JPR Williams won his first cap for Wales in 1969 & until his retirement in 1981 was the mainstay of Welsh teams that won six Triple Crowns three Grand Slams & six Five Nations Championships. Renowned for his power & bravery on the pitch JPR is a hero to the Welsh & a respected icon of the rugby world. In his autobiography JPR recalls his childhood in Bridgend & the early signs that he was destined for sporting greatness. He showed initial promise as a tennis player beating David Lloyd at the age of seventeen to win Junior Wimbledon but in 1968 decided to abandon any plan of becoming a professional tennis player in order to combine his medical career with amateur rugby. That year he was selected for the Welsh tour of Argentina & this marked the beginning of his rugby adventure. He relives his early rugby career & remembers the most exciting matches of his playing days both for Wales & for the British & Irish Lions including the 1971 win against the All Blacks
- the only time the Lions have ever beaten New Zealand in a series
- a team in which he was an integral player. His love of rugby was so strong that he was unable to tear himself away from the game & played amateur rugby well into his fifties with Tondu the Welsh junior side.

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If you've turned to the j Query library to simplify common client-side Java Script tasks this pocket reference will help you quickly locate what you need from j Query's vast array of functions & properties to complete your web project. j Query Pocket Reference provides a series of tutorials on various j Query features along with a quick reference to the entire library. It's an ideal book for beginners & experienced Java Script developers alike. ...

Its 1977 the day of the Queens Silver Jubilee when a photographer captures a moment forever: a festive street party with bunting & Union Jacks fluttering in the breeze & right in the centre of the frame a small Asian boy staring intensely at the camera. The photo becomes infamous when it is adopted as a symbol of everything that is great & good about Britain but what is the real story behind it? Relationships between the neighbours on Cherry Gardens are far from easy & minor frictions threaten to erupt as the street party begins... Fast forward to the present & that boy Satish is now a successful paediatric heart surgeon saving lives & families every single day. But hes living with a secret
- hes addicted to controlled prescription drugs. A message about a proposed reunion of the children in the photograph throws his life into turmoil as he thinks back to Jubilee Day & the events that changed his life for ever.
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Photographs & the stories behind the visits & engagements undertaken by the Queen & Members of the Royal Family. During the Year the events included memorable visits to parts of the United Kingdom & the Commonwealth. Covers aspects of a remarkable year that disproved the tabloid medias claim that the public had lost interest in the Queen & the Royal Family with more than a million people taking to the streets of London on every ceremonial occasion. Covering events including the Thames river Pageant. A record of a Royal Year quite unlike any other. ...

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth IIs accession to the throne Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the sixty years of Her Majestys reign. An all star line up
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Includes:: such celebrated writers as Simon Armitage Gillian Clarke Wendy Cope Geoffrey Hill Jackie Kay Michael Longley Andrew Motion Don Paterson & Jo Shapcott alongside some of the newest young talent around
- address a moment or event from their chosen year be it of personal or political significance or both. Through a series of specially commissioned poems Jubilee Lines" offers a unique portrayal of the country & times in which we have lived since 1953 culminating in an essential portrait of today: the way we speak the way we chronicle the way we love & fight the way we honour & remember. Brilliantly introduced by Carol Ann Duffy " Jubilee Lines" is an unforgettable commemoration: not only a monarchs reign but of a way of life."



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Treachery has a price in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Helmand Province Afghanistan: a lone convoy edges its way towards a deserted mountain village led by US Army Rangers in Mastiff APVs. Stopping to search the area the Rangers are hit by a massive roadside bomb & as half the patrol lie dead or injured the rest are ambushed with military precision. A nearby British medical team responds to the call for back-up but all are slaughtered when their Chinook helicopter is blown up. The ambush is bad but whats worse is that amidst the battlefield chatter picked up by Major Giles Roper not all the Taliban voices are Afghan
- some are English & the commander bears an Irish accent; he even names himself Shamrock. Why would he commit such an atrocity but more importantly can he be found before he masterminds another? Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down with all the resources of the Prime Ministers private army at his disposal. The fast & furious plot sweeps the reader from Pakistan to Algeria to London to Paris to Ireland with many deaths along the way. The stakes are already high for Dillon & company then a familiar deadly face makes a dramatic reappearance. This time Dillon will not only be going to war
- the war will be coming to him & he will learn that this Judas has al-Qaeda on his side...

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Treachery has a price in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller from the Sunday Times-bestselling author. Helmand Province Afghanistan: a lone convoy edges its way towards a deserted mountain village led by US Army Rangers in Mastiff APVs. Stopping to search the area the Rangers are hit by a massive roadside bomb & as half the patrol lie dead or injured the rest are ambushed with military precision. A nearby British medical team responds to the call for back-up but all are slaughtered when their Chinook helicopter is blown up. The ambush is bad but what's worse is that amidst the battlefield chatter picked up by Major Giles Roper not all the Taliban voices are Afghan
- some are English & the commander bears an Irish accent; he even names himself ' Shamrock'. Why would he commit such an atrocity but more importantly can he be found before he masterminds another? Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down with all the resources of the ' Prime Minister's private army' at his disposal. The fast & furious plot sweeps the reader from Pakistan to Algeria to London to Paris to Ireland with many deaths along the way. The stakes are already high for Dillon & company then a familiar deadly face makes a dramatic reappearance. This time Dillon will not only be going to war
- the war will be coming to him & he will learn that this Judas has al-Qaeda on his side...

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Oscar Wildes philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss" describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England & face imprisonment & the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him. With a burning sense of outrage David Hare presents the consequences of an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear & conformity. Originally produced in the West End & on Broadway this new edition coincides with a 2012 revival. " Superbly written.. . Hare has taken a history & pieced it together with heroic grace... Vastly rich sophisticated & heartbreaking." (" Time Out" New York)." ...

Every antique dealer is a bit of a detective following clues to find the trophies that pay the rent but when Lovejoy takes on the job of tracking down a pair of duelling pistols so rare that he's not even sure actually exist he needs all the instincts of a detective to pick his way through an unsolved crime. Along the way he becomes convinced that the weapons do exist but that they have fallen into the hands of a vile murderer. Locating the ancient weapons seems like the least of his problems when Lovejoy then finds himself fighting for his life in a duel to the death! ...

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty & the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining & when tragedy occurs Sue has no resilience & Jude is left in despair. ...