The first two stories about the Animals of Farthing Wood have been brought together in one, value for your money bind-up. ...

Celebrity-watching is a global pastime: We want to know who did what, where & who they did it with.
Fascinating Celebrity Facts
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Fascism is one of the most destructive & influential political movements of the twentieth century. Its imagery-of mad dictators & nihilistic violence-haunts our imaginations, & its historical legacy is almost too momentous to be understood. At the same time it is curiously elusive: how do we define fascism? What is the basis of its appeal? Why did it take root so successfully in Germany & Italy, & not in France or Britain? Fascism: A History-a sweeping, enthralling study-tackles theses questions, & considers fascism in the round. It draws together its different strands, in Italy, Germany, France, & Britain, looking at its evolution up & during the Second World War; & it assesses post-war fascism, & examines its future in a Europe whose boundaries continue to change. Along the way, Fascism provides vivid portraits of Mussolini, Hitler, Oswald Mosley & other key figures within the movement. Lucid, dramatic, challenging, Fascism is a definitive book of its kind. ...

Fascism is one of the most destructive & influential political movements of the twentieth century. Its imagery-of mad dictators & nihilistic violence-haunts our imaginations, & its historical legacy is almost too momentous to be understood. At the same time it is curiously elusive: how do we define fascism? What is the basis of its appeal? Why did it take root so successfully in Germany & Italy, & not in France or Britain? Fascism: A History-a sweeping, enthralling study-tackles theses questions, & considers fascism in the round. It draws together its different strands, in Italy, Germany, France, & Britain, looking at its evolution up & during the Second World War; & it assesses post-war fascism, & examines its future in a Europe whose boundaries continue to change. Along the way, Fascism provides vivid portraits of Mussolini, Hitler, Oswald Mosley & other key figures within the movement. Lucid, dramatic, challenging, Fascism is a definitive book of its kind. ...

What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, & blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds & another thirty quid? Is the catwalk that catty? Is everyone high on drugs & full of champagne? What makes a supermodel so super? & a designer too hot to touch? Who is making the money? Who owns who? Who hates who? & who ...

The idea that the speed of light is a constant
- at 186, 000 miles per second
- is one of the few scientific facts that almost

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A wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions & prejudices, its noisy warmth & sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom & strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting & family life in India, or from self-denial & starvation in the US. Or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape & make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult, demanding but mostly, good-hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, like her sister's, or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. & in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all
- seems bewildering & terrifying to the young Indian adolescent far from home...
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THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK
- In one volume together with its bestselling sequel

When it was first published,


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THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK
- In one volume together with its bestselling sequel

When it was first published,


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When Troy (a hugely overweight social leper) befriends Curt (a skinny homeless punk guitar genius), they both get much more than they bargained for. Troy's macho brother & ex-Marine father think Curt is just a junkie loser
- but as Curt stopped Troy's suicide attempt, Troy can't just forget him. Curt recruits Troy as the new drummer in his punk band
- but Troy has never played the drums in his life. When Curt's around, though, almost anything seems possible. An outstanding, heart-warming, funny, edgy, debut novel.

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