All primary schools are required to administer SATs (National Tests) in English & maths at the end of KS1 & KS2. The use of optional tests in the other years is also becoming increasingly popular especially with the continuing pressure on schools to perform well in the Primary School league tables. This photocopiable book provides three complete tests with accompanying guidance & answers. The tests are set out to mimic the real thing & so are ideal for the practice & consolidation in the run up to the tests which take place in May each year. ...

Saturday February 15 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man
- a successful neurosurgeon the devoted husband of Rosalind & proud
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Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4 000 Allied servicemen during World War Two. Airey Neave who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser at M.I.9 gives his own unique account. He describes how the escape lines began in the first dark days of German occupation & how until the end of the war thousands of ordinary men & women made their own contribution to the Allied victory by hiding & feeding men & guiding them to safety. There isnt a page in the book which isnt exciting in incident ...

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post Mma Ramotswe always on the side of the weak against the strong has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles of Private Detection: never lie to the client. Apprentice mechanic Charlie seems to be avoiding certain important responsibilities. & as Mma Makutsi's big day approaches her nemesis violet Sephotho is casting her net wider: by standing for election which could spell trouble for the entire nation. But as friends & family gather under starry African night skies it turns out that even the most perplexing of apparitions
- & the most shocking of crimes
- may yield to rational explanation. & of course to Mma Ramotswe's inimitable way with love intuition & redbush tea.

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As the countdown to Mma Makutsis wedding begins all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post Mma Ramotswe always on the side of the weak against the strong has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles of Private Detection: never lie to the client. Apprentice mechanic Charlie seems to be avoiding certain important responsibilities. & as Mma Makutsis big day approaches her nemesis violet Sephotho is casting her net wider: by standing for election which could spell trouble for the entire nation. But as friends & family gather under starry African night skies it turns out that even the most perplexing of apparitions
- & the most shocking of crimes
- may yield to rational explanation. & of course to Mma Ramotswes inimitable way with love intuition & redbush tea.

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With a new introduction by Richard Bradford. Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its original publication. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking hard-fighting young rebel he knows what he wants & he's sharp enough to get it. Before long his carryings-on with a couple of married women is local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl in a pub & Arthur's life begins to look less simple... First published in 1958 ' Saturday Night & Sunday Morning' achieved instant critical acclaim & helped to establish Alan Sillitoe as one of the greatest British writers of his generation. The film of the novel starring Albert Finney transformed British cinema & was much imitated. ...

This is a rollicking rhyming dinosaur picture book for young children. Have you ever wondered what the dinosaurs did for fun? What really happened when the Jurassic gang wanted to let off some steam? They danced of course! They rocked & rolled they twirled & tromped! They had themselves a dinosaur stomp! Join Diplodocus Iguanodon Duckbill Tyrannosaurus Allosaurus Brontosaurus & other rockin' dinosaurs at the biggest loudest wildest party ever! Boomalacka boomalacka! Whack! Whack! WHACK! ...

Edinburgh Blackpool Bolton
- the glamour of it all! Picking up from where Peters bestselling autobiography The Sound of Laughter
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It was 1950. Magsy OGara her husband killed in the war plodded through her daily routine as a hospital cleaner dedicating all her spare time to Beth her genius daughter. Pursued by men who admired her great beauty she was determined to remain a widow. Nothing was to divert her from her gruelling schedule. Her goal was simple: Beth would become a doctor. Beth however wanted a normal life -- a brother a sister a stepfather who might make her wonderful mother happy. So Beth was delighted when a personable man began to court Magsy. Across the road at number 1 Nellie Hulme trapped in a world of silence watched the other two Saturday girls. Deaf since infancy Nellie had a secret so huge that it amused her. What would folk have thought had they known her true position in life? & why did she hear in her dreams? ...

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short; the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome & brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong; she acquires a mystery illness
- then a young man is horrendously murdered & she escapes from house arrest. Marcus Didius Falco is pitted against his old rival the Chief Spy Anacrites in a race to find the fugitive before her presence angers the public & makes the government look stupid. Falco has other priorities for Helenas brother Justinus has also vanished perhaps fatefully involved once more with the great lost love of his youth. Against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule the search seems impossible & only Falco seems to notice that some dark agency is bringing death to the city streets...
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