When Lou Winter picks up a dog-eared magazine in the dentist's waiting room & spots an article about clearing clutter she little realises how it will change her life. What begins as an earnest spring clean soon spirals out of control. Before long Lou is hiring skips in which to dump the copious amounts of junk she never knew she had. Lou's loved ones grow disgruntled. Why is clearing out cupboards suddenly more important than making his breakfast her husband Phil wonders? The truth is the more rubbish Lou lets go of the more light & air can get to those painful closed-up places at the centre of her heart: the love waiting for a baby she would never have the empty space her best friend Deb once occupied & the gaping wound left by her husband's affair. Even lovely Tom Broom the man who delivers Lou's skips starts to grow concerned about his sweetest customer. But Lou is a woman on a mission & not even she knows where it will end.. . ...

Cyclings spring races are always the most anticipated of the year not only because they herald the start of the season but also because they are brutally difficult & spectacularly unpredictable. Known as the spring classics these one-day races test cyclings toughest riders with the worst conditions imaginable
- sucking mud choking dust leg-numbing sleet fanatic spectators & Europes narrowest most bone-grinding country roads. Clattering through agrarian hamlets on routes established a century ago The Spring Classics" celebrates cyclings most glorious & meaningful history. " The Spring Classics" delves into the stories of Milan
- San Remo Ghent-Wevelgem the Tour of Flanders Paris-Roubaix the Amstel Gold Race La Fleche Wallone & Liege-Bastogne-Liege through hundreds of rare & restored photographs presented in a lavish format. With authoritative text from cyclings expert sportswriters " The Spring Classics" commemorates the riders traditions & secrets of cyclings greatest one day contests. This is the only book to explore the history of the spring classics. The authors are top sportswriters for LEquipe Frances leading sports publication. It features hardback with jacket. It

Includes:: full-colour & black & white photographs throughout."



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Tokyo 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders
- rich provincial familes
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Thomas likes to visit the sheep at Farmer Mc Coll's farm. One day the farmer asks him to fetch some hay for the lambs that are about to be born. Along the way Thomas fills his truck with other things he thinks the newborn lambs might like but then can't fit any hay on his truck & the lambs will be born any minute! Will Thomas manage to fetch the hay in time? ...

Deep in the murkiest back streets of old London town three children are escaping from an orphanage. But lurking in the fog watching Rose Lily & Ned is a king among villains
- Mack the Knife! A dreadful fate looks certain until from out of nowhere a figure with glowing red eyes appears. He leaps through the air like a firework
- its Spring-Heeled Jack scourge of evil-doers!

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Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 2 helps students to practise: Alphabetical order (first & second letters in a word) Classification of words Homophones & Abbreviations. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 3 helps students to practise: sequencing stories & recounts rhymes & limericks riddles & adjectives. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 4 helps students to practise: converting nouns to adjectives by adding 'y' or 'ful' plurals alphabetical order (third letter in a word) & capital letters. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 5 helps students to practise: alphabetical order (fourth & fifth letters in a word) using a comma following instructions & collective nouns. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 6 helps students to practise: adverbs past-tense verbs meanings & definitions & masculine & feminine words. ...