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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Will Garfit is a renowned pigeon shot & this authorative book on how to shoot woodpigeons is an explosion of his enthusiasm & passion for the bird & the sport it can produce. He is not a professional pigeon shooter but likes to be known as an 'enthusiastic amateur'. For fifty years Will has been developing his art as a pigeon shooter & this book shares his personal experiences thoughts & secrets that enable him to shoot consistently good bags. An amazing record that when protecting crops over the past ten years he has averaged over 100 a day on over 600 days. This book explains that this is not just luck but based on the sound principles of good reconnaissance siting & building of hides presentation of decoys & accurate shooting. All are covered in this book which is written in an engaging style & illustrated by his own watercolours & diagrams. A superb book for both the experienced Shot or complete novice. ...

Will.i.am: The Unauthorized Biography" traces the rise to fame & fortune of William James Adams Jr. (stage name Will.i.am). The book explores his troubled childhood & shows how his early love of flamboyant dress & his talent for rap saved him from the sad fates that befell many of his friends & neighbours. Bringing the story up to date it reveals the truth behind his self-confessed freak out in 2008 his mixed fortunes as a manager his relationship with pop princess Cheryl Cole & his eventful first series as a judge on " The Voice". His role on this show has propelled Will.i.am to ever more remarkable heights playing a key role at the Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert a stint carrying the Olympic torch & working alongside NASA on a project designed to inspire children to get involved in science. He has also been praised for his philanthropic work most recently donating the majority of his earnings from " The Voice" to the " Princes Trust". This is the perfect book for fans of this enigmatic individual at last revealing the truth behind the shades..." ...

Bear Adventure is the next authorised Willard Price book by award-winning author Anthony Mc Gowan for 8+ readers looking for action adventure & animals! Amazon & her cousin Frazer are members of TRACKS. Normally they protect the world's rarest animals but their mission just got personal. Amazon's parents have been lost in a tragic plane crash
- her only hope is that they are wondering the wild forests of Canada. But they are not alone in the brutal wilderness. Two Spirit Bears a mother & her cub are searching for food. When a boy is attacked these beautiful creatures become the hunted. Can Amazon & Fraser save their family & the bears? & what is the mysterious predator that waits for them? The good old-fashioned adventure romp brought up to date without losing the fun or the thrills". (Independent). About the author: Anthony Mc Gowan is a multi-award-winning author of books for adults teenagers & younger children. He has a life-long obsession with the natural world & has travelled widely to study & observe it. He has also written feature articles & travel journalism for The Times Guardian Daily Telegraph Evening Standard & Mail on Sunday. Also available: Willard Price: Leopard Adventure & Willard Price: Shark Adventure."
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Traditional photography books put me to sleep
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Magician of the North is the first full-scale biography of this extraordinary man. William George Armstrong was a visionary inventor engineer & businessman who bestrode the 19th-century world like a colossus bringing global renown to his great Elswick works on the Tyne while adding lustre to Britains imperial might. In its heyday Elswick employed 25 000 people in the manufacture of hydraulic cranes warships & armaments. He created Cragside in Northumberland the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity & planted in its grounds seven million trees. At Cragside his guests included the Shah of Persia the King of Siam the Prime Minister of China & the future kings Edward VII & George V. This book is much more however than the life of one man. It is the story of Britain at the height of empire riding the crest of industrial success a country awash with scientific & technological achievements bursting with hopes & dreams. It will appeal as much to lovers of romance as to more practically inclined readers. The Queen & the Prince Consort played a vital role in fostering the scientific ferment but so did characters such as Michael Faraday Charles Darwin & Thomas Huxley. It was the era of the self-made man & no one personified Samuel Smiless doctrine of self-help more clearly than William Armstrong. ...

William is always ready to offer his services to his country. But why is it that his enthusiastic contribution is so seldom appreciated? William is determined to do his bit but unfortunately no one else thinks hed make a hero.. . Ten wonderful wartime stories where William proves himself just as dangerous unpredictable & downright troublesome as the Enemy! ...

The nature of William Blakes genius is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. As poet/artist Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words & images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content & beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived & published by the poet himself that Blakes meaning can be fully experienced. Blakes hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies & none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now some 400 plates drawn from the William Blake Trusts acclaimed six-volume Collected Edition & reproduced under their supervision provide for the first time ever in one volume what the London Review of Books hailed as sumptuous facsimiles...glorious coloured pages...like peeping into a furnace of light through a crack in the door. ...

William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of all Victorian architects. But he was more than just the creator of a modest number of fabulous & fabulously expensive buildings. He dreamed of hundreds more designed dozens & in addition created some of the most remarkable furniture & jewellery of all time. He was an art-architect. Rich clever well connected & short lived he was uncompromising profoundly learned skilled in every process of design & explosively inventive. A brilliant talker pungent critic & hilarious companion he was one of Victorian Londons great eccentrics & networkers though he was bewitched by the Middle Ages. The great buildings that he completed include Cork Cathedral Cardiff Castle & the even more eccentric Castell Coch the great Yorkshire churches of Skelton & Studley Royal the magnificent country houses of Knightshayes in Devon & Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute & his own astonishing Tower House in Kensington. His furniture fabric & jewellery designs & his unrealised projects were also hugely influential & the former are now enthusiastically collected. This book was a landmark in Victorian studies when first published in 1981 & is now completely revised & re-illustrated substantially in colour. ...