Today's love affair with urban farming & backyard poultry coops means Tamara Staples' stunning photographs are more apropos ...

What Joe needs is a friend. What Jim needs is a fresh start. Living in a former pit village in the North of England Joe's learning difficulties have left him isolated his only contact with the community playing the back-end of the horse in the local panto. Until Jim another of life's outsiders for a whole different set of reasons comes home. So begins an unlikely friendship. Jim & Joe offer one another loyalty & camaraderie simple but magnificent qualities that give Jim that most elusive thing
- hope
- as he rebuilds his life. But when rumours of an unthinkable crime get out of control Jim's loyalty is put to the test with heartbreaking consequences. Funny bittersweet & unforgettable Magnificent Joe is a tale of devastation loss & the redemptive power of one extraordinary friendship.

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Magnificent Maths covers essential topics from the National Curriculum & is based around the popular theme of magic. Wizard Whimstaff s blend of fun with curriculum-based activities enchants & educates young learners. Children work towards attaining a Wizard s Trophy of Excellence at the end of the book. * Motivating activities based on the KS2 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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When Augustin Meaulnes arrives in Francois home he changes everything. Life in the little town where they both go to school suddenly becomes far more adventurous & exciting. On one of his escapades Meaulnes gets lost in the countryside finds himself at an extraordinary party where he meets the girl of his dreams. From this point on he is haunted by her memory & devotes his life with Francois willing help to finding her again. ...

This expanded edition

Includes:: Annas toe-up free-sole sock design. With stranded patterning on the top of

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When Queen Victorias husband Prince Albert died in December 1861 the nation was paralysed with grief. His death was a catastrophe for Victoria who not only adored her husband but had through twenty-one years of marriage utterly relied on him: as companion father of their children friend confidant & unofficial private secretary. Without Albert to guide & support her the Queen retreated into a state of pathological grief which nobody could penetrate & few understood. Drawing widely on contemporary letters diaries & memoirs Rappaport brings new light to bear on the causes of Alberts death & tracks Victorias mission to commemorate her husband in perpetuity. Richly compelling this is the story of a magnificent obsession that even death could not sever. ...

Bessie Mundy Alice Burnham & Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters & are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell & becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying experience. In the dark opening months of the First World War Britain became engrossed by The Brides in the Bath trial. The horror of the killing fields of the Western Front was the backdrop to a murder story whose elements were of a different sort. This was evil of an everyday insidious kind played out in lodging houses in seaside towns in the confines of married life & brought to a horrendous climax in that most intimate of settings
- the bathroom. The nation turned to a young forensic pathologist Bernard Spilsbury to explain how it was that young women were suddenly expiring in their baths. This was the age of science. In fiction Sherlock Holmes applied a scientific mind to solving crimes. In real-life would Spilsbury be as infallible as the great detective?
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This special & important photography book presents for the first time the very best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. Contact sheets tell the truth behind a photograph. They unveil its process & provide its back story. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset? Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence or was the right shot down to pure serendipity a matter of being in the right place at the right time? This landmark publication provides the reader with a depth of understanding & a critical analysis of the story behind a photograph the process of editing it & the places & ways in which the selected photographs were used. For anyone with a deep appreciation of photography & a desire to understand what goes into creating iconic work Magnum Contact Sheets" will be regarded as the definitive volume. It is presented with 435 illustrations in total 230 in colour including over 3 600 frames on 139 contact sheets." ...

Here is the popular yet complete paperback edition of the hugely acclaimed Magnum Magnum" which was an instant sellout on first publication in 2007. It celebrates sixty years of the vision imagination & brilliance of Magnum photographers in over 400 photographs by the acknowledged greats of photography in the 20th century & the rising stars of our time. Each photographer is represented by six of their works as chosen by & including a critical text by another member. Including biographies of the featured photographers a history of Magnum Photos by Brigitte Lardinois & a bibliography of Magnum books " Magnum Magnum" makes available to a wider audience one of the greatest photography anthologies of recent years an essential book for anyone interested in photography or the world depicted by it." ...

The history of revolution is as old as humanity; yet it is only since the invention of photography that we have been able to discern the realities of these conflicts from the distance of time. Starting with the Algerian uprising in 1954 & culminating with the most recent triumphs & tragedies of the Arab Spring " this book brings together hundreds of colour & black & white images that depict historic events from a human perspective. Iconic images from revolutions in Prague Nicaragua Tiananmen Square Romania Serbia Ukraine Lebanon Tunisia Egypt Libya & other locations are introduced in double-page spreads featuring the images of Magnum photographers such as Raymond Depardon Burt Glinn Rene Burri Josef Koudelka Susan Meiselas & many more. Introduced by New Yorker journalist Jon Lee Anderson & featuring interviews by Paul Watson this uplifting & important book offers for the first time a collective understanding of the universal dream of freedom & the inevitability of change." ...