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Comedians are a funny lot. To be sure, most of them, most nights, are a dab hand at the old 'funny ha ha'. But what we the audience prefer (too often?), is an unexplainable bout of 'funny peculiar'. Cannon And Ball do not disappoint.In the 1980s Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball (surprisingly, not their real surnames) were very famous indeed. 1960's life in an Oldham factory had given way to a 70's merry-go-round of working men's clubs, pantomimes, and summer seasons at the Blackpool Pavilion. It w... less info

Comedians are a funny lot. To be sure, most of them, most nights, are a dab hand at the old 'funny ha ha'. But what we the audience prefer (too often?), is an unexplainable bout of 'funny peculiar'... more info

Owen Sheers, already picked out as poetry's bright hope by poet laureate Andrew Motion, reveals with The Dust Diaries that he is also a dab hand at biography, travel writing and fiction--all in one gripping book. A stray comment from his grandmother one summer afternoon whets his interest in her uncle--a poet called Arthur Shearly Cripps--and the more Sheers finds out, the more Cripps and his life intrigues him. Gradually, a fragmentary portrait emerges of this distant relative who left Engla... less info

Owen Sheers, already picked out as poetry's bright hope by poet laureate Andrew Motion, reveals with The Dust Diaries that he is also a dab hand at biography, travel writing and fiction--all in one... more info

Pages: 320, Paperback, Dabs Press less info

Pages: 320, Paperback, Dabs Press

Pages: 9, Pamphlet, Directory And Book Services (DABS) less info

Pages: 9, Pamphlet, Directory And Book Services (DABS)

Pages: 452, Edition: 3rd Edition, Hardcover, WileyBlackwell less info

Pages: 452, Edition: 3rd Edition, Hardcover, WileyBlackwell

Many of the tales in Toby Litt's collection Exhibitionism are "sexual comedies"; and Litt has that rarest of literary gifts: an ability to write about sex in an unsentimental, non-pornographic, un-cringe-making way. His stories are honest, amusing, stylish and eloquent. "Alphabed" is particularly striking and insightful: it's an A to Z of dying sexual passion which spares neither blushes nor expletives as it dissects the decay inherent in carnality. Similarly, "On Th... less info

Many of the tales in Toby Litt's collection Exhibitionism are "sexual comedies"; and Litt has that rarest of literary gifts: an ability to write about sex in an unsentimental, non-pornogr... more info

What is A Handful of Beans? Six classics in one book: "Rumpelstiltskin", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hansel and Gretel", "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Frog Prince" and "Jack and the Beanstalk". As retold by Jeanne Steig, however, these well-loved tales acquire a certain modern vim. For example, the greedy King in Rumpelstiltskin is "as happy as a hog with a herring" to see all his straw spun into gold. The mother of Beanstalk... less info

What is A Handful of Beans? Six classics in one book: "Rumpelstiltskin", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hansel and Gretel", "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Fro... more info

Pages: 24, Paperback, Dorling Kindersley Publishing less info

Pages: 24, Paperback, Dorling Kindersley Publishing

The Druid King is another addition to this thriving post-Gladiator historical-action novel sub-genre. It is 60 BC and Julius Caesar has much of the world in his grasp as his armies march relentlessly onwards. Key to his strategy is the defeat of Gaul, but Caesar had not expected the resistance he faces from one man known as Vercingetorix, a great warrior who lived in exile after the death of his father and studied magic with the Druids of the forest. After becoming the sovereign he attempts t... less info

The Druid King is another addition to this thriving post-Gladiator historical-action novel sub-genre. It is 60 BC and Julius Caesar has much of the world in his grasp as his armies march relentless... more info

Comedians are a funny lot. To be sure, most of them, most nights, are a dab hand at the old 'funny ha ha'. But what we the audience prefer (too often?), is an unexplainable bout of 'funny peculiar'. Cannon And Ball do not disappoint.In the 1980s Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball (surprisingly, not their real surnames) were very famous indeed. 1960's life in an Oldham factory had given way to a 70's merry-go-round of working men's clubs, pantomimes, and summer seasons at the Blackpool Pavilion. It w... less info

Comedians are a funny lot. To be sure, most of them, most nights, are a dab hand at the old 'funny ha ha'. But what we the audience prefer (too often?), is an unexplainable bout of 'funny peculiar'... more info

The first collection of poetry for young readers by the unmatchable Carol Ann Duffy is triumphantly uncondescending and unpatronising. While there are moments of exquisite light verse silliness--like the sadly-overtaken-by-TV-scheduling-changes "Ben" (no. 5 in the short sequence, "Boys"): I'm big bigger than fifty men. I go Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! on News at Ten. These are real poems, alive with spot-on, sophisticated imagery. As in ... less info

The first collection of poetry for young readers by the unmatchable Carol Ann Duffy is triumphantly uncondescending and unpatronising. While there are moments of exquisite light verse silliness--li... more info

Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle is way up there on the list of classic English literature and has, since its first publication back in the 1920s, captured the imagination and affection of generations of children across the globe. The remarkable tales of the doctor who can talk to the animals are as captivating today as they ever were, and have lost none of the mystery and enchantment that made them so popular from the beginning. This delightful, colour-illustrated edition of The Story of Doc... less info

Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle is way up there on the list of classic English literature and has, since its first publication back in the 1920s, captured the imagination and affection of generation... more info

Elsa Petersen-Schepelern is an absolute dab at finding new twists to familiar themes. In Finger Food she turns her attention to canapés, so often restricted by limitations of time or imagination to limp rounds of toast smeared with pink, beige or green slurry. Not here. Finger Food offers a fantastic range of smart party foods in all shapes and forms, as well as some winningly original ideas about presentation and serving. There is a good deal of sensible advice about preparation, timing, qua... less info

Elsa Petersen-Schepelern is an absolute dab at finding new twists to familiar themes. In Finger Food she turns her attention to canapés, so often restricted by limitations of time or imagination to... more info

Many of the tales in Toby Litt's collection Exhibitionism are "sexual comedies"; and Litt has that rarest of literary gifts: an ability to write about sex in an unsentimental, non-pornographic, un-cringe-making way. His stories are honest, amusing, stylish and eloquent. "Alphabed" is particularly striking and insightful: it's an A to Z of dying sexual passion which spares neither blushes nor expletives as it dissects the decay inherent in carnality. Similarly, "On Th... less info

Many of the tales in Toby Litt's collection Exhibitionism are "sexual comedies"; and Litt has that rarest of literary gifts: an ability to write about sex in an unsentimental, non-pornogr... more info

Pages: 26, Hardcover, Dab Pub Co less info

Pages: 26, Hardcover, Dab Pub Co

Owen Sheers, already picked out as poetry's bright hope by poet laureate Andrew Motion, reveals with The Dust Diaries that he is also a dab hand at biography, travel writing and fiction--all in one gripping book. A stray comment from his grandmother one summer afternoon whets his interest in her uncle--a poet called Arthur Shearly Cripps--and the more Sheers finds out, the more Cripps and his life intrigues him. Gradually, a fragmentary portrait emerges of this distant relative who left Engla... less info

Owen Sheers, already picked out as poetry's bright hope by poet laureate Andrew Motion, reveals with The Dust Diaries that he is also a dab hand at biography, travel writing and fiction--all in one... more info

Pages: 496, Paperback, Dabs Press less info

Pages: 496, Paperback, Dabs Press

The Druid King is another addition to this thriving post-Gladiator historical-action novel sub-genre. It is 60 BC and Julius Caesar has much of the world in his grasp as his armies march relentlessly onwards. Key to his strategy is the defeat of Gaul, but Caesar had not expected the resistance he faces from one man known as Vercingetorix, a great warrior who lived in exile after the death of his father and studied magic with the Druids of the forest. After becoming the sovereign he attempts t... less info

The Druid King is another addition to this thriving post-Gladiator historical-action novel sub-genre. It is 60 BC and Julius Caesar has much of the world in his grasp as his armies march relentless... more info