Gloria Hunniford
Next to You

Caron Keating was forty-one when she died, leaving behind two young sons, Charlie and Gabriel. A few weeks after Gabriel was born Caron found a lump in her breast.The next seven years of Caron's life, and her family's, became a quest for recovery that ultimately took them across the world.They became experts in dealing with the illness and its treatment, both conventional and alternative. All the while Caron was living in the public eye and keeping her devastating secret. Although Caron lost her battle with cancer, this isn't a sad book.Told by her mother, Gloria Hunniford, with extracts from Caron's own diaries, it is an inspirational and honest account of how Caron, Gloria and the whole family faced and coped with illness; a celebration of an unbreakable mother-daughter relationship and how that relationship withstood the strain of Caron's illness. And above all it is a book to commemorate a magical spirited woman who loved life and fought to hold on to it.

Boris Johnson
The Dream of Rome

The Romans created the most successful and longest-lasting empire in history. They conquered and civilised a territory that stretched from Scotland to Libya, from Portugal to Iraq, and then ran it for more than 400 years. The dream of Rome has lived on in the memory of European leaders ever since, and one after the other they have tried to imitate the Roman achievement. Charlemagne tried it. Napoleon tried it. Mussolini tried it. And now the European Union can be seen as the latest attempt to rediscover the unity of the Roman empire. So how did the Romans pull it off? In this fastpaced account, Boris Johnson examines the Roman system in detail, as a way of casting light on the challenges we face today.

`The book turns out to be rather delightful. Its author wears his classical learning lightly, and adopts some clever tricks of perspective... the prose has on unashamedly anachronistic vim... there are gleefully political asides... uncontestably good'-The Guardian

One of the most accomplished broadcasters of his generation, Des Lynam has graced our screens for more than thirty years. l Should Have Been of Work! is the frank and opinionated story of the man behind the myth. At the BBC Des covered almost every type of major sporting event: here he gives us the inside track on World Cups and European Championships; many Wimbledons and seven Olympic Games, including the Israeli shootings in Munich. Des also offers a candid account of life at the BBC - and of his five years at ITV, his reasons for going there and why his decision was justified but in other ways disastrous. He also reveals intimate details of his personal life: post-war years in England; schooldays; early marriage; carefree times as a divorcee in 70s London; and the ladies in his life - two of whom were hardly Iadies.This is the real Des Lynam, honest, warm, funny and brilliant - the man a nation has taken to its heart.