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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Mealtimes can often be a battleground between parents & kids. As a parent you want your child to have a healthy, nutritious & tasty diet, but persuading them it's a good idea is a different matter! Annabel Karmel is here to convert even the fussiest of fussy eaters & make the family meal fun again.

With 120 recipes covering everything from breakfasts to suppers to parties, Annabel gives tips & advice on improving your children's diet & encouraging new tastes. She suggests way of sneaking hidden vegetables into familiar foods such as quesadillas & focaccia pizzas, & offers a healthy take on fast-food favourites like chicken nuggets with dips & sticky barbecue ribs. There's plenty to tempt children of all ages, including pork & peanut noodles, tuna melts, cupcakes & ice creams. & for those children with food intolerances, there is a whole chapter of recipes covering dairy-free sauces, gluten-free pizzas & a wheat-free birthday cake.

Annabel has a proven track record in creating delicious, nutritious food to tempt even the most stubborn of fussy eaters. Plus with general advice on how best to cope with fussy-eating behaviours & improve mealtimes, this is more than just a recipe book



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Fodor's experts have travelled thousands of miles in search of the perfect guidebook, & along the way have learned much about how to travel hassle-free
- this book reveals their secrets. The guide gives advice which is clear-cut, easy-to-follow, & authoritative. It

Includes:: up-to-date information, real-life anecdotes, questions & answers, & important contacts & resources
- all in a handy pocket-sized guide for quick & easy reference.



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From debt-collecting to running doormen, Dave Courtney has been a legend in London criminal circles since the days of the Kray's. In this the thrilling third instalment of his autobiography Dave shares his stories of the last few years
- the trials (both in court & out) the tribulations & the laughs.

Having narrowly survived a near-fatel car crash, & spent months in a coma. Dave swears someone, somewhere is out to kill him. While he speculates about possible suspects & their motives, & the effect of the crash on his marriage & family, he also travels around the world with his film Hell To Pay, meets mafia in Sicily, does a whistlestop tour of New York & Las Vegas.


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