The humour at times can leave you gasping.. .comic brilliance Sunday Times Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past & its burdens. So in the hope of starting afresh he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened. Sadly Kugels life isnt that simple. His family soon find themselves threatened by a local arsonist & his ailing mother wont stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she didnt actually suffer through. & when one night Kugel discovers a living breathing thought-to-be-dead specimen of history hiding in his attic bad very quickly becomes worse. Singularly inventive & superbly shocking.. .nothing short of genius Scotland on Sunday He will make you laugh until your heart breaks New York Times Book Review ...

Ellie works really hard at the stables. Her only comforts are her beautiful horse Spirit & the friendship of her cousin Joe. When it looks like both might be taken away from her will Ellie have the strength she needs to survive? & will her magical bond with Spirit be unbreakable
- or not? This is a beautifully tender story that will enrapture girls with a passion for horses or a taste for romance.
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Hoppers is a peg solitaire jumping game. Set the frogs on the pond then start jumping until only the red frog is left.



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Play peekaboo with your baby & hear them giggle in delight as springtime animals are revealed! Read together & lift the flaps to reveal delightful springtime animals; then explore the soft shiny & bumpy textures. Where has bunny rabbit gone? Is she behind the pretty flower petals? & who will you discover behind the big daisy? Find them all as they are waiting to say Peekaboo! This is an award-winning series for babies perfect for developing imagination early-thinking & memory skills. ...

The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a semi-mythical beer specially invented in the 19th century to travel halfway around the world through storms & tropical sunshine & arrive in perfect condition for a long cold drink on an Indian verandah. But although you can still buy beers with IPA on the label they are to be frank a pale imitation of the original. For the first time in 140 years a keg of Burton IPA has been brewed with the original recipe for a voyage to India by canal & tall ship around the Cape of Good Hope; & the man carrying it is the award-winning Pete Brown Britains best beer write. Brazilian pirates & Iranian customs officials lie ahead but will he even make it that far have fallen in the canal just a few miles out of Burton? & if Pete does make it to the other side of the world with Barry the barrel one question remains: what will the real IPA taste like? Weaving first-class travel writing with assured comedy Hops & Glory" is both a rollicking raucous history of the Raj & a wonderfully entertaining groundbreaking experiment to recreate the finest beer ever produced." ...

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to work hard at school & to play hopscotch with her friends on the pavement outside her house in the run-down Nechells area of Birmingham. As long as everything is alright at home with her Ma & Pa her little sister Joyce & brother Sid then life is good. But after Ems mother Cynthia has her baby she just doesnt seem to be able to cope. Her life-long friend & neighbour Dot helps as much as she can but she has children of her own & no man to hand; Cynthias husband Bob too does his best but begins to feel that hes losing the wife he has loved so much; & little Em just cant find enough hours in the day to do all the washing & cleaning. Soon it seems the only thing is for Cynthia to go & stay across the city with her tyrannical older sister. With Cynthia away life only gets harder for Em. Her best friend Kate ostracizes her leaving only poor stinky Molly Fox at her side & when the Board Man comes to call wanting to know why shes not at school things are really bad. When Bob stays out later & later in the evenings always the worse for wear & spending too much time with a local very merry widow Em decides to travel across Birmingham to fetch her mother home but the mother she discovers is a far cry from the proud upright & loving figure she has known so well.. . ...

Set in the years 1914-1918 this is the third book in the Blackwood saga. For three generations members of the Blackwood family served the Royal Marines with distinction. With the outbreak of World War I at last comes Jonathan Blackwoods turn to carry the family name into battle. But as the young marines embark for the Dardanelles & a new kind of warfare it dawns on them that the days of scarlet coats & an unchanging tradition of honour & glory have gone forever. First in Gallipoli & two years later at Flanders comes their horrifying initiation into a wholescale slaughter for which no training could ever have prepared them. Caught up in the savagery of a conflict beyond any officers control Blackwoods future rests on the horizon
- the dark lip of the trench which was the last fateful sight for so many.
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The titanic war between the elemental alien hydrogues & faeros continues to sweep across the Spiral Arm extinguishing suns & destroying planets. Chairman Wenceslas & King Peter must now unify the human race with iron-fisted policies in a final bid to stand together -- or face total annihilation. But disparate civilizations are forging new alliances that threaten the old order. The Roamer & Theron clans will not yield their independence & the new Mage-Imperator Jora'h now faces a threat that no other Ildiran leader has ever seen -- a civil war that could break apart the entire Empire. ...

Just as celebrated columnist Katie Kiernan thinks life is over it suddenly arrives on her doorstep in the shape of her sister Michelle & all the intrigue Michelle brings with her. Friction resentment & old jealousies make life in their house doubly challenging as Katie struggles to cope with a rebellious teenager & Michelle longs for the man she has left behind. After a devastating betrayal Laurie Forbes is trying to rebuild her relationship with Elliot Russell when she is plunged into a whirlwind of passion that threatens to tear them apart completely. Top journalist Tom Chambers the man Michelle left behind faces the greatest challenge of his career when highly classified documents fall into his hands. Realizing how explosive the material is Tom calls upon Elliot Russell to help with the investigation & very quickly they are caught up in the deadly efforts to stop them going to print. ...

Hornby is a household name with a history that goes back over 80 years. This book looks at the Hornby range in depth & shows how Hornby models can be used to build a model railway layout to suit the space available & all levels of modelling skill. Now completely revised & updated it is packed with hints & tips for easy layout building scenic structure modelling track laying & wiring & extra detailing & provides ideas for working at the simplest level including a layout for very young enthusiasts through to the more experienced modeller. Extra sections relating to recent developments in the hobby are included along with new photography new layouts & recent additions to Hornby rolling stock & the Skaledale range. ...