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An affectionate look at the changing role, status, and style of the European football manager since the dawn of?the professional era, from man with sponge, through flamboyant medallion-wearing eccentr
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A newly updated edition of a young girls' account of her terrifying experiences with being sold by her father as a modern day sex slave in Yemen Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yeme
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Residents of?a?coastal town in a valley in Washington State must struggle to survive?eco-terrorism,?a rising sea, and baby sharks in this?white-knuckle?thriller??When the small town of?Melville?is cau
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Taking advantage of recent tourist interest, the residents of Prior's Ford plan a summer festival. But someone is determined to sabotage the event, and it takes all the villagers' detective skills to
Despite a new influx of well-heeled students, Michaelhouse has suffered from an acute lack of funds that has made itself manifest in a lack of decent provisions. It is only when the Brother in charge
Following the club’s extraordinary journey from its birth in the railway works of Newton Heath to its current status as the biggest club in world soccer, this is a fascinating history of a remarkable
A wonderfully evocative epic novel in the bestselling tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha. Beautifully written and exquisitely told, Red Lotus is a captivating tale of forbidden love, passion and courage
Christopher Vine, a Treasury clerk working in solitary piety in the Painted Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, is not alone. A killer waits in the draughty hall to ensure Vine will not live to see
Rumors of plague threaten Cambridge again,?10 years after the Black Death almost laid waste to the town. Neither the church nor its priests had defended people from the disease?so now they turn elsewh
Sharon Osbourne’s life has always been tumultuous, full of both heartbreak and passion. When she completed her bestselling first book Sharon Osbourne Extremeshe had hoped to find some pea
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Set in nineteenth-century Yorkshire, Without a Mother's Love is another hard-hitting, gritty page-turner from the author of Women of Iron and Silk and Steel
Thomas Chaloner, just returned from a clandestine excursion to Spain and Portugal on behalf of the Queen, finds London dank and grey under leaden skies. Although he has only been away for a short whil
With more stories to tell than you could count on the pads of one paw, this curly-tailed, shaggy-bearded mongrel led a truly astonishing life. Famed for his remarkable wanderlust, canine curiosity led
1916. England is at war and the Morland family is in the thick of it, with two men already in France and three more soon to go. Tragedy strikes Morland Place when Jessie’s husband Ned is reported miss
Doris Stokes was a celebrated medium who confounded skepticswith the uncanny accuracy of her readings.In Australia she filled the Sydney Opera House and was mobbed in the streets.In
In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1915 when Ned is sent to the front ahead
There isa rumble of disquietamong the villagers of the pretty Scottish border town of Prior's Ford when a firmexpresses interestin reopening an old sandstone quarry. It will b
In Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, Karl Bushby set out on one of the most remarkable journeys of modern times. His plan is as simple as it is extraordinary—to walk up the Americas, acros
Rebellion is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner, spy for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin, but soon realizes that E
Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, Johnson Beharry lived in a two-bedroom hut, survived on meager meals of beans and rice, and walked barefoot to school. In 1999 he scraped together th
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Shallow Grave: The Old Rectory is the kind of house Detective Inspector Bill Slider would give anything to own. But the dead body of Jennifer Andrews, found in a hole on the terrace, rather spoils th
In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1914, and the outbreak of war is greeted
The grim days of Cromwell are past. Freed from the structures of the Protectorate, London seethes with new energy, but many of its citizens have lost their livelihoods. One is Thomas Chaloner, a relu
Cornish farmer Joseph Moyle’s loyalty to the crown goes well rewarded?his stepson Ralf is appointed page to the future King Charles II. When Ralf takes up his post, Britain is in the midst of its most
Football isn't a matter of life and death,' Bill Shankly once famously said, 'it's much more important than that.' In The Heart of the Game, Jimmy Greaves looks back over his long association with the
It is February 1355, and Oxford has exploded in one of the most serious riots of its turbulent history. Fearing for their lives, the scholars flee the city, and some choose the University at Cambridg
From one of Britain's best-loved actors and comedians comes this collection of hilarious anecdotes about football, with stories about the stars themselves, the fans, the girlfriends, the managers, an
In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1912, and England still conducts herself
