Remember a time when cricket was cricket? Before millionaire players careered around a floodlit field in glorified pyjamas? When a proper match lasted days rather than the crash bang wallop of the limited-overs game? Modern innovations like Twenty 20 & the IPL have their place in crickets long & glorious story but nothing beats the original
- as celebrated in this wonderfully nostalgic look at the game in bygone years. Looking back to a heyday of long hot summers & classic matches When Cricket Was Cricket fondly recalls an era when it was a more enjoyable & carefree pastime
- for the most part a sport conducted in a spirit of keen competitiveness but fair & thrilling play. Drawing on 100 years of outstanding photographs in the huge Mirrorpix archive this book brings to life an age free of intrusive sponsorship & commercialism when huge crowds swarmed to see the stars of the day in action
- legends such as WG Grace Bradman & Hobbs; famous greats of the post-war era like Sobers Miller & Trueman; & more recent heroes such as Botham Warne Tendulkar & Lara. Ranging from the grandest venues to the humblest village pitches in its depiction of the sports golden years this is the perfect illustrated guide to when it really was cricket!


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When Cricket Was Cricket
- The Ashes takes you back to the heyday of great Ashes Test series of the past. Here are the epic contests
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She finally thought she was safe... Toni Maguire author of Number One Bestseller ' Don't Tell Mummy' takes up the story of her tragic childhood where she left off revealing the awful truth about what happened when her father sent to jail for abusing her was released & came home... Toni Maguire's father abused her from the age of six & was only found out when she fell pregnant losing the child from a botched abortion. Jailed for his crimes with the help of her testimony Antoinette believed she was finally safe but it was not to last... Being despatched to collect her father from the station by herself marked a new low for young Antoinette. Realising that she was no longer safe at home she was forced to leave. Her mother did nothing to protect her or prevent her going. Traumatised & alone Antoinette was unable to cope & was admitted to a psychiatric hospital sinking deeper into despair every day. Finally transferred to the dead-end ward with no hope of recovery Antoinette slowly began to improve by the sheer force of her indomitable will. ...

Maddy & Martin Brennan have a good marriage & two healthy children Jess & Patrick. When Martins lost at sea though Maddys in for a shock: it transpires that her home is mortgaged & the familys finances are in a perilous state. Beaten down by a bitter feud with her brother & by her son Patricks troublesome behaviour Maddy carelessly steps in the path of a runaway horse & loses her life. Its left to young Jess to make something of the future. From near destitution she launches a business of her own earning back the prosperity & respect her mother had in the end lost. But heartache lies ahead & when love is on offer is the man who wants Jesss heart worthy of it? ...

Do you know when Big Ben first bonged
- or even who Ben was? Why the River Thames is so-called? Which top Nazi was locked up in
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How are you handling change? Many changes are occurring now in the lives of all of us but does change have to equal crisis? No. Not if you have the means with which you can change your experience of change-and that is what you are holding in your h&. This is more than a book about change. Its about how life itself works. It is about the very nature of change-why it happens how to deal with it & how to make it be for the better. On these pages are Nine Changes That Can Change Everything. Is it possible that what you are about to read has come to you at the right & perfect time...? The author of the Conversations with God series presents a fresh & startling perspective on something that will never change: Change. ...

Children bereaved by the death of one parent at the hands of the other almost always the father in effect lose both parents & are often forgotten in the midst of such dramatic situations. Reflecting the increased interest in child protection & child law systems this second edition of When Father Kills Mother" brings to public knowledge in amplified form information about the effects of psychological trauma & bereavement on children. By combining knowledge about bereavement with that of post-traumatic stress disorder the book remains informative & essential reading for all those involved in the field both professionally & personally." ...

This title features the pre 1960s & the first GBP100 a week footballer (Johnny Haynes
- now there's a coincidence!). Football was
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Using photographic & written archives of the Daily Mirror" (including rare & unseen material) " When Football Was Football
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Aston Villa has been one of the most successful & popular names in football in the near 140 years since the club was founded under a gas lamp in 1874 by a group of cricketers who decided to create a football club as a means of playing sport through the winter. From those romantic but humble origins Villa went on to become the most successful club in the first 50 years of the Football League & the Villa updated those successes for modern times when in 1982 they again made history by becoming one of the elite band of five British clubs to have won the European Cup. This wonderfully illustrated book provides a vivid & evocative celebration of the captivating powers of Aston Villa. Drawing on the vast photographic archive of the Daily Mirror it features evocative exciting & rare images that show why the Villa mean so much to so many people. Here are the famous players who proudly wore their club's colours with distinction producing some of football's finest moments in a more innocent age before commercialism took hold of the sport. The Villa greats are here pictured in their prime & often in intriguingly unusual behind-the-scenes situations: including such wonderful names as Billy Walker Paul Mc Grath Peter Mc Parland Tony Morley Charlie Aitken Gordon Cowans Dennis Mortimer Brian Little Andy Gray & many more. They light up these pages along with the great managers & the classic matches in which Villa have been involved. When Football Was Football: Aston Villa is not just about the showcase events & icons of yesteryear: it reveals the inner life of the club capturing the vibrancy of the fans & the vitality of the players on & off the field plus the colourful & still intriguing lesser-known stories that have made Villa so special. Revelling in the club's most glorious years this is a must-have photographic tribute for any follower of Villa in particular & the British game as a whole. ...