This memoir of Di Spires looks at Formula 1 from a very unusual viewpoint. She travelled the world in Formula 1 for 30 years running the team motorhome for a succession of different teams. As well as Formula 1 people she encountered personalities from every walk of life from royalty to criminals on the run. Her stories range from the hilarious to the tragic & provide a unique perspective. This is a fast-paced read packed with surprising snippets & observations with plenty of intimate insight into what the drivers are really like. ...

This is the paperback edition of Di Spires' unsual & revealing Formula 1 memoir. Di & her husband Stu travelled the world in Formula 1 for 30 years running the team motorhome for a succession of different teams. As well as Formula 1 people she encountered personalities from every walk of life from royalty to criminals on the run. Her stories range from the hilarious to the tragic & provide a unique perspective. This is a fast-paced read packed with surprising snippets & observations with plenty of intimate insight into what the drivers are really like. ...

Everyones heard the Katy Perry song but have you ever been tempted...? An anthology of hot erotic short stories featuring women drawn to experiment with their own sex. This diverse collection travels the globe proving that women from every walk of life & culture are curious & eager to explore their full sexuality.. .with each other. Contributors of this title include: C. Margery Kempe Lousia Bacio Inara Lavey Samantha Jones K. Ann Karlsson Kilt Kilpatrick Nola Erus Farrah J. Phoenix Jen Bluekissed L.A. Mistral Lucy Felthouse & Regina Perry. ...

All the animals love the baby
- & so will you! I saw the baby! Did you see the baby? Yes! I saw the baby the teeny weeny thing.
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Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic & his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of & love for his damaged twin Dominick Birdseys whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane. But at what cost? This powerful heartwrenching drama draws on the deepest human emotions: the need to know oneself responsibility to family the influence of hidden history. The result is a highly acclaimed novel of survival written with great sensitivity. ...

Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents & resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination & extreme poverty but also hope joy achievement & celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town & suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. 'I write about being a Black American woman however I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are what makes us laugh & this is how we fall & how we somehow amazingly stand up again' Maya Angelou ...

In I Know You Got Soul" Jeremy Clarkson writes about the machines that he believes have soul. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But its not just any old bucket of blots cogs & bearings that rings his bell. In fact hes scoured the length & breadth of the land plunged into the oceans & taken to the skies in search of machines with that elusive certain something. & along the way hes discovered: the safest place to be in the event of nuclear war; who would win if Superman James Bond & The Terminator had a fight; the stupidest person hes ever met; what an old Cornish institution called Arthur has to do with 0898 chat lines; & how jean-Claude Van Damme might get eaten by a lion. In "I Know You Got Soul: Machines with a Certain Something" Jeremy Clarkson tells stories of the geniuses innovators & crackpots who put the ghost in the machine. From Brunels SS Great Britain to the awesome Blackbird spy-plane & from the woeful
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- Graf Zeppelin to Han Solos Millennium Falcon they cant help but love them in return. Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: " Brilliant.. .laugh-out-loud". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Outrageously funny.. .will have you in stitches". (" Time Out"). Number-one bestseller Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars current affairs & anything else that annoys him in his sharp & funny collections. " Born To Be Riled" " Clarkson On Cars" " Dont Stop Me Now" " Driven To Distraction" " Round the Bend" & " Motorworld" are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App i Clarkson: The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store. Jeremy Clarkson because his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the " Sun" & the " Sunday Times". Today he is the tallest person working in British television & is the presenter of the hugely popular " Top Gear"."

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They married at St Mary Abbots Kensington in September 1948 the groom the ambitious son of the editor of the Express; the bride the beautiful somewhat rebellious daughter of blamelessly upstanding family of the provincial middle-middle class. A young man who was pushed forward by family expectation a young woman pulled back... In this poignant & perceptive portrait of his parents catastrophically acrimonious divorce Rupert Christiansen tells the story of a generation. With the narrative power of the likes of The Ice Storm & Revolutionary Road he chronicles the experience not just of one particular class but of an era when the loosening of the stays on middle-class marriage precipitated a rollercoaster decade of heartbreak & loss. ...

Its 1989 & Emma & her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept & virtually unemployable they discover that they cant even get a job in Mc Donalds. Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets they bounce from scrape to scrape surviving on their wits & the kindness of strangers. Bad luck & misfortune throw everything their way
- snakes earthquakes black magic & incontinent dogs. They even get kidnapped by a sex-crazed midget in a Ferrari. This never happened to Jack Kerouac. Startlingly honest & ridiculously funny I Left My Tent in San Francisco" is the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale."
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I Like This Poem is a classic collection of children's poems from Puffin Books. Highwaymen & naughty children sharks & baboons the Snitterjipe & the Jabberwocky all have their part to play. Each & every poem in this treasure chest of family favourites was chosen by a child for other children. With poems from William Wordsworth & Christina Rosetti to Roald Dahl & Michael Rosen there really is something for everyone. Classics to savour & new favourites to discover! This is a classic anthology to treasure forever. Kaye Webb became Editor of Puffin Books in 1961. During the 1960s & 1970s her instinct & flair resulted in the addition of many outstanding titles to the Puffin list & in 1967 she launched the highly successful Puffin Club now the Puffin Book Club. She was widely known for her remarkable contribution to children's books & was awarded the MBE in 1974. She retired from Puffin 1979 but continued her involvement with children's books. Kaye Webb died in January 1996. ...