The former wartime airfield at Silverstone is Britain's most important motor racing circuit & is best known as the home of the British Grand Prix which was first staged there in 1948. This magnificent book tells Silverstone's entire history covering the great races influential characters & unforgettable events as well as the evolution of the circuit itself. The book is profusely illustrated including plenty of rare photographs that have not been published before. Produced with the full assistance of the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) & Silverstone Circuits this is the last word on the history of the much-loved 'home of British motor racing'. ...

With the liberal use of many previously unpublished photographs contrasting past & present Silverstone Circuit Through Time shows how a wartime airfield developed stage by stage into the country's premier motor racing circuit the annual home of Formula One's spectacular British Grand Prix. Though touching on some of the great personalities associated with the place it is essentially a book about the circuit itself. There is much nostalgic emphasis on the 1950s & 1960s when love of the sport & a willingness to make the best of things had to compensate for the somewhat primitive facilities on offer. The remarkable turnaround of more recent years is also fully explored as a fairly ramshackle venue reflecting the dreamy surrounding countryside turned itself into a high-tech entertainment centre bristling with ambition for the future. ...

The second volume in Raymond E. Feist's highly acclaimed epic fantasy Riftwar Saga With the Kingdom of the Isles at peace Prince Arutha can at last look forward to marrying the Princess Anita in the city of Krondor. But the capital in the west harbours many shadows. When Jimmy the Hand a young thief in the Guild of Mockers upsets an assassination attempt on Arutha a sinister plot is uncovered. As the dead rise & assassins stalk the darkness Arutha must rally the Kingdom forces swiftly if he is to save his beautiful princess felled by a poisoned arrow on her wedding day & prevent a madman from destroying Midkemia. ...

The whole of the magnificent Riftwar Cycle by bestselling author Raymond E. Feist master of magic & adventure now available in ebook For nearly a year peace reigned in the enchanted kingdom of Rillanon. But new challenges awaited Arutha the Prince of Krondor when Jimmy the Hand
- the youngest thief in the Guild of Mockers
- came upon a sinister Nighthawk poised to assassinate him. What evil power raises the dead & makes corpses do battle with the living at the behest of the Guild of Death? & what high magic can defeat it? Meanwhile a life-or-death quest must be undertaken to find an antidote to a poison that fells a beautiful princess on her wedding day... Silverthorn is the second book in the Riftwar Saga. The trilogy concludes with book three A Darkness at Sethanon.

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George & Edie are travelling through un London a world of danger on the city streets & they are quite alone. Time is standing still & the rest of London is unaware of their plight unaware of the hidden world of living statues of Shackleton & the Queen of Time. In the concluding part of the breathtaking & critically acclaimed Stoneheart trilogy Edie & George look deeper into Edie's past & her future. ...

Melanie Mc Grath's critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback. In this remarkable book award-winning writer Melanie Mc Grath has given us a vivid & poignant memoir of the East End. Mc Grath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places where her grandparents lived out their lives Poplar East Ham & Silvertown -- are virtually unrecognisable; her grandparents Jenny & Len Page long since dead & already half forgotten. Silvertown teems with stories of life in the docks & pubs & dog tracks of the old East End where Melanie Mc Grath's grandparents scraped a living. Here are the bustling alleys & lanes of Poplar in 1914 where eleven year old Jenny watches the men go off to fight; the Moses sweatshop on the Mile End Waste; the London docks then the largest port in the world; & Jenny having her teeth pulled out on her seventeenth birthday. Here too is the Cosy Cafe opened full of hope by Jenny & Len -- later a home to their troubled marriage -- & an East End landscape which is altered forever by the closure of the docks & the disintegration of this close knit community. The places Melanie Mc Grath describes have largely vanished now. This evocative & deeply moving family memoir recreates the lost East End & the struggles of those who live there. ...

Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexfords new Doctor Raymond Akande. When the doctors daughter Melanie goes missing the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Melanie just down from university but unable to find a job disappeared somewhere between the Benefit Office & the bus stop. Or at least no one saw her get on the bus when it came. According to her parents Melanie was happy at home. She had recently broken up with her boyfriend but until now there had been no cause to worry about her. & no one liked to voice the suspicion that something might have happened that Melanie might be dead.. . ...

The creators of Captain America" & the " Boy Commandos" produced some of the hardest-hitting crime comics of the 1950s. Often featuring real-world criminals like Ma Barker Al Capone & Pretty Boy Floyd & true-to-life events like the St. Valentines Day Massacre these adventures were torn from post-prohibition headlines. Explosive enough to draw the attention of the congressional committee on juvenile delinquency they remain action-packed for todays graphic novel audience. These are the best of the Simon & Kirby Crime comics fully restored & collected for the first time." ...

The creators of Captain America" produced some of the most thrilling science fiction. Spanning more than 20 years this volume features the first stories Joe Simon & Jack Kirby ever produced together (" The Blue Bolt Adventures") as well as " Race for the Moon" featuring pencils by Kirby & inked artwork by comic book legends Reed Crandall Angelo Torres & Al Williamson." ...

Love him or loathe him Simon Cowell is arguably the most influential player in the British entertainment industry & one of Britain's most successful exports. After a humble start in the post room at EMI his meteoric rise began when he became a top A&R executive signing huge acts from Westlife & Five to Robson & Jerome. Fame & a television career followed when he became a judge in the TV talent shows Pop Idol" & " American Idol" & subsequently created the hit shows " The X Factor" & " Britain's Got Talent" watched by millions every year. His trademark blunt honesty coupled with his extraordinary business savvy has made him a household name
- but what do we really know about this charismatic & sharp-tongued man? In " Simon Cowell" Chas Newkey-Burden finds out interviewing friends & old colleagues & lifting the lid on the professional & private life of one of Britain's most eligible batchelors."
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