In a memoir as vivid & unpredictable as any novel we follow Roger Garfitt on his journey from stable boy to jazz dancer from Oxford dandy to Sixties drop-out. We see him on horseback with the Riding Master to the Kings of Portugal & in a beatnik pad with Redmond OHanlon. We watch as he is introduced to David Bowie & realises that the wrong one has come as the rock star. We follow him back to the Norfolk village where as a small child he had glimpsed the world through his grandfathers eyes & we are inside his head as he gradually cuts loose from the real world eventually being committed to a locked ward in a mental hospital. Written with a poets gift for language The Horsemans Word" is an account of what it is like to feel the world too acutely to love too obsessively to go right to the very edge & miraculously survive." ...

Children everywhere will adore this photographic collection of horses in wildly varying poses by the world-renowned Yann Arthus-Bertr&. In a series of dramatically lit & beautifully composed photographs horses & their owners appear together in studios or in the open air against plain backdrops in some of the most stunning & far-flung parts of the world. Noted childrens author Christophe Donners engaging stories complement the photographs. ...

Monty Roberts is known as the man who listens to horses because of his amazing ability to understand & communicate with his equine partners. He has written this book to celebrate the horses throughout his life that have had a special significance: from his first mount Ginger through the champion show horses & sprinters to those he is working with tirelessly today. THE HORSES IN MY LIFE gives a unique insight into his non-aggressive methods & how his relationship with each horse developed. It is an inspirational collection of vignettes that reveals his love & respect for these noble animals. We are invited not only to get to know the individual horses but to share the immense joy that Monty found with them. ...

The book lists in alphabetical format over 690 British Irish & French trainers their horses the owner & breeder of each horse foaling dates of two year olds & the trainers address & phone numbers. Fully indexed it has over 200 pages of statistics. ...

Horses in Training lists in alphabetical order over 700 British Irish & French trainers their horses the owner & breeder of each horse foaling dates of two-year-olds & the trainer's address & phone numbers. Fully indexed it has over 200 pages of statistics. ...

Everyone laughs when Horton the Elephant offers to sit on Mayzie birds egg while she goes on holiday. Hortons kindness & faithfulness are sorely tested when he & the egg are kidnapped & sold to a circus
- but his reward for being faithful is more wonderful than he could ever have dreamed! With his unique combination of hilarious stories zany pictures & riotous rhymes Dr Suess has been delighting young children & helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat & ranked among the UKs top ten favourite childrens authors Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. As part of a major rebrand programme Harper Collins is relaunching Dr Seusss best-selling books. In response to consumer demand bright new cover designs incorporate much-needed guidance on reading levels. The standard paperbacks divide into three reading strands
- Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own & Yellow Back Books for older more fluent readers to enjoy. This is a Yellow Back book.

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The wonderful Seuss classic now in a beautiful picture book format. Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Whos who live on a speck of dust
- no one else believes they are there! But Horton eventually convinces everyone that 'a person's a person no matter how small'! With his unique combination of hilarious stories zany pictures & riotous rhymes Dr Seuss has been delighting young children & helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat & ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller with over half a billion books sold worldwide.
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Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Whos who live on a speck of dust
- no one else believes they are
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Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor the Imperium of Man has stretched out across the galaxy. On the eve of victory the Emperor leaves the front lines entrusting the great crusade to his favorite son Horus. Promoted to Warmaster the idealistic Horus tries to carry out the Emperor'sgrand design all the while the seeds of heresy & rebellion have been sowed amongst his brothers. ...

Hospital Babylon" is an in-depth amusing & highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments & wards where babies are made thighs are reduced noses straightened & spare kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent. We will meet doctors who sleep with nurses; doctors who sleep with patients; doctors who fiddle their insurance forms; doctors who suck fat pump up breasts plump lips & lengthen penises; the doctor who specialises in flatulence; the doctor who shoots up before he operates; doctor Feelgood who will give you anything & everything you need; as well as the doctor who makes a fortune doing buttock enlargements in the Caribbean. En route we will discover what touches them what amuses them & quite how obsessively insane you have to be to make it to the top. Why does a private room cost over GBP1000 a night? Who are the people changing your bedpan? Holding your hand as you go to sleep? What do they do to you while youre out cold? Why are drugs so expensive? How easy is it for the pharmaceutical companies to grease the good doctors palm? Who exactly is profiting from your illness embarrassing affliction or brand new nose? & of course what happens when it all goes wrong? Packed with true stories anecdotes & revelations " Hospital Babylon" is a riveting entertaining & shocking look at 24 hours in the life of a hospital. Both amusing & appalling it will make you question whether you should sign that consent form after all..." ...