Take a really wild rhyming adventure with these wacky & wonderful poems from TV presenter Michaela Strachan. From trying to out spit a cobra to pulling out the tooth from a polar bear join her on real-life animal rescues & daring challenges plus some guessing games in this action-packed cavalcade of raucous read-aloud rhymes accompanied by Sarah Horne's vivid illustrations & a great photos. ...

The Roux family is the most influential family associated with food in Britain. Through their various restaurants (Le Gavroche Waterside Inn Brasserie Roux) & catering services they have trained many of Britains top chefs. Albert & Michel Sr brought French high cuisine to Britain in the sixties much of the produce being brought twice weekly from France by Michels mother in the family car. Michel grew up in an environment of respect for fine food & ingredients of never settling for second best & of traditional French family excursions to find wild food. He tells the story of what it was like to grow up as part of this close-knit family. He left school at 16 to start his first apprenticeship with Maitre Patissier Hellegourarche in Paris. He then worked with Alain Chapel at Mionnay before doing his mililtary service at the Elysee Palace cooking for Presidents Giscard d Estaing & Francois Mitter&. After a stint cooking at the Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong & catering in London he took over the running of Le Gavroche in 1994. ...

Quite simply this is a collection of Michel Roux's finest recipes
- devised refined & perfected during the course of his illustrious
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Michel Thomas survived French concentration & slave labour camps endured interrogation & torture & after the war became a Nazi-hunter capturing important war criminals. It was through these remarkable & terrifying experiences that Thomas came to develop his revolutionary language learning system
- a system that is currently taking the world by storm. This is his remarkable story told by his friend & biographer Chrsistopher Robbins.
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Hes a smart little mother****** Ill give him that." Keith Richards on Mick Jagger Is he Jumpin Jack Flash? A Street Fighting Man? A Man of Wealth & Taste? All this it turns out & far more. Mick Jagger is a force of nature a complete original & undeniably one of the dominant cultural figures of our time. Swaggering strutting sometimes elusive always spellbinding he grabbed us by our collective throat a half-century ago &
- unlike so many of his gifted peers
- never let go. As the Rolling Stones mark their 50th anniversary journalist & 1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen builds on his earlier acclaimed book on Jagger to reveal the truth about rocks most complex & enigmatic icon in a no-holds-barred biography as impossible to ignore as Jagger himself. Based on interviews with friends family members fellow music legends & industry insiders
- as well as wives & legions of lovers
- MICK sheds new light on a man whose very name defines an era. With never-before-revealed accounts of his often turbulent relationships
- from his bandmates groupies & rabid fans to such intimates as Andy Warhol John Lennon Jackie Onassis & Bill Clinton
- this book is as explosive & riveting as its subject. The definitive biography of a living legend."





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Mick Grant leading British motorcycle racer of the 1970s & 1980s was a factory rider for Norton Kawasaki Honda & Suzuki. He raced against Mike Hailwood Barry Sheene & Giacomo Agostini won three grands prix & seven TTs & later worked in team management. His book now available in paperback is packed with frank & funny stories about the great & the dodgy. ...

This collection contain seven of Mick Inkpens classic childrens stories
- from The Blue Balloon where Kipper first appears to Billys
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Micka loves drawing & wants a pup but with older brothers into violence & petty crime & a mother who cant read the notes his teacher sends home from school neither he nor the pup stand much of a chance. Then a new boy Laurie starts at Mickas school. The two boys both have vivid imaginations but Lauries fantasies are of magic & revenge & he soon pulls Micka into a dangerous game where the line between make-believe & real life
- & ultimately death
- is increasingly blurred. Written in direct uncompromising yet compassionate prose & with a breathtaking clarity of insight Micka" is an astonishingly assured debut
- & an unforgettable story. " Micka" feels like a book that wrote itself.. . Frances Kay is an accomplished story teller who has found her darkest tale
- Anne Enright. I read this at a single sitting. Once started it was impossible to put aside.. . Atomising & searing " Micka" is a remarkable first novel
- Carlo Gebler."




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From her outrageous outfits to what she does in private this is the Nicki Minaj manual: everything any fan would want & need to know. From humble beginnings in Trinidad to being snapped up by hip-hop king Lil Wayne in New York Nicki has defied the odds & become a global superstar. This essential book tells you exactly how she accomplished using a great blend of vibrant images & exclusive interviews with industry insiders. Packed with never-before published"es shocking trivia beautiful pictures & juicy facts this is the must have book for all fans of this iconic star. ...

An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichtons greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills cutting-edge technology & extraordinary research Three men are found dead in a locked second-floor office in Honolulu. There is no sign of struggle though their bodies are covered in ultra-fine razor-sharp cuts. With no evidence the police dismiss it as a bizarre suicide pact. But the murder weapon is still in the room almost invisible to the human eye. In Cambridge Massachusetts seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company. Nanigen Micro Technologies sends them to a mysterious laboratory in Hawaii where they are promised access to tools that will open up a whole new scientific frontier. But this opportunity of a lifetime will teach them the true cost of existing at the cutting-edge... The group becomes prey to a technology of radical unimaginable power & is thrust out into the teeming rainforest. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world the young scientists face a hostile wilderness that threatens danger at every turn. To survive they must harness the awe-inspiring creative
- & destructive
- forces of nature itself.

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