Matthew Hayden is one of the finest players of Australia's all-conquering Test cricket side of the last decade & this is his outspoken & revealing life story. Matthew Hayden opened the Australian innings in Test cricket during the zenith of its cricketing success in recent years. He was part of the side that narrowly lost the enthralling 2005 Ashes series in England & then trounced England back in Australia 5-0 a year later. & while much of the side's success was due to Glenn Mc Grath's seam bowling & Shane Warne's spin Hayden's opening partnerships with the equally flinty Justin Langer laid the bedrock of their many victories. Now retired from all first-class cricket except the IPL 20/20 he has quickly made a name for himself as a trenchant & articulate summariser on British TV cricket coverage. His autobiography is notable for its inside story never before told on many famous cricketing series
- the disunity & dysfunction within the Australian camp during the 2005 series for example. It also offers fascinating first-hand testimony of what it was like to play against greats of the game like Vivian Richards & face the fearsome West Indies fast-bowling attack. It is also a casebook in the psychology of winning & doing your best: no sportsmen in the modern era have been better at this than Ricky Ponting's Australian Test side.
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From my early teens Ive been an exhibitionist & from the time I started senior school I was desperate to look different. Ive always gone for clothes that make me stand out rather than blend in with the rest of the crowd. Nobody stands out from the crowd quite like Katie Price. The world cant help but sit up & take notice of her every move. Ever since her early modelling shoots the camera lens has never been off her & even in those early days it was clear that a star was born. Katie Price isnt one to follow trends. Unafraid to do whatever it takes to look how she wants she doesnt play by anyone elses rules & she always does things her own way. Here Katie Price opens up her make-up bag & throws open the doors to her wardrobe. She talks about how her image has changed as her career in the spotlight has evolved & how what she wears affects her relationships with her her family her fans & the press. She reveals all her top tips on looking & feeling good to get the best out of life including what she wore on the night that Jordan was born how she puts together an outfit to make a statement & she talks frankly about her fascination with cosmetic surgery. Find out which style crime makes Katie say theres just no excuse for it & who makes Katie think did you actually look in the mirror before leaving the house? & what are the must-have items that Katie just cant live without. This is Katies guide to looking good living life & being happy inspiring others to be confident about the woman they are & the woman they want to be. ...

Corporal Andy Reid was an ordinary soldier serving in Helmand Province Afghanistan. But his life changed for ever on Tuesday 13th October 2009 when he was blown up by a Taliban improvised explosive device (IED). Evacuated to the UK & the specialist military wing of Selly Oak Hospital it was touch-&-go whether he would survive. He had lost both legs & his right arm while the index finger of his left hand was almost completely removed. Yet survive he did & less than a month after being blown up he was reunited with his patrol back in Warminster. From there he went on to have a pair of prosthetic legs fitted at the Defence Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court & this allowed him to go on a world cruise with his fiance Claire in 2010. In the same year he was nominated for & won the Sun's Military Award. In between he has cycled from Land's End to John O' Groats skydived & made a number of appearances on behalf of service charities. Andy's story demonstrates how with patience courage & determination hope can triumph over despair. But he has two stories to tell. The first is the story of Corporal Reid Burma Company 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment: Infantry Section Commander. Then there is the story of Andy Reid triple-amputee skydiver cyclist charity fundraiser husband & father. But Andy is acutely aware that for every injured soldier like him there are many more who have their spirits crushed with despair as they face a lifetime of pain disability & impairment. Even those who seem to make a full recovery may yet exhibit the true extent of their mental injuries. He is not seeking pity of admiration. But he does want to make sure that we the general public know as much as someone who has not been there or been through it themselves can ever know what opertations in Afghanistan are like what happens to those who get injured & what future they might have. ...

Across the length & breadth of Britain & Ireland lies an unsurpassed richness of prehistoric heritage. Standing with Stones" is a personal voyage of discovery taking the reader to over a hundred megalithic sites in a photographic journey through the British Isles. The book is divided into regions & each site featured is given its Ordnance Survey grid reference. Some like Stonehenge & Newgrange are well known & often visited but many such as Fernworthy & Bleasdale are remote & barely known. Rupert Soskins stunning & original photographs act as windows into the past which together with his engaging & accessible text encourage the reader to think afresh about the meaning & purpose of these monuments & at the same time open the eyes of travellers & enthusiasts to the great wealth & variety of henges circles dolmens barrows & standing stones across the British Isles." ...

These four h&-coloured maps of London in the Victorian age show all of London including the surrounding countryside & outlying villages such as Hampstead Stratford Merton & Beckenham. Perfect for researchers & genealogists they are presented in a slipcase box set & are so detailed that they show individual buildings the gardens of suburban houses separate platforms of new railway stations & even individual statues in Londons squares. ...

The most informal
- & in some ways the most delightful
- of all Stanislavski books"
- Sir Michael Redgrave No one has


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A fresh new look for the one-&-only 2D hero! Stanley in Space The President of the United States chooses Stanley & his family to become the first humans aboard a new top-secret spaceship. Stanley will meet the Queen of England have his birthday in outer space & face a city full of aliens! Stanley & the Magic Lamp Stanley finds a real genie inside his mothers teapot. Now the Lampchops can wish for anything in the world: fame a magical pet superpowers.. . Being famous is exhausting! Soon everyone longs for life to get back to normal. But can Stanley reverse the wishes? ...

Here for the first time is complete collection of actor & entertainer Stanley Holloway's incomparable comic monologues which he performed between 1929 & 1941. All the much-loved characters such as Albert Ramsbottom ('with a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle') Sam Small (' Sam Sam pick oop tha' arm) & King Arold ('on his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and') are gathered together & brilliantly illustrated by cartoonist Bill Tidy. ...

Stanley Kubrick (USA 1928-99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographer before moving into film noir aged barely 25 after which the power & originality of his work soon brought him box-office success. In the 1960s he lived & worked in London away from the scandal caused by his adaptation of Lolita (1962) & from the major studios from which uniquely he was able to wrest total control of his films. He made only a dozen features in 50 years each of which displays an extraordinary degree of technical & aesthetic invention. From the sci-fi 2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) onwards each of his masterpieces explores new genres & controversial topics such as Vietnam (" Full Metal Jacket" 1987) violence ("A Clockwork Orange" 1971) horror (" The Shining" 1980) & sexuality (" Eyes Wide Shut" 1999)." ...

Imagine your misfortune if like Stanley Yelnats you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice & interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute. How would you survive? Thoughtfully Louis Sachar has learnt his knowledge & expertise to the subject & created this wonderful quirky & utterly essential guide to toughing it out in the Texan desert. Spiced with lots of information about the characters in Holes" as well as lots of do's & don'ts for survival this is an essential book for all those hundreds of thousands of " Holes'" fans." ...