Marvellous". (John Boyne author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas). " Adorable...A gem of a book". (Marian Keyes). The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love life & lobsters... Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows though is that it's not Rosie. Absolutely completely definitely not. Telling the story of Rosie & Don Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project is an international phenomenon sold in over thirty countries
- & counting. Don Tillman is a socially challenged genetics professor who's decided the time has come to find a wife. His questionnaire is intended to weed out anyone who's unsuitable. The trouble is Don has rather high standards & doesn't really do flexible so despite lots of takers
- he looks like Gregory Peck
- he's not having much success in identifying The One. When Rosie Jarman comes to his office Don assumes it's to apply for the Wife Project
- & duly discounts her on the grounds she smokes drinks doesn't eat meat & is incapable of punctuality. However Rosie has no interest in becoming Mrs Tillman & is actually there to enlist Don's assistance in a professional capacity: to help her find her biological father. Sometimes though you don't find love: love finds you... Like The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a truly distinctive debut. With the charm of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time & the romance of David Nicholls' One Day it's both funny & endearing
- & is set to become the feel-good novel of 2013... Graeme Simsion is a full-time writer. Previously an IT consultant & educator he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling now entering its fourth edition) & is married to Anne a professor of psychiatry who writes erotic fiction. They have two children."




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This is a story that could only have come from the imagination of Russell Hoban! Brought vividly to life by picture book great Quentin Blake. This story begins with an ice-lolly stick. Its sweetness gone it lies discarded & lonely...until a little girl called Rosie comes along. She places it carefully in her cigar box full of other sticks. Without our ice-lollies we are nothing " says an old stick. But new stick wants to BE something & into the minds of all the old sticks he plants dreams...maybe they can be something too. What about Rosie & her dreams that night? She dreams of helping her parents pay the bills. & so at the stroke of midnight magic & dreams collide & a HORSE gallops out of the cigar box! His name is Stickerino. " Where to?" he asks Rosie. " Anywhere with treasure!" she answers & hops on its back. Then begins an adventure like no other...ice-lolly mountains by the sea caskets of gold & pirates foiled by a stickling ice-cream van... Inventive & original this is a gem from the upside-down imaginative landscape of Russell Hoban. Quentin Blakes hallmark illustration style breathes energy & mischeviousness into something as small & ordinary as a disused ice-lolly stick. If an ice-lolly stick can be a horse...then YOU can be anything you wish to be! This beautiful edition is jacketed." ...

When Rosie the hen sets off for a stroll she is unaware of the distinctly fox-shaped shadow thats following her. But luckily for Rosie her pursuer is the clumsiest of his kind! This timeless picture book by Pat Hutchins is now over thirty years old & still a firm favourite. ...

Rosie's walk around the farmyard pursued by the hungry but clumsy fox has become a beacon in the world of children's picture books an ever-popular classic which generations have enjoyed. Children love the humour of this near-wordless story. One disaster after another befalls the poor fox while Rosie goes on her way supremely unaware of the danger behind her. Now at a wonderful larger size this re-issue will bring the joy of Rosie's tale & Pat's bold artwork to a new generation of fans. ...

This is the paperback edition of the extraordinary & genuine account of Rosemary Say
- a courageous young Englishwoman whose emigration
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The anatomy & physiology resource of choice for nursing & healthcare students around the world. The 11th edition of Ross & Wilson Anatomy & Physiology" now

Includes:: even more valuable resources including: " Ross & Wilson Textbook"
- highly illustrated clear & easy to understand language; " Ross & Wilson e Book"
- fully searchable & customisable e Book; " Ross & Wilson e Resources"; over 100 animations; 400 self assessment questions; crosswords drag & drop hangman & other test yourself games; & colouring in exercises labelling exercises & case studies. By using all of these fantastic resources you will find Anatomy & Physiology makes sense!"



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He has played an East End hardman an SAS soldier & investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all
- the Taliban. In order to prepare for this life-threatening ordeal Ross Kemp trains with the First Battalion Royal Anglians in Englands subzero temperatures practicing firing SA 80 rifles &. 50 caliber machine guns getting to know the soldiers & learning the tactics they use to stay alive. Sent with them to Camp Bastion in Afghanistans Helmand province he immerses himself fully: he endures the stifling heat the constant threat of snipers RPG attacks suicide bombers & land mines. In short he discovers first hand what its like to fight on the front line. Its the closest hes ever come to dying
- bullets fizzing inches from his head as they hit the ground on either side of him. After two harrowing & arduous months Ross returns to England but there is little relief to be had as he meets the mothers of soldiers killed in the conflict. Then in September 2008 he goes back to the war zone to see how the men he grew so close to are faring to check how many of them are still alive. Its a fascinating horrifying & often moving insight into the brutal reality ordinary soldiers have to face in one of the worlds most dangerous & volatile regions.

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Cornwall in the 1780s
- when powerful forces of revolution & reaction are at large in the world. Tired from a grim war in America
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Coal mining is the second oldest industry in Britain after agriculture. As big coalmines developed to cope with the output to feed the Industrial Revolution many small-scale moorland pits
- including those around Rawtenstall Bacup Rochdale Littleborough & Heywood
- were still worked to provide fuel for local markets households farms mills factories & foundries. These small private coal mines were often worked on a shoestring budget & the miners themselves toiled in extreme conditions using methods of mining hundreds of years old. Written by a former miner this book recalls an industry now long gone of accidents & deaths of child labour & the owners of these mines as well as the proud men who toiled below ground sometimes hundreds of feet down others in coal seams less than eighteen inches high. Illustrated with 50 images this book a lasting record of the East Lancashire Coalfields.

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The exiled Italian poet Gabriele Rossetti arrived in London in 1824 with a few letters of introduction little money & less English. But within one generation he would bequeath his new city with a remark- able cultural legacy through the accomplishments of his children. There was the poet & Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel the poet & religious thinker Christina the nun & Dante Alighieri scholar Maria & William who combined a life of English letters with a successful career in finance. The lives & achievements of the Rossettis are placed within the wider context of the artistic literary & spiritual communities that inspired them & that they shaped in their turn. They worked with each other & in collaboration with the most famous figures of their day
- the Barrett-Brownings Tennyson Swinburne & Ruskin
- as well as within significant groups like the Pre-Raphaelites Anglo-Catholics Freemasons & suffragists.

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