Team Brass" is firmly established as the best-selling series of brass tutors. It presents a flexible course which can be tailored to suit each student ideal for individual group & class tuition
- including the ABRSM music medals. The books in the series contain plenty of carefully graded music in a wide range of styles from Baroque & Classical eras to film folk jazz & Latin American. The series encourages ensemble playing with varied repertoire for both orchestral & brass band instruments & develops instrument-related aural skills improvisation & composition. Included are scales & arpeggios & a CD comprising of over 70 backing tracks to make every strudent feel like a star performer."
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Troop Leader" is a unique account of one mans experience of the battle for Europe in 1944 & 1945. Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign landing in Normandy on D+3 fought throughout the Battle for Normandy & into the Low Countries as a troop leader in Cromwell tanks & was latterly a member of the initial occupying force in Berlin in May 1945. Against the rules Bill kept diaries & notes of his experiences. His account is fresh & open & his descriptions of battle are vivid. He witnessed many of his contemporaries killed in action & this life-altering experience clearly informs his narrative. The accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy bocage in the height of summer or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter are graphic & compelling." ...

Miller's groundbreaking first novel banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless & as yet unpublished writer Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage & an unhappy career in America he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes & pimps the penniless painters & writers of Montparnasse Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant & rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism & freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK & the USA & not released for publication for a further thirty years. ...

In this stunning new book renowned sugarcrafter Alan Dunn turns his attention to tropical & exotic flowers. Bolder more stunning ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

This is a story of persecution & poetry love & war set in thirteenth century southern France. A troubadour Bertran witnesses the brutal murder of the Pope's legate & risks his life to warn others of the war that he knows is certain to follow this act. The lands of the peaceable Cathars
- deemed heretics
- are now forfeit & under threat from crusaders who have been given authority by the Pope to take the Cathar domains by force. But the Pope is trying to track Bertran down & so is somebody else: Elinor a young noblewoman in love with Bertran but facing a loveless arranged marriage flees her family & becomes a minstrel herself. Soon both Bertran & Elinor find themselves enveloped in a rising tide of bloodshed that threatens the very fabric of their society.

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This title presents the daring adventures of two helpful mice. There are some new residents in Rose Cottage. Bits of cake have been eaten homework has been sabotaged & the dolls house has been trashed. But who are these mysterious intruders? Tumtum & Nutmeg make it their mission to get to the bottom of these unwanted house guests & when they finally uncover the truth the Nutmouses are horrified by what they find... ...

All is quiet in the Dinosaur Cafe until big bully Tyrannosaurus bursts in demanding more than vegetarian fare! After he threatens to put all the herbivores into a dinosaur stew they decide to retaliate & call in their secret weapon
- Terry Triceratops who delivers a whack & a smack & a three-pronged attack! & with big bully T-Rex cowering in the corner the rest of the dinosaurs join in & tickle him till hes helpless with laughter. As T-Rex eventually escapes he agrees to end his bullying ways. This is a triumph for the peace-loving dinos!
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The second book in the delightful BARTON-IN-THE-DALE series which began with THE LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL. Elisabeth Devine certainly rocked the boat when she arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale to take over as head teacher of the little primary school. Now it's a new term & after winning over the wary locals she can finally settle in to her role. Or so she thinks.. . For the school is hit by a br&-new bombshell: it's to be merged with its arch rival & Elisabeth has to fight for the headship with Urebank's ruthless & calculating headmaster. She has her work cut out for her. But add in some gossip & a helping of scandal not to mention various newcomers bringing good things & bad to Barton & that's not the only trouble that's brewing in the village. ...

Martha was the youngest of sixteen handpicked reporters who filed accurate confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelts White House. From these pages we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in the mouth smell the disease & feel the hopelessness & the despair. & here too we can hear the earliest cadences of a writer who went on to become arguably the greatest female war reporter of the 20th century. ...