Arrow Books Living on the Volcano. The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager Calvin Michael

“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 bestselling novel from the master storyteller of the sea • It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor. Young, toughened and tried in the hellish crucible of Burma, he labours, sometimes faltering, beneath the weight of tradition, the glorious heritage of his family, and the burden of his own self-doubt • For Blackwood, the horizon is not the lip of the trench seen by men of the Corps in the previous war, but the ramp of a landing craft smashing down into the sea, and the fire of the enemy on a Sicilian beach. Here, tradition is not enough, and Mike Blackwood must find within himself qualities of leadership which will inspire those Royal Marines who are once again the first to land, and among the first to die

A collection of laugh-out-loud funny short stories and extracts including • The hilarious antics of Arabel and pet bird Mortimer • Laid-back Clever Polly and the stupid wolf • The zany Bold family • The crazy killer Aunties • And many more! • From best-loved classic authors Joan Aiken, Terry Pratchett, and Dick King-Smith, to new hilarious voices from Rebecca Elliott, Humza Arshad and Henry White, Julian Clary, Sam Copeland, there is something for EVERYONE to enjoy

Love will find a way. A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match • Polly is in her thirties, lives in a small town, has a cat and a Rayburn oven on which she loves to cook • What more could she need? Certainly not a man • Besides, Polly’s life is complicated enough. She has her job at the Whole Nut cafe and a fledgling pottery career she’s trying to get off the ground • And then she meets David, and before she knows it he has turned her life and all her sensible plans upside down • Should she yield to his temptations or resist? • After all, and as she has told her mother and friends, love is over-rated. Isn’t it?

March 1944, West London: it’s been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain’s canals and she could never have imagined how tough it would get. Yet hauling cargo between London and Birmingham is far easier to face than the turbulence she’s left behind • When Verity’s sweetheart returns unexpectedly from the front line, she dares to dream of a brighter future. But life aboard the Marigold is never smooth sailing. New recruit Sylvia is struggling with demons from her past while crewmate Polly must carry on in the wake of devastating news. Verity does her best to help, but a shocking discovery is about to turn her own life upside-down • As the realities of war begin to take their toll, the waterway girls will have to pull together if they are to survive the uncertain times ahead

Jenna Boltz is at a crossroads • She's spent the last twenty years raising two children on her own. But now as they start to embark on their own lives, Jenna can't help but wonder what her future holds. Will she find the kind of love she's always yearned for? • Enter Dr Rowan Lancaster, who saves the day when Jenna's elderly mother suffers an accident. Though he keeps to himself, he is immediately smitten with Jenna. Jenna on the other hand, is determined to remain friends. Until her children approach her with shocking news that makes her question everything • If Jenna can learn to put herself first again, she might just discover a love that takes her beyond her wildest dreams

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