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WH. Smith Mail Order Catalogue Store, UK - Interesting Times A Discworld Novel The oldest empire on the Discworld is in turmoil brought about by the revolutionary treatise 'What I Did on My Holidays'. Workers are uniting with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. ... Ricky 'If there is a better written less pretentious book by an actor then I have yet to read it. Undoubtedly the showbusiness book of the year' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Famous as the lovable couch potato Jim Royle of The Royle Family Ricky Tomlinson has entertained millions without ever leaving his armchair. Now in his long-awaited autobiography he surprises yet again with a remarkable story of love hardship humour injustice and triumph. His mother used to tell him that he had lived three lives but even she miscounted. He has been a plasterer banjo player stand-up comic union agitator political activist film extra award-winning actor and unwilling guest of Her Majesty's prison service. Renowned and respected for his honesty wit and integrity Ricky brings all of these qualities to his extraordinary moving and inspiring story. ... Alien Quadrilogy (Box Set) (DVD) A box set featuring 'Alien' which is the sci-fi story of seven astronauts who become the victims of a galactic horror when they stumble upon an alien life-form never seen before. The nightmare begins... 'Aliens' In this sequel to 'Alien' Ellen Ripley returns as the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo's encounter with a deadly extra-terrestrial. After years of hibernation in space she is reluctantly drawn into a second encounter. In 'Alien 3' Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161 a penal colony... It is not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable... and 'Alien Resurrection' Two hundred years after the death of Ellen Ripley and many experiments later a group of scientists clone her and the parasitic alien. Anxious to test their new weapon the scientists abduct a crew. Once the alien escapes and takes control of the spacecraft only 'Ripley' and a team of smugglers stand between it and Earth. ... Encore Tricolore 1 Nouvelle edition Encore Tricolore nouvelle edition builds on the approach of Tricolore and Encore Tricolore. Presented in five stages it provides full coverage of the National Curriculum and prepares students thoroughly for GCSE. ... Coming To America - (DVD) Eddie Murphy plays a very wealthy and pampered African prince who comes to America in search of a bride. Accompanied by his closest companion (Arsenio Hall) Murphy quickly finds a job makes new friends finds a home and acquires some new enemies along the way. Keep an eye out for both Murphy and Hall in some unforgetable cameo roles! ... Bride Stripped Bare Coolly impassioned this book tells shocking truths about love and sex. These are the kind of revelations that best friends whisper to each other and then decide to forget they ever revealed. It will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person. ...
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WHSmith (WHS) is one of the UK's leading retail groups incorporating market leading companies in retail, publishing and news distribution. The Group has 1,464 stores world-wide, 30,747 employees in 12 countries and sales of some £2.9bn.
WHSmith is the UK's number one family retailer selling a range of products that extends across education, entertainment and information. Each year WHSmith High Street stores sell enough pens to circle the earth; enough books to fill a library shelf from London to Edinburgh; and enough paper to write a letter to everyone in the world. WH Smith also sell 122 million magazines and newspapers each year - enough to make a pile 69 times taller than Mount Everest.
The first High Street store was a small news vendor opened in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street, London, by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna. Today, WHSmith has 545 High Street stores, covering over 3 million square feet of selling space and employing 17,000 staff. Clubcard, the Company's loyalty scheme, has more than 5 million members.
Books, newspapers, magazines and stationery form the core of the High Street business. WHSmith sell more books than any other retailer in England, Scotland and Wales. For example, one in three copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were bought from WHSmith in the first weekend of release. WHSmith promote new authors with their Fresh Talent showcase and also have the Thumping Good Read Award that is voted for by members of Clubcard.
WHSmith's major stores stock more than 45,000 product lines, whereas an average food supermarket carries around 10,000 lines.
WHSmith currently holds a strong market share in each of the core categories in which it trades - books, stationery, news, magazines and entertainment. WH Smith's strategy is to exploit the strength, power and potential of the WHSmith brand to provide the very best service and value for money for their customers, shareholders and wider community.
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