Journalist presenter broadcaster husband father vigorous all-rounder -- Alan Partridge -- a man with a fascinating past & an amazing future. Gregarious & popular yet Alans never happier than when relaxing in his own five-bedroom south-built house with three acres of land & access to a private stream. But who is this mysterious enigma? Alan Gordon Partridge is the best -- & best-loved -- radio presenter in the region. Born into a changing world of rationing Teddy Boys apes in space & the launch of ITV Alans broadcasting career began as chief DJ of Radio Smile at St. Lukes Hospital in Norwich. After replacing Peter Flint as the presenter of Scout About he entered the top 8 of BBC sports presenters. But Alans big break came with his primetime BBC chat show Knowing Me Knowing You. Sadly the show battled against poor scheduling having been put up against News at Ten then in its heyday. Due to declining ratings a single catastrophic hitch (the killing of a guest on air) & the dumbing down of network TV Alans show was cancelled. Not to be dissuaded he embraced this opportunity to wind up his production company leave London & fulfil a lifelong ambition to return to his roots in local radio. Now single Alan is an intensely private man but he opens up for the second time in this candid entertaining often deeply emotional -- & of course compelling -- memoir written entirely in his own words. (Alan quickly dispelled the idea of using a ghost writer. With a grade B English Language O-Level he knew he was up to the task.) He speaks touchingly about his tragic Toblerone addiction & the painful moment when unsold copies of his first autobiography Bouncing Back were pulped like word porridge. He reveals all about his relationship with his ex-Ukrainian girlfriend Sonja with whom he had sex at least twice a day & the truth about the thick people who make key decisions at the BBC. A literary tour de force I Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan charts the incredible journey of one of our greatest broadcasters. ...

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Fortune magazine proclaimed Jobs 'the CEO of the decade'. Harvard Business Review called him 'the world's best-performing CEO'. & the Wall Street Journal praised him as a ' Person of the Decade'. The longtime CEO of Apple Inc. which he co-founded in 1976 Steve Jobs stepped down from that role in August 2011 after a long battle with his health bringing an end to one of the greatest most transformative business careers in history. Over the years Jobs has given countless interviews to the media explaining what he calls 'the vision thing'
- his unmatched ability to envision & successfully bring to the marketplace consumer products that people find simply irresistible. Job's untimely death on October 5th shocked the world with many sharing their respect & sympathy on the very instruments that he created. 'I Steve' is drawn from more than three decades of media coverage
- print electronic & online
- this book serves up the best most thought-provoking insights spoken by Steve Jobs: more than two hundred"ations that are essential reading for everyone who seeks innovative solutions applicable to their business regardless of size. It's the perfect gift or reference item for everyone interested in this icon.


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Douglas R Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Godel Escher Bach
- an original & controversial view of the nature
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A Bengal tiger wakes up one morning realising he is ravenously in love. A pompous railway supervisor in a small Indian village bites off more than he can chew when a peculiar new clerk arrives on his doorstep. In another place & in another time a secret agent who spends her days watching the front door of an unknown quarry discovers something she isnt meant to. An immigrant housewife in an American suburb geeing up for Thanksgiving makes a wish she may come to regret. & a small & famous countrys only executioner claims his conscience is as clean as his heavy washed stones. With this glittering savage & elegant first collection where reality loops in mind-bending twists & dazzles with cinematic exuberance where frayed photographs take on a life of their own & where elephants wish only to die with dignity Rajesh Parameswaran bursts onto the literary landscape as an astonishing new talent. ...

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The story of a young boy's journey through Europe after escaping from the camp where he had lived all his life. Sea mountains & flowers the colours of Italy the taste of fruit people laughing & smiling all are new to David. & David learns that his polite manner his haunted eyes & his thin features are strange to other people. ...

Baby Ben is a Border Collie pup who knows only darkness & hunger having lived all of his short life locked away in a gloomy dirty shed. Then comes daylight the joy of birdsong & the sweet smell of grass as he is set free to begin his new life as Seth where hell learn the importance of being biddable towards his new master. I am Dog" brings to the forefront the sadness & injustice of animal cruelty. However it is also a story of hope trust love & peace
- beautifully told through the eyes of Seth as he takes his journey through the seasons of life."
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Sisters Atara & Mila were born at the onset of the Second World War into a deeply insular ultra-orthodox Jewish sect. As the girls grow up Mila finds she is content to live within the constraints & familiarity of the world shes always known but Atara is consumed by questions
- about arranged marriage the education of girls the circumstances surrounding the escape of the sects leader during the war. Finally forced apart by the rules of the community the two women are brought together again when a family secret threatens to make pariahs of them all. I Am Forbidden is a powerful portrayal of sisters family faith & history which sweeps the reader from pre-war Transylvania to present-day New York via Paris & Engl&. Immersive beautiful moving it exposes in devastating detail what happens when unwavering love unyielding law & centuries of tradition collide.
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I Am Forbidden" is a powerful portrayal of family faith & history which sweeps the reader across continents & generations from pre-war Transylvania to present-day New York via Paris & Engl&. Immersive beautiful moving it explores in devastating detail what happens when unwavering love unyielding law & centuries of tradition collide." ...