Freddy Phil & Don are three grumpy old men travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them. Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District come gale hail snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful & eccentric locals but their real passion is bickering among themselves. Not only about the right path to take but also about where theyre all going at the fag end of life. Phil likes to dash up hills trying to beat his personal best while Freddy plots how to sabotage him teasing him at leisure & asking deep & difficult questions. Stuck in the middle Dons only ambition is to stop the squabbling getting out of hand long enough to find a nice pub for lunch. As warm as the wind is cold as dry as the lashing rain is wet The Hike" is a hilarious tale of bum-warmers crayfish-fanciers East German Trabant enthusiasts bodger philosophers sticky ginger cake gorgeous countryside & the subtle art of onedownmanship." ...

A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their handwriting skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS1 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their handwriting skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities * Motivating activities based on the KS1 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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Mr & Mrs Quest lived in a little house on the very top of a hill. People from all around came to visit & the view would have been perfect but for the rock that blocked it. Fed up with no view Mr Quest decided to move the rock. He never expected what happened next! ...

The Hill Bachelors"
- a remarkable collection of stories from the master storyteller William Trevor. " There is no better
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This new edition has been updated & has undergone a full-colour revision featuring new photos & illustrations to engage those keen to learn the fundamentals of automotive electronics & enhance their understanding of the core concepts whilst keeping the straightforward approach that is much admired in this authoritative manual. ...

The new edition of Hillier's has been updated & undergone a full-colour revision featuring new photos & illustrations to engage those keen to learn the fundamentals of MVT & enhance their understanding of the core concepts whilst keeping the straightforward approach that is much admired in this authoritative manual. ...

The second book in a two-volume series describing walking routes up every 2000-footer in Wales
- all 166 of them. The result is
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The first book in a two-volume series describing walking routes up every 2000-footer in Wales
- all 166 of them. The result is
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Katrin Himmlers cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals -- in all its dark complexity -- the gulf between the normality of bourgeois family life & the horrors perpetrated by one member. This riveting family memoir provides essential new information on the private life & background of one of the twentieth- centurys most notorious killers -- not a lone evil executioner but a middle-class family man loved & fully supported by his respectable German family. It also offers a unique account of one womens courageous attempt to deal with her chilling inheritance. It is part of the creeping discomfort in reading her book to realise the incredibly ordinary middle-class background of these three sons of a rather pompous provincial headmaster & to see how right until the end he was almost able to convince himself it hadnt happened like it had Sunday Times You get a vivid sense of a particular kind of German conservatism
- Roman Catholic monarchist
- & of how weirdly it found an outlet in the upstart part-pagan thuggery of Nazism Independent One can only admire her bravery.. . In a way Katrin Himmlers book is not a story about the past but one about the present. The most interesting details are the ones she gives of her own quest Daily Telegraph

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