The Wombles live in a beautifully snug well-ordered & cosy burrow underneath Wimbledon Common
- the perfect base from which to
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Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce Rosemary Sutcliffs The Wanderings of Odysseus now in an exciting new format. For this dramatic sequel to her Kate Greenaway Award-winning Black Ships Before Troy Rosemary Sutcliff has transformed Homers magnificent epic poem The Odyssey into an enthralling travellers tale with a spectacular cast of men magicians & monsters. Majestically retold in this challenging & captivating version of Homers epic poem
- booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk Sutcliffs prose proves that no computer game or television cartoon surpasses Homer for drama & suspense
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This hilarious informative guide to getting into print is a must-have for anyone who's ever thought they've got a book in them. Where do you start? How do you finish? & will anyone ever publish it when you have? Drawing on her own experiences as a novelist & journalist Writing Magazine's" agony aunt Jane Wenham-Jones takes you through the minefield of the writing process giving advice on everything from how to avoid writer's bottom to what to wear to your launch party. Including hot tips from authors agents & publishers at the sharp end of the industry " Wannabe a Writer?" tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the book world
- & a few things you didn't..."
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A mob of 1000 skinheads running along a road is a frightening sight. Into the tube gates we rushed. On the tube there was the usual knees up mother brown with the whole carriage full of skinheads jumping up & down the train rocking from side to side. Mile End & all out...want some aggro? Its the 1970s a time of skinheads Doctor Martens violence & trouble on the terraces. The Mile End Mob rule Upton Park. Long before the days of the ruthless Inter City Firm casuals they were the first guvnors of the terraces striking fear into the other West Ham mobs & fans. Micky Smith die-hard Hammers fan was there in the thick of the action he saw it all as it happened. Here he teams up with bestselling author ex-ICF face & West Ham authority Cass Pennant to recall these action-packed & turbulent times. Indeed it was the reputation & respect commanded by the East End Bovver Boys that drove a hardcore of hooligans to create the notorious Inter City Firm & establish their rule over the terraces up & down the country in the 1980s. Here is the story of what came before the ICF. Thrilling dramatic & brutally honest it will fascinate any football fan or social historian. ...

The Wanted: Our Story" is the official book by the most popular boy band to break this year. The Wanted made headlines in August 2010 when their debut single went straight to number one & their lives since have been a roller coaster ride to the top of the UK music scene. Published in full collaboration with the band this beautifully illustrated book will contain exclusive photographic material & unseen behind-the-scenes shots as well as a special section dedicated to their devoted fans. It also offers an extraordinary insight into the boys' lives including each members' journey to becoming part of The Wanted. This book will reveal everything the fans wanted to know about Max Nathan Jay Siva & Tom. Quite simply this will be the most wanted book of the year." ...

Wesley Gibson is one of life's losers. His job sucks; his girlfriend's cheating on him; his life's going nowhere. Then he finds out everything he believed about his life was a lie... For Wesley is actually the son of the Killer the world's most deadly assassin! Now the Fox
- his father's former lover
- offers to train Wesley as the new Killer & bring him into a powerful society of super-villains. But does Wesley really have what it takes? & can he avoid his father's fate when a coup inside the society puts him in the firing linesuperstar creators Mark Millar (The Authority") & J. G. Jones (cover artist for 52) present an explosive tale of action villainy & good old-fashioned sex & violence!"

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Featuring Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. When you're as big & rough as Jack Reacher
- & you
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When you're as big & rough as Jack Reacher
- & you have a badly-set freshly-busted nose patched with silver duct tape
- it isn't

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When you're as big & rough as Jack Reacher
- & you have a badly set freshly busted nose
- it isn't easy to hitch a ride. At

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Bob Turney tells of how he went from being wanted by the police & criminal underworld to being wanted for himself. It is an intriguing story of his journey from prisoner to upstanding citizen husband father probation officer author & broadcaster
- told with self-deprecating humour insight & deep concern for victims of crime in particular. He writes of life on both sides of the tracks & at each end of the social spectrum
- & of how an educationally subnormal dyslexic schoolboy grew up to take a degree join the speaking circuit become an author & have his writings adopted as core reading for university students! Wanted!" is an entertaining work that is packed with unusual perspectives & insights concerning crime criminal justice & penal affairs. It is also a work of hope & encouragement as Bob Turney tells the story of how he escaped from the wrong turnings & false values of his youth into a new life. Bob Turneys " Im Still Standing" (Waterside Press 1997) has been through several reprints & ranks as a classic within the going straight genre. Writing in his own laconic style in this sequel Bob now explains how he has progressed from being wanted by the police to being in demand as a writer broadcaster commentator & public speaker across criminal justice networks in the UK & abroad. He describes how events have taken him to such places as the House of Lords Oxford Union Eton College & prisons across the land in a new role
- & he tells of the people he has met along the way often mixing their perspectives with his own from his past & present lives. Few ex-offenders can say that they have been saluted by the policeman outside No. 10 Downing Street become a probation officer acted as chauffer to the late Lord Longford collaborated on a film project with a reformed Great Train Robber or rubbed shoulders with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Wanted is a book rich in insights experiences contrasts & messages about crime & punishment
- & from both sides of the tracks."



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