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Gordon Strachan has probably become best known among football fans for his realistic and often witty assessments of his teams' performances and football matters in general. It is easy to forget that Strachan forged a career as a player where his abilities made him the...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2012-07-31
ePub
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We are all caught up in our children's lives. We all remember our own schooldays and, as parents, we watch anxiously as our children go through it. As we look at the world of teaching from the outside we wonder not only what is going on but what we can do to help. ...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2012-07-26
ePub
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The intimate biography of High Court justice Michael Kirby For most of his life, Michael Kirby has been a man on a tightrope. A person of strong views working in a world governed by objectivity, he has had to balance the potent, sometimes contradictory impulses of...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-25
ePub
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The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains.This is the first book to tell the full story of...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2012-07-19
ePub
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'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.' PC Martyn Johnson is back on the beat with more hilarious and heart-warming stories from the golden age of...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2012-07-19
ePub
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'When do you have a bath?' I asked Mrs Turgoose. 'I hope you're not suggesting that I don't look after meself properly,' she said crossly. 'There was a woman who used to use it, but that was because she was a bit stuck up. She soon went off the idea when it started to...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-07-19
ePub
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All Kelly Smith ever wanted to be was a footballer. Blessed with brilliant talent which she honed with hours of practice, it was soon clear to all who saw her that Kelly was the best women’s footballer that this country had ever produced. Yet for this shy girl from...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-07-19
ePub
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** Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition winner**From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far From the East End.Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-19
ePub
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Mike Pannett, once of the Metropolitan Police, is back in Yorkshire, policing one of the largest rural beats in England. Mike is called to investigate a series of burglaries, which are sending shock waves through the area. Remote farmhouses appear to be the targets,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-07-19
ePub
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A FREE extended extract from the forthcoming biography of Harry Redknapp, including the Wit & Wisdom of the greatest football manager England never had (with apologies to Brian Clough).Who is Harry Redknapp? Football genius or football chancer? Master tactician or...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2012-07-19
ePub
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Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives--as well as the most important autobiographical work--to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a young and charismatic Persian prince, who in 401...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-07-18
PDF, ePub
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What does a house and a home mean to a writer? Acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' that special corner of the world in which to settle and find contentment. Viewing...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-16
ePub
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Every Aucklander of a certain age knows that we should have listened to Mayor Robbie back in the 1970s' - Labour Party MP Phil Twyford.
But who was he? And why is he still relevant today? From a working class Jewish boy in Sheffield to long serving Mayor of Auckland...
Editeur :
Hodder Moa
Parution :
2012-07-10
ePub
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When Spurs legend John White was killed by a bolt of lightning in 1964, the football world was rocked by the tragedy. He was just 27 years of age.Nicknamed the 'Ghost' for the way that he could drift into space undetected, White played an inspirational role in the great...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-07-07
ePub
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Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip hop music, graffiti and girls, he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) where he played a leading and international role in the...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2012-07-05
ePub
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Swallowed up by the Soviet prison system, the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, saviour of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Nazi holocaust, remains a mystery.Recently KGB files have been opened and many Communist crimes have been fully exposed. Yet there is still...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-05
ePub
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Keeping pets is a lovely idea. When building a family, they complement the kids. But what happens when things get out of hand? For writer and house husband, Matt Whyman, it's a case of catastrophe management in coping with four children and all the ill-advised animals...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-07-05
ePub
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One twilight, Glenn Orgias was surfing at Bondi Beach when the worst happened: he was attacked by a shark, a 'man in a grey suit', as surfers call them. Although it suddenly released him, Glenn still thought his life was over he was 80 metres from shore with one almost...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-02
ePub
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Kerry Packer described her as a 'dedicated and brilliant journalist who has achieved greatness in her industry very early and so quickly' and 'a jewel beyond price'. Cold Chisel wrote a song about her. Rupert Murdoch was so impressed by her talents, he asked her to be...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-01
ePub
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A young girl at the mercy of her abusive stepfather and the religious community that protects him - Bad Things in the Night is a moving true story of pain and triumph.As a child Beth was imprisoned within a Jehovah's Witness family, kept away from her mother, forbidden...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-06-30
ePub
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