Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork
- not the old fashioned grubby pushing & shoving but the new fast football
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The thing about football
- the important thing about football
- is that it is not just about football. Football is supposed

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Penelope Shuttle is one of Britains leading poets. This selection
- drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus
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In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life" Debbie Reynolds wrote about finally finding happiness with her "brave loyal & loving" third husb&. But within a few years she would discover that he was a philandering con man who had betrayed her emotionally & financially nearly destroying her reputation & her life. Today Reynolds says When I read the optimistic ending of [my first memoir] now I can't believe how naive I was when I wrote it. In this book I look back at the years since then & revisit stories I could not fully tell at that time. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seatbelts I've had a bumpy ride. In " Unsinkable" Reynolds recalls the highs & lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age including her lifelong friendship with (and years-long estrangement from) the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. She shares private details of her marriages & family life with her children Carrie & Todd Fisher. She speaks openly of money & man troubles of building & losing her treasured Hollywood memorabilia collection of friendships that endure & unbreakable family bonds of hitting bottom & rising again to the top. Frank & forthright filled with Reynolds' refreshing wit in the face of adversity & illustrated with dozens of previously unseen photos from Debbie's personal collection Unsinkable is a chronicle of courage & tenacity hope & triumph in the face of staggering odds. A reminder that there is light in the darkest times it will resonate with anyone who has experienced loss & heartbreak." ...

The first modern work to give a comprehensive picture of the RMS Titanic & the people intertwined with her fate from disaster to recovery. Drawn from primary sources & contemporary accounts & updated to coincide with the April 2012 anniversary this new heart-rending narrative allows readers to come to their own conclusions about this legendary vessel. Daniel Allen Butler spend more than 30 years researching the work delving into the lives of every principal participant. In addition to examining the roles played by individual he also looks into the problems of equipment & errors in technical data that resulted in the deaths of 1502 people. Rather than focussing on the night of the tragedy alone he also investigates the events leading up to & following the fateful night. ...

Unsolved crimes have a special fascination none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself & the mystery surrounding it the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose the insight the cases give into outdated police methods & the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed
- all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. In this companion volume to his bestselling Unsolved Murders of Victorian & Edwardian London Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 haunting sometimes shocking cases from the period between the two world wars. Included are the shooting of PC James Kelly in Gunnersbury violent deaths associated with Fenian Conspiracies the stabbing of the French acrobat Martial Lechevalier in Piccadilly the strychnine poisoning of egg-seller Kusel Behr the killing by arsenic of three members of a Croydon family & perhaps most gruesome of all the case of the unidentified body parts found at Waterloo Station. Jonathan Oates describes each of these crimes in precise forensic detail. His case studies shed light on the lives of the victims & summon up the ruthless sometimes lethal character of London itself.
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' Truth will come to light murder cannot be hid long a man's son may but at the length truth will out.' said Launcelot in The Merchant of Venice. Whilst the passage of time can & has uncovered many secrets killers could get away with their crimes in 1596 when Shakespeare penned these words & this is certainly the case in more recent times as Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire clearly demonstrate. The early chapters include cases of historic interest where killers certainly went to the grave in the knowledge they had got away with murder. Cases include suspicious deaths which left detectives in South Yorkshire baffled but which were it would seem acts of callous murder which were not recognised as such due to dubious police opinions & practices. There are also cases of clear murder such as a man shot in the head during the Victorian period whose killer was never identified. The later chapters however feature more recent cold cases where there is still the possibility that the wicked men or women who were responsible for such acts of inhumanity may remain within our society. Cases include a man murdered for less than GBP70 in a city centre multi storey car park a teenage girl abducted sexually assaulted & left dead on a dung hill a young mother who entered prostitution & died at the hands of a man with more than sex on his mind a pregnant woman who left home one day to go shopping but was found days later dead in a ditch with her throat cut & a disabled woman who was strangled in her home which was then set ablaze. For some of these cases there is the chance that someone has information which despite the passage of decades could lead to one or more individuals standing trial for murder. Justice can still prevail. ...

Unsolved crimes have a particular fascination none more so than unsolved murders. The horror of the crime itself the mystery surrounding it the notion of a killer on the loose the insight into primitive police work the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed
- all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. For this collection Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 varied & intriguing cases from the late 1830s to just before the Great War. Among them are the headless body found in a bag at Waterloo Bridge the pregnant maid who was bludgeoned to death the blackmailer whose corpse was discovered in the gutter the shooting of the night watchman at the Caf A (c) Royal the barmaid whose corpse rode the train from Hounslow to Waterloo the dead girl packed in a parcel & the enigmatic case of Frances Coles the Whitechapel prostitute who may have been Jack the Rippers ultimate victim. Each of these case histories is recounted in precise sometimes shocking detail. The inadequacy of the detection & forensic techniques employed over a century ago is revealed as is the corrupt & brutal side of life in the Victorian city.
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State Of Grace
- Money makes the world go round
- thats what twenty-something Grace Reeves is learning. Stuck in a grind where

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Its no secret that more than two-thirds of the shots a golfer makes are short ones: putts chips & pitches. Long drives may garner applause but whether a golfer wants to win the Masters or just five pounds from his mates on Saturday morning its the little shots that make the difference. In The Unstoppable Golfer Dr. Rotella who has worked with stars like Rory Mc Ilroy Darren Clarke & Graeme Mc Dowell will teach readers how to use their minds to master the short game by achieving a calm state of mind in which the focus is only one thing-the hole. In addition to preparing players mentally Rotella will also explain the science of memory & how knowledge of the brains workings-in particular how it masters physical tasks-can improve a golf game particularly the short game. The path to greatness isnt an easy one & a player needs inspiration which will come from great stories about the golfers & other sports professionals that Rotella has worked with. Mastering chips pitches bunker shots & putts provides one of the ultimate pleasures of the game--and this is a pleasure readers will come to know by training their minds to become unstoppable golfers. ...