' Cicero remarked that old age is a strange business. No one wants to miss it he said & everyone complains about it when they get there. Not I though'. Old age comes to us all & Enfield" wittily advises on how to survive its trickier obstacles not least the people who suggest you must 'do something'. One of the great delights of the golden years is doing less
- from giving up DIY & ambition to not inviting people to dinner. In these elegantly entertaining essays " Enfield" guides those entering their finer years on how to make the most of old age."
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A beautifully-illustrated classic picture book treasury from popular author-illustrator Jane Hissey featuring five of her most-loved stories. Where have Little Bear's missing red trousers gone? Can the toys rescue Old Bear from the attic? Will Jolly Tall ever get to see winter snowf lakes? & just what is inside the mysterious box in the playroom? This hardback gift edition consists of Old Bear Little Bear's Trousers Little Bear Lost Jolly Tall & Jolly Snow & is perfect for bedtime reading. ...

Hes British footballs philosopher manque. The most successful England manager we never had & a genuine footballing legend. To many an outspoken working class hero. To others
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- he was a bolshy northern gobshite. Never less than opinionated often controversial & always eloquent here we present Brian Clough in his very own words... On himself: I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. On Roy Keane: I only ever hit Roy once. He got up so I couldnt have hit him very hard. On the FA: Im sure the England selectors thought if they took me on & gave me the job Id want to run the show. They were shrewd because thats exactly what I would have done. On being nominated for a knighthood: I thought it was my next door neighbour because she thought if I got something like that Id have to move. On handling players: We talk about it for twenty minutes & then we decide I was right. On drink: Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it I should have taken more of it with my drinks. Duncan Hamilton is the author of the acclaimed Provided You Dont Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough for which he won the William Hill Sports Book of Year Award in 2007. He was the Nottingham Evening Posts Forest reporter during the club & Cloughs glory years. He is now deputy editor at the Yorkshire Post.

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Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains & windswept coastlines facing Sicily
- the most beautiful kilometre in Italy
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Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic
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The magic of the old Covent Garden Market is evoked through Peter Ackroyds introduction & Clive Boursnells marvellous photographs taken over the course of numerous & extended visits to Covent Garden in the 1960s & 1970s. The book

Includes:: a preface by Clive Boursnell & the words of some of the market people whom the photographer interviewed at the time.

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The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) with its combination of the sentimental the grotesque & the socially concerned & its story of pursuit & courage which sets the downtrodden & the plucky against the malevolent & the villainous was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was conscious of the 'many friends' the novel had won for him & 'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow' & it remains one of the most familiar & well-loved of his works. ...

Little Nell Trents childhood is over. Her grandfathers mind is failing his dark secret makes him sad & distracted & he has nobody to care for him but Nell. The grotesque Daniel Quilp is out to cause trouble. What plans does he hatch with the dreadful Sampson & Sally Brass? What use can he hope to make of the foolish Dick Swiveller? Is Nells one true friend Kit a match for Quilps villainous mind? Nell & her grandfather must disappear or be separated forever & so they begin their lives as beggars. When a mysterious gentleman arrives in London determined to track them down it becomes a race against time & against the evil of Quilp. Can Little Nell keep her grandfather safe? Who will protect Nell? Will the mysterious gentleman find them before it is too late? ...

Clarence Darrow was one of the most legendary & influential trial lawyers the world has ever seen. Famous for his ability to turn seemingly unwinnable cases his way through his oratory & his uncanny skill at reading the mood of a jury he was a man whose work inspired impassioned campaigns against the death penalty as well as lavish Hollywood movies. Now award-winning writer Donald Mc Rae revisits the three greatest trials which secured Darrows near-mythic reputation & brings them vividly to life. The public themes which Darrow confronted still resonate powerfully today: sex & murder religion & science racism the media & the law. Written with great intimacy drama & immediacy this is a sweeping story which offers piercing insight into one of the most towering & controversial personalities of the twentieth century. ...

Muffin was a rescue dog an ordinary mongrel who joined the Bardsley Mc Gee family in Leeds in 1999. She was three years old a 'little shipwreck' of a dog who had been badly neglected undernourished & contained in a high-rise flat for whole of her young life. The family she came into was also under pressure as the writer's husband Tim was in the middle of a long struggle with cancer & had been told earlier that year that his illness was terminal. Never having previously shown interest in animals Tim bonded almost instantly with chaotic little Muffin who became a steadfast companion during his final months. & during the dark days after Tim's death & when the author's daughter left for university Muffin became a loyal friend with an uncanny ability to display empathy around times of illness & loss. With Muffin reaching the end of her days author Barney Bardsley looks back over the eventful years they have shared to remember the joy & laughter that this loving soulful creature brought to her family. Her story will strike a chord with anyone who has ever loved & been loved by a pet. ...