The insect kingdom is brought to life in this fantastic new book with a pull-back toy for little children to enjoy. Children can follow the busy bug's journey around a garden. With four sturdy tracks embedded in the pages the accompanying pull-back bug toy runs round the tracks. This is a fantastic gift which is guaranteed to engage & entertain young children. ...

This is a fabulous new storybook with four embedded tracks & a pull-back Santa in a sleigh toy that little children can enjoy from again & again. Follow Santa as he leaves his house & workshop on Christmas Eve & zooms above a busy city teeming with shoppers & skaters over a snowy mountain village & delivers his present to sleeping boys & girls. It is a fantastic gift guaranteed to delight & entertain young children. ...

This is an exciting storybook with four embedded tracks & a pull-back train toy that will amuse little children again & again. You can pull-back the train to start its engine then place it on the tracks & watch it zoom across away from the city station across bridges & fields over a long viaduct until it reaches its destination at the zoo. Theres so much to look for talk about & spot on every page it will make a gift present & is guaranteed to delight & entertain anyone who loves trains. ...

One of our most popular actresses Denise Welch got her television break in the BBC's Spender" opposite Jimmy Nail & followed it by achieving success in ITVs worldwide hit drama " Soldier Soldier". She really became a household name when she took on the role of Rovers Return landlady Natalie Barnes in " Coronation Street". Today she stars in the award-winning drama " Waterloo Road" & is a regular on the hugely popular " Loose Women" where her warmth & honesty have won the nation's hearts. But even as her career was taking off Denise was hiding a secret
- that she was suffering from a crippling post natal depression so severe that she was at times suicidal. As she concealed her heartbreak on the set of " Coronation Street" she turned to alcohol & drugs to cope. She even had an affair that threatened her marriage. Now she reveals for the first time the full details of her battle with depression & alcoholism how she fought back & helped by the love of her husband Tim Healy turned her life around. Powerful & moving " Pulling Myself Together" is ultimately an uplifting book that will appeal to her many fans old & new."
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From the 1920s through the depressive 30s their revival & popularity in the early post-war period & subsequent withdrawal from main line service in the 1960s. Produced on heavyweight art paper the book

Includes:: a huge range of illustrations & photographs depicting the distinctive exteriors & interiors of the best known vehicles built for the Pullman Car Company. Alongside these are many rare builders' photographs showing the methods of construction design innovations including marquetry schemes carpets moquettes & other furnishings. Other information

Includes:: train formations disposal data & an impressive colour section. The author has worked tirelessly to compile a fabulous range of surviving material gathered from throughout the British Isles to reflect the very best of railway travel. Here in glorious detail the reader may glimpse the stunning interiors decorated in styles ranging from Renaissance & Georgian to elements of Art Deco & Modern. An extensive sequence of informative history details each batch of 'K' types built from 1923 to 1927 prior to the advent of the all-steel Pullman car. Captured here is all the glamour & charm associated with the cars complemented by readable enthusiastic & well-researched text much of which has not previously been published before. Building upon the success of Pullman Profile Number 1
- The 12-Wheel Cars this latest volume in the series is certain not to disappoint. Over the decades the mood & style aboard trains may have changed but our fascination for luxury travel lingers. Any admirer of Pullman trains will be unable to resist the temptation to feast their eyes on this outstanding collection faithfully recreating what has already gone recalling the excitement & style of travelling by train.




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In this lavishly illustrated book No. 1 in a series here for the first time is the full record of the luxury British 12 Wheel ...

This is the fourth book in the very popular & highly acclaimed Pullman Profile series which as with all the other titles is a meticulously researched & beautifully presented work covering the famed Brighton Belle trains as well as the slightly less well known 'PUL' sets. There is much new information in this book & it covers the rationale behind the design build & their operation in service. Antony Ford has gone to great lengths to secure previously unseen material as well as recounting the stories from many of the regular travellers who used the service. Although this is the fourth book in the series it will stand well on its own. ...

This is Charles Bukowski's brilliant fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit invention & Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable & influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane private detective & career alcoholic is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads booze lack of cash & a raging ego but also by the surreal jobs he's been hired to do. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Celine
- who's meant to be dead
- but he's also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow
- which may or may not be real.


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John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America
- to the Ozarks for a Christian
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The stories in Julian Barnes long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms & currents: of the body of love & sex illness & death connections & conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond fall out & bond again over flowers & vegetable patches. & at a series of evenings at Phil & Joannas the topics of conversation range from the environment to the Britishness of marmalade from toilet graffiti to smoking as we witness the guests lives in flux. Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter the stories in Pulse resonate & spark. ...