With eleven gold medals from major championships to his name, Linford Christie is Britain's greatest ever athlete. It was not until he was nearly 26 that he made his unexpected breakthrough to world class with victory over 200 metres at the 1986 European Indoor Championships in Madrid. Since then Linford has been at the forefront of world ...
Athletics has become Britain's most successful sport, and this work investigates the human cost of that success. It charts the trials and tribulations of the Olympic Games' principal sport which have included the achievements of Coe, Ovett, Thompson, Christie and Gunnell.
Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. However, a sinister military/industrial project, Operation Black Star, requires the island for unspecified purposes and threatens the islanders' way of life. In this, his first novel (1972), George MacKay Brown recreates a week in the life ...
In tiny Millers Flat, two teenagers escape boredom to create their own world on a remote beach. The invoke the power of Poseidon, God of the Sea, who soon delivers more than they bargained for. Itll take all their courage and strength to find their way home again...
Taking its inspiration from Cyril Fox's groundbreaking 1923 study of its namesake, and with its first volume issued to mark the 85th anniversary of his book, this series is dedicated to the archeology of Cambridge's hinterland. In recent years an enormous amount of fieldwork has occurred within the City's environs, to the point that it must now ...
This partially abridged version of the comprehensive atlas reflects all the vitally important changes to the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Germany. Now in its third completely updated edition, it is an ideal general-purpose atlas for people who seek the detail and high quality of a professional atlas.
Lying in a hospital ward, a badly-burned tee nager must speak of things he''d sooner forget. Forced to rev isit the past - a desperate crime, a dangerous friend and a shocking incident - Ben finds himself struggling to create a future for himself. '
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