Growing up in the eighties in East London was no picnic. Proper hard bastards wannabe villains & cockney wide boys everywhere you went all looking to make their mark. With trouble at home & more at school Danny Dyer didnt have many options. He was a rascal running with a tough crowd getting himself into scrapes with the Old Bill on the verge of becoming just another nobody. Until he started to act. It came naturally to him. He landed role after role working with big stars making a name for himself. & then came Human Traffic & his career went into overdrive. Fame opened doors into the best clubs the best booze & even better drugs. But with the highs came the lows & as the drinks flowed the work dried up. Shut out of an industry that didnt understand him that heard his reputation before bothering with his talent he had no choice but to turn it around & sort himself out. This is the real story
- straight up. Funny honest full of swagger & jammed full of antics & anecdotes this memoir tears it up proper & delivers on every page.
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For ease of use & practicality Straightforward Second Edition is structured to provide one lesson per double-page spread (A/B/C/D) lasting around 90 minutes. This version also comes with a unique code to access Straightforward Practice Online. The site provides numerous additional; resources for students. Accessed through a unique code in the back of the Students Book it provides additional practice related to each unit in the Students Book an interactive wordlist to help students master vocabulary wordlists & reference guides for student reference resources ofr teachers. Teachers will be able to link up with a class to monitor their students progress. ONLINE PRACTICE
- Over 130 online resources including bonus interactive listening vocabulary reading grammar & pronunciation activities to consolidate learning from the print components CEF Checklists reading worksheets video interactive word lists with pronunciation practice & bespoke practice. GRAMMAR
- Clear & uncomplicated grammar explanations present new grammar elements. Students are always supported by the Language Reference pages at the back of their book allowing them to further work on a difficult area & understand the language. VOCABULARY
- Difficult & out of context words from the text are presented in the glossary so students are not distracted by these lexical hurdles. READING
- Texts are accessible for the relevant level realistic & from a variety of different sources/contexts. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE
- Students are not expected to learn in a vacuum & their interests & curiosities are met with Did you know sections. CEF/SELF ASSESSMENT
- Each unit culminates in a self assessment box so students can check & monitor their own progress & become more independent learners. The checklist is a selection of clear can-do statements & therefore links to the CEF & portfolio elements of the course. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE
- This section helps students to deal with common every-day situations in an English-speaking environment
- what we might think of as survival language







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High-concept thriller with a supernatural edge from world-famous director whose films include Pans Labyrinth & Hellboy. A plane lands at JFK & mysteriously goes dark stopping in the middle of the runway for no apparent reason all lights off all doors sealed. The pilots cannot be raised. When the hatch above the wing finally clicks open it soon becomes clear that everyone on board is dead
- although there is no sign of any trauma or struggle. Ephraim Goodweather & his team from the Center for Disease Control must work quickly to establish the cause of this strange occurrence before panic spreads. The first thing they discover is that four of the victims are actually still alive. But thats the only good news. & when all two hundred corpses disappear from various morgues around the city on the same night things very rapidly get worse. Soon Eph & a small band of helpers will find themselves battling to protect not only their own loved ones but the whole city against an ancient threat to humanity.
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Imprisoned in the Druid's Keep young Pen Ohmsford is separated from all who care for him & at the mercy of the usurper Shadea a' Ru who will do anything to destroy the rightful High Druid. Although Pen was successful in his mission to obtain the magical staff called the Tanequil Shadea has taken it from him. Without the Tanequil Pen cannot open the gateway to the Forbidden & rescue his aunt the rightful High Druid. Pen has allies but they are under siege as well
- his parents fleeing from the Druids the Rock Troll Kermadec & the dwarf Tagwen far away & the young elf Khyber Elessedil in deadly danger within the Druid's stronghold. Can the scattered band of friends join forces in time to defeat Shadea's evil plot?
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Fatigued by bloated big-game football & bored of samey big cities Daniel Gray went in search of small town Scotland & its teams. At a time when the Scottish club game is drifting towards its lowest ebb once more Stramash singularly fails to wring its hands & address the state of the game preferring instead to focus on Bobby Manns waistline. Part travelogue part history & part mistakenly spilling ketchup on the face of a small child Stramash takes an uplifting look at the countrys nether regions. Using the excuse of a match to visit places from Dumfries to Dingwall Gray surveys Scotlands towns & teams in their present state. Stramash accomplishes the feats of visiting Dumfries without mentioning Robert Burns being positive about Cumbernauld & linking Elgin City to Lenin. It is ae fond look at Scotland as youve never seen it before. ...

For decades tired travellers have stopped at rest areas on America's epic highways to rest refuel & get a bite to eat but little do they know that one man's rest stop is another's hunting ground. For years the defenceless the weary & the stranded have been disappearing along the highways & byways vanishing without a trace. When FBI special agent Maggie O' Dell & her partner Tully discover the remains of a young woman in a highway ditch the one clue left behind is a map that will send Maggie & Tully on a frantic hunt crisscrossing the country to stop a madman before he kills again. As the body count rises & Maggie races against the clock to unmask the monster who's terrorising the nation's highways she turns for help to a former foe who seems to have an uncanny knack for guessing what the killer's next move will be. But as she gets closer to finding the killer it becomes eerily clear that Maggie is the ultimate target. ...

This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool & Liverpool Strands" is about what is lost & buried then discovered about all the things you find on a beach dead or alive about flotsam & jetsam about mutability & transformation
- about sea-change. Every so often the sands shift enough to reveal great mysteries: the Star of Hope wrecked on Mad Wharf in 1883 & usually just visible as a few wooden stumps is suddenly raised one day up from the depths
- an entire wreck black & barnacled & on either side two more ruined ships taking the air for a while before sinking back under the s&. & stranger still perhaps are the prehistoric footprints of humans animals & birds on the beach: prints from the Late Mesolithic to mid-Neolithic period which are described as 'ephemeral archaeology' because they are preserved in the Holocene sediment revealed briefly & then destroyed by the next tide. " Strands" describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal & constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses lugworms sea potatoes messages in bottles buried cars beached whales & a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. Jean Sprackland a prize-winning poet & natural storyteller is the perfect guide to these shifting sands
- this place of transformation."


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Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal & constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses lugworms sea potatoes messages in bottles buried cars beached whales & a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool & Liverpool Strands is about what is lost & buried then discovered about all the things you find on a beach dead or alive about flotsam & jetsam about mutability & transformation
- about sea-change.
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When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale where a young woman has been found dead in her car. In the victim's pocket scribbled on a slip of paper police discover Banks' name & address. Living in Roy's empty South Kensington house Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew nor even liked. & as he begins to uncover a few troubling surprises the two cases become sinisterly entwined. ' The Banks novels are simply put the best series now on the market'
- Stephen King.
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Carla Craig is passionately in love with Richard Mere
- he has a hold over her she cant resist. Even when her world is blown apart
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