Dominic is an ordinary boy with an appetite for magic & a rather extraordinary sidekick- his magical top hat, the Topper. The two of them live happily, but when Great Aunt Rowena comes to stay things begin to go awry. Rowena has plans of her own for the Topper, & she's not going to give in without a fight.
This begins a new strand of publishing for Dominic Wood, master magician & TV star. Dominic is an endearing character & his adventures with the Topper are bound to delight young readers. & there's even a magic trick to learn at the end of the book
- to keep those young magicians happy.

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A fabulous, glossy, pre-teen look, star-rated, step-by-step instructions & countless photographs of dashing Dominic make this the ultimate magic book for young enthusiasts. With tricks such as Mind Reader, Secret Vision & Floating Fruit, top tips for a polished performance & a run down of the greatest magicians in history no budding magician will be able to resist! -Dominic attracts the highest ratings of all the presenters on the CBBC links & his fanbase is growing in strength, setting up this book for magic sales this Christmas! ...

Quick, fun tricks to impress friends & family in a great new pocket-sized format
- & at a pocket-money price too! With tricks
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A fabulous, glossy, pre-teen look, star-rated, step-by-step instructions & countless photographs of dashing Dominic make this the ultimate Halloween magic book for young enthusiasts. With scary tricks such as Dead Man's Finger, Spooky Hanky, Ghostly Coin & many more, as well as top tips for a polished performance. No budding magician will be able to resist this wonderful opportunity to spook their friends! Dominic attracts the highest ratings of all the presenters on the CBBC links & his fanbase is growing in strength, setting up this book for magic sales this Christmas! ...

After meeting the mysterious & beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera company fifty years before. But Cautley also meets the eminent painter Sir Endymion Starker that same evening & his mistress, Eleanora, who has another tragic tale to tell, one that will have George unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano- ...

Enchanted by the landscape & people of Spain, Maugham had long resolved to write a picaresque novel about the country. Instead, he wrote a living commentary assessing a great people in their greatest hour. DON FERNANDO, considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, is a paean to Spain's golden age of enormous creative energy. Beginning with the vivid tale of Loyola's life & conversion, it discusses the writings of St Teresa & the painting of El Greco, & comment with sagacity & wit on such illustrious figures as Cervantes, Luis de Lyon, Lope de Vega, Velasquez & the creator of Don Juan. DON FERNANDO is full of happy surprises, curious facts & stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong love & admiration for Spanish culture & civilisation. ...

Don Mc Cullin is one of the greatest photographers of conflict in our time. This book was conceived on a grand scale that does justice to his extraordinary life & the events he has witnessed. It forms one of the great documents of the latter part of the last century.

The book begins & ends in the Somerset landscape that surrounds Mc Cullin's home, but the whole sequence of more than two hundred photographs encompasses a ravaged northern Engl&, war in Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, Beirut & riots in Derry. The climax of the book is among the cannibals & tribespeople deep in the jungles of Irian Jaya, where Mc Cullin focuses on humanity in an almost Stone Age condition.

The introduction by Harold Evans, the acclaimed newspaper editor & authority on photojournalism, is drawn from his long experience of working with Mc Cullin. The distinguished novelist & essayist, Susan Sontag, has contributed an essay on Mc Cullin & the role of witness to conflict
- a subject of timely pertinence.




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Don Mc Cullin's reputation stands as one of the greatest war photographers of our times. In recent years he has photographed the landscape surrounding his home in Somerset, but his later travels have taken him to some of the most remote regions in the world. His skill in photographing people in extreme situations has enabled him to mix with tribes on the edges of civilisation.

His work among the people of Irian Jaya, including cannibals, appeared in his last book, Don Mc Cullin. Mc Cullin's new work in Africa reaches one of the last corners of the earth where signs of outside influence are few, though they appear ominously significant. Over the last two years Don Mc Cullin has travelled south from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to the valley of the Omo River leading down to the border with Sudan. There he has entered the tribal lands of the Surma, the Gheleb, the Bume, the Erbore, the Bene, the Bodi, the Karo, the Hamar & the Mursi. Extraordinary body paints decorate many of their bodies. Metalwork adorns their limbs, &, in the case of the Mursi, huge circular plates extend their lower lips & piercings open up large holes in their ear lobes. Ritualistic stick battles are enacted with ferocity. Rifles & machine guns are often cradled in the hands of warriors. The violence Mc Cullin witnessed was staged but real dangers were close.

African tribespeople can present another face of the exotic to those of us in modern, developed cultures, especially if the photography recognises nothing of their dignity but all of their exoticism. Mc Cullin knows too much to fall into that trap. Mc Cullin's subjects retain their dignity & also become heroic. We, the viewers, can be amazed by their strength & beauty, & all the more so because Mc Cullin's compassionate photography enables us to understand their vulnerability. Mc Cullin's photographs will be prefaced by extracts from his diaries.



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Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, & one of the funniest & most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha & his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read Don Quixote. ...