Ronnie Wood is one of rock's true originals. This is his story in his own words about his life loves family friends music art & survival against the odds. It's a roller-coaster ride of unbelievable highs & unimaginable lows From a small boy growing up on a working class council estate not far from Heathrow Airport who wanted to play music & paint
- the first generation of his water gypsy" family to be born on dry land
- to becoming one of the most famous musicians in the world Ronnie Wood toured the world with his Rolling Stone bandmates
- Mick Keith Charlie & for a while Bill. & the five of them have arguably been seen in person by more people on this planet than anyone else in the history of mankind. But as mayhem & hysteria invariably followed on Ronnie's adventure through the excesses of rock n roll the drugs got harder & his relationships
- especially with Mick Keith various women & his family
- became increasingly more complex. This is Ronnie the husband father grandfather & rock star the way you have never seen any rock star before. RONNIE is an up-front & personal look at life as a Rolling Stone from the inside & at the Stones as the rest of the world has never seen them. After RONNIE drugs sex & rock n roll will never be the same again."




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Ronnie Howard was a drug dealer a hit man a hustler a bouncer & a thief. He was very nearly a pimp. Ronnie was also a copper whose undercover work led to some of the biggest drug hauls the UK has ever seen. His infiltration of a paedophile network helped avert kidnap & murder while his work on the beat earned him a reputation as one of the UKs toughest policemen. No one was safe when Ronnie was around. Criminals feared him & so did his fellow officers. Ronnies Looking for Trouble tells the true story of one mans battle against crime & an increasingly corrupt law-enforcement service. It reveals a police officer who was afraid of nothing & no one. For where there was trouble there was glory. & Ronnie found plenty of both. ...

If you have never fixed a roof tile or slate before but have wondered how to go about repairing or replacing them then this is the book for you. Many of the technical books about roof tiling & slating are rather vague & conveniently ignore some of the trickier problems & how they can be resolved. However this practical volume written by an expert with a vast experience of teaching roof tiling & slating to both apprentices & experienced roofers rejects this cautious approach. ...

Keeping a house weatherproof & in good condition is an ongoing task. Under constant attack from a combination of heat cold wind & rain it is vital that the right protection is in place to keep the elements at bay. This book offers guidance using step-by-step photographs & line drawings on a wide range of roofing & weatherproofing jobs as well as home insulation
- all important in keeping problems & bills to a minimum. Topics covered include: roofing jobs
- replacing tiles slates & repairing flashings; repairing chimney stacks woodwork gutters & downpipes; weatherproofing jobs
- replacing putty sealing window frames & repairing brickwork; insulating jobs
- roof loft & wall insulation draughtproofing & double glazing & soundproofing.



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Creating a terrace or rooftop paradise This city-dwellers guide to gardening shows how less is actually more especially when it comes to creating one's own terrace & rooftop paradise. With ten sample gardens to choose from including the plans for each this practical guide describes every aspect of urban gardening-from design for roofs screening & framing gardening without soil to containers furniture & decorations & special effects. Full of overall & close-up photos of each garden this magazine-style guide will show any apartment dweller how to create their very own Eden-with a garden of ferns & bamboos & vegetables & herbs only footsteps away. ...

Nora has come home to the Sussex coast where every dawn she runs along the creek path to the sea. In the half-light fragments of cello music crash around in her mind but she casts them out
- its more than a year since she performed in public. There are memories she must banish in order to survive: a charismatic teacher with gold-flecked eyes a mistake she cannot unmake. At home her mother Ada is waiting: a fragile bitter woman who distils for herself a glamorous past as she smokes French cigarettes in her unkempt garden. In the village of Bosham the future is invading. A charming young documentary maker has arrived to shoot a film about King Cnut & his cherished but illegitimate daughter whose body is buried under the flagstones of the local church. As Jonny disturbs the fabric of the village digging up tales of ancient battles & burials the threads lead back to home & Ada & Nora find themselves face to face with the shameful secrets they had so carefully buried. One day Nora finds a half-dead fledgeling in a ditch. She brings him home & over the hot summer months cradles Rook back to life. A mesmerising story of family legacy & turning back the tides Rook beautifully evokes the shifting Sussex sands & the rich seam of history lying just beneath them.
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The body you are wearing used to be mine. So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity & track down the agents who want to destroy her. She soon learns that she is a Rook a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Checquy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare & deadly supernatural ability of her own. Filled with characters both fascinating & fantastical The Rook is a richly inventive suspenseful fantasy. An astonishing debut from a brilliant new voice. ...

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single locked room. They don't have the key. Jack & Ma are prisoners. ' This book will break your heart.. . It is the most vivid radiant & beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read'
- Irish Times". ' Startlingly original & moving.. . Endearing & as utterly compelling as " The Lovely Bones"'
- " Scotsman". 'I've never read a more heart-burstingly gut wrenchingly compassionate novel.. . As for sweet bright funny Jack I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel & never let him go'
- " Daily Mail". ' This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love all the while giving us a fresh expansive eye on the world in which we live'
- " New York Times Book Review"."



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Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single locked room. They dont have the key. Jack & Ma are prisoners. This book will break your heart.. . It is the most vivid radiant & beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read
- Irish Times". Startlingly original & moving.. . Endearing & as utterly compelling as " The Lovely Bones"
- " Scotsman". Ive never read a more heart-burstingly gut wrenchingly compassionate novel.. . As for sweet bright funny Jack I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel & never let him go
- " Daily Mail". This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love all the while giving us a fresh expansive eye on the world in which we live
- " New York Times Book Review". See Judys Review See Richards Review See Emma Donoghue talk about her book Reading Group Questions Read our exclusive Q&A with Emma Donoghue Write a Review for Room Judys Review This extraordinary book is very hard to sum up. To read it you have to slide into a place that frees you of normal expectation to help yourself understand the most appalling of situations & yet allow for hope love & redemption. Room is told through the eyes of a five year old boy Jack. He & his mother are held captive by a monster a man who kidnapped a nineteen year old girl & held her in a one-room shed locked & sound-proofed. For seven years he has systematically raped her & Jack is a result. So far so horrible & reminiscent of the recent tragedy in Austria where Josef Fritzl repeatedly raped his own daughter after imprisoning her in a cellar fathering many children by her. But Room is not quite like that. It is a story of hope & great love. Jack is adored by his young Ma who tries desperately to bring him up in as normal & loving way possible in their terrifying circumstances. & she succeeds. Jack is a sweet loveable remarkably normal boy. Before their eventual escape she manages to give him an enormous sense of security. Hugely heart-warming is the spirit of Ma: a strong young woman who has somehow transcended her appalling situation & degrading imprisonment to become as warm & protective a mother as any woman in a more stable & conventional environment could hope to be. Richards Review How would any of us react in a moment of mortal danger? In a plane crash? In the heat & smoke of the battlefield? Would we "



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Somebody was in there. Somebody
- or some thing... There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel where Fliss & her
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