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  Wavewalker: THE INTERNATIONAL...

  Suzanne Heywood

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  THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 
  A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 
  ‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES 
  ‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER 
  ‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing … a fantastic story of a truly Odyssean journey across all the world’s great oceans – but is also the inspiring story of the developing of a restless and inquiring mind’ SIMON WINCHESTER 
  'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH 
  ‘This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you’re reading about a dream or a nightmare… Wavewalker is thrilling, horrifying, beautifully written – I couldn’t put it down’ ED BALLS 
  Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. 
  Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing, a survival story of a child deprived of safety, friendships, schooling and occasionally drinking water… At seventeen Suzanne earned an interview at Oxford University and returned to the UK. 
  From the bestselling author of What Does Jeremy Think?, Wavewalker is the incredible true story of how the adventure of a lifetime became one child’s worst nightmare – and how her determination to educate herself enabled her to escape 
  ‘A classic memoir of childhood. This is a book that every parent should read to consider the consequences of their midlife crises, and every child should read to learn how to deal with impossible mums and dads, as well as boils and barnacles’ Mail on Sunday 5* 
  ‘An electrifying story about an extraordinary childhood, and Heywood tells it with remarkable clarity and assurance . . . an engrossing book that pitches the reader into the highs and lows of a young life spent in the “Wavewalker School of the Sea”’TLS 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  Playing the Game of Your Life

  Dr. Alan Curley PhD PFPH

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  This book is for people who wish to make changes to improve their game and move forward in their life journey. The story follows the fortunes of 5 young footballers who attend a 12 week summer sports camp to improve their football skills in the hope of becoming professional players in the game. At the end of the summer camp, these teenage players have the opportunity to be signed by the Premiership Football team scouts who come to watch them.   
  However, this year for the first time, the boys have to attend a Sports Psychology class at camp. In this class they will explore aspects of their Game Mindset and Mind Fitness. This class will take them all on a journey to build resilience and change their mindset which will seriously impact their future progress in the game.   
  There is a 12 week Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) change programme embedded within this book, giving readers not only a good story but the chance to start on their own journey of change and the tools to improve their life game. This book also contains examples of techniques that have been used by professional sportspeople to enhance their sports performance.

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  The Men in the Arena - England...

  Tom English, Peter Burns

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  The ultimate World Cup showdown, in the words of those who were there.
  
  From 1997 to 2003 England and Australia battled for domination of the rugby world in one of the greatest rivalries the sport has ever known. In The Men in the Arena, William Hill shortlisted authors Peter Burns and Tom English explore every aspect of the teams’ journey to the 2003 Rugby World Cup final, telling the story primarily in the words of the protagonists at the center of the battle.
  
  Featuring exclusive new interviews with players and coaches from both teams plus an array of superstars who faced them from New Zealand, Ireland, France, Wales and beyond, this is the inside story like it has never been told before.
  
  'A splendid re-telling of English rugby's most celebrated story. Cracking stuff from start to finish' - Robert Kiston, The Guardian

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  Sanctioned - The Inside Story of...

  Nick Purewal

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  The sale of Chelsea FC in 2022 was one of the highest-profile and most controversial sports transactions of all time. In the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Roman Abramovich was forced to put his beloved club up for sale, and under the threat of bankruptcy and ruin, Chelsea pulled off a complex transaction in three tense and troubling months. Sanctioned chronicles those ninety-five extraordinary days in English football.
  Through unprecedented access to Abramovich himself, key figures from Chelsea's new ownership and a star-studded footballing cast, Nick Purewal unfolds a wide-ranging tale of political sanctions, hushed negotiations, Cold War-style geopolitics and even a foul-play poisoning episode, all set against the backdrop of a drawn-out war on the edge of Europe.
  Four years on, the funds from the Chelsea sale, earmarked for humanitarian causes, remained frozen in a bank account. In this updated edition, Nick Purewal charts the fraught political and legal battles to unlock this capital, as well as the highs and lows of Chelsea's 2025–26 season – from headline-grabbing wins to dramatic staff exits and mammoth fines.

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  Weird Facts About Curling

  Geoffrey Landsdell, Carla MacKay

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  Scottish immigrants brought the game “across the pond” in the 18th century. Since then the roaring game has amassed its fair share of amusing and interesting stories, facts and anecdotes:
  		 
  The flamboyant curling character Paul Gowsell once ordered a pizza to ice level during a match, briefly earning him the nickname “Pizza Paul”
  		 
  Legendary Brier journalist Cactus Jack Wells turned down a Hockey Night in Canada play-by-play job in order to continue covering the Brier and Winnipeg Blue Bomber games.
  		 
  In 1912, the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax served as a temporary morgue for recovered bodies in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster.
  		 
  In cashspiels, curlers win money, but in bonspiels, they win things like cars, T-bone steaks or new curling stones
  		 
  Canada is said to be the only documented place where the iron curling “stone” was used.
  		 
  Before the 1988 Olympic Trials, the Canadian Curling Association informed the “The Wrench,” Ed Werenich, that he would have to lose weight if he qualified for the Olympics.
  		 
  Canada invited Scotland to tour Canada in a curling tournament in 1858, but didn’t end up making the overseas journey until 44 years later in 1902.
  		 
  Curling did not become an official Olympic sport until 1998 in Nagano
  		 
  In 2009, NBC will host a curling reality show called Rockstar Curling to determine who will represent the United States at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
  		 
  And much more…

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  Fast Weight Loss And Muscle Gain...

  DietX

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  Discover several elusive tips and tricks to quickly melt pounds of fat off of your body and replace them with lean muscle. Feel great, get fit, and look amazing! These proven weight loss and muscle building techniques will rapidly and scientifically sculpt your body (in a matter of weeks) into a jaw-dropping, head turning lean, muscular physique. Life isn't waiting! Isn't it time for your best self to arrive?

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