proportion of the working class can barely buy lunch. Ehrenreich writes corruscatingly about the pay of CEOs the treatment of illegal immigrants the way Wal-Mart spies on & interrogates its employees & the fact that its easier to get health insurance in America for a pet than for a child. Going to Extremes" brilliantly anatomises a nation approaching its 2008 election scarred by deepening equality & corroded by distrust." ...