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Allahakbarries C.C. - J.M. Barrie's literary cricket team

Cricket J.M Barrie is famous for writing Peter Pan, one of the greatest children's stories ever told. But Barrie's real passion wasn't writing - it was playing cricket, something he did rather badly. The author loved the game so much he founded a team called Allahakbarries and recruited its players from the literary community.

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Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat

Chris Stewart

ISBN: 0956003834 Three Ways to Capsize a Boat by Chris Stewart

If you’re wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here’s one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing a Cornish Crabber around the Greek islands. It was his dream job – and there was just one tiny problem. He hadn’t ever sailed before and had not the foggiest how to start. In a series of madcap and hilarious adventures we follow Chris from a shaky start in Chichester harbour to his epic Odyssey to Spetses (a bucket would have been handy), and then on to the journey of a lifetime – battening down the hatches on a trip across the North Atlantic. It’s a journey crackling with Chris’s zest for life, irresistible humour, and unerring lack of foresight. Dry land never looked more welcoming.

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Lazy Days of Summer

The Cloud Collector's Handbook

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

ISBN: 0340919434 The Cloud Collector's Handbook

The Cloud Collector's Handbook fits into the pocket, allowing cloudspotters to identify cloud formations anytime and anywhere. All the common cloud types are represented, as are many of the rare ones, each fully described and illustrated with a range of photographs. Not only is The Cloud Collector's Handbook an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to be able to identify and understand every cloud that floats by, it also caters for the competitive cloudspotter. Points are awarded for each cloud type identified – the rarer the cloud, the greater points – and there’s space to fill in where and when it was sighted.

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Chess Books

Chess Books

Move over Bobby Fisher. Improve upon your game of chess with this diverse selection of chess books. Read about how to win in as few moves as possible and learn from the grandmasters including Fisher, Kasparov and Emanual Lasker. Or, read Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game, considered by many to be one of the best stories ever written about the game of chess.