For 800 years the Leylanders had clustered around their medieval village cross but all this changed rapidly after 1870 when the town embarked on nearly a century of phenomenal growth. One of the stars of the Second Industrial Revolution Leyland became a world leader in both the rubber & motor vehicle industries & -- prospering through two world wars -- full employment was the norm. Optimism peaked in the post-war years but the 1970s saw the beginning of the collapse of large scale industry in Britain the half century of inertia which choked town centre development plans & led to the progressive & irreversible demolition of the district. By 1990 Leyland Cross was presiding over a semi-derelict wasteland before the investment & redevelopment of the mid 1990s began a steady recovery from the days of stark economic re-adjustment. Leyland Then & Now traces the story of these developments through a wonderful collection of old photographs which are compared & contrasted with modern equivalents unveiling amazing changes & unexpected similarities. ...

This is a book guaranteed to provide hours of fun for Leyton Orients loyal fans. Containing over 1 300 challenging questions Leyton Orient The Official Quiz Book" will test the memory of all Os fans with sections covering every aspect of the clubs history. Some of the questions being fairly easy & some a little more difficult but all done with the purpose of enlightening all Os & footballing fans around the world about our grand history & important events. It also covers many of the players & officials over the years right down to today when we all look to the Gaffer Russell Slade & his boys taking Os up the League. As informative as it is entertaining this book is guaranteed to provide hours of fun for Leyton Orients loyal fans." ...

This is Liam. Every day Liam eats lots of good food. Each time Liam eats his tummy gets fuller & fuller...and fuller...until Liam's tummy starts to stretch". Successful toilet training is a time of celebration for both parents & child. It marks the end of dirty diapers & a forward step in the development of a child. Fraught with both stress & triumph the period of toilet training can take from days to months. For a typical child learning to gain control over the body's internal stimuli can be at best challenging. For many children however these internal cues can be overwhelming & confusing leading to both a frustrating & traumatic toileting experience." Liam Goes Poo in the Toilet" illustrates the relationship between eating & excreting. It provides visual instructions on how to 'relax & push'. After much fanfare Liam finally masters going 'poo' in the toilet & both he & Mum bask in the glory of a job well done." ...

Bursting with exclusive photos & gossip this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to discover all there is to know about Hollywoods new prince Liam Hemsworth. Growing up in suburban Melbourne Liam was born into a star-studded family with brothers Chris & Luke also having careers as successful actors. From here we follow Liams journey to the top. Find out how Liam got his big break & won his first big TV role in cult show Neighbours as well as what made him choose to move to the big screen starring opposite his now girlfriend Miley in The Last Song. & most importantly find out all the gossip behind the scenes of the greatest trilogy of all time: The Hunger Games. This is a book no fan of Liam Hemsworth & The Hunger Games will want to be without. ...

Liam Lynch joined the Irish Volunteers after the Easter Rising of 1916 & quickly rose through its ranks. He reorganised the Cork Brigade in 1919 & in 1921 became the commanding officer of the First Southern Division which controlled all the Volunteer Brigades in the south of the country. A prominant opponent of the Treaty of 1921 he became chief of staff of the anti-Treaty IRA leading the fight against the pro-Treaty forces until his death in 1923. With the aid of Liam Lynchs personal letters private documents & historical records Liam Lynch: The Real Chief traces the turbulent career of one of Irelands greatest guerrilla commanders from his birth in 1893 until his death twenty-nine years later in the Civil War when he was killed in action on the Knockmealdown mountains. This book demonstrates Liam Lynchs importance in Irish history including his efforts with Michael Collins Richard Mulcahy & others to avoid a civil war & his unwavering efforts to achieve a thirty-two county republic rather than a partitioned state. Part of the Irish Revolutionaries series being published in the run-up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising. ...

Georges (the s is silent) has a lot going on. Hes having trouble with some boys at school his dad lost his job & so his mum has started working all the time
- & they had to sell their house & move into an apartment. But moving into the apartment block does bring one good thing
- Safer an unusual boy who lives on the top floor. He runs a spy club & is determined to teach Georges everything he knows. Their current case is to spy on the mysterious Mr X in the apartment above Georges. But as Georges & Safer go deeper into their Mr X plan the line between games lies & reality begin to blur.

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When you have to take on the White House theres only one woman to call
- Jo Beckett. When a rock singer is killed onstage during
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From mere trainee to lowly geek to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York & London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful & profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities funny frightening breathless & heartless his is a tale of hysterical greed & ambition set in an obsessed enclosed world. ...

With his second collection of short stories Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power & eloquence. ...

He was a traitor a rabble-leader a rebel a liar & a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here. For fans of The Good Man Jesus & the Scoundrel Christ" by Phillip Pulman Naomi Aldermans " The Liars Gospel" is the story of a Jewish man Yehoshuah who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons & healing the sick. Now a year after his death four people tell their stories. His mother flashes between grief & rage while trouble brews between her village & the occupying soldiers. Iehuda who was once Yehoshuahs friend recalls how he came to lose his faith & find a place among the Romans. Caiaphas the High Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem tries to hold the peace between Rome & Judea. Bar-Avo a rebel strives to bring that peace tumbling down. " The Liars Gospel" makes the oldest story entirely new. Viscerally powerful in its depictions of the realities of the period: massacres & riots animal sacrifice & human betrayal it finds echoes of the present in the past. It was a time of political power-play & brutal tyranny & occupation. Young men & women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. Rumours spread from mouth to mouth. Rebels attacked the greatest Empire the world has ever known. The Empire gathered its forces to make those rebels pay. & in the midst of all of that one inconsequential preacher died. & either something miraculous happened or someone lied. " Remarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer". (Joanne Harris). "A glittering style a compulsive pleasure". (" Metro"). " Witty dark & compelling". (Charlotte Mendelson). Naomi Alderman grew up in the Orthodox Jewish community in northwest London. Her first novel " Disobedience" was published in 10 languages & won the Orange Award for New Writers & the " Sunday Times" Young Writer of the Year prize. Like her second novel " The Lessons" it was broadcast as Radio 4s " Book at Bedtime". She is a frequent radio broadcaster & a regular contributor to the " Guardian" & " Prospect". She lives in London." ...