This book explains what 'high performance' really is, analysing each part of the classic or retro car - the engine, transmission, brakes, etc - and showing how it can be modified and improved for greater performance, both with period correct parts (where available), and modern components such as electronic ignition. It provides specific guidance and planning advice, examining the pros & cons, and road or motorsport suitability of each modification. Whether you want a more practical, better...

A man with a mysterious past arrives on the beautiful, tranquil Ascension Island. The world is in crisis being ravaged by a Pandemic while on the brink of a global nuclear war. Will Ascension Island, steeped in British naval and space-race history and with one of the longest aircraft runways in the world, might provide him with a safe refuge? As he adapts to island life, explores its beauty, and begins to make it his home, the only thing he lacks is the company of a woman. The woman in que...

What if the pandemic had never been stopped?What if it had wiped out most of the world’s population in three days?What if you were the only survivor for miles around, with only yourself and hope to cling to?In this gripping story, Europe is slowly falling into the stone age, after a pandemic wipes out countless lives and leaves the survivors to fend for themselves or die. Follow the story of two teenagers: Carl and Aruna as they try to survive in a country left for ...

Was it a chance encounter or divine intervention between two young adults with sharply contrasting lives that leads each to deeply question their values and prejudices. Either way they embark on a dramatic, and sometimes humorous, journey of self-discovery against a back drop of grassroots British motorsport. It’s more than just a story of: money, winning or losing, but it’s a story about life and death itself.

During the twentieth century, the relationship between the Church of England and the British state was transformed. The character and dynamics of the connections shifted as politics became more democratic and society more secular,as the role of the Crown and parliament in Church government was curtailed, and as the Christian foundations of secular law were weakened. Yet the increasing formal separation of Church and state was not accompanied by ecclesiastical disengagement from politics an...

ZEB, una cebra experta en meterse en líos, Barry, un lémur artista del lettering, y Marga, una pingüina cocinera con superpoderes, forman un peculiar equipo de superhéroes animales. Todo va razonablemente bien hasta que Marga pierde su poder para hacer macarrones con queso justo el día en que un león hambriento espera una montaña de raciones para su manada. A partir de ahí, la cafetería, el parque y la guarida del león se convierten en un campo de batalla de queso, barbacoa y nervios a flo...

Una pingüina que cocina los mejores macarrones con queso, un lémur con una caligrafía perfecta y una cebra un poco frustrada. Tres amigos con los peores superpoderes que te puedas imaginar. Una misión imposible que cambiará sus vidas para siempre. En un mundo donde cada animal posee superpoderes extraordinarios, Zeb, Margarina y Barry tienen los peores... Mientras Margarina puede convertir cualquier cosa en macarrones con queso y Barry presume de una caligrafía impecable, Zeb lucha por enc...

When I asked Miranda why she had drawn on her bedroom wallpaper (in permanent black marker pen) she replied that she wanted a clock.