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This is a book to help you learn to play the piano. It is not a 'Learn the Piano in Ten Easy Lessons' tutor - plenty of those exist - but an adventure introducing you to the world of music and stirring your imagination. Beginning with simple pieces, as you are fed with more knowledge the compositions become more advanced. They are all by composers whose works range from a 14th century Venetian dance to a 20th century South American tango. Your...

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In 1966, aged 21, Lorraine developed panic attacks and suffered greatly for a number of years. Once recovered, she began to offer help to those suffering as she had. After a few years of helping sufferers her personal approach to recovery began to form. More years passed and as she adapted her techniques of help she realised that, when applying her 'five-step' approach, all sufferers were gaining tremendous benefit with most attaining total re...

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Grandma lives with her family. She's a happy old lady who's full of life and loves playing with her Granddaughter. One day the little girl sees her wrapping Christmas presents and surmises she works for Santa!

RAMBLES WITH MY FAMILY is a personal memoir that begins in China and Burma with the experiences of a small child growing up among English missionaries during the Japanese invasion. The story continues as war grips both countries and the family flees for their lives, stumbling from one calamity to the next, before escaping to India where they take refuge until the second world war ends and they can return to England. They arrive in post-war Bri...

The Squatters' Farm is a satirical masterpiece, told from a young boy's point of view spanning around survival and resilience. Born in Republic of Kalyaland, a country in post independence Africa, at the time when political greed was beginning to flourish, Kipsisei finds himself being brought up with his peers in a vast land of great abundance. To him at, first, life was like a smooth road filled with gaiety. However, life takes a nasty twist ...

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In Pursuit of the Two Legged Mule is the true story of the war waged by Officers of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise at Heathrow Airport against the international drug smuggler. The smuggler, or mule, as he or she was generally known, was devious and determined, but so were the Customs Officers. The book shows how the officers kept up with the ever changing methods of concealments, how they learnt to adapt to each new challenge. For example wh...

Duplicate Pairs is the most absorbing and demanding form of Bridge: a true mental combat sport. Starting with the mechanics of the scoring system, through the key philosophies for success, to detailed tactical advice, esteemed author Paul Mendelson takes the reader through all the steps needed to improve your scores, boost your enjoyment and become a successful Duplicate Pairs player at club level and beyond. In the second part of the book, s...

Only the Maker's Name' is a book that tells the story of a boy who became infatuated with aeroplanes when, in 1934, he was taken up for a pleasure flight by the world famous Miss Pauline Gower. He was just three years old at the time. The book covers his escapades and experiences as a child living alone with his mother in wartime Britain, how he ran away from home at the age of fourteen and his lengthy struggle to succeed in aviation...

To continue to live life to the full at 100 years old is quite amazing! In this exhilarating, exciting and at times emotional book EE (Tubby) Vielle takes us through a life which involved several different careers. His early childhood memories draw you into a forgotten world. The threat of hunger during the Great Depression led him away from university to the RAF and flying 150 types of aircraft, not without incident! He guides you through an ...

A deep and powerful love story, beautiful and emotional in the way it is written, Nine Lives is an exciting romantic adventure taking the reader across exotic locations, whilst also raising a variety of thought-provoking issues along the way, and as such, it is, truly, a journey through life. The story follows Dan Roberts in this journey, following his experiences of first love, of grief, despair, facing his past, of faith - experiences fro...

Set in the early 1900s, this is the story of two families torn apart by conflict, suspicion and betrayal, and takes us from a safe village backwater in the Welsh Marches to the drought-ridden perils of the Australian outback. The harsh reality of racial prejudice is told from both sides in an era when Gypsies were a common sight in the hop yards and by-ways of Herefordshire. For twenty years 'Old' Eli Jenkins has kept a secret that will determ...

It could have been called "Confessions of a modern day Customs Officer". Malcolm Nelson's story through 40 years of working for HM Customs Excise is sometimes exciting, sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious, but always supremely interesting. It lifts the lid on some of the secrets of an occupation that has always held an air of mystery, and it answers many of those questions that passengers have asked themselves over the years:-"Just how do they ...

Diary of a Barking Mad Dog Owner Due to his obsession with the hedgehog, Mr Mac was lead-walked in the garden first thing in the morning before the sun was quite up and as soon as it was dusk, when hedgehogs are likely to be around searching for food. Thus, you can imagine how mad I was when I arrived home from work on Friday, drove towards my gate and saw this half-flat, brown, spiky lump in the middle of the road. "Arrrgggghhhh!" I shouted a...