Her iconic blonde looks, stunning voice and songs of loneliness and melancholy have endeared her to millions, yet Agnetha Faltskog remains an enigmatic and distant figure. From her success as a teenage singer and songwriter in Sweden in the late 1960 s to her years of global superstardom with pop giants ABBA and beyond, Agnetha has fascinated generations of fans. Her beaming smile graced record sleeves, television screens and magazine covers around the world yet never quite managed to conc...

Improve your React Native mobile development skills and transition from web to mobile development with this solution-packed guideKey FeaturesLearn strategies and techniques to face React Native mobile development challenges head-onExplore ways to use iOS and Android for React Native development to maximize code reuse and cohesionBuild engaging user experiences with React NativeBook DescriptionIf you are a developer looking to...

The Cybersecurity Fear Machine challenges the prevailing narrative that America's critical infrastructure faces an imminent, catastrophic cyberattack. Drawing on historical incident data, declassified reports, and international case studies, Daniel Ward, Ph.D., argues that the perceived threat to the U.S. Operational Technology (OT) -the industrial control systems managing power grids, water treatment facilities, and manufacturing plants have been significantly inflated by a complex interp...

So, when you have the time and the space, the thoughts start to fill it, you know? Unless you fill it yourself. With a little burn mout. Or a little tune.Errol lost his dad last year. Listening to his old man's Spotify playlist, he remembers his dad's passion over the 1981 Brixton uprising and his certainty that change was coming.Errol is tired of the fight and, as his son takes up the fight with the BLM movement, he questions if this is a revolution or a repetitio...

Winner of the 2020 George Devine AwardMiddle Child present The Canary and the Crow, brand new gig theatre about the journey of a working class black kid who is accepted to a prestigious school.A lyrical, semi-autobiographical piece from writer and performer Daniel Ward - using grime, hip hop and theatre, he tells the story of his struggle between a new environment that doesn't accept him and an old one that has no opportunity.

Down South is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western Series." The action of the story is confined entirely to Florida; and this fact may seem to belie the title of the Series. But the young yachtsman still maintains his hold upon the scenes of his earlier life in Michigan, and his letters come regularly from that State. If he were old enough to vote, he could do so only in Michigan; and therefore he has not lost his right to claim a residence there during his temporary soj...

I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha. - Anni-Frid Lyngstad.ABBAs was an extraordinary journey through the pages of rock history it took them from throwaway Eurovision turn to highly respected pop icons. Their story has everything; beautiful girls with incredible voices, love, marriages, break ups, divorces, not to mention some of the most memorable outfits ever seen on a stage. This indispensable eBook provides fans of the band with a perfect career r...

“...achieves the difficult feat of capturing the multiple layers of Abba...with a deftness unusual in a rock biography.” –Sunday TimesAs generations of new fans discover ABBA’s timeless music, Frida, Agnetha, Benny and Björn remain rather shadowy, secretive figures. Their marriages, personal break-ups and superficial biographical details are well known…but who exactly are ABBA?How did Norwegian orphan Anni-Frid become a real-life princess? How did Benny and Björn b...

'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs saying "hilarious" on them. This is infinitely funnier than any of them' DAVID BADDIEL***'***The funniest series of books ever written in the English language' RICHARD OSMAN'Hilarious' THE TIMES'Absolute f**king genius' CAITLIN MORAN

A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clich�s end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.The bestselling Pies and Prejudic...

‘Funny, touching and ludicrously British.’ India Knight‘Makes Christmas slightly less awful.’ Al MurrayGet ready for a belly-aching good time with this side-splittingly funny book sure to delight all your best mates.A Very British Christmas is a twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest aspects of the Christmas holiday, with cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal remini...

Another treat for Harry Hill fans! Britain's favourite comedian, Harry Hill, loves it when people make silly mistakes. So much that he has put together a rib-tickling book of howlers, wacky stories and bloopers for all the family. The Bumper Book of Bloopers contains Harry's favourite goofs picked from the world's daftest newspapers and magazines - and believe it or not every single one of them is a genuine boob!