Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining smelly & disgusting bits about the British! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- How to avoid scurvy
- Why bright red isnt the best colour for a soldiers uniform
- Why not being able to swim was considered an advantage &
- How to cure the most gruesome tropical diseases



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This book was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize 2010. They were masters of the financial universe flying in private jets & raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees. Andrew Ross Sorkin the news-breaking New York Times" journalist delivers the first true in-the-room account of the most powerful men & women at the eye of the financial storm
- from reviled Lehman Brothers CEO Dick the gorilla Fuld to banking whiz Jamie Dimon from bullish Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to AIGs Joseph Cassano dubbed The Man Who Crashed the World. Through unprecedented access to the key players Sorkin meticulously re-creates frantic phone calls foul-mouthed rows & white-knuckle panic as Wall Street fought to save itself."
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This collection is Benjamin Zephaniahs first new book of poems in five years. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. With poems like Chant of a Homesick Nigga" & " Kill Them Before Ramadan " he shows that hes a poet who wont stay silent who doesnt pull any punches writing out of a sense of urgency & a commitment to social justice. He opens this hard-hitting & blackly funny book of poems with an outspoken comment on where hes coming from setting his poetry against the political landscape of Britain." ...

The Vanishing Triangle": A womans body is found in Irelands most notorious body dump zone an area in the Dublin mountains where a number of women disappeared in the past. " Nuns Cross": The victim is from an exclusive gated development in the suburbs
- where the prime suspect in the vanishing triangle cases Derek Carpenter now lives. It looks like the past is coming back to haunt the present. But DI Jo Birmingham doesnt believe the case is open & shut. Her husband Dan was part of the original investigation team; is she trying to protect her own fragile domestic peace? The one person who could help her crack the case Dereks wife Liz is so desperate to protect her family that she is going out of her way to thwart all efforts to establish the truth. Can both women emerge unscathed?"
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When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours the Langleys are gunned down in their house one hot August night the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless of course the killers went to the wrong house... At first the idea seems crazy
- but each of the Cutter family has a secret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that old computer teenage Derek & his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? & where is it now? What hold does a local professor & bestselling author have on Ellen Cutter? & what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that even her husband didn't? To find out who killed the Langleys & why everybody's secrets are going to have to come out. But the final secret
- the secret that could save them or destroy them
- is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking...


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This vivid honest memoir of growing up in the Roosevelt White House during the Great Depression is a delicious read for anyone interested in American history or the presidency. Curtis Roosevelt was born five & half months after Black Tuesday when the New York Stock Exchange crash in October 1929 paved the way not only for the Great Depression but also for his grandfathers presidency. History had his family in its grip & he had no choice but to go along for the ride. Just three years old Curtis arrived at his grandparents household at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue only a very short time after they themselves had begun to unpack. He & his sister Eleanor were the countrys First Grandchildren a pint-sized double act known to the media as Sistie & Buzzie" (pronounced as one word). " Too Close to the Sun" is his intimate account of growing up in the Roosevelt White House. With nostalgia & candour Roosevelt describes his role as a tiny planet circling the dual suns of his grandfather & grandmother known to him as Papa & Grandmere. Blending self-abasement humour resentment & affection Roosevelt describes the emotional impact of living his formative years with two larger-than-life figures of having little identity beyond being one-half of the " Sistie & Buzzie" show & of being kept on a short leash by everyone from his grandmother to his bodyguard." Too Close to the Sun" offers a rich chronicle of daily life in the Depression era White House & a moving tale of coming to terms with an untraditional childhood. It is also a fascinating portrait of arguably the most influential & inspirational figure in modern American history. Curtis Roosevelt was there. & he will take readers along with him into the long-ago world that formed him-for better or for worse." ...

Shiraz Bailey Wood has made up her mind. Shes leaving Goodmayes waving goodbye to Mayflower Academy Sixth Form & her part time job at Mr Yolk & moving to London with Carrie Draper. Carries got herself a place at Tabitha Tennants beauty school so shes sorted. Now all Shiraz has to focus on is getting herself a job. She has a bit of trouble finding the most suitable job nothing seems quite right for a girl of Shirazs originality & wit... And she has to admit shes missing her family
- even Murphy
- something rotten. But Shiraz BW will not give up
- shes going to finish what she started even if she does keep looking out of the crappy flat window to see if theres a Banana Yellow Golf parked up front...


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Bethany has an amazing secret
- her hamster Hammy is the cleverest hamster you will ever meet. He loves to learn everything that
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Ever dreamt of escape? Thats what Paradise promises: an ultra-exclusive hotel on the Caribbean island of St Barts. There a retired actor from Hollywoods golden age has brought together a glittering selection of guests. But why are they there...and what are they hiding? Mal & Lexi popstar newlyweds have the world at their feet
- if they can stay married for more than forty-eight hours. Then theres Grace the glamourpuss cougar who lives at the hotel & has her eye on the male guests. For Lauren & Sebastian its a final chance to rekindle their marriage while for the rumpled-looking novelist at the bar its time to face his writers block. & while the guests get plenty of sun sea & scandal the staff at the hotel see everything. From the cocktail-king with a heartbreakers smile to the Irish chambermaid far from home behind the scenes at Paradise life is far from quiet. As the temperature rises & dark clouds gather theres a hell of a storm ahead. A sultry tale of romance glamour & intrigue Too Hot to Handle is the holiday youve been waiting for.
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When Rupert finds a golden egg he takes it home to show Mum & Dad. Then suddenly Tap! Tap! Crack! out hatches a baby fire dragon! From then on Crumpet the dragon is Ruperts best friend. But soon Crumpet starts to grow. & as he grows he gets...HOTTER! ...