In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother. In FUNNY BOY we follow the life of the family through Arjie's eyes, as he comes to terms both with his own homo-sexuality & with the racism of the society in which he lives. In the north of Sri Lanka there is a war going on between the army & the Tamil Tigers, & gradually it begins to encroach on the family's comfortable life. Sporadic acts of violence flare into full scale riots & lead, ultimately, to tragedy. Written in clear, simple prose, Syam Selvadurai's first novel is masterly in its mingling of the personal & political. ...

Over 2, 000 sporting funnies from every sport: football, rugby, cricket, golf, boxing,
snooker & beyond...

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Little Zeb is being funny. Little Hippo & Little Piggy think they can be even funnier. However, being funny can be very noisy, & when their laughter wakes up Big Gorilla it looks like they are in BIG trouble. Little Zeb soon realizes they will have to be tip-top funny to have any hope of escape... Another warm, endearing story about the much-loved baby zebra. ...

In Fur Shui Paula takes readers on a light-hearted romp through the application of the ancient & venerable universal laws of energy drawn from The Black Hat School of Feng Shui & how they relate to the furry folk world of pets & animals. This primer introduces a new branch of animal Feng Shui that she calls 'fur shui' & offers insight into how Black Hat Feng Shui translates into Black Cat Fur Shui.

A delightfully illustrated guide to animal energies, Fur Shui features helpful charts as well as information on fur elementals & cycles, fur chi dos & don'ts & do-it-yourself tips on moving back into positive fur chi flow & balance. It's a charming look at the flow of energy in animals & how we can apply this knowledge in fun yet practical ways.

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What do Postman Pat, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom & George Best have in common with being abandoned in a Costa Rican jungle after a severe bout of flatulence? Indeed how are they connected to trying to buy an Australian brewery just to get a beer, owning twenty-two cars, an American soccer team & Swiss mail-order pornography?

I suppose we have to come clean & volunteer the name of a certain keyboard genius called Mr Richard Wakeman (Rick to his thousands of chums). That said, you

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What do Postman Pat, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom & George Best have in common with being abandoned in a Costa Rican jungle after a severe bout of flatulence? Indeed, how are they also connected to trying to buy an Australian brewery just to get a beer, owning twenty-two cars, an American soccer team & a Swiss mail-order pornography company?

The common feature is of course a certain Richard Wakeman.

The Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star takes you, the privileged reader, on a trip of absurd excess, a cultural car crash of side-splitting hilarity & an unforgettable glimpse (again) into the life of one of Britain



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The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful & wildly romantic sequel to Tales of the City & ...

From one of the world's truly great writers, Fury is a wickedly brilliant & pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time & place been so intensely & accurately captured in a novel. Fury opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, , a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives looking, perversely, for escape. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of the hugely popular doll, Little Brain, whose multiform ubiquity
- as puppet, cartoon & masked woman
- now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating: it escalates into a rage-filled battle, & Solanka very nearly commits an unforgivable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees home & family & becomes a sort of spiritual mendicant
- except that he has a credit card & a duplex on the Upper West Side. Solanka discovers that he has come to a city Roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective & a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats & bone-deep resentments. His own thoughts, emotions & desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. Solanka's navigation of his new world makes for a hugely entertaining & compulsively readable novel. Fury is a pitiless comedy that lays bare the darkest side of human nature with spectacular insight & much glee.


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From one of the world's truly great writers, Fury is a wickedly brilliant & pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time & place been so intensely & accurately captured in a novel. Fury opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, , a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives looking, perversely, for escape. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of the hugely popular doll, Little Brain, whose multiform ubiquity
- as puppet, cartoon & masked woman
- now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating: it escalates into a rage-filled battle, & Solanka very nearly commits an unforgivable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees home & family & becomes a sort of spiritual mendicant
- except that he has a credit card & a duplex on the Upper West Side. Solanka discovers that he has come to a city Roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective & a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats & bone-deep resentments. His own thoughts, emotions & desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. Solanka's navigation of his new world makes for a hugely entertaining & compulsively readable novel. Fury is a pitiless comedy that lays bare the darkest side of human nature with spectacular insight & much glee.


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