Obe: 92 books
by Tony Robinson OBE
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Twenty essential ‘be your own boss’ tips are contained in this valuable, very funny, mini, e-book. These practical tips will help everyone to start up, survive and thrive in their own business. Tony Robinson OBE, assisted by the fictional celebrity, Soculitherz, has interviewed hundreds of freelancers...
On Call
The unexpurgated story of the Running Doctor!
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Born in the middle of an air raid, Val's life began with a bang, and she has been living in the fast lane ever since. Aged ten, she became a Christian at a beach mission, and then at twenty-one she committed the unforgivable sin (as defined only by her parents on that occasion). In 1967 she graduated...
Just Jill
The Autobiography of Jill Allen-King OBE
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Just Jill is an inspirational and moving account of one woman’s triumph over adversity and how she used her own experience of disability to benefit others.When she was growing up during the 1940s very few people were aware that Jill Allen-King had lost one eye as the result of measles when she was...
Creative, Successful, Dyslexic
23 High Achievers Share Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson,...
Jill's Leading Ladies
The Story of Jill's Six Guide Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
When Jill Allen-King OBE, suddenly lost her sight at the age of 24, with little help and advice available from Social Services she had to teach herself to cope with a whole new way of living that had its own set of challenges to overcome, including looking after her daughter, Jacqueline, born soon afterwards....
Bump It Up
The Dynamic, Flexible Exercise and Healthy Eating Plan For Before, During and After Pregnancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
A consultant to numerous sportswomen and celebrities, and the performance expert behind the incredible Comic Relief and Sports Relief challenges, Professor Greg Whyte OBE is well known for his innovative fitness programmes which are regarded as the gold standard when it comes to healthy living.
In...
ROC Your World
Changing communities for good
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Do you long to see the area where you live transformed, but haven’t a clue how to make it happen?
Would you like to see relationships in your community change for the better?
Do you want to be a part of God’s miracle in your neighbourhood and beyond?
In this book, author Debra Green...
The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the nature of legal services
Rethinking the nature of legal services
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
This widely acclaimed legal bestseller has provoked a tidal wave of debate within the legal profession, being hailed as an inspiration by some and as heresy by others. Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers, and indeed all those in a professional service environment. He urges them to ask themselves,...
by Jilly Cooper OBE
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
In Jilly Cooper’s latest, raciest novel, Rupert Campbell-Black takes centre stage in the cut-throat world of flat racing.
Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored grey horse, be proclaimed champion stallion. He longs to trounce Roberto’s Revenge, the stallion owned...
Faster Than The Sun
The Compelling Story of a Record-breaking Test Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
This autobiography of Peter Twiss, the man who flew 1000mph for the first time in history, tells the story of the record-breaking Fairey Delta. It describes the vast organization necessary for the record bid, the political lobbying and the almost intolerable tension when the flights failed.
by Jilly Cooper OBE
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Jilly Cooper's witty thumbnail sketch of office life - part valentine, part poison pen letter - offers a vivid evocation of the world in which many of us spend a large part of our lives. There will be few office workers, whether they are bosses, sekketries or office crones, who do not recognize the...
by Jilly Cooper OBE
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
After going to live in the country Jilly Cooper wrote regularly for the Mail on Sunday for several years and this is a selection of her best pieces written at that time. The topics she covers in her inimitable style range from the hunt balls and Henley to love and sex in the ages of AIDS.
She...
They Have Their Exits
A Classic World War Two Memoir of Action and Escape
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The author, who as a senior member of Mrs. Thatcher's Government was tragically assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records. Wounded and taken prisoner in the desperate fighting at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make a 'home-run'...
by Jilly Cooper OBE
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Siege of Paris; horses and mules struggling through miles of fetid mud to bring ammunition to the front in the Great War; dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion force in the Second World War - countless brave animals...