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Billy
~Pamela Stephenson
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Billy Connolly is loud, hilarious, and contradictory. His biography, written by his wife,
former comedian and practicing psychotherapist Pamela Stephenson, is pretty much the same.
Over the years Connolly has grown from Glasgow shipyard welder to folk-singing beardy hard
man (yes there is such a...Read more
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A History of Britain Volume 2: 1603 - 1776
~Simon Schama
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The second volume of Simon Schama's BBC History of Britain: The British Wars, 1603-1776 is
a more serious affair than the first. A History of Britain Vol I was free-range history: a
fresh and at times iconoclastic survey of more than 1,500 years of the nation's story. Now
Schama is more penned in...Read more
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Harry Potter: Box Set
~J.K. Rowling
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This stunning four-book slipcase houses the first four titles in the Harry Potter series
in paperback--Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
The perfect gift for Potter...Read more
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Happy Days with the Naked Chef
~Jamie Oliver
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Jamie Oliver's Happy Days With the Naked Chef is in the same mould as his other
bestsellers: recipes for simple, comforting, homely food. This time, however, he has some
interesting additions from his travels to Australia, New Zealand, America and Japan. There
are three new ideas in Happy Days With...Read more
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The Blue Planet
~Andrew Byatt, et al
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Whether you have seen the BBC TV series or not, The Blue Planet is a must-have book. It
tells the story of life in the oceans, upon which we all ultimately depend. From the
tropics to the poles, from the shores to the deeps, the waters of the planet teem with an
amazing diversity of creatures and...Read more
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Delia's How to Cook Book 3
~Delia Smith, Miki Duisterhof
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In part three of "How to Cook" Delia continues and completes her journey through
the fundamentals of cooking, revisiting traditional areas that are often overlooked, as
well as exploring more contemporary concerns for the modern cook. The recipes, all
beautifully photographed, range from neglected...Read more
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Dead Famous
~Ben Elton
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Ben Elton's Dead Famous brings together his talents in comedy and crime writing to produce
a hilarious and devastating novel on the gruesome world of reality TV. Peeping Tom
productions invent the perfect TV programme: House Arrest. Its slogan is: "One house.
Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty...Read more
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The Last Hero
~Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby
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A new Discworld story is always an event. Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero is unusually
short, a 40,000-word "Discworld Fable" rather than a full novel, but is
illustrated throughout in sumptuous colour by Paul Kidby.The 160 pages cover the series'
longest and most awesome (but still comic) journey...Read more
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Skipping Christmas
~John Grisham
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John Grisham has turned a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive season, and
the result is Skipping Christmas, a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December
25. Grisham's story revolves around a typical middle-aged American couple, Luther and Nora
Krank. On the first Sunday...Read more
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Robbie Williams: Somebody Someday
~Robbie Williams, Mark McCrum
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Robbie William's Somebody Someday takes fans behind the scenes of his 2001 tour, laying
bare both the mechanics of the pop machine and a man who can undoubtedly claim to be one
of the biggest stars in the business. Williams rose from the ashes of teeny boy band Take
That, confounding critics who had...Read more
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Band of Brothers
~Stephen Ambrose
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As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose uses Band
of Brothers to tell the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members
he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along
on Easy Company's trip from...Read more
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The Universe in a Nutshell
~Stephen J. Hawking
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The Universe in a Nutshell attempts to address the relative difficulty of Hawking's first
foray into popular science, A Brief History of Time. While this sold in its millions, few
readers got past the first few chapters. Helpfully, this new work is full of beautifully
prepared colour illustrations...Read more
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Blessed: My Autobiography
~George Best, Roy Collins
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The question of how a man could have everything and be systematically destroyed by
alcoholism, is at the heart of George Best's unflinching autobiography Blessed. In 1990,
Best--arguably the most extravagantly talented footballer the UK has ever produced;
certainly domestic football's first and...Read more
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Atonement
~Ian McEwan
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Atonement is Ian McEwan's ninth novel, and his first since the Booker Prize-winning
Amsterdam in 1998. But whereas Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more
sturdy, ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think and experiment. We meet
13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer...Read more
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Walking with Beasts
~Tim Haines
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Walking with Beasts, is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the hugely successful Walking
with Dinosaurs and fully deserves to be just as successful. Subtitled A Prehistoric
Safari, it takes the reader on a journey through the wildlife parks of the last 65-million
years since the demise of the...Read more
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Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
~Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett returns to children's stories and to his infamous Discworld with Amazing
Maurice and His Educated Rodents, a clever spin on the Pied Piper fairytale with a lavish
sprinkling of the Practchett magic. Maurice is a talking cat who leads a band of rather
special rats from town to town to...Read more
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Adult
Edition
~J.K. Rowling
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who
loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by
wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand and jellybeans that come in every
flavour, including strawberry, curry,...Read more |
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A Mad World, My Masters
~John Simpson
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Some people just aren't cut out for the suburbs. As one of the BBC's top foreign
correspondents, John Simpson has been at the epicentre of many of the world's flashpoints
for more than 30 years. Afghanistan, Belgrade, Hong Kong, Baghdad; you name it, he's been
there. And what's more, he hasn't just...Read more
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The Falls
~Ian Rankin
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Success has a price, and the remarkable acclaim (both critical and commercial) that
greeted the gritty Edinburgh-set crime novels of Ian Rankin has set the author a
considerable problem. How does he maintain the freshness of detail and atmosphere that
have made his books such riveting reading? And...Read more
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The Lord of the Rings Three Volumes (Boxed Set)
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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For those who have not read Tolkien's epic fantasy, or for those looking to replace a worn
and battered copy, this three-volume The Lord of the Rings box set is a great place to
start. Comprising the three novels that make up the Lord of the Rings sequence--The
Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers...Read more
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Memoirs of an Unfit Mother
~Anne Robinson
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Anne Robinson's most recent public persona--the hardened battleaxe of television's The
Weakest Link--is but a very small part of this quizmistress; Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother
will most likely change your perceptions of the star. This book is a good read, but not a
comfortable one. It's interesting:...Read more |
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The Truth
~Terry Pratchett
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The Truth is Terry Pratchett's 25th novel about Discworld in general and the
dirt-encrusted metropolis of Ankh-Morpork in particular--home of the sinister Patrician,
the Unseen University of magicians and guilds for everything from Assassins to Thieves,
taking in Clowns (but not mimes) along the way....Read more |
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The Little Black Dress Diet
~Michael Van Straten
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Whether it's got to be done by the summer or by Saturday, the author shows you the optimum
way for you personally to lose the excess. The market place is full of bogus, expensive
slimming aids, but there are some natural supplements which help shed pounds and inches
more easily when combined with...Read more |
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London: the Biography
~Peter Ackroyd
Paperback - Vintage
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When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing London: The
Biography, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page
work about the "human body" that is this most fascinating of cities. And not
just any human body either, but "envisaged in the...Read more |
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