Winifred Phillips was born in Ilford Essex in 1926 one of four children. Sent to a convent boarding school which she loathed she trained as a nursery nurse & met George Wheeler a 19-year-old RAF trainee wireless operator. The pair fell in love & spent a happy year together only to say goodbye in 1943 when he was sent on bombing missions to Germany. They kept in touch with regular letters but he went missing in 1944 & nobody knew what happened to him. Determined to see something of the world Winifred joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1948 & enlisted in the Women's Royal Army Corps a year later. For the next two decades she travelled the globe & reached the rank of Warrant Officer Class 2. Her story offers a unique insight into the lives of female service personnel in the 1950s & '60s. She writes wittily & candidly about her time in the army how life was lived in the mess & the NAAFI & the scrapes she got into. But she never forgot George. & she never married. At the age of 70 she went on a journey to find out what happened to the only man who would ever win her heart & 50 years after he disappeared she was finally able to pay her respects. In 2009 after ten years of campaigning Win became the first ever female Chelsea Pensioner to be accepted at the Royal Hospital Chelsea where she lives today. ...

Angie & Ian were childhood sweethearts Angie adored kids & as one of eight children himself Ian was only too happy to have as many as they could. After their marriage they had three sons in quick succession. But then aged just thirty one Angie was diagnosed with breast cancer & the couple had to accept they might not be able to have any more. Five years on though with Angie well again they went on to have five more. But in 2007 Angie had a shadow on her lung & it was the return of the original breast cancer she thought she had beaten. It seemed the disease had returned to tear their world apart again. Though Ian searched tirelessly for cures Angie practised acceptance. She wouldn't live to see her children grow up. Raising eight children would be a big job for any couple; to raise them alone without their mother an almost Herculean feat. But this was exactly what Angie wanted Ian to be able to do. So in the last months of her life Angie compiled a list of 'rules' to guide Ian in the future & put him on an intensive training course so he could learn all the skills he would need. She taught him how to make her special chicken curry how to soothe away their hurts pack their lunchboxes with all their favourites & do all the little things she'd done for them so unthinkingly. & Ian knew he wasn't just doing this for the children. He was doing it so his beloved wife could be comforted by knowing that he had the tools to bring their children up her way. Finally inevitably came the hardest task of all. Angie the job done had to find the courage to let them go & Ian & the children the courage to carry on without her. ...

Features the pubs & inns of the Gower Peninsula. This book featuring a collection of photographs prints & postcards is for all those who want to know more about the history of the area's pubs their clientele landlords & ladies & takes the reader on a journey into the past of their favourite local. ...

Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life he is now Ramses the Damned doomed forever to wander the earth desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress Julie Stratford but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memories of his last reawakening at the behest of Cleopatra his beloved queen of Egypt. & his intense longing for her undiminished over the centuries will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger... Rice succeeds masterfully in blending horror & romance. Ramses is a fascinating character heroic yet tragically flawed by his human desires"
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Help your child learn all about mummies using the new edition of this fact-packed guide with a giant wall chart interactive clip-art CD & dedicated website. From the chemicals Egyptians used to embalm their mummies to the artifacts buried with bodies to take into the afterlife; let your child learn all about the varied & fascinating ways people have preserved the dead. Theyll find out more by downloading 100s of amazing images from the clip-art CD. Then use the giant pull-out wall chart to decorate their room. Great for projects or just for fun make sure your child learns everything they need to know artifacts mummies. ...

Every day Mummy's tummy gets bigger & bigger but what could be inside? A fairy with wings? A boat painted blue? The Man in the Moon? This little child just can't wait to see what it could be.. .A reassuring lift-the-flap book for all soon-to-be siblings. ...

Get cooking with your child & make tasty healthy food with child nutrition expert Annabel Karmel. Cooking & eating together are great for encouraging kids to eat healthily! Annabel Karmel shows how you can create all kinds of lip-smacking finger food with your child that's good for them too. Step-by-step photos show you (and them) exactly what to do & will help your child develop basic cookery skills: from weighing & counting to mixing & rolling while you take care of the sharp knives & hot ovens. From munchy oat bars & lettuce boats to perfect party treats this is food that's yummy & good for any size tummy. Whatever you cook up it will be as much fun to make as it will be to eat. ...

During the catastrophic tsunami of 2004 a family of hippos was swept out to sea from their home on Sabaki River in Eastern Kenya. The sole survivor of the disastor was a baby hippo who was rescued & given the name Owen. Motherless & alone Owen is befriended by Mzee a giant male tortoise at a local nature reserve. This moving & charming tale is the story of their friendship. ...

Why did you leave me? Why did you get messed up with all of those drugs? Why did you kill my brother & sister? Didnt you love us enough? Nikkia Roberson has been asking these questions for most of her life. But how else do you cope when your mentally ill mother has killed your little brother & sister by scalding them with boiling water? This is the harrowing true story of how one little girl lost her family in the worst possible way. But its also the ultimate tale of forgiveness. Follow Nikkia on her heartbreaking journey as she attempts to find answers & rekindle a relationship with her mother behind the gates of a secure psychiatric hospital. Deeply moving Mummy is a Killer" proves that love really is the strongest emotion of all." ...