Square-format wall calendar featuring stunning racing photography from the Racing Post team. It features one month to view ...

By his eighteenth birthday David Millar was living & racing in France sleeping in rented rooms tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream & signed a professional contract. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically
- he broke his heel in a fall from a roof after too much drink & before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here in a full & frank autobiography David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white noise' & because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money & glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.' Five years on from his arrest Millar is clean & reflective & holds nothing back in this account of his dark years.
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By his 18th birthday David Millar was living & racing in France sleeping in rented rooms tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream & signed a professional contract with the Cofidis team who had one Lance Armstrong on their books. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically -- high on a roof after too much drink he broke his heel in a fall & before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here in a full & frank autobiography David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white noise' & because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money & glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.' Five years on from his arrest Millar is clean & reflective & holds nothing back in this account of his dark years. ...

Given the importance of what they do & the controversies that often surround them & the violent people they sometimes confront it is remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five. His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself & frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning his law clerks panicked called the FBI & in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry no struggle just two dead bodies
- Judge Fawcett & his young secretary. I did not know Judge Fawcett but I know who killed him & why. I am a lawyer & I am in prison. It's a long story.
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Given the importance of what they do & the controversies that often surround them & the violent people they sometimes confront it is remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five. His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself & frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning his law clerks panicked called the FBI & in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry no struggle just two dead bodies
- Judge Fawcett & his young secretary. I did not know Judge Fawcett but I know who killed him & why. I am a lawyer & I am in prison. It's a long story.
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Melissa Marrs New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series continues with the fourth -- & penultimate -- installment in the darkly seductive story about the collision of the mortal & faery worlds! The events of FRAGILE ETERNITY have left the faery world off-balance its key players fighting to maintain control over their world -- & its secrets! Devlin lives in a world where everything is beautiful ordered! & cruel. As a prominent member of the High Court & half-brother to Sorcha the High Queen hes one of the most powerful faeries of the old guard. Ani lives in a world where every line is blurred. Half human half faery half in the dedadence of the Dark Court & half out of it her life of dive bars tattoos & street fights couldnt be farther from the clean lines of the High Court. But you cant choose where your heart will take you & when Devlin & Ani meet two extremes of the faery world collide -- with passion violence & heat; for better -- & for worse! ...

Born & raised in Essex Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip hop music graffiti & girls he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) where he played a leading & international role in the shaping & dissemination of an aggressive anti-West narrative. While studying for his Arabic & law degree he travelled around the UK & to Denmark & Pakistan setting up new cells. Arriving in Egypt the day before 9/11 his views soon led to his arrest imprisonment & mental torture before being thrown into solitary confinement in a Cairo jail reserved for political prisoners. There while mixing with everyone from the assassins of Egypts president to Liberal reformists he underwent an intellectual transformation & on his release after four years he publically renounced the Islamist ideology that had defined his life. This move would cost him his marriage his family & his friends as well as his own personal security. Five years after his release Maajid now works all over the world to counter Islamism & to promote democratic ideals through his organisation The Quilliam Foundation which he co-founded with former Islamist & bestselling author Ed Husain. Following in the wake of the extraordinary democratic change in the Arab world that few would have foretold Radical is Maajids intensely personal account of life inside & out of Islamic extremism. It also highlights one mans quest to inspire change & challenge extremism in all its forms. ...

In the West most of us have suffered the fear of not being good enough feeling insecure about our appearance our sexuality our intelligence our spiritual progress or
- often most importantly
- being worthy of love. When these feelings of insufficiency or self-aversion are strong we fear abandonment & rejection. Many people have already found the Buddhist perspective on our emotional life to be extremely valuable
- & this book will be a major practical contribution to the subject.


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Veteran brewer & creative genius Randy Mosher delivers an entertaining look at beer history & culture along with a no-nonsense approach to the art of innovative brewing. He combines a passion for good beer with a solid understanding of brewing science to give a practical guide to joyfully creative brewing. It will take you to places you never thought you would go! ...

War is the natural occupation of man.. .war-and gardening. Winston Churchill to Siegfried Sassoon 1918 In the common public perception contemporary gardening is understood as suburban as leisure activity as television makeover opportunity. Its origins are seen as religious or spiritual (Garden of Eden) military (the clipped lawn the ha-ha & defensive ditches) aristocratic or monarchical (the stately home the Royal Horticultural Society). Radical Gardening travels an alternative route through history & across landscape linking propagation with propaganda. For everyday garden life is not only patio barbecue white picket fence topiary herbaceous border... From window box to veggie box from political plot to flower power this book uncovers & celebrates moments movements gestures of a peoples approach to gardens & gardening. It weaves together garden history with the counterculture stories of individual plants with discussion of government policy the social history of campaign groups with the pleasure & dirt of hands in the earth as well as original interviews alongside media pop & art references to offer an informing & inspiring new take on an old subject. ...