Being 70 is no different from being 69. It's a round number & there's something about roundness that has always appealed. --Elizabeth Taylor So what if you're turning 70; after all with age comes wisdom & more excuses to woop loudly as you cruise past pedestrians on your brand new mobility scooter--and at least you're not 80! This book is packed with celebratory"ations to help you shrug your shoulders blow out the candles & keep calm perfect for septuagenarians everywhere." ...

On my eightieth birthday I hope to be jumping out of an aeroplane or swimming with the sharks". (Bonnidette Lantz). It is a timely advice for a milestone birthday. So what if you're turning 80; after all with age comes wisdom sophistication & more excuses to act as if you don't give two hoots about wisdom or sophistication
- at least you're not 90! This book is packed with celebratory"ations to help you shrug your shoulders blow out the candles & Keep Calm."
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June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age & her father away on important war work seventeen-year-old Rita Smith has plenty of people to turn to in the close-knit community of Cliffhaven. Until Italy sides with Germany & Rita's closest friends & neighbours are interned as enemies of the state. As war rages across Europe Rita is more determined than ever to do her bit for the war effort. Although she is forced to give up her dream of joining the WAAF she volunteers as a fire warden. When her own home is destroyed Rita vows she will not lose spirit & throws herself into doing her bit for king & country longing for the day when she is reunited with those she loves best... ...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull middle-class respectability & worship of money. He gives up a good job in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity & his spirit. Only Rosemary ever-faithful Rosemary has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced. ...

A moving & gripping drama as one family struggles to survive through the strains of the Second World War The year is 1940 & Bill & Marion Whittaker live happily with their five children in a terraced house on Albert Road in Birmingham. But when Bill enlists to fight in the Second World War the family are plunged into poverty. Marion is forced to pawn all her worldly possessions & decides to take in two lodgers Peggy Wagstaffe & violet Clooney. These two lively girls bring some light relief to the family & bring with them Peggys handsome brother Sam -- who catches the eye of Marions sixteen-year-old daughter Sarah. 1944 & the war grinds on. Disaster strikes with an explosion at the local munitions factory leaving Sarah badly disfigured. Then news arrives that Sam has been blinded in action. Can these two injured souls help each other to repair not only their physical but emotional scars? & will Bill return to the safety of family & home? ...

Can our personalities be taken away from us? Are memory & identity mutually dependent? What exactly is the soul? Three years ago Andrea Gillies a writer & mother of three took on the care of her mother-in-law Nancy who was in the middle stages of Alzheimers disease. This newly extended family moved to a big Victorian house on a headland in the far far north of Scotland where the author failed to write a novel & Nancy her disease accelerated by change began to move out of the rational world & into dementias alternative reality. This book is a journal of life in this wild location in which Gillies tracks Nancys unravelling grasp on everything that we think of as ordinary & interleaves her own brilliantly cogent investigations into the way Alzheimers works. For the family at the centre of this drama the learning curve was steeper & more interesting than anyone could have imagined. ...

This is an extraordinary debut novel winner of the Branford Boase Award & the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize. In a newspaper office Paul Faustino South America's top football writer sits opposite the man they call El Gato the Cat" the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup. In the hours that follow El Gato tells his incredible story
- how he a poor logger's son learns to become a World Cup-winning goalkeeper so good he is almost unbeatable. & the most remarkable part of this story is the man who teaches him: the mysterious Keeper who haunts a football pitch at the heart of the claustrophobic rainforest..."
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John Hendrie Barnsleys ex-manager on Lars Leese: Lars Leese is a shambles. Hes a loser who never achieved anything. Dave Hill in the Guardian on The Keeper of Dreams: Leeses outsider story takes us...to the true heartbeat of our national game At the age of 28 German goalkeeper Lars Leese was catapulted from a minor league football field somewhere near Cologne to a small industrial town in the north of Engl&. Something of a culture shock certainly but nothing compared to finding himself in goal for Barnsley playing the mighty Liverpool at Anfield in front of over 45 000 spectators. Plucked from obscurity & playing in one of the most important leagues in the world Leese experienced in real life what thousands of boys
- & men
- can only dream of: stepping out of the crowd & onto a Premiership pitch. Lars Leeses foray into the wild world of professional football lasted only three years but his journey from computer software salesman to Premiership goalie is a remarkable story. Here Ronald Reng traces his stratospheric rise & equally alarming descent: the resulting narrative is an indispensable antidote to the traditional footballing briography & a unique

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Youve just been jilted at the alter. Your day is about to get a lot worse. If Nina Cormiers wedding had taken place she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar the church stood empty when the bomb exploded. It wasnt until a stranger tried to run her off the road that Nina realised someone actually wanted to kill her. But who? Thats what Nina has to find out
- & fast. As the nightmare unfolds all around her Nina must try to decipher the terrifying truth: she is at the mercy of a brilliant madman one who is playing for keeps.
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To her husband Annie O' Neill is the perfect wife & mother. To the man who adores her she's an unattainable ideal. To her rival she is an obsession. Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina's Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman's life Olivia realizes who she is-Annie O' Neill. The woman Olivia's husband Paul is in love with. When Annie dies on the operating table she leaves behind three other victims. Alec O' Neill who thought he had the perfect marriage. Paul whose fixation on Annie is unshakable. & Olivia who is desperate to understand the woman who destroyed her marriage. Now they are left with unanswered questions about who Annie really was. & about the secrets she kept hidden so well. ...