In this warm wonderfully evocative & often hilarious memoir one of the best-loved men in Britain Alan Titchmarsh brilliantly recalls his childhood in 1950s Yorkshire. Alan Titchmarsh grew up & developed his passion for nature in the wild & beautiful landscape of Yorkshire. A real treat for his millions of fans the ever-popular presenter vividly depicts a childhood of simple pleasures like climbing trees & fishing in streams in a time of post-war austerity. It was not a deprived childhood yet neither was the garden eternally rosy & Alan's colourful portrait of a bygone era brings poignant moments & others that leave you aching with laughter. Alan's sharp eye for detail brings to life various family members & their memorable quirks as well as local characters childhood haunts & significant events that have shaped his life. Filled with Alan's inimitable down-to-earth humour & heart-warming tales this memoir is guaranteed to be every bit as well-loved as Trowel & Error which has now sold over 400 000 copies & become a classic of childhood memoir. ...

For years men have been puzzling over what it is that women find attractive in a man. Now the world's leading female pick-up artist trainer Kezia Noble is here to unlock the mysteries of what women really want in a man. Unlike male pick-up artist trainers Kezia doesn't make assumptions about what women want
- she knows exactly what it is they find attractive in the opposite sex. In this easy-to-follow step-by-step guide to becoming a master seducer Kezia wil show you how to: * Understand the chemistry between two sexes * Use body language to your advantage * Master the art of seduction * Seal the deal & make sure you see a woman again Read this book & discover that with Kezia's techniques at your fingertips attracting women isn't as difficult as you might think!
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A thrilling account of one of English history's most daring women who risked everything in the dark days leading up to the Civil War. The perfect novel for fans of Suzannah Dunn & Phillipa Gregory. Court beauty Lucy Russell Countess of Bedford feels frustrated by life with her weak husb&. Poverty stricken they are confined to their country estate & excluded from court life in London after he disastrously allies himself against Elizabeth I. Now some years later James I is seated on the English throne. His daughter Elizabeth Stuart former confidant of Lucy has married the King of Bohemia. The precarious political situation in Europe is fraught setting father against daughter. When Elizabeth & her husband are deposed exiled & forced on the run James is in no mood to come to Elizabeth's aid. Hearing of Elizabeth's predicament Lucy sees an opportunity to re-establish the Bedford name & offers herself as a peace envoy between the two parties. Setting out on a daring mission across the channel Lucy discovers she is being manipulated by unscrupulous men not least the calculating & darkly handsome Duke of Buckingham. Can Lucy tread this most dangerous path or by risking everything will she pay the ultimate price? ...

Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace & harmony. But beyond the city walls a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians
- an elite peacekeeping force
- to protect the city without ever resorting to the brutal methods of their enemy. When Kaspar joins the Guardians he has a chance encounter with a rebel
- a beautiful girl named Rhea. Haunted from that moment on by strange visions & memories
- memories that could only belong to Rhea
- he realizes he hasnt been told the truth about what the rebels really want & what hes really fighting for.




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Over one hundred years have passed since Dirk Struan founded Hong Kong's oldest trading company. But now the Noble House is in danger. As Hong Kong itself becomes the deadly playground of the CIA the KGB & the People's Republic of China rival tai-pans seeking revenge for blood feuds over a century old gather for the kill. ...

During the twentieth century there was an unprecedented & largely unforeseen transfer of property in Britain from private ownership into the hands of a single charitable institution the National Trust. In 1945 the Trust owned 112 000 acres & had a membership of 7 850. Fifty years later when celebrating its centenary it had a membership of 2 million & the area of land it owned had increased more than fivefold Only relatively recently has the significance of this transfer begun to attract the serious interest of political & social historians. The National Trust & its donors have tended to be diffident about their generosity. The reasons for such generosity prove to be as varied as they are surprising & illuminating. Merlin Watersons new book concentrating on the period since 1940 & accompanied throughout by rare & unusual illustrations sheds new light on the motives of some of the Trusts most important donors. ...

A harrowing account by one of the survivors of the Haut de la Garenne childrens home Robbie was born in Jersey fifty six years ago. When he was five his mother placed him & his three siblings in care. They were collected from their home by the police. It was the same day that the children had witnessed their fathers suicide attempt by hanging. The children were separated; Robbie & his younger brother were taken to The Sacre Coeur an orphanage for children under twelve while their elder brother was placed in Haut de la Garenne. Their baby sister disappeared. The boys never saw her again. Robbie & his three year old brother were bewildered & frightened by their surroundings. Their world as they had known it had disintegrated in just a matter of a few hours. They had sobbed as their eldest brother was taken away from them; they had never been apart before. Sacre Coeur run by nuns was a place where unimaginable abuse was committed against defenceless small children. The nuns gave them no explanation. Just gave them their scratchy uniforms & showed them their dormitory. They had joined the tribe of lost boys; the ones who no one cared about. The two boys were eventually transferred to Haut de la Garenne a place where sick twisted minds had devised even more tortuous methods of sexually abusing the helpless. There were suicides there. One boy blew himself up by creeping into a bunker with a supply of butane gas. & of course there were the children who simply disappeared. Gone somewhere better Robbie was told. After all in a childrens home there was a lot of coming & going. Today Robbie holds down a full time job & looks after his brother who he has loved & cared for since they were those little frightened boys. He wonders what happened to his friends who disappeared. ...

The uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena & Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-star model girlfriends of New Yorks hottest band The Raves. Meanwhile Dan is too busy drowning his sorrows in empty bottles to notice a mysterious French beauty who has a penchant for dirty Jim Morrison wannabe lead singers. Blair takes residence at the Plaza to think about her future. Will she become a gun-toting international spy or Manhattans snobbiest society hostess? Decisions are so difficult! Sounds like everyone needs a day off at the spa. & Senior Spa Day promises to serve up further doses of scandal for New Yorks busiest private-school vixens. ...

John grew up in poverty in Limerick Ireland in the 1960s. Fatherless & with a family in chaos John fell prey to the predatory clutches of a neighbour setting off a cycle of sexual abuse that eventually led to being sold as a teenage prostitute. Against all odds John put himself through college & became a lawyer. But there was no escaping his past. One day a man arrived in desperate need of representation & failed to recognise John as the boy hed once abused. Now John had a choice to make... Nobody Heard Me Cry is both a devastating expose of a stolen childhood & an unforgettable story of survival. Most of all it is a heartfelt plea to hear the cries of other children in need. ...

Nobody In Particular" is the h&-on-heart honest charming & occasionally tear-inducingly tragic often laugh out loud funny story of what it was like to grow up in Liverpool in the 1950s & 60s as the youngest child in a large & somewhat eccentric Anglo-Irish family: Cherrys father would while away the hours playing his guitar in the outside loo until the pubs opened while her mother seemed to be either menopausal or depressed or both & devoted most of her energies into saving for a divorce or her own business
- whichever came cheapest. Capturing the despondency & deprivations of post-war England as embodied in the back streets of Liverpool & the subsequent vibrancy & liberation of the swinging sixties
- the decade of the Beatles national strikes & Liverpool FC winning the FA cup for the first time
- this is an ebullient tale told by a natural storyteller. " Nobody In Particular" is not only a funny affecting & nicely self-deprecating personal story (peopled by some splendidly observed larger-than-life characters
- her family) but also a rather wonderful slice of social history evoking a bygone yet still familiar & fondly remembered era."



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