Women were once taught that the way to a mans heart was through his stomach. In reality fewer women cook or really want to. Making reservations or ordering in has become one of the multi-minded abilities of todays more progressive woman. Therein is the problem. Men must learn to navigate their way around the kitchens galleys & cucinas of the world. In fact to every mans advantage the women can be very generous to men who know a spoon from a spatula. All men need is some beautiful inspiration & a few words of simple instruction from Rocky Fino. ...

Sky cowboy Will Gallows is finding life hard on the ranch. Should he follow his heart & join the elf side of his family learning their magical secrets? Or should he join the Sky Cavalry with his friend Jez? His decision is put on hold when his grandma is kidnapped
- by the most terrifying creature Will has ever encountered a rock demon with a seventy-year-old grudge to avenge...
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One cold night in a most unlikely corner of Chicago teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with... Will Grayson"! Two teens with the same name who run in two very different circles suddenly find their lives going in new & unexpected directions. Culminating in epic turns-of-heart on both of their parts they team up to produce the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high-school stage. Told in alternating voices from two award-winning popular names in young-adult fiction
- John Green (author of " The Fault in Our Stars") & David Levithan (author of " Boy Meets Boy")
- this unique collaborative novel features a double helping of the heart & humour that has won both authors legions of fans. John Green has a huge online presence through his 1.1 million Twitter followers & You Tube channel Vlogbrothers which has been viewed over 200 million times & has 660 000 subscribers making it one of the most successful online channels in history. This is a Penguin logo edition."

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In his almost 20 years in the sport Will Greenwood has achieved just about everything a professional rugby player could ever aspire to playing an integral role in the World Cup-winning campaign of 2003 & achieving great things with England beyond that at the Six Nations & on tour with the Lions. Never was a man more well placed to write on the sport. From the grass roots to elite professionalism Greenwood has made his name as the face of intelligent & entertaining rugby writing & punditry. From hilarious character sketches of players to technical discussion of scrummaging & World Cup reminiscences Greenwood delivers unrivalled writing on the game of rugby. ...

Every British comic actor that followed Will Hay owes Hay a debt of gratitude -- for it was Hay who defined the modern essence of British comedy. Working closely with Hays family Graham Rinaldis definitive tribute to the respected comic actor takes a close look into Hays on-screen & off-screen personae. Drawing upon Hays own writings -- newspaper articles notes from his astronomy observations & pilots logbooks & extracts from his unfinished & previously unpublished autobiography I Enjoyed Every Minute" -- the book gives a unique insight into Hays childhood his continuous thirst for knowledge & his passion for aviation astronomy & comedy. The book is illustrated throughout with previously unpublished photographs from Hays family albums including a rare photograph of Hay with Amy Johnson plus memorabilia from his performing career. Extensive research into Hays stage work

Includes:: extracts from his original Fourth Form at St Michaels sketches The Will Hay Radio Programme & for the first time from all of his revue & variety shows including Nosey Knows & Moonstruck for Fred Karno. Each of Hays 18 films is examined with insightful information regarding their production written extracts from deleted scenes (including for the first time in their entirety the missing sequences from Ask a Policeman ) previously unpublished stills & interviews with those who worked with him from Val Guest Leslie Gilliat & Roy Ward Baker to Dame Thora Hird Barry Morse & Googie Withers. Did you know that in addition to creating the mould for British comedy that Hay was an accomplished astronomer linguist & pilot? No? Then you must read this book about one of British films most fascinating characters!"

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Today the very word meeting conjures up images of time wasted in badly lit airless offices. People sitting around tables unsure why they are there & wishing they were somewhere else. Hour after hour. Day after day. David Pearl can change that & in this book he shows how you can take back control of your working life. Will There Be Donuts?" is about a big mistake that almost all companies are going to make this year. & the next. & the one after that. Well call it nearly meeting. It happens the length & breadth of the business world from boardroom to shop floor. Will There Be Donuts? is business expert David Pearls first book & he draws on his 2 decades of consulting with some of the biggest companies in the world to re-educate the reader on how to hold meetings & crucially how to make them great. His client list is a whos who of FTSE & NYSE names & they seek his advice on how to engage employees at every level to make their meetings more efficient effective & engaging. His list of achievements in the field
Includes:: * Identifying GBP30million of savings by changing ineffective meetings at GSK. * Persuading the CEO of Skandia International to saw through his boardroom table. * Showing the Department of Work & Pensions that having your mobile phone on in a meeting could be seen as a good thing. At every level of an organisation not just the very top. if your meetings are ineffective then its likely that your business is too. " Will There Be Donuts?" will reinvigorate you as a person & as an employer/employee. Consider the following: You are in a role which requires you to attend three hours of meetings a day. Lets say youd score those meetings 70% effective. Lets also imagine there are 100 people like you in the company & that your average wage is GBP60k. You personally just wasted 5 whole weeks in meeting time this year. Your company lost a combined 2500 days of productivity; thats the equivalent of 11 person-years costing the company GBP675 000. Whats more if you were to continue at this rate for a conventional career youd be burning a total of 9 years 6 months & 3 days of your working life. All for the sake of some ineffective meetings. " Will There Be Donuts?" will help you reclaim your working life."
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This title is tenth in the brilliantly addictive series of murder mysteries by an acclaimed & popular writer. Poppy & Graham are staying in a grand country house for the weekend to help at a family christening party but they're seriously unimpressed. Dull dull dull! Not to mention the fact that baby Marmaduke has taken a shine to Graham & won't let him out of his sight without shrieking the place down. Then events take a mysterious turn when a filthy tramp turns up in the churchyard...dead. As Poppy & Graham begin to dig around they realize that all is not as it seems... ...

The latest title in the bestselling Last Word" series. Why do birds sing at dawn? Whats the slowest a plane can fly without stalling & falling out of the sky? & how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? The eagerly-awaited new " Last Word" collection has the answers to these questions & many more. Seven years on from " Does Anything Eat Wasps?" the " New Scientist" series still rides high in the bestseller lists with well over two million copies sold. Popular science has never been more stimulating or more enjoyable. Like " Why Dont Penguins Feet Freeze?" " Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?" & " Why Cant Elephants Jump?" this collection of wry & well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling questions is guaranteed to delight." ...

With this his first collection Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark Carver showed how humour & tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people & won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories poems & essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life. ...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...doesn't it? What happens when two people decide to give themselves the year off...from each other? Annie & Dan were the perfect couple. But now the not-so-newly weds feel more like flatmates than soul mates & wonder where all the fun & fireworks went.. . When Annie lands her big break in a smash-hit show that's heading for the bright lights of Broadway she's over the moon. Goodbye remote Irish village of Stickens hello fabulous Big Apple! But with their relationship already on the rocks how will Annie & Dan survive the distance? They're hitting the pause button on their marriage. One year off from each other
- no strings attached except a date to meet in twelve months at the Rockefeller Centre to decide their fate. Will they both turn up? Or is it too late for love? Lose yourself in a fabulously entertaining & poignant love story
- perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella & Marian Keyes.

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