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Hardback. English. Tafelberg. 1987. In good condition. Previous owner's name inside.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days This is the One is a fascinating insight into the mindset and winning temperament of the recently retired Sir Alex Ferguson, the most success manager in English football. When This Is The One was first published in 2007 it was hailed by Michael Crick as 'one of the all-time Manchester United classics' and featured by The Times in their quest to find the 'Best Ever 50 Sports Books'. Written over the course of two eventful and controversial seasons, it offers a unique portrait of Sir Alex Ferguson from Daniel Taylor's position behind the scenes as a football writer covering Manchester United for the Guardian. During the 2005-06 season, Taylor saw Ferguson at one of the lowest ebbs of his quarter of a century in charge, with a failing team, explosive fallouts with Roy Keane and Ruud van Nistelrooy, a disenchanted fan-base and speculation that he might be forced out of the job. The season that followed demonstrated why Ferguson deserves to be seen as the greatest manager the modern game has produced, with Manchester United deposing Chelsea as Premier League champions and eventually seeing off Jose Mourinho. Ferguson would later call it the 'greatest achievement' of his time at England's biggest football club. This Is The One is the close-up, warts-and-all account of what happened during those two helterskelter seasons - the excruciating lows and the exhilarating highs. It is also a fascinating exploration of the many different facets of Ferguson himself, from his infamous 'hairdryer' treatment to the softer, more humane side of the most successful manager in the business. Features Summary Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired after 26 years in May 2013, is the most successful manager English football has eveer seen. This Is The One offers a fascinating portrait of Sir Alex Ferguson from Daniel Taylor's unique vantage point as a football writer covering the club for the Guardian.. Author Daniel Taylor Publisher Aurum Press Ltd Release date 20080725 Pages 304 ISBN 1-84513-354-4 ISBN 13 978-1-84513-354-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days "The beauty of sky, music, and the belief in 'extraordinary things' triumph in this whimsical and magical tale" ("Publishers Weekly") about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris. Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck that left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive--but "almost impossible" means "still possible." And you should never ignore a possible. So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian, threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, they takes matters into their own hands and flee to Paris to look for Sophie's mother, starting with the only clue they have--the address of the cello maker. Evading the French authorities, she meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers--urchins who live in the hidden spaces above the city. Together they scour the city in a search for Sophie's mother--but can they find her before Sophie is caught and sent back to London? Or, more importantly, before she loses hope? Phillip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials series, calls "Rooftoppers ""the work of a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination." Features Summary "The beauty of sky, music, and the belief in 'extraordinary things' triumph in this whimsical and magical tale" ("Publishers Weekly") about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris... Author Katherine Rundell (Author), Terry Fan (Illustrator) Publisher Simon & SchusterBooks for Young Readers Release date 20140603 Pages 277 ISBN 1-4424-9059-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4424-9059-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'Bloody brilliant!' Denise Mina 'Extraordinary' A.J. Finn 'A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith.' Ian Rankin, Guardian Books of the Year 'Absorbing, beautifully written' The Times, Crime Books of the Year 'Every bit as amazing as her first two [novels]' Lisa Jewell IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018 From the No 1 bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying in Wait 'I could probably have been an actress. It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else. Isn't that what I've been doing for most of my life?' Cordelia Russell has been living on the French Riviera for twenty-five years, passing herself off as an English socialite. But her luck, and the kindness of strangers, have run out. The arrival of a visitor from her distant past shocks Cordelia. She reacts violently to the intrusion and flees her flat to spend a drunken night at a glittering party. As dawn breaks she stumbles home through the back streets. Even before she opens her door she can hear the flies buzzing. She did not expect the corpse inside to start decomposing quite so quickly... 'The finest psychological thriller writer currently at work' Tammy Cohen 'Dark, brutal and brilliant' Colette McBeth 'Dazzling... chilling, mesmerising and, ultimately, devastating. Pure storytelling genius' Mark Edwards Features Summary 'Bloody brilliant!' Denise Mina 'Extraordinary' A.J. Finn 'A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith.' Ian Rankin, Guardian Books of the Year 'Absorbing... Author Liz Nugent Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20181201 Pages 384 ISBN 0-241-97973-0 ISBN 13 978-0-241-97973-0

Paperback. English. Penguin. 2011. In good condition. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'Beautiful. Strikingly conceived and hauntingly written.' Jan Morris, Guardian Damon Galgut's masterful novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys. A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these encounters, the person he is cannot exist. And yet each journey ends in disaster. A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is an extraordinary evocation of one man's search for love, and a place to call home.

Paperback. English. Abacus. 2005. In good condition. Cliffhanger endings, intrigue, romance, comedy & McCall Smith is incapable of being dull The Herald. Alexander McCall Smith s Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh s New Town, where the old haute bourgeoisie finds itself having to rub shoulders with students, poets and portraitists. And number 44 has more than its fair share of the street s eccentricities and failures. When Pat on her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents is accepted as a new tenant at number 44, she isn t quite sure how long she ll last. Her flatmate Bruce, a rugby-playing chartered surveyor, is impossibly narcissistic, carelessly philandering and infuriatingly handsome. Downstairs lives the gloriously pretentious Irene, whose precocious five-year old is in therapy after setting fire to his father s copy of the Guardian. And then there is the shrewd, intellectual Domenica MacDonald, mysteriously employed but a sharp-eyed observer of the houses activities in her spare time & Dry, funny, hugely entertaining, with its glittering cast of rogues, oddballs and innocents, McCall Smith s Scotland Street is proof that the author of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency can be as wity, incisive and humane in observing his native Edinburgh as his adopted Botswana. The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland s most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian. Then there is Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world. In McCall Smith s hands such characters retain charm and novelty, simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy. 44 Scotland Street is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is a novel that provides huge entertainment but which is underpinned by the moral dilemmas of everyday life and the characters struggles to resolve them.

Hardback. English. BCA. 2003. In good condition. Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and the island's resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island's secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence, and that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. On Sanctuary, the hunters are about to become the hunted.

Paperback. English. Guardian Books. 2009. ISBN: 9781770092075. 298pp. Good condition in softcover. Honeybees are dying. In America, one in three hives was left lifeless at the beginning of 2008In France, the death rate was more than 60 percent. In Britain, a government minister warned that honey bees could be extinct within a decade.A third of all that we eat, and much of what we wear, relies on pollination by honeybees. So if or when the world loses its black-and-yellow workers, the consequences will be dire.What is behind this catastrophe?Viruses, parasites, pesticides and climate change have all been blamed. As has modern monoculture agribusiness.In this timely book, two keen amateur apiarists investigate all the claims and counterclaims with the help of scientists and beekeepers in Europe, America and beyond.They ask the question that will soon be on everyones lips: is there any possible way of saving the honeybees and, with them, the world as we know it? Book No: 46444

Softcover. English. Methuen. 1989. ISBN: 9780413619402. 160pp. Good condition in softcover. This is a representative cross-section of cartoons published in the Guardian in 1989 by Steve Bell evoking the last days of President Reagan, the relentlessness of Margaret Thatcher's stay in power and the international fashion for religious intolerance characteristic of the time. Book No: 466013

Paperback. English. London Guardian. 2014. ISBN: 9781783350353. 346pp.IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL:

Again Begin is a serial social political commentary and examination of humanities primary problem itself. A true science fiction story based upon the near-death experience of Daniel J. Frey. Frey, a political illustrator, takes us on a journey through the universe with his art and imagination to the heart of our nucleic structure asking why we fear the future. In issue 13 the Guardian continues its question and answer session before the United Nations as strange events and miraculous changes take place around the world. by Daniel John Frey (Author), Matthew Daniel Frey (Editor) Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Paperback: 28 pages Publisher: Independently published (February 1, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1977060579 ISBN-13: 978-1977060570 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.1 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. 'Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English' Guardian 'A marvellously observed relentless tale' Observer At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine. In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carre creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted. 'Complex and intense... page-turning tension' San Francisco Chronicle 'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre... they were a journey into the wider world... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi 'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris 'He can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love, with terse and compassionate conviction' Sunday Times (on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) 'Return of the master... Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carre has done it again for our nasty new age' The Times (on Our Kind of Traitor) Features Summary Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly... Author John Le Carre Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20131107 Pages 472 ISBN 0-14-139301-7 ISBN 13 978-0-14-139301-8

In order to avoid endless wars between alien civilizations on opposing sides of invading less technologically advanced planets (like Earth) the Universal King created the Cosmic Games.The Universal King anoints human child Rashad Lawrence to be Earths new Guardian. Rashad must face off with an ancient Martian named Ersatz, who is hell-bent on manipulating Rashad to help him fulfill his thirst for power over the Universe. by Ralph Camp (Author), Rashad Speed (Illustrator) Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.2 x 10 inches Series: Chapter one Paperback: 66 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 20, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1979216770 ISBN-13: 978-1979216777 Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.2 x 10 inches Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Why dont white people understand that Converse tekkies are not just cool but a political statement to people of colour? Why is it that South Africans of colour dont really write what we like? Whats the deal with people pretending to be woke? Is Islam really as anti-feminist as is claimed? What does it feel like to be a brown woman in a white media corporation? And what life lessons can we learn from Bollywood movies?   In Sorry, Not Sorry, Haji Mohamed Dawjee explores the often maddening experience of moving through post-Apartheid South Africa as a woman of colour. In characteristically candid style, Dawjee pulls no punches when examining the social landscape: from arguing why shed rather deal with an open racist than some liberal white people, to drawing on her own experience to convince readers that joining a cult is never a good idea.   In the provocative voice that has made Dawjee one of our countrys most talked-about columnists, she offers observations laced throughout with an acerbic wit. Sorry, Not Sorry  will make readers laugh, wince, nod, introspect and argue. BUY NOW: takealot.com Loot Exclusive Books Reader's Warehouse OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born to a Muslim family in the apartheid township of Laudium, Pretoria, Haji Mohamed Dawjee came of age just as South Africas democracy was finding its feet. Opting out of the favoured family profession of dentistry, Mohamed Dawjee graduated with a Bachelor in Music from the University of Pretoria before teaching music and English second language at the American International School for several years. Deciding that the world of education was far too sensible for her, she turned to the more chaotic universe of the media. Mohamed Dawjee completed a postgraduate degree in journalism at Stellenbosch University and after graduating rapidly established herself as a digital media specialist. She became Africas first social media editor in a newsroom at the Mail & Guardian, where she went on to work as deputy digital editor and a disruptor of the peace through a weekly column. A stint as the program manager for Impact Africa a grant-disbursing fund for African digital journalists followed. In 2017 Mohamed Dawjee was selected as a fellow for the Deutsche Welle Insitute. Mohamed Dawjee now pursues her own writing full-time. She infuriates readers of EWN,   Women 24   and the Sunday Times   (to the same degree, she hopes) with weekly and bi-monthly columns, and contributes freelance journalism and opinion to a range of other publications.