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by Angie Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The Frog Princess is the story of Angie Beasley's transformation from ugly duckling to beauty queen.
With few jobs around, bland food and cold weather, the best that Angie could hope for was a job at the local Findus factory.
Her family didn't have it easy. Her baby brother was a cot...
Far from the East End
The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
** 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 years playing in...
by Iris Jones Simantel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Discover the remarkable memoir by GI Bride and bestselling author Iris Jones Simantel.
Iris had escaped the Blitz but now lived in crippling poverty after the war - until a chance meeting changed her life. Aged just sixteen, she fell in love and married US soldier Bob Irvine. And soon after...
Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?
How the British Invented Sport
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
Long before Drake refused to interrupt his game of bowls when the Armada was sighted, the British have had a passionate relationship with sport. Julian Norridge goes through the stories of fourteen major sports from cricket to boxing to football, from their very beginning and throughout the British...
Certain Admissions
A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Who killed Beth Williams?
On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When...
Why is Q Always Followed by U?
Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
Long-time word-detective and bestselling author of Port Out, Starboard Home, Michael Quinion brings us the answers to nearly two hundred of the most intriguing questions he's been asked about language over the years. Sent to him by enquiring readers from all around the globe, Michael's answers about...
The Idea in You
How to Find It, Build It, and Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Take your passion and make it happen with The Idea In You by Martin Amor and Alex Pellew
Do you have an idea in you? A hobby, a project, a product ... something that could change your life?
The Idea in You is a bulletproof system for finding the right idea and shaping it in to a success...
by Gavin Daly, Ian Kehoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Citizen Quinn tells the staggering story of the rise and fall of Ireland's richest man: Sean Quinn.
A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of some $6 billion. Today he is bust, and his businesses have been taken from...
Life and Laughing
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Life and Laughing eBook is an enhanced digital title containing exclusive video material viewable on colour devices, such as the iPad, and fully integrated photography. With an introductory video, links to relevant websites and web content, this enhanced eBook will bring an enriched reading experience...
by Lee Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye.
But he was not always such a roaring success.
The Life of Lee is an utterly hilarious and very moving autobiography charting his ups and downs on the way to the top. Lee...
by James Caan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
It is possible to get the life you really want? You just need to change the way you think.
ln the thirty years I've spent in business I've learned how to build a very successful company. Using the same business methods, you can build a successful life.
Do you want to get back into work...
by James Caan
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
"It is possible to have the job of your dreams. Together we are going to set about getting you there.
Before I joined the BBC's Dragons' Den, I spent thirty years setting up and running recruitment companies, placing hundreds of thousands of candidates in the jobs they really wanted.
I...
Start Your Business in 7 Days
Turn Your Idea Into a Life-Changing Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Work for yourself in just one week with Britain's most dynamic entrepreneur
'Everybody wants to be an entrepreneur. Every single day of my life I am bombarded by people with pitches. But 90% of new businesses fail, because their founders failed to ask themselves the simplest of questions.
I...
Home Truths
On Life, Leadership, Adversity, Success and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Craig Bellamy is no ordinary rugby league coach. He has a remarkable win-loss record in his ten years with Melbourne Storm, but when he led his team through a season of scandal and turmoil, winning games while playing for no points, he gained national respect.
For the first time, the legendary coach...