A swanky new gym has opened in leafy south-west London. Four women bond over push ups & Pilates & become firm friends.

Percy

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A swanky new gym has opened in leafy south-west London. Four women bond over push ups & Pilates & become firm friends.

Percy

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In Gypsy Magic, Romany author Patrinella Cooper shares some of the amazing Gypsy secrets that are passed down from generation ...

Royd is convinced that his friend, Gark, has everything. He's just got a space pod & he's allowed to go to Mars whenever ...

Katie is fifteen, & in the library of all places on a hot August day. She is searching the WLTM (would like to meet) columns for a partner- not for herself but for her mum. & it is this search which forms the basis of a wonderful new romantic comedy from this fine writer. ...

When G4 appeared on our television screens on the X Factor
- they were instantly different. All of them had spent years training
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In Gaelic Football's Top 20, the greatest legends in Gaelic football history are exclusively profiled in what is a star-studded companion to the RTE radio series. Among the interviewees are Kerry legend Mick O' Connell & Galway's Sen Purcell, who vividly recount Gaelic football's golden age in the 1950s & '60s, while Sen O' Neill describes Down's historic breakthrough in 1960. The great Kerry teams of the '70s & '80s are also represented by stars including Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Jack O' Shea, John Egan & Eoin Liston, while Dublin's Jimmy Keaveney & Brian Mullins assess their most memorable battles with the Kerry giants. Elsewhere in the book, Larry Tompkins & Billy Morgan revisit Cork's matches with Meath in the late '80s & early '90s, Meath's Colm O' Rourke & Martin O' Connell offer their view of the contests & Offaly are represented by Matt Connor. Donegal's Martin Mc Hugh & Derry's Anthony Tohill remember their breakthroughs, unlike Mayo's Willie Joe Padden & Sligo's Mickey Kearins, who instead describe the pain of their counties' near misses. On a different note, Enda Colleran recalls Galway's famous three-in-a-row in the '60s. Gaelic Football's Top 20 is crammed with anecdotes of the great contests & controversies that have dominated Gaelic football in the last half a century. Offering rare insights & behind-the-scenes analysis, it is essential reading for all fans of Ireland's most popular sport. ...

Don Silver, the Vice President of Comedy at Mercury Studios, is in very deep trouble indeed. He's been behind so many disastrous pilots that he's earned the nickname ' Buddy Holly'. If he doesn't find a hit sitcom
- & fast
- it'll be goodbye to the bourbon, broads & BMWs of his Beverly Hills lifestyle & he'll be out on his (freshly irrigated) arse.

Award-winning comedy writer, Melvin Medford, has a plan to help Don out. So he's nerdier than Bill Gates in a Red Dwarf T-shirt at a Terry Pratchett signing; so he hasn't pitched an idea in ages; so his plan borders on the psychotic, no matter, at least he has a plan...

Which is where Ben Busby comes in. A young British comic, simply gagging to break into television, he's just met two Americans who seem very keen on hiring him. Ben's beside himself with excitement.

However, Melvin's beside him with a gun...

In the million-dollar world of the American sitcom, you could die laughing. No joke.









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Richard Powers' novel is a fascinating & profound exploration of the interaction of an individual human life & a corporate one. It tells two stories: the first that of an American company, which starts as a small family soap & candle-making firm in the early 1800s, & ends as a vast pharmaceuticals-to-pesticides combine in the 1990s. The second is that of a contemporary woman, living in the company town, who during the course of the novel is diagnosed & then finally dies of cancer, a cancer that is almost certainly caused by exposure to chemical wastes from the company's factories.

Richly intellectually stimulating, deeply moving & beautifully written, Gain is very much a ' Great American Novel', an exploration of the history, uniqueness & soul of America, in the tradition of Underworld. But it is most reminiscent of Graham Swift's Waterland, another novel that combines history, both public & private, with contemporary lives, showing how individuals are both the victims & shapers of large-scale historical & economic forces

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Richard Powers' novel is a fascinating & profound exploration of the interaction of an individual human life & a corporate one. It tells two stories: the first that of an American company, which starts as a small family soap & candle-making firm in the early 1800s, & ends as a vast pharmaceuticals-to-pesticides combine in the 1990s. The second is that of a contemporary woman, living in the company town, who during the course of the novel is diagnosed & then finally dies of cancer, a cancer that is almost certainly caused by exposure to chemical wastes from the company's factories.

Richly intellectually stimulating, deeply moving & beautifully written, Gain is very much a ' Great American Novel', an exploration of the history, uniqueness & soul of America, in the tradition of Underworld. But it is most reminiscent of Graham Swift's Waterland, another novel that combines history, both public & private, with contemporary lives, showing how individuals are both the victims & shapers of large-scale historical & economic forces

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