Arrow Books Back from the Brink. The Autobiography McGrath Paul

“What’s your dream, son?” • A six year-old boy, head bowed, mumbles the eternal answer: “Be a footballer….” Steadman Scott, football’s most unlikely talent scout, smiles indulgently, and takes him in from the street. He knows the odds. Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys who play organised youth football in England will become a Premier League pro. That’s a success rate of 0.012 per cent • How and why do the favoured few make it? What separates the good from the great? Who should they trust – the coach, the agent or their parents? • Michael Calvin provides the answers on a journey from non-league grounds to hermetically sealed Premier League palaces, via gang-controlled sink estates and the England team’s inner sanctum. He interviews decision makers, behavioural specialists, football agents and leading coaches

Откройте для себя все о футболе - от законов и тактики до науки и искусства "красивой игры" в книге Дэвида Голблатта и Джонни Актона "Футбольная книга. Команды. правила. Лиги. Тактика". С профилями более чем 65 лучших футбольных стран мира и громкими именами в клубном футболе и других ключевых соревнованиях, это идеальное наглядное руководство по величайшему виду спорта в мире. Книга на английском языке • Discover everything about football - from the laws and tactics to the science and art of the "beautiful game" • With profiles of more than 65 of the world's best footballing nations, and the biggest names in club football and other key competitions, this is the ultimate visual guide to the world's greatest sport • Inside the pages of this comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to football, you'll find • - A fresh graphic style that illustrates everything from beach football to block tackles • - Stats and fact boxes that profile players, managers, fans, football trivia, national teams, and clubs • - Special features that highlight great football matches, stadiums, and football culture • - "Top 5" boxes that provide an alternative look at the best and worst of the game • It's a GOAL with The Football Book! From the history of football and the story behind the game to the football World Cup and the delayed Euro 2020 championships, this sports book reveals a fascinating story page after page

Everyone’s favourite (socially distanced) characters return to help us through this challenging period • Hedgehog is waiting for his friend Tortoise to wake up. But where is he and when will he wake? • Hedgehog’s friends are all very lovely, but they just aren’t as much fun at the beach, or at hide and seek, or at holding hands, or at hugs • Tortoise begins to stir – the one boulder that Hedgehog didn’t think he could lift to turn • Tortoise has been dreaming of Hedgehog. And the hug that follows is their best yet! • A charming and touching new tale from the creators of the bestselling While We Can’t Hug!

The incredible true story of Sherlock, the brave dog with a nose for saving lives • Firefighter Paul Osborne works with the Fire Investigation Dog unit, where he handles Sherlock - an excitable, bright-eyed cocker spaniel • What makes Sherlock different? He's the most talented investigative dog the Fire Brigade has ever produced, capable of identifying extraordinarily subtle traces and scents even after thousand-degree blazes - even when he has to wear special protective boots due to the dangerous environments • Today, Paul and Sherlock fearlessly plunge into the most dramatic fire scenes in London, helping to keep the capital safe around the clock. With remarkable insight into the life of London's most heroic working dog, this inspiring account of the London Fire Brigade's four-legged heroes will delight and amaze

Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983, he signed coveted schoolboy forms for City. Only a short time later he was handed the team captaincy • An international career soon beckoned and, after turning out for the England under-21 and B teams, he received a call-up to the England training camp for Italia '90. Earmarked as an England captain in the making, Paul became a target for top clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool, but he always stayed loyal to his beloved club, deeming Maine Road the spiritual home at which his destiny lay • But then, in September 1990, disaster struck. Paul ruptured his cruciate ligament; sustaining the worst possible injury that a footballer can suffer

New Cover reissue from the bestselling author of naval fiction • INDO-CHINA 1941Cruising somewhere off Saigon is the world's largest and most dangerous submarine - the French Soufriere. A rich prize for the enemy, the British navy must capture her for themselves before she is used against them.For Commander Robert Ainslie, it represents the greatest challenge of his career. He must take the foreign submarine and use her against the enemy in the defence of Singapore

From the bestselling author of Sundays at Tiffany's, two heart-warming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities • Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home she realises that her life has fallen out of focus. So she takes to the road to ask long lost friends and strangers a simple question: 'What's your best story?' Can the funny, tragic, inspirational tales she hears on her journey help Anne see what she's been missing? • Tyler Bron seemingly has it all – a successful company and more money than he knows how to spend. But he has no life. So he hires a struggling novelist to write one for him. There are no limits to the fictional world that Bron's money can transform into a reality, and he soon becomes the protagonist of a love story beyond his wildest imagination

Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men, Living on the Volcano and No Hunger in Paradise returns with his magnum opus on the state of modern football • First he revealed the extraordinary lives of football scouts in The Nowhere Men • Next he unearthed the pressures on football managers in Living on the Volcano • Then he chronicled the hardships of young players striving to make it in No Hunger in Paradise • Now in State of Play, in what marks the pinnacle of a career investigating the human stories of football, award-winning writer Michael Calvin turns his eye to the biggest story of all - the game itself • From mental health to money, concussion to Champions league, fan-owners to oligarchs, women's football to world cups, Calvin gets under the skin of the beautiful game, and reveals why it is truly the game of our lives

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband, Adam. But her decision has meant that she has • had to part with their beloved five-year-old daughter, Alice, who is travelling to safety in Canada • Polly's heart is torn in two as she says goodbye to Alice and heads to the Beach View boarding house in Cliffehaven, where she throws herself into her work • But as she confronts the fact that Adam may not survive his injuries, a telegram arrives at Beach View. The boat Alice was on has been torpedoed by a German U-boat • A fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series)

Еще совсем недавно было трудно поверить, что убеленный сединами наставник Оби-Ван Кеноби когда-то был безусым юнцом, а повергающий Галактику в трепет Император Палпратин - лишь амбициозным сенатором. И совершенно невозможно представить зловещего Дарта Вейдера маленьким мальчиком, который живет в рабстве на Татуине, а по ночам мечтает о далеких звездах. Мы попадаем в то самое время, когда рыцари-джедаи еще хранят мир и спокойствие в Галактике. Но темная сила, готовая поглотить планеты и народы, уже пробудилась, и только древнее пророчество джедаев об избранном, который принесет равновесие в Силу, дает надежду в преддверии катастрофы. Скрытая угроза нависла над Республикой, простоявшей не одну тысячу лет, но теперь погрязшей в пучине политических разногласий и интриг