It is hardly news that a growing number of people want to step back from the brink of western consumerism & find a way to live an all-round cleaner existence
- one that is not only easier on the physical body but one that is lighter on the conscience too. So how do we go about it? Most people fight shy of giving up their cars, or their toxic household products, their cheap washing machines, or dodgy, unethical bank accounts in order to make the world a better place but Leo Hickman, resident consumer expert of the Guardian, reckoned he should give it a try & report back on whether it is possible to live a life that is western but aware.
Leo's fumbling but hugely well-intentioned & increasingly successful efforts to do the right thing can't fail to involve, educate, inspire
- & amuse
- his readers.



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With his last-gasp victory as part of the Great British coxless four team at the Athens Olympics, Matthew Pinsent clinched an historic fourth Olympic Gold to add to the three already won with his legendary rowing partner Steve Redgrave. In an uniquely exciting & evocative autobiography, Pinsent interweaves the build-up to Athens 2004 with the extraordinary story of his career & unforgettable partnership with Redgrave. Plucked from obscurity at the age of 20, told to partner his hero, & trained to within an inch of his life, Pinsent's story is uniquely revealing about what it takes to be a champion & the mixed blessings of success. Culminating with a nail-biting final chapter detailing the team's extraordinary victory in Athens in blow-by-blow detail, A Lifetime in a Race is a sports book in a different mould. ...

How legitimate is it to impersonate Adolf Hitler at an office Christmas party? It is a question that German student Andreas Honig is forced to confront when he falls into a job as a lookalike in order to pay his way through university in the UK. Before he knows it, Andreas has been swept into a crazy world where ordinary people make their living by pretending to be famous. &, despite his reservations, he is kept there by his adoration for Rose, booking agent supreme & possibly the tallest woman in Engl&. As Rose struggles to make light of her ...

Beware Imitations! Mark Watson walks the tightrope of good taste in this deviously brilliant spoof of the seamier side of the 'entertainment industry'.

Rose & Andreas make an exceedingly odd couple in 1980s Cambridge: she is the fifth tallest woman in Britain & he is a penniless post-grad from Germany. But together they set up a lookalike agency with bizarre, & ultimately fatal, results.

Twenty years on, & Andreas is in prison. His days aren



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By turns funny, charming & sad, this is the story of a sensitive & sickly lad's northern working-class childhood, of a loving mother who kept him off school because of his asthma, of how he washed up in hotels by night to fund studying at RADA by day & would often be found asleep in class. Rodney also tells of laddish behaviour in swinging London, how he climbed Big Ben to hang a pair of knickers on the hand of the clock, his troubled relationship with Likely Lads co-star James Bolam & many celebrity stories, featuring Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Rod Steiger, Jimmy Nail & Mel Smith. ...