Over the past year homegrown hip-hop sensation N-Dubz have morphed from an underground phenomenon to a commercial monster. Take a trip inside the N-Dubz world of catchy lyrics street smart style & funky beats & discover the real story of the band everyones talking about. Although still only in their early 20s N-Dubz are anything but an overnight sensation. The band was born some eight years ago in one of the roughest parts of Camden. Still in school & barely into their teens cousins Dappy & Tulisa met third member Fazer & set about making their first beats. Drawing inspiration from the then booming UK garage scene the charismatic trio slowly honed their sound developing their unique style for which they have now become known & loved. Living proof that you dont need to take part in a reality TV show to make it in the music industry Dappy Tulisa & Fazer have trodden a long & rocky road on their quest to become pop superstars. Here for the first time they will reveal all about their years of hard work & perserverance. From being snapped up by Polydor & scoring their first top 20 hit to being thrown into personal turmoil following the tragic death of Dappys father & the bands devoted manager Uncle B. Packed full of fascinating stories & hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of the band including exclusive backstage shots & personal family snaps this book will give a unique insight into the N-Dubz can-do way of mind. Customers will also get access to exclusive audio & video content from the b&. The band transcended all expectations with their debut album Uncle B selling over 500 000 copies in the UK alone & spawning six hit singles. Now with a No. 1 single three MOBO Awards plus a critically acclaimed sell out UK tour under their belts they are finally being given the recognition that they deserve. With their second album going platinum within a month of being released their second tour scheduled for April & their sights firmly set on breaking the US as well 2010 looks set to be the year of N-Dubz! ...

William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill & two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn
- a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup
- & got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. At 16 William leaves the poverty of Blackburn for London where he finds no streets paved with gold but filthy tenements & such squalor only a great city can conceal. He gets a job in an iron foundry & finds lodgings with a beer-swilling landlady & her family
- a predatory daughter & a tattooed madman of a son with whom he has to share his bed. Then at night school William discovers his love of learning which eventually takes him to Plater college Oxford. As Mosley's blackshirts provoke fighting on the streets William witnesses the courage of ordinary people in the face of war: a war in which he himself will soon be fighting.. .


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Miharu has returned safely from his kidnapping adventure but refuses to tell anyone what happened. Just as Kumohira-sensei is wishing he could read Miharus mind Yae Oda Chief of Togakushi Village & mind reader comes to them all with a proposition. If they help her assassinate a weapons developer she will give them the Togakushi forbidden art scroll. If they refuse shell reveal all their deep dark secrets to everyone. Kumohira-sensei agrees & they infiltrate a science symposium (minus Raimei who is following a lead as to the whereabouts of her brother). As it so happens their target Eugene Frosty has hired bodyguards from the Iga Grey Wolves & Yoite is one of them. When Kumohira tries to kill Frosty Yoite shows up & Frosty gets away. He runs to the parking lot where Yae is waiting for him but she is less interested in Frosty than in his assistant Nowake a man who was the only one who could have saved her daughter but let the girl die. ...

Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel
- with a few surprises & a lot of humour on the way to happiness.
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In the tunnels of Nagashizzar a new threat to the realm of the undead is rising. Nagash must call upon all his reserves of power to defeat the skaven assault & continue his unholy reign. But when Nagash realises he can use his enemy for his own nefarious needs an uneasy alliance is struck & a vast nightmarish army is formed. The necromancer launches his final attack on the lands of Nehekhara sweeping all before him. Only one man dare stand in his way
- Alcadizzar a peerless warrior & the leader of a defiant force. Their confrontation will not just decide the fate of Nehekhara but of all the Old World.
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In the last two decades Manic Street Preachers have established themselves as one of the UKs more enduring intelligent & credible rock groups with nine Top Ten albums 16 Top Ten singles three Number Ones & a brace of Brit Awards. But that quest for greatness has seen the band follow a difficult sometimes torturous path with one of their number
- the gifted yet deeply troubled Richey Edwards
- abandon that quest altogether for destinations still unknown. Nailed To History traces the slow yet inexorable climb of the South Wales band from their late 80s origins as glam punk inspired though critically derided Generation Terrorists to their current position as respected art rock intellectuals
- a fact underlined by 2009s award winning disc A Journal For Plague Lovers. It also examines the life & complex personality of Richey Edwards whose highly politicised morally disquieting wordplay defined much of the Manics early appeal
- his personal demons writ large across 1994s dark masterwork" The Holy Bible. Edwards evermore extreme behaviour culminated in his sad strange disappearance on February 1 1995 & forced the colleagues he left behind to re-examine their very purpose before making a triumphal return with 1997s million selling Everything Must Go. A story of "blood honour & enduring friendship" marked with "tales of boredom alienation & occasional despair " Everlasting contains interviews with those close to the band full album reviews an up to date discography & rare & unseen photos of the b&."



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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university & eventually arrives at his brothers New York apartment. In a bid to discover what life is all about he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time & whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life & how best to live it. Funny friendly enigmatic & frequently poignant
- superbly naive
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