When Mick Rathbone signed for Birmingham City as a 16 year-old apprentice he was living every schoolboy's dream. But when he discovered he was so nervous he was unable to speak let alone pass the ball in the presence of his boyhood hero & City star Trevor Francis he realised that a career in football might not be everything he had imagined. The Smell of Football is the brutally honest & utterly unputdownable story of how ' Baz' conquered his personal demons to build a life in the game
- from the terrified teenager who purposely tried to get injured in training rather than get picked for the first team to the experienced pro who became Head of Medicine at Premier League Everton FC in charge of the treatment of the likes of Wayne Rooney Louis Saha & Tim Cahill. Brilliantly written & packed with hilarious tales featuring a football 'who's who' cast of characters
- from Sir Alf Ramsey & ' Big Sam' Allardyce to David Moyes Duncan Ferguson & Rooney himself
- The Smell of Football is an engrossing & moving memoir that covers every aspect of the professional game & gives an unprecedented insight into what life is really like at football's coalface.


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How does your dog smell? Very well as it happens! With up to 100 times as many olfactory receptors as humans dogs use their sense of smell to 'see' & interpret their world just as we do with our eyes. A dog's keen sense of smell is helped by a wet nose which has a layer of mucus that absorbs some scent molecules more quickly allowing even the faintest scent to be detected & followed. & it's not just specialist hounds such as gun drug & bomb detection dogs that have this amazing ability. All dogs love to sniff out new smells & messages
- their very own 'p-mail'!
- Your faithful friend can be taught to find those lost car keys tell you if your food contains minute traces of nuts or even locate a missing person & in such a way that these 'nose games' are great fun for both of you! This book
Includes:: How does a dog's nose work? Hide & seek games for beginners; What is my dog telling me? Which scent is that? Following trails; more trailing challenges; & advanced exercises.


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Bill is stinkier than ever in this brilliant new chapter book full of Smelly Bills smelly adventures on one very whiffy weekend! When Bills family decide to go away for a weekend Bill is taken to the kennels. Now they can have a nice relaxing holiday without any trouble or can they...?! Join the multi-award winning Smelly Bill for three brand new adventures with illustrations throughout! ...

Young Peter Pod was a little bit odd: he ate nothing but peas fresh or tinned for breakfast & brunch for dinner & lunch though he always had terrible wind! Peter is different. He only ever eats peas & they make him green & rather smelly! Then one day he is picked up by a spaceship full of aliens who whisk him away to make him their king. ...

Young Peter Ped was a little bit odd. He ate nothing but peas fresh or canned. He ate peas for breakfast & brunch for dinner & lunch til he tooted just like a brass band!" Peter loves peas but the peas make him a little smelly. Then one day Peter turns as green as a pea--and he cant stop tooting! At school his classmates tease him but on the way home some aliens spot Peter take him to their planet Krell & declare him King! On the alien planet Peter is loved for being green & incredibly smelly. The only problem is the planet lacks peas. Peter is slowly turning pink & smelling sweeter so the aliens return Peter back to his home where he decides on a new food to love!" ...

A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their spelling skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS2 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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All he wants is to find a home but thrown out into the snow on Christmas day the smelly sprout comes up against a terribly rude Christmas tree an awfully impolite snowman & worst of all
- a greedy fox. But will a chance encounter with someone as small as the sprout change everything? With deliciously witty illustrations & a story to touch the heart this charming tale is loved by children & parents alike. & one things for sure love them or loathe them youll never look at a sprout in the same way again.
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The best graphic design does more than capture attention & make the audience linger. It prolongs the encounter compelling the reader not only to notice but to remember. This book is about making graphics memorable by using witty thinking. It argues that ideas which happen in the mind stay in the mind. Beryl Mc Alhone & David Stuart begin by explaining what wit is & how it works. They make the case for wit in graphic design seeing humour as the shortest distance between two people. The different routes designers can take are explainedincluding ambiguity missing links substitution & double-takes
- to clarify the options available at the start of an assignment. A Smile in the Mind documents the power of intellectual playfulness as it invades even the corporate heartland of annual reports & the dry territory of technical literature. Designers can refer to examples for every category of graphics from direct mail to information graphics & for a variety of sectors from leisure & the arts to manufacturing & the law. For the finale witty designers answer the big question: how did they get the idea? They offer a peep into their private working methods as they check out word lists look at things sideways or put several jobs on the table at once. Gathering together the best examples of graphic wit over the past three decades A Smile in the Mind shows work from over 300 designers in the USA Britain Europe & Japan.
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This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel & Dimed & Bait & Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking & offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. Ehrenreich conceived of the book when she became ill with breast cancer & found herself surrounded by pink ribbons & platitudes. She balked at the way her anger about having the disease was seen as unhealthy & dangerous by health professionals & other sufferers. In her droll & incisive analysis of the cult of cheerfulness Ehrenreich ranges across contemporary religion business & the economy arguing for example that undue optimism & a fear of giving bad news sowed the seeds for the current banking crisis. She argues passionately that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes & thus to political apathy. Rigorous insightful & bracing as always & also incredibly funny Smile or Die" uncovers the dark side of the have a nice day nation." ...

A tale of Catherine Cookson-esque tragedy & Northern grit Pauline Prescott's life story will shock & amaze. A mother & a faithful friend Pauline is not your typical politician's wife. She is immensely proud of her role as a housewife & over the near-forty years she has been in the public eye she has remained discreet dignified & deeply loyal. The daughter of a bricklayer who died when she was young Pauline came from humble backgrounds. At 15 she found herself pregnant by a married US serviceman. Resisting all attempts to give her son up for adoption she struggled on for three years until she was finally persuaded it was for his own good. She never expected to see him again. She trained as a hairdresser & got a good job at a salon in Chester. Soon afterwards she met John a dashing waiter who whisked her off her feet & married her. John's dreams of becoming a union activist meant that he spent the next eight years in university. It was Pauline's wages that paid for everything. She never complained. John quickly rose through the ranks & suddenly it seemed he was the Deputy Prime Minister. Pauline went almost overnight from a Hull hairdresser to a key participant at political events. Always immaculate she quickly became known for her fashion style & stunning hats. But Pauline's world was turned upside down when more than forty years after she put her son up for adoption John received a call to say the press had tracked him down. The decision to give up her son had been heart-rending. All these years later Pauline was overjoyed to be reunited with the child she had pined for for so long finally getting the happy ending she had dreamed of for years. Throughout John's career Pauline has had to cope with the lack of privacy his position has afforded their family. Through it all she has emerged a figure of admiration. Loyal sharp good humoured & articulate Pauline has entranced the nation. Now tells us her story in her own words. Warm moving & at times painfully sad Pauline's autobiography is an honest account of a fascinating life. ...