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Dear God
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What would happen if you decided to email God...and God emailed back? It was during one of his periodic bouts of smouldering resentment at the way his life had turned out that William Penfold first thought of emailing God. It...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2012
A Certain Point of VIew
We’ve all sat in the pub and put the world to rights over a few pints. We’ve all got an opinion on important matters. We all agree that everyone else in the world is fundamentally stupid. Or is it just...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
Tea, Love and War Searching for English Roots in Assam
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The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya - Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2012
Over By Christmas
It is 1914. As war engulfs the British Empire, Royal Navy gunner, George Royal awaits his next ship in his home port where his best friend falls in love with beautiful Carrie, a woman with secrets. But, when she is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/12/2011
Canoeing the Congo First Source to Sea Descent of the Congo River
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Canoeing the Congo narrates the journey of Phil Harwood, who undertook an epic five-month solo attempt to canoe the Congo River in war-torn Central Africa. It was a historic 'first descent' from the true source in the highlands of Zambia....
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/10/2011
Both Sides of the Sheets
Annie Armitage was a successful career nurse, with a dedication to quality nursing and care as taught during her rigorous training in the 1960s. Taking her skills, Annie eventually worked as a consultant to the Department of Health, advising on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/01/2011
Home Sweet Home
Throughout this book Robin has focussed on contrasting very different types of houses. From traditional historical homes with wonderful views, to eco-houses buried in the earth, Robin has scoured the country looking for the most unique, unusual and awe-inspiring homes...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/01/2011
Zest for Life, The Mediterranean Anti-Cancer Diet
What we eat influences our chances of developing cancer. A diet rich in vegetables, fruits, olive oil, fatty fish, garlic, herbs and spices provides compounds that lower our cancer risk. meanwhile, a typical western diet of processed meat, refined sugar...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2011
Bearback The World Overland
Imagine jacking it all in, packing your life into a 41-litre pannier and riding into the sunset. Bearback is the story of two GPs who did just that, downing stethoscopes to take off on a motorcycle to see the world....
Format: Hardback - Released: 09/11/2010
To Bella, Nelly & Jos: letters from Their Grandmother About Long Ago & Other Places
These letters evoke not just a personal world of private and family memory but one that will be recognised by anybody who was a child in England during the 1940s and 1950s. Post-war London was a shabby place where the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
Named & Shamed The World's Worst and Wittiest Movie Reviews from Affleck to Zeta-Jones
Author Christopher Tookey and a host of critics, from the celebrated to the obscure, provide feedback on some of the biggest films to have reached our screens, indexed by actor or actress and presented alphabetically. Many of the most famous...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
Close the Gates
Close the Gates exposes how dark forces seek to devastate our lives by entering through spiritual ‘gates’ opened unwittingly by traumatic experiences or unwise choices. Many people wonder why they can’t live the kind of life they aspire to. Despite...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
Randi's Prize What Sceptics Say About the Paranormal, Why They Are Wrong, and Why It Matters
James 'The Amazing' Randi is a stage magician who says he has a million dollars for anyone who can convince him they have psychic powers. No one has even come close to winning, proof, say sceptical scientists, that there is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
The Gospel of Risk and Its Enemies Fundamentalism and Liberalism
Most current popular Christian theology books tend to focus on the defects of either fundamentalism or liberalism.The authentic Good News' gospel of Christ is currently sandwiched between these two main rival, distortive and reductive interpretations. Here, M.H. Davis suggests that...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2010
False Friends Faux Amis
A light-hearted exploration of the French language and culture and, in particular, words and phrases that could trip up the unwary linguist. Did you know that assister à does not mean ‘to assist’ but ‘to attend’? Or that attendre does...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2010
Stab Proof Scarecrows
A memoir looking at policing in the UK from a trainee's perspective. Someone who joined with high aspirations of helping to protect people and serve the public trust, only to resign while still in probation after becoming throroughly disillusioned with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
Homo Sapience - Existence Defined
This un surmountable feat could only be accomplished by means of using and utilizing whatever is around us in order to compose all that we could note. This universe that is `equated, balanced, matched and twinned` into a perfect establishment...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
For Poulton and England - The Life and Times of an Edwardian Rugby Hero
An outstanding leader and personality in every respect, Poulton captained England to what is now called a 'Grand Slam' in 1914 the last season before the First World War. Once war was declared he spent seven months training in England...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/11/2009
Goodbye Mommy: Memoirs of a Survivor
A memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family in the United States during the 1970s and 80s, Lora Lee describes how she responded to a chaotic world by closing in on herself and building a shell around her, a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2009
River of Time - Why Is Everyone Talking to Philippa?
Rivers of Time is an absorbing historical detective story that starts with just a name, Philippa Prentis Phillips, and a date on a 17th century gravestone in a beautiful, isolated spot on Nevis, the island of Horatio Nelson and Alexander...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
Good Manners and Bad Behaviour
What are diplomats for? Most people have only a vague understanding of what they actually do, except that they seem to belong to a privileged caste, and to lead lives governed by arcane rules of etiquette and convention.However, beneath the...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 02/06/2008
The Dream That Died - The Rise and Fall of ITV
A unique insider account of the rise and fall of ITV, as seen through the fate of Granada Television, and the ripple effect on the standard of broadcasting we see on our screens today. The unfolding of the story of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
Pommies - English Cricket Through An Australian Lens
Since 1987, Australia has beaten England 34 games to nine in Test cricket and won four World Cups to England’s none. Today, Australia has five cricket stadiums with more than 30,000 seats to England’s none and the national team is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 14/04/2008
As It Is
Some people inhabit their existence, from conception to demise, without being capable of considering any alternative understanding to what is generally accepted by society. Others, by chance, are able to contemplate the meaning, if there is one, of human reality.As...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 25/02/2008
A Brief Look At Life - One Man's View of the Human Predicament
In this wide ranging survey of the human predicament, A Brief Look at Life gives a personal view of the phenomena of life and its habitat; of the theories of some scientists and philosophers; and of some of those authorities'...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 15/02/2008
The Codex: A Divine Writ
This book contains a series of revolutionary revelations for those who are spiritually inclined and wish to experience the world from a different theological perspective. It speaks to individuals, communities and nations on many levels, spiritually and rationally. Importantly, the...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 28/01/2008
The Big Story
With the nation’s most respected broadcaster now exposed for cheating, The Big Story comes as a timely and highly topical satire on the television industry, where the words 'truth' and 'reality' can have quite different meanings. Written by an insider,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
Destination Integration
In an era where ever growing numbers of people are leaving their home country to live abroad for a shorter or longer period of time, this book will be a valuable asset as a guidebook on how to navigate the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2007
Railway Lands - Catching St Pancras and King's Cross
The full colour photographs in this landmark book are a visual timetable of change from the ancient church site of St. Pancras through the unique Victorian complex of canal, rail and horse drawn transport, to the restoration of Barlow’s world...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 14/11/2007
The Choice
As could be anticipated by his many readers, Bryan Forbes’ latest novel is not a conventional love story. Set in occupied Germany during the immediate post-war period, The Choice is a disturbing story of lost illusions and the conflict faced...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2007
Anthony Blair, Captain Of School
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Anthony Blair’s dear old mater always said he was ‘good at making things up’. As a new boy at St Stephen’s College, he learns the ropes from his dour Scottish study companion Brown. Popular and polite, he charms everyone including...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/09/2005
dunno
'dunno' looks at six months in the life of Jon who is fifteen and lives alone with his mother. His situation is increasingly common; “feral” is the term currently used. Life for both him and his mother is wretchedly miserable....
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2004
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