John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show Home Truths" became required listening for millions. But all the while Peel was also tapping away on his beloved Olivetti typewriter creating copy for an array of patient editors. He wrote articles columns & reviews for newspapers & magazines as diverse as " The Listener" " Oz" " Gandalfs Garden" " Sounds" "the Observer" "the Independent" & " Radio Times". Now for the first time the best of these writings have been brought together
- selected by his wife Sheila & his four children. Music of course is a central & recurring theme & he writes on music in all its forms from Tubular Bells to Berlin punk to Madonna. Here you can read John Peel on everything from the perils of shaving to the embarrassments of virginity & from the strange joy of Eurovision to the horror of being sick in trains. At every stage the writing is laced with Johns brilliantly acute observations on the minutiae of everyday life. This endlessly entertaining book is essential reading for Peel fans & a reminder of just why he remains a truly great Briton."
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Olivia is a gorgeous little pig who likes to dress up sing songs dance think snooze & is even quite good at building sandcastles. At the end of the day when she snuggles up in bed & her mother reads her a story (or three) Olivia feels very full of love. Ages 3+. ...

Olivia Newton-John exudes star power & timeless glamour. She has sold 60 million records around the world topped the charts in the US & the UK four times & is known all over the world for her role as Sandy opposite John Travolta in Grease. But behind the successful singing & film career lies the story of a remarkable survivor. Olivias life has been repeatedly touched by trauma heartache personal tragedy & her own life-threatening cancer. Tim Ewbanks revealing biography charts the highs & lows of her career & the personal crises that have affected her personal life
- but never defeated her.
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Jack Marvells latest stunt is to stay up on a high-wire for thirty days & nights. Olivia is worried for her father but very proud of him. But then the rumours start claiming that Jacks cheating. Olivia must give her all to her role in A Midsummer Nights Dream & also prove to the world that her father is no fraudster - ...

The Swan Academy is under threat from closure due to a building development next door. Into this tense atmosphere come Cosmo & Cosima the famous singing/acting twins from Hollywood. They are starring in Peter Pan & are learning to fly! A series of mysterious accidents in the theatre threaten to close the production & Olivia's dad who is flying consultant gets the blame. Olivia uses her highwire skills to get hold of the development plans & a protest campaign is organised. But then another accident takes place
- a rope has been cut through & the twins are nearly killed. Who is doing this
- & why?

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The Petal Fairies have a very important job
- together with their magic petals they help to make sure that flowers grow & bloom
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Schools out for summer! Olivia & her friends are going to be spending August in Edinburgh home to the world-famous Fringe Festival. They cant wait to get there to stay in the beautiful city & soak up the Festival atmosphere while the Swan Circus performs every day to wild applause & rapturous reviews
- With such passion such good friendships & the summer stretching out before them what could possibly go wrong?
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Olivia is sad & lonely & angry
- angry that shes been dumped with her sister eel at her grandmothers school & angrier still that
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From the bestselling author of A Rural Affair" & "A Crowded Marriage" comes Catherine Alliotts brilliantly warm & funny take on taking control of your life in " Olivias Luck". I dont care what colour you paint the sodding hall. Im leaving. When her husband Johnny suddenly walks out on ten years of marriage their ten-year-old daughter & the crumbling house theyre up to their eyeballs renovating Olivia is at first totally devastated. How could he? How could she not have noticed his unhappiness? But shes not one to weep for long. Not when shes got three builders camped in her back garden a neighbour with a never-ending supply of cast-off men she thinks Olivia would be drawn to & a daughter with her own firm views on.. .well just about everything. Will Johnny ever come back? & if he doesnt will Olivias luck ever change for the better? Step into Alliott country with " Olivias Luck". Praise for Catherine Alliott: " The writing is both intelligent & sparkling". (Marian Keyes). " Alliotts joie de vivre is irresistible". (" Daily Mail"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire." ...

Its winter at the Swan Academy & that means panto! While Olivia practises being the back end of a horse everyone else is auditioning for a major new movie. Soon the school is full of rivalry & suspicion nasty tricks & strange mysteries. To lighten the mood Eel organises a festive ice-skating trip. But as the skaters twirl & leap among the twinkling lights Olivia realises that the season of goodwill is anything but - ...