On Sunday 2st May 1994 Ayrton Senna was leading the San Marino Grand Prix when suddenly his car veered inexplicably off the track at Tamburello bend. His Williams-Renault crossed over both the grass & concrete fun-off strips before finally impacting the concrete wall. It is thought that the front of his head hit the concrete wall forcing his helmet back on to the headrest & crushing the back of his head. Either impact would have been enough to kill him. The greatest racing driver the world had ever seen would be declared dead just over four hours later. This book is about his life his victories & his loves. It is the first proper story of a man the world revered & whose like will never been seen again. ...

Stephen Lawrence was a bright athletic young man with high hopes for the future. He lived in south-east London with his parents younger brother & younger sister. On 22 April 1993 he was brutally murdered while he was waiting for the bus. He was eighteen years old. He didn't know his killers; his killers didn't know him. This is his story. He will be remembered. This paperback edition revised with added material about the trial the legacy of Stephen Lawrence & a final note from Doreen Lawrence. ...

Gregg Wallace star presenter of BBCs MASTERCHEF restaurateur & expert on all things pudding shares his story for the first time. After leaving school at 14 he started his career as a greengrocer at the New Covent Garden market & went on to create his multi-million pound fruit & veg business a decade later. A star slot on BBC VEG TALK an award-winning television programme followed & in 2005 the chance to front MASTERCHEF a show that has drawn in over 4.5 million viewers & produced some of the nations best up-&-coming chefs. He has since opened two restaurants Wallace & Co & Greggs Table penned numerous cookery books & has written for the national & trade press. In this his first memoir Gregg tells how his early passion for food growing up in Peckham South London led to a world of Michelin star restaurants celebrity chefs & a mission to save Britains produce
- & in an extraordinary turn with more than a few life-changing hurdles
- brought him back to his roots.

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Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist & broadcaster has spanned nearly six decades & in this volume of memoirs Sir David tells stories of the people & animals he has met & the places he has visited. His first job
- after Cambridge University & two years in the Royal Navy
- was at a London publishing house. Then in 1952 he joined the BBC as a trainee producer & it was while working on the Zoo Quest" series (1954-64) that he had his first opportunity to undertake expeditions to remote parts of the globe to capture intimate footage of rare wildlife in its natural habitat. He was Controller of BBC2 (1965-68) during which time he introduced colour television to Britain then Director of Programmes for the BBC (1969-1972). However in 1973 he abandoned administration altogether to return to documentary-making & writing & has established himself as the world's leading Natural History programme maker with several landmark "BBC" series including " Life on Earth" (1979) " The Living Planet" (1984) " The Trials of Life" (1990) " The Private Life of Plants" (1995) " Life of Birds" (1998) " The Blue Planet" (2001) " Life of Mammals" (2002) " Planet Earth" (2006) & " Life in Cold Blood" (2008). Sir David is an Honorary Fellow of Clare College Cambridge a Fellow of the Royal Society & was knighted in 1985. He is also Britain's most respected trusted & lauded natural history broadcaster & writer championing conservation & standing at the forefront of issues concerning the planet's declining species. A lot has changed since his first television documentary & in this updated edition of " Life on Air" Sir David tells us of his experiences of filming in the 21st century."

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David Attenborough reads his revised & updated edition of the Sunday Times" bestseller. David Attenborough is one of the most influential admired & best-liked figures in television. When aged 26 he applied for a job in the BBC
- which then meant radio
- he was promptly turned down. But someone saw his rejected application letter & asked would he like to try television? He would & almost 60 years later he is still at it. Elegantly told & often very funny his story

Includes:: how he introduced colour television to Britain & the background to his epic series such as " Life on Earth" & " Life in Cold Blood". This is a complete & unabridged reading by David Attenborough. Attenboroughs familiar voice comes through in every line his curiosity as sharp today as it was when he started in broadcasting...
- " Daily Telegraph". What shines through most of all is his enthusiasm...
- " Sunday Telegraph"."





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This fascinating volume illuminates the world of Britain's railways during the Age of Steam seen through the eyes of legendary railwayman Richard Hardy. One of the last of the 'old breed' Richard is the author of innumerable transport articles & biographies of Dr Beeching & Bert Hooker as well as Conway's ' The Railwayman's Pocket-Book'. During much of his early career from 1944 through to the early 1960s Richard took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways & the men he knew & worked with on a daily basis using his trusty Brownie 620 box camera. These unique & largely unpublished images form a fascinating & hugely evocative portrayal of the height of the steam era during the age of the ' Big Four' & after 1947 on the sprawling nationalised network known as British Railways. Many of the pictures capture the railways in wartime providing a valuable social record of the nation at war. In addition there is a sequence of rare photographs of French engines railways & railwaymen which offer a superb contrast to the British rail network (it quickly becomes evident that whereas the British rail system ran on tea the French system ran on wine). Great characters are the unifying theme of the pictures & they include famous figures associated with the railways such as the poet John Betjeman. This lavishly illustrated book sets Richard's personal photographs & text alongside a carefully collated selection of ephemera artworks & photographs drawn from the National Railway Museum York. Collectively these images & artefacts tell the stories of the great brotherhood of railwaymen. ...

Take a step back into the world of steam railways & discover the reality of life & work on Britains railway system before the Beeching cuts & the introduction of diesel changed it forever. Tom Quinn has sought out a fascinating range of characters who recount their experiences of working on steam trains. From a shedmaster to a fireman from an engine driver to a signalman tales of accidents & mishaps evenings round the fire in the workers common room & the perils of left luggage in the days when almost anything might
- & frequently did
- turn up! Remarkable reminiscences about life on the old railways when Britains railway system was the envy of the world.

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In Life on The Other Side Sylvia Browne New York Times bestselling author of The Other Side & Back explores & explains the afterlife in this revealing & inspiring account. You will find out: What happens when we die; What The Other Side looks like; Who's waiting for us on The Other Side; How we spend out time on The Other Side; Why & how we return from The Other Side. With her trademark warm & down-to-earth style Sylvia Browne's insights into the afterlife are utterly compelling yet wonderfully reassuring. Sylvia looks over her lifelong career as a psychic using past experiences readings hypnosis sessions & research to illustrate her findings about The Other Side. For the very first time we are shown an unprecedented view of a peaceful place where our departed loved ones are patiently awaiting us
- & where the next leg of our eternal journey will begin. This book is absolutely unforgettable!
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Mom I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants. I cleaned out Peter's cage. I tidied the sitting room. & the kitchen. & I did the washing up. I'm going to bed. Your live-in servant Claire. Life on the Refrigerator Door" is told exclusively through notes exchanged by Claire & her mother Elizabeth during the course of a life-altering year. Their story builds to an emotional crescendo when Elizabeth is diagnosed with breast cancer. Stunningly sad but ultimately uplifting this is a clever moving & original portrait of the relationship between a daughter & mother. It is about how we live our lives constantly rushing & never making time for those we love. It is also an elegy to how much can be said in so few words if only we made the time to say them." ...

Derwent May is one of the countrys leading experts on nature & the countryside & for many years his Feather Reports have appeared regularly in the pages of The Times. In those columns
- collected in this evocative & charming volume
- May captures the rich & changing world of British bird life throughout the calendar year. In the tradition of Gilbert White & W. H. Hudson May writes with a freshness of observation & sensitivity that makes On The Wing simply captivating especially when combined with the superlative nature drawings of illustrator Peter Brown. This is a book that is sure to be treasured by all nature lovers.

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