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One of the many refreshing things about Barack Obama is his self-deprecating sense of humour. Responding to the unrealistic expectations for his presidency, Obama said 'I've been sent by my father from the planet Krypton to save the Earth.' Unfortunately, the irony of this self-comparison to Superman was probably lost on many of his dedicated followers, who clearly believe that - once in office - he can exercise a few super powers and rid the world of all its thronging ills, economic and othe... less info

One of the many refreshing things about Barack Obama is his self-deprecating sense of humour. Responding to the unrealistic expectations for his presidency, Obama said 'I've been sent by my father ... more info

In some distant galaxy, there is probably a planet like Earth. Whether it's home to a country like the United States of Atlantis is another matter--but this is the premise of Morgan's outstanding comic debut, Let There Be Lite. Atlantis has all the absurdity of our world and plenty more. There's power-hungry Vice-President Summerday, who cuts a deal with software sultan John Lockes to purchase the controversial Rectag--a little invention set to cut crime and make criminal eyes water. There's ... less info

In some distant galaxy, there is probably a planet like Earth. Whether it's home to a country like the United States of Atlantis is another matter--but this is the premise of Morgan's outstanding c... more info

One of the many refreshing things about Barack Obama is his self-deprecating sense of humour. Responding to the unrealistic expectations for his presidency, Obama said 'I've been sent by my father from the planet Krypton to save the Earth.' Unfortunately, the irony of this self-comparison to Superman was probably lost on many of his dedicated followers, who clearly believe that - once in office - he can exercise a few super powers and rid the world of all its thronging ills, economic and othe... less info

One of the many refreshing things about Barack Obama is his self-deprecating sense of humour. Responding to the unrealistic expectations for his presidency, Obama said 'I've been sent by my father ... more info

More than a century ago, the whaler Charles Melville Scammon chased pods of grey whales across the Pacific, slaughtering them by the hundreds and driving them nearly to the point of extinction. In Eye of the Whale, Dick Russell, a noted conservationist and journalist, follows Scammon's wake, bringing news both good and bad about the condition of the grey whale today. Chronicling a journey along Pacific grey whale routes from Sakhalin Island to the southern tip of Baja California, Russell brac... less info

More than a century ago, the whaler Charles Melville Scammon chased pods of grey whales across the Pacific, slaughtering them by the hundreds and driving them nearly to the point of extinction. In ... more info

Following the publication of her novel Everything You Need, writer AL Kennedy found herself suffering from an acute inability to produce prose fiction. This, coupled with a general unhappiness and the fact that she was "literally boring" herself "to death" led Kennedy to contemplate suicide. Saved by the banal strains of a "pseudo-Celtic pap" song she hears as she is about to jump from the open window of her flat, Kennedy, who refuses to die without a "rag o... less info

Following the publication of her novel Everything You Need, writer AL Kennedy found herself suffering from an acute inability to produce prose fiction. This, coupled with a general unhappiness and ... more info

Pages: 132, Paperback, Save the Children less info

Pages: 132, Paperback, Save the Children

I Am the Central Park Jogger tells the real-life story of a young woman who was brutally assaulted and raped while jogging in New York's Central Park in April of 1989,. The attack captured headlines around the world as the anonymous "Central Park Jogger" fought to recover from massive injuries that left her near death. Fourteen years later, in this first-person account, Trisha Meifi breaks her silence to discuss the incident in her own words and reveal who she was before the attack ... less info

I Am the Central Park Jogger tells the real-life story of a young woman who was brutally assaulted and raped while jogging in New York's Central Park in April of 1989,. The attack captured headline... more info

Harrison's fourth thriller follows on from the acclaim bestowed on Break and Enter, Bodies Electric and Manhattan Nocturne, and continues the vein of modern noir established in those books: a tough man vulnerable only to the charms of a tougher femme fatale, a world where the sex is lubricious, the violence shocking and visceral, and the lure of power and money ubiquitous.Afterburn follows the fatal intertwining of three lives: Charlie Ravich, a Vietnam vet turned multimillionaire businessman... less info

Harrison's fourth thriller follows on from the acclaim bestowed on Break and Enter, Bodies Electric and Manhattan Nocturne, and continues the vein of modern noir established in those books: a tough... more info

Dominique Lapierre was one of the pioneers of the subjective news story, a man who was never afraid to put himself, both physically and emotionally, at the heart of his reports. It is a style that has been often imitated, but as A Thousand Suns shows, has seldom been bettered. In 1944 Lapierre won his own footnote in history by misdirecting the German tanks and accelerating the liberation of Paris by two days, and you could argue that ever since he has been making sure that other people get t... less info

Dominique Lapierre was one of the pioneers of the subjective news story, a man who was never afraid to put himself, both physically and emotionally, at the heart of his reports. It is a style that ... more info

"Winter 1970, Daly City, California--I'm alone. I'm hungry and I'm shivering in the dark. I sit on the top of my hands at the bottom of the stairs in the garage. My head is tilted backward. My hands became numb hours ago. My neck and shoulder muscles begin to throb. But that's nothing new--I've learned to turn off the pain. I'm Mother's prisoner." In The Lost Boy, the sequel to Dave Pelzer's bestselling A Child Called It, Dave recounts the final days with his "family" befo... less info

"Winter 1970, Daly City, California--I'm alone. I'm hungry and I'm shivering in the dark. I sit on the top of my hands at the bottom of the stairs in the garage. My head is tilted backward. My... more info

The Brahmaputra is one of Asia's longest rivers, and tracing its course from Tibet to Bangladesh is perhaps "the last great Asian adventure". Undeterred, Mark Shand set out to do just that, and River Dog tells of his journey accompanied by Indian friends and a dog called Bhaiti. Shand's previous book, Travels on My Elephant, told of travelling in India by elephant; after this experience, he writes, he could not imagine travelling without an animal. Enter Bhaiti--the true hero of Ri... less info

The Brahmaputra is one of Asia's longest rivers, and tracing its course from Tibet to Bangladesh is perhaps "the last great Asian adventure". Undeterred, Mark Shand set out to do just tha... more info

David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care but not to David, her son, whom she referred to as "an It". This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, ... less info

David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care but not to David, her son, whom she referred to as... more info

Desire of the Everlasting Hills is another present from the pen of Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews. In this, the third volume of the bestselling Hinges of History series, he knits together history, politics, sociology, and faith with contemporary insights that yield remarkable results. After painting with broad brush strokes an entertaining picture of the Greek, Jewish, and Roman world, Cahill focuses on Jesus. With illuminating deductions ... less info

Desire of the Everlasting Hills is another present from the pen of Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews. In this, the third volume of the bestselling... more info

I Am the Central Park Jogger tells the real-life story of a young woman who was brutally assaulted and raped while jogging in New York's Central Park in April of 1989,. The attack captured headlines around the world as the anonymous "Central Park Jogger" fought to recover from massive injuries that left her near death. Fourteen years later, in this first-person account, Trisha Meifi breaks her silence to discuss the incident in her own words and reveal who she was before the attack ... less info

I Am the Central Park Jogger tells the real-life story of a young woman who was brutally assaulted and raped while jogging in New York's Central Park in April of 1989,. The attack captured headline... more info

To say that Baloney is extraordinarily different would be a gross understatement. To begin with, Baloney wasn't written: it was received and decoded by John Scieszka and cisual recreation was undertaken by Lane Smith. Henry P Baloney, the Alien, is late for school and when asked by his teacher, Miss Bugscuffle, for an explanation, he proceeds to give an account which includes losing his "Zimulis", an encounter with a "Razzo" and saving himself from a "Zerplatzen"... less info

To say that Baloney is extraordinarily different would be a gross understatement. To begin with, Baloney wasn't written: it was received and decoded by John Scieszka and cisual recreation was under... more info

The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman's account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now... less info

The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German sh... more info

There are people who have a story to tell and then there are storytellers. Jonathan Lethem is a storyteller as Gun, with Occasional Music clearly shows--but he's also a craftsman and it's the latter quality that is on display in this, his first novel, though not the first in print in the UK. In previously available (but later) works, Lethem's craftsmanship has come into its own: like Don DeLillo or film maker Hal Hartley, he's a master of characters in absurd situations, as well as absurd cha... less info

There are people who have a story to tell and then there are storytellers. Jonathan Lethem is a storyteller as Gun, with Occasional Music clearly shows--but he's also a craftsman and it's the latte... more info

In 1992 John Hare talked himself onto a Russian-Mongolian expedition into the Gobi desert as their hastily appointed "expert" on the wild Bactrian camel, one of the most endangered species on the planet. Hare was no camel expert, but four expeditions into the wastelands of the Gobi desert and seven years later, Hare has miraculously persuaded the Chinese authorities to establish a massive nature sanctuary to prevent what looked like the inevitable extinction of this particularly eni... less info

In 1992 John Hare talked himself onto a Russian-Mongolian expedition into the Gobi desert as their hastily appointed "expert" on the wild Bactrian camel, one of the most endangered specie... more info

In 1992 John Hare talked himself onto a Russian-Mongolian expedition into the Gobi desert as their hastily appointed "expert" on the wild Bactrian camel, one of the most endangered species on the planet. Hare was no camel expert, but four expeditions into the wastelands of the Gobi desert and seven years later, Hare has miraculously persuaded the Chinese authorities to establish a massive nature sanctuary to prevent what looked like the inevitable extinction of this particularly eni... less info

In 1992 John Hare talked himself onto a Russian-Mongolian expedition into the Gobi desert as their hastily appointed "expert" on the wild Bactrian camel, one of the most endangered specie... more info

One of the many refreshing things about Barack Obama is his self-deprecating sense of humour. Responding to the unrealistic expectations for his presidency, Obama said 'I've been sent by my father from the planet Krypton to save the Earth.' Unfortunately, the irony of this self-comparison to Superman was probably lost on many of his dedicated followers, who clearly believe that - once in office - he can exercise a few super powers and rid the world of all its thronging ills, economic and othe... less info

One of the many refreshing things about Barack Obama is his self-deprecating sense of humour. Responding to the unrealistic expectations for his presidency, Obama said 'I've been sent by my father ... more info