An absorbing novel about family love & friendship from the bestselling author of Last Christmas. With four children a Christmas cookbook to write & her mum suffering from dementia Cat Tinsall has plenty to juggle. When her eldest daughter Mel starts going off the rails Cat has even more on her plate. Pippa Holliday adores her family although often finds her hands full. When Dan is involved in a terrible accident Pippas world is suddenly turned upside down. Balancing her job as a school teacher with twins & her step-son Steven isnt easy for Marianne North. With her husbands ex causing trouble life is getting even trickier. As Cat Pippa & Marianne help each other through a difficult year theyre all hoping for a much brighter Christmas. ...

The fourth meerkat story in the hilarious Awesome Animals series
- awesome adventures with the wildest wildlife. Told in Ian Whybrows
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Somebody in Laos is wooing & wedding country girls
- & then killing them on honeymoon & binding their bodies to trees. The horror
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In need of money the fat & foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women & steal their husbands wealth. By talking to each other however the wives soon discover his plan & begin to plot their own revenge. Relentlessly inventive this comic humiliation of a foolish would-be seducer is a lively compelling & ultimately joyous celebration of the all-conquering power of laughter. This book

Includes:: a general introduction to Shakespeares life & the Elizabethan theatre a separate introduction to Merry Wives of Windsor a chronology suggestions for further reading an essay discussing performance options on both stage & screen & a commentary.

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A Mersey ferry was recorded in the Domesday Book & for around a thousand years they have plied between Birkenhead & Wallasey on the Wirral & Liverpool. The sail & man-powered craft gave way to steam ferries in 1815. In this book Ian Collard tells the story of the Mersey ferries concentrating on the steam & diesel powered eras from 1815 to the present day & including such famous ferries as Iris & Daffodil which were involved in the Zeebrugge Raid of 1918. The Mersey ferries have been immortalized in song & even today with the various tunnels under the Mersey the three survivors of today Snowdrop Royal Iris of the Mersey & Royal Daffodil are still being used by locals & tourists alike. Using around 160 old & new images he tells the story of the Ferries across the Mersey showing a river that was once teeming with ships but is now much quieter. ...

At the age of 45 Lucy Henshaw has finally left home. Her decision to go has been reached neither lightly nor suddenly since her marriage has been broken for some eighteen years. However as the mother of twin sons & a daughter Lucy has felt it her duty to stay as a couple in the family house she was born in near Bolton giving her children the security she knows they need. Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy decides she is free to leave. She secretly purchases a beautiful house overlooking the Mersey near Liverpool & there she plans to start afresh. Within hours she has met some characters: her new neighbour Moira who is disabled & dying & sees Lucy as the ideal new companion for her husband Richard; Shirley Bishop built like a battleship & a cleaner extraordinaire towing her several-inches-shorter husband as a handy gardener behind her; & Dr David Vincent who is grieving for the loss of his young son. It is soon apparent that Lucy need have no anxieties about being lonely. It is these new friends too who come to Lucy's rescue when her husband Alan falls ill. Always a wastrel & fraudster who has tried to control her his illness only seems to offer him another opportunity to complicate Lucy's life all over again. Mersey View" is a compelling & gritty novel set in Liverpool & is a wonderful story rich with warmth & humour by a much-loved storyteller at the height of her powers." ...

With its strategic shipping ports & factories the towns & cities dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitlers most heavily targeted sites during the Second World War. In August 1940 the German Luftwaffe attacked Birkenhead in what was to be the first of over 300 such bombing raids Merseyside sustained that year. Almost 4 000 people perished & many more were seriously injured as the streets & buildings of Liverpool & Wirral were destroyed & their residents left in turmoil. Featuring 45 vistas of bomb-damaged suburbia & city centre carnage alongside 45 photographs of the area as it is today Merseyside War Years: Then & Now sensitively documents the changes & developments that have taken place in Merseyside since those dark days of war demonstrating both architectural progress & Britains resilience & in the face of adversity. ...

Stylish nylon operators chair with fixed arm rests for comfort & functionality.

Colour: Black Features; Mesh

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In this wonderful book Colin reveals wisdom from the Other Side that could change your life. Sharing his incredible true stories of encounters with the spirit world he also sets out seven steps for leaving hurt & hardship behind. These steps will lead you to an inner place in which hope & healing can become yours at last. Colin Fry's TV shows '6ixth Sense' & ' Psychic Private Eyes' have intrigued his huge number of fans & his previous books Life Before Death & Secrets From the Afterlife have been bestsellers. Colin is a medium with a difference: not only does he communicate on a personal level with loved ones who have passed over but his work has given him life-enhancing insights that can benefit us all. Prepare to receive the Message... ...

That delay in the delivery of the message from Ma´laga could have been absolutely disastrous. As it was there had been irreparable loss: an agent dead."
Under the Mediterranean sun a drama begins in a cafe in Malaga. For Ian Ferrier an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier a stranger to the deadly world of espionage must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent.
Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust..."

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