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The Millionaire Clown

At 15, James Sinclair set up a little children’s entertainment business called Jimbo the Partyman. By the age of 18 he was turning over £1000 a week. By the time he was in his twenties, he owned two houses. But that was just the beginning. Today the Partyman Group puts on 7000 parties a year and owns a string of business supplying everything from fun days and family days out to magicians and childcare. And James is still only 29.

Learn some of the secrets of James’ amazing success in this fascinating book. As he puts it – “I wrote this little book for those who want to be at the top… if you follow the advice in it properly, it could help you to get from zero to a million in a few years.”

Find out more about James at www.jamessinclair.net

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Memoirs of a Moonraker

It is nearly a century since Henry Walden arrived in Trowbridge in the 1920s and began making butter, a trade he had learned from his uncle in Somerset. Henry’s father and then his brother joined him, and before long they had expanded into poultry and sausages as well as cakes, eggs and a range of dairy products. John Walden, as Henry’s eldest son, learned the business at his father’s knee and played a leading role in the expansion and development of the group over the decades that followed.

John’s business career has never prevented him from enjoying life to the full, and this warm and enthralling account of his life and times includes the details of his adventures with sailing boats, horses and motor cars old and new, as well as portraits of the many friends he has made along the way.

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Kofi – Growing Pains

Kofi is from a family of cocoa farmers, but although he respects his father and loves his mother, he does not want to be a cocoa farmer like his father and grandfather before him. He wants to study at university and become a doctor in the big city. Now that he is growing tall and handsome he is beginning to attract admiring glances from every woman in his village, particularly rich, beautiful Tamara. But it is not Tamara that Kofi has his eye on.

A short story about coming of age in a rural community in Ghana.

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I’m Still Here Mum

In his teens Royce Scarlett was a bit of a tearaway, regularly in trouble with the law. But he was also devoted to his mum, who stuck by him through thick and thin. When matters came to a head and Royce was sent to prison for drug dealing, he began to see the error of his ways and was well on the path to becoming a responsible young adult. But Royce never had the chance. While he was in prison he developed a rare cancer, and he died at the age of just 22.

This is Royce’s tragic and moving story, by his mother.

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Intake 131 – nineteen weeks as a Rhodesian army officer cadet

In 1973, Sandy Sanderson attended the School of Infantry in Gwelo, in what was then central Rhodesia, for officer training. Now, more than 40 years on, he has written a book based on the diary he kept. The result is a frank, detailed and sometimes humorous account of the training as it happened. The book will be intriguing to people from all parts of the world with an interest in the military.

In June 1977, Time magazine commented, “Man for man, the Rhodesian Army ranks amongst the world’s finest fighting units”. If this were true the training must surely have contributed. Recruits were trained by some of the toughest and most experienced military instructors in the world, all of whom possessed a varied, if profane, vocabulary. As Sandy put it, “Any Rhodesian drill instructor could string a sentence together consisting entirely of expletives, apart from the odd indefinite article, and make perfect sense”. In spite of this they were hugely respected and their expertise undoubtedly saved many lives.

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The Maister

Jean Borthwick and her brother should have enjoyed a happy childhood, growing up in a village in rural post-war Scotland. Their father was a brilliant and talented schoolteacher who was invariably charming to all who knew him, but at home, behind closed doors, he turned into a tyrannical monster. He would beat both his children mercilessly with a slipper or a belt for the smallest offence, from talking after lights out to looking at him in a funny way. Somehow both Jean and her brother survived their years of terror and torture to become happy and successful adults, but the shadow of those years will never go away.

This is Jean’s moving account of a childhood haunted by fear.

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Stay Lucky

Trapped by an offer he can’t refuse – and a girl he can’t resist and lured to Florence by a false business proposition, retired agent Steve Cromarty is framed for a terrorist attack. Deeply implicated and badly needing a pay cheque, he is unable to refuse involvement in a smuggling scheme.

But Cromarty is his own man and he’s determined to find out what his ruthless former boss Macbride has in store and where the beautiful Annie’s loyalties really lie. Unfortunately, in the murky world he finds himself plunged into, he soon realises that loyalty and trust are things of the past.

A page-turning crime thriller set mainly in Italy and France.

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Hummer

The ageing bee Hummer has had to relinquish his post as commander of the Hive Defence Garrison through injury, but his heart and his courage are as strong as ever. Now the peace and security of the bees of Lambas is threatened by the terrifying and ambitious drone Redmore, their tyrannical new Honey Controller, and his impossible demands for ever more food supplies. It will take all Hummer’s courage and wisdom to lead their defence with his brave young allies Brendan, Laser and Casper, as well as an unlikely alliance with an aggressive
tribe of giant ants.

An enthralling story of conflict and loyalty, war and peace in the world of bees.

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Women Who Served in World War II – In Their Own Words by Mereo Books

Rachel Vogeleisen is a professional photographer specialising in women’s portraits and fashion. Her fascination with the Second World War was sparked by her discovery as a child that her grandfather, from Alsace, had had to fight for the Germans against Russia.

This book, the culmination of ten years of research, is a collection of portraits and testimonials recording the experiences of 21 women who volunteered during World War II, interviewed by the author. The accounts have been left as far as possible in the women’s original words, so that their voices can be heard clearly and faithfully.

The women featured in this book are among many who did much behind the scenes without much in the way of recognition. It was not until 2005 that their contribution to the war effort was recognised with a memorial dedicated to the women of World War Two in Whitehall, London.

These women are some of the last alive to speak about their wartime experiences in their own words.

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A Funny Old Game

Who are the mysterious children who meet up periodically to play dazzling, almost magical football? Why do they never seem to age – and why do they turn up not only in different places but in different decades, sometimes different centuries? And who is the boy with the mysterious hawk-like eyes who wanders the ages without ever getting any older?

This intriguing work of imagination follows the subtle link between a group of youngsters, a football and the passage of time.

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