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'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book
should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany,
Observer 'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to
the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to try to
save their communities and their culture, and thirty-five years
since I had turned down Pete's invitation to join them. I called
work and booked some time off. Then I bought a one-way train ticket
to Liverpool.' In 1981, Mike Carter's dad, Pete, organised the
People's March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool
to London to protest as the Thatcher government's policies
devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing.
Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mike set off to walk the same
route in a quest to better understand his dad and his country. As
he walked, Mike found many echoes of the early eighties: a working
class overlooked and ignored by Westminster politicans; communities
hollowed out but fiercely resistant; anger and despair co-existing
with hope and determination for change. And he also found that he
and Pete shared more in common than he might have thought. All
Together Now? maps the intricate, overlapping path of one man's
journey and that of an entire country. It is a book about
belonging, about whether to stay or go, and about the need to write
new stories for our communities and ourselves.
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Garden Rhyme (Paperback)
Mike Carter; Illustrated by Kate Smith
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R417
Discovery Miles 4 170
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Come and meet the creatures As they are passing by Some of them
they hop and crawl And others they can fly They play out in the
garden Until they stop to eat So don't forget when passing To leave
for them a treat
From one to twelve apart from play Boys and girls have lots to say
They laugh and cry and have fun to Always finding things to do
Aunties uncles and lots more Sometimes come in through the door so
written here some things they say while waiting to go out to play
Seaside Christmas dentists to Playschool, paper planes that flew in
verses here inside the pages It's clear that growing up takes ages
My Poet Tree reflects my personal journey through life expressed in
verse From the consequences of war in Painted In Red to the
emotional turmoil of lost love in Crippled Smiles. We cross a
landscape where the frailty of age is captured in Of Our Lives.
Then we pause for a moment to consider the guilt or innocence in
This Cell My Prison, before moving on to the fragile state of this
planet in I Challenge The Day. there are many twists and emotions
are examined throughout the book an example being We Wear It Well.
Occasionally we stop to smile as in There's An Elephant In My
Garden. Before dipping in to memories of childhood as revisited in
There's A Secret In My Cupboard. Then we leave behind the absurdity
of imagined horror in Reaper; to slip into self-awareness in Made
Of Stone. Along the way we will relive the terror of an ocean storm
in The Sinking Of The Santa Fe. Then move to a poem titled That's
My Life, an attempt to understand the things that motivate the way
we are. Included is a tribute to a great poet in An Ode To Edgar
Allan Poe. So I welcome you to join me, and share the experiences
and memories that is My Poet Tree
Midnight will greet you with whispers That invade your memory And
haunt your dreams For soon the time draws near when the world will
know the truth And then the dark lords will once again walk the
land What went before was merely a beginning DCI Crawford threw the
piece of paper to the ground Three years he had waited pursued by a
demon that had no face Now as he prepares to retire a new wave of
terror hits the streets of London and with the discovery of each
victim his own past comes back to haunt him as evil is finally
unmasked.
It is said that we fear that which we do not understand. That we
cloak those fears with doubt, and that over time, they become fairy
tales and nightmares. But what would happen if our fears became a
reality? And so it came to pass. For some speak in hushed tones of
the dark ones. They say they wait and watch from the shadows. DCI
Crawford knew the truth, for he had faced those very demons and
survived. Now only months away from retirement, he is assigned one
last case. A series of strange and inexplicable murders. And as the
killer weaves a trail of deception, an old adversary returns to
orchestrate a new reign of terror from the shadows.
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Artefacts (Paperback)
Mike Carter, Carter Mike
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R1,278
Discovery Miles 12 780
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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As the final echoes of war fade a catastrophic explosion rocks a
desert landscape destroying all traces of a covert operation, the
explosion is attributed to a meteor impact and soon forgotten. July
as a expedition is assigned to recover an Artefact, a traitor
infiltrates the camp, code named Gatherer his mission is to
sabotage the operation. Years pass, and a fragile state of peace
escalates out of control, bringing the Americans and Russians back
to the negotiating table. The talks break down and Vladimir
Garishenko alone and afraid, must revisit his past in order to
protect the future. But the old man is not alone on his journey.
The agent code-named Gatherer will stop at nothing to recover the
Artefact. Across a continent in the leafy suburbs of an American
city, Nathan and his wife Shelley are drawn into the world of
espionage propelling them across an Ocean, forcing Nathan to fulfil
his father's legacy.From an encounter with a timber wolf, on a snow
bound Russian street. To the beautiful but deadly Roshenka. From
the first shot fired to the final thrust of a deadly blade. Each
player destined to take a path that will change their lives forever
"Don't look so surprised," she reached up and removed the wig her
blonde hair tumbling out over her shoulders. "Go on take a close
look; remember now, eighteen months I waited. You put my Eric away
for ten years. You still don't remember do you, well he died last
month heart attack inside couldn't take the pressure. Before you
ask, no there is no money I set you up and you took the bait.
There's an old saying you should have done well to remember, Look
before you leap." "Wait I can," before he could finish the sentence
there was a loud explosion and seconds later a bullet buried itself
into his right eye. From curiosity killed the cat to practice makes
perfect. Here are tales of werewolves and Serial killers deadly
twins and vampires from a chance encounter on a train to hitch
hiking on a lonely highway. Here you will meet a revenge seeking
clown and share an appointment from hell Thirteen short stories of
madness and murder. Introducing well known sayings with a twist.
This is the story of two good friends Shiv and Stitch and their
first adventure into the place they call large land. It all begins
as a bit of fun that will soon take them from the warmth and safety
of the kitchen drawer. To a land where nothing is as it seems, and
where danger is never far away. And as they begin their journey we
will meet some of the characters that have made large land their
home. Hobble the hare and Snuffle the hedgehog. And the mighty owl
Romulus who lives and hunts from the rafters of the old barn. We
will tip toe to the edge of pike wood where concealed by the
morning mist the broken sails of dragon mill hold a secret. We can
laugh at Fang the rhyming fox, and tremble as One Eye the sly
approaches with the pike wood pirates, as they prepare to do battle
with the shiny points. And there always watching always waiting,
Twizzle the cushion cat and his licked clean dish. Two friends on a
journey of discovery as they try to find a way home, welcome to
Large Land.
A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires
middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter
to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around
Europe. Never mind that he hadn't been on two wheels since an
inglorious three-month teenage chapter involving a Lambretta, four
crashes and an 18-month ban for drink-driving, a plan had begun to
loosely form... And so, having completed a six day residential
motorcycle course and hastily re-mortgaged his flat, Mike sets off
alone, resolving to go wherever the road takes him and enjoy the
adventure of heading off into the unknown. He ends up travelling
almost 20,000 miles and reaching the four extremes of Europe: the
Arctic Circle in the north, the Mediterranean coast in the south,
the Portuguese Atlantic to the west and the Iraqi border of Turkey
in the east. But really it's a journey inwards, as, on the way,
Mike finds his post-divorce scars starting to heal and attempts to
discover what he, as a man in his forties who hasn't quite found
his place in the world, should be doing. Self-deprecating, poetic
and utterly engaging, his is a heroic journey taken for the rest of
us too scared to leave our 9 to 5 office-bound existence.
What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept
on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that.
Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile
ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London
to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome
sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a
different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable
kindness and generosity that convinced him that Britain is anything
but broken. This is the inspiring and very funny tale of the five
months Mike spent cycling the byways of the nation.
This is the story of a licked clean dish And a very hungry cat
who's dinner he has missed So he set off for the garden To find
something to eat And here on the pages are the creatures he did
meet
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