What’s stopping you from realising your ambitions? What kind of successful person do you want to be? If you think being ambitious is a negative trait, it’s time to think again.

Real Ambition will help you understand why some people achieve their ambitions and exactly what is getting in the way of yours.

We will give you a clue it’s YOU! Packed full of scientific evidence and cutting edge global research Real Ambition offers five simple secrets to success, giving you the tools to keep track of your dreams every day.

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Break Away – The Heroes and Hellraisers That Made Road Cycling By Euan Ferguson

Boxing Day 1920, and 53,000 men, women and children pack inside Goodison Park. The extraordinary crowds have come to watch two local rivals play a match for charity. But this is no ordinary charity fixture. Eleven of the players are international celebrities and their team is the biggest draw in British – and world – football. Yet they are all full-time factory workers – and they are women. They are the ladies of Dick Kerr electrical works. And the male football establishment is terrified by them. With the men away fighting from 1914-1918, most of the workers in the factories of northern England were women. And many factories had a ladies’ football team.

In December 1917, the team from the Dick Kerr factory challenged the ladies of the nearby Arundel Coulthard Foundry to a charity match. It was the first of 828 games for Dick Kerr Ladies as over the decades they scored more than 3,500 goals and raised the equivalent of GBP1 million for an array of charities.

By 1920, ladies football was a major spectator sport. But away from the cheering terraces are bastions of professional men’s football viewed the mass popularity of women’s soccer with increasing alarm.On 5 December 1921 the Football Association met in London. After a brief debate behind closed doors it unanimously passed an urgent resolution: women’s football was banned from all professional football grounds. Dick Kerr Ladies did not give in, playing their matches on parkland with thousands of spectators turning up to watch. But constant pressure from the FA meant that one by one, teams began to fold,. It would take until 1971 for the FA to life its ban.

Today, women’s football has once again claimed a place in the global games. But it came too late for the pioneers of the sport: Preston Ladies – nee Dick Kerr Ladies – played their last match in 1969.

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A Suitable Lie By Michael Malone

Andy Boyd thinks he is the luckiest man alive.

Widowed with a young child, after his wife dies in childbirth, he is certain that he will never again experience true love.

Then he meets Anna.

Feisty, fun and beautiful, she’s his perfect match…

And she loves his son, too.

When Andy ends up in the hospital on his wedding night, he receives his first clue that Anna is not all that she seems.

He ignores it; a dangerous mistake that could cost him everything.

A brave, deeply moving psychological thriller which marks a stunning departure for one of Scotland’s top crime writers.

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The Pub A Cultural Institution – From Country Inns to Craft Beer Bars and Corner Locals By Pete Brown

Pete Brown has visited hundreds of pubs across the UK and is uniquely placed to write about pubs that ooze atmosphere, whatever the reason, be it food, people, architecture, location or decor.

The best pubs are those that always have a steady trade at any time on any day of the week, and where chat flows back and forth across the bar.

They’re the places where you want to drink weak beer so you can have several pints and stay longer.

Some are grand Victorian palaces, others ancient inns with stunning views across the hills.

Some are ale shrines, others gastropubs (though they probably don’t call themselves that any more).

A precious few are uniquely eccentric, the kinds of places that are just as likely to have terrible reviews on Trip Advisor as great ones, because some people don’t realize that the outside toilets, limp sandwiches on the bar and really disturbing full-size mannequin glaring at you from the corner are all part of the charm. This collection of 300 pubs with atmosphere will include 50 pub features and 250 smaller descriptions, alongside quirks of local history, pen portraits of punters or publicans, legends, yarns and myths, and case studies of different trends and types of pub.

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The Blackbird Singularity By Matt Wilven

Vince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner’s pregnancy.

As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely hold his life together.

Somewhere between making friends with a blackbird in the back garden and hearing his dead son’s footsteps in the attic, he finds himself lost and alone, journeying through a world of chaos and darkness, completely unaware of the miracle that lies ahead.

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Keep You Close By Lucie Whitehouse

Those who love Girl on the Train, The Good Liar and The Widow will love this thrilling new novel from acclaimed author Lucie Whitehouse. They said it was a tragic accident. She knows better…The brilliant young painter Marianne Glass is found dead in her snow-covered garden. Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, knows it wasn’t an accident. Marianne had vertigo, paralysing vertigo. She never would have gone that close to the edge…

Dr James Barry A Woman Ahead of Her Time By Jeremy Dronfield

As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club The Times Book of the Week Dr James Barry was many things in his life: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric.

He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment, and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari.

At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier.

But most astonishingly, long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had been a young girl and a mother.

Drawing on a decade of research in archives all over the world, including the unearthing of previously unknown material, Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield tell the amazing true story of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected and controversial army surgeons of the century.

In an extraordinary life, she crossed paths with the British Empire’s great and good, royalty and rebels, soldiers and slaves.

A medical pioneer, she rose to a position that no woman before her had been allowed to occupy. However, for all her successes, her long, audacious deception also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved.

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Jungle – A Harrowing True Story of Adventure, Danger and Survival By Yossi Ghinsberg

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