Former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian Engl&. Sentimental vulgar but patriotic & champion of the underdog it held a mirror to the audiences hopes fears & the general absurdity of life. Vast smoke-filled auditoriums were packed every night throughout Britain. Popular performers such as Marie Lloyd & Vesta Tilley were among the highest-paid & most celebrated figures in the l&. This was the world that John Majors father Tom entered at the age of twenty-one as a comedian & singer. In My Old Man the former prime minister tells his fathers story as a springboard for an entertaining history of the music hall from its origins in Elizabethan times through to its heyday in the nineteenth century & eventual decline with the rise of radio & cinema in the twentieth century. Packed with colourful anecdotes this warm-hearted account captures a golden bygone age of entertainment. ...

A Very Hungry Caterpillar colouring book which is a black & white version of the original book. Eric Carle fans & budding illustrators can now bring this bestselling story to life in their own colours & at the same time enjoy reading their favourite story. ...

Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Pages images that show you exactly what to do. Help when you run into Pages problems or limitations. Tips & Notes to help you get the most from Pages on your Mac. Full-color step-by-step tasks walk you through creating & editing word processing & page layout documents in Pages. The tasks include how to: * Use writing tools to create word processing documents * Use fonts text styles & paragraph formatting * Build documents with text images & design elements * Create lists tables & outlines * Add charts & graphs to your documents * Add a table of contents headers footers & footnotes * Merge addresses & data with documents * Create cross-platform PDF files * Use & design your own templates * Review & edit documents as a team BONUS

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These are the (nearly) true confessions of Jamie Kelly. They were just an ordinary soft pair of second-hand jeans until Jamie Kelly tried them on. Then they became tight smelly & scratchy
- with a bit of a haunting problem! Do the pants have the power to soothe a vengeful beagle vanquish The Prettiest Girl in the World or make the wearer irresistible to the eighth cutest guy in school? Or are the haunted pants just well haunted? Kind of gross when you think about it...
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From a wartime beach in Wales to the gleaming skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Manhattan the extraordinary career of Fleet Street legend Harold Evans has spanned five decades of tumultuous social political & creative change. Just how did a working class Lancashire boy who failed the eleven-plus rise to a position where he could so effectively give voice to the unheard? Born in the bleak years between the wars in the sprawl of Greater Manchester into a thrifty diligent & loving family Evans inherited only the privilege of his parents' example. Theirs was a work ethic that led Evans through night school classes national service & a passionate commitment to regional life & finally to his unassailably successful editorship of one of our greatest newspapers the Sunday Times. Whether unpicking the murderous chaos of Bloody Sunday pursuing a foreign correspondent's murderers or uncovering the atrocity of Thalidomide this consummate newsman evokes his contagious passion: for the real story & the truth. ...

Everything in Ellas life was perfect...or was it? With perfect parents perfect friends & perfect poise it seems like Ella Gerard has it all. But when Ellas eccentric best friend Lola Cep nominates Ella to run for school president against the wickedly popular Carla Santini many of the less-than-perfect aspects of Ellas life begin to surface. Will Ella come out a winner without losing face? This is a fast & funny look at high-school politics by a best-selling author. This is a sequel to the best-selling Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" which was made into a major film. "A hilarious comedy of errors". (" Publishers Weekly")." ...

Dear friends I Love-Love-Love sharing my adventures as a classroom hamster with all my friends. But sometimes my paw gets tired from so much writing! To give it a rest Ive written some shorter tales that are every bit as funny & exciting as my According to Humphrey books. Theyre called Humphreys Tiny Tales & theyve even got illustrations (Im quite pleased at how cute I look in the pictures). Im unsqueakably excited to share my new stories with you & I think Humphrey fans & new younger readers will be excited too! Your furry friend Humphreys My Pet Show Panic! My friends in Room 26 hoped Id win a prize at the Pet Show. I hoped so too but with dogs & cats a parrot & a mysterious creature called Nick the Stick I had a lot of competition. When Mirandas scary dog Clem showed up I was Worried-Worried-Worried. & with good reason because once we got together the panic at the Pet Show began. ...

In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled to her grandmothers birthplace Corunna Downs Station in Western Australia. She wants to trace the experiences of her childhood andolescence in Perth in the 1950s. Through memories & images hints & echoes begin to emerge & another story unfolds
- the mystery of her aboriginal identity. Gradually her whole family is drawn in to the saga & her great-uncle her mother & finally her grandmother tell their stories in turn. MY PLACE is a work of great humour humanity & courage.
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It is in 1950s Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier & Marion is smitten
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Children will cherish this selection of favourite stories from the Old & New Testaments. From the moment Baby Moses is found floating in a basket among the bulrushes to Jesus' stilling of the storm children will be captivated by Daniel Howarth's remarkable illustrations as each story pops off the page. Stories include: Daniel Baby Moses Lost Sheep Jairus' Daughter & Stilling the Storm. ...