Someone is stealing teddies. But who could it be?

Who is the Teddy Robber?

When Tom's own teddy is snatched in the



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* V.S. Ramachandran has exploded the boundaries of modern science
- so much so that he has been praised by Richard Dawkins as a
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* V.S. Ramachandran has exploded the boundaries of modern science
- so much so that he has been praised by Richard Dawkins as a
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We all know how it works: first you go to School, then you go to University, & then you enter Real Life. & that's the important bit. Real Life is about achievement, recognition, choices. It's about a boss who trusts you, a wardrobe that suits you, friends who support you & a relationship that fulfils you. It`s a mobile phone, an expense account, a company car & a place to park it. Happily Ever After.

Unforunately, Real Life isn't working that way for The Temp. She's managed the university bit, but the job, the dough & the happily-ever-after seem harder than anybody ever told her. Living in Stockwell while she moves through a series of jobs ranging from the horrifying mindless to the bemusingly witless to the simply extraordinary, she realises that something isn't right.

Who cares about a boss who trusts you? She'd settle for a boss who knows her name. This can't be Real Life, can it?

Building on the success of her INDEPENDENT column, Serena Mackesy has created a wonderfully witty, acerbic exposé of office anthropology & a genuinely moving story about the early-twenties doldrums.





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We all know how it works: first you go to School, then you go to University, & then you enter Real Life. & that's the important bit. Real Life is about achievement, recognition, choices. It's about a boss who trusts you, a wardrobe that suits you, friends who support you & a relationship that fulfils you. It`s a mobile phone, an expense account, a company car & a place to park it. Happily Ever After.

Unforunately, Real Life isn't working that way for The Temp. She's managed the university bit, but the job, the dough & the happily-ever-after seem harder than anybody ever told her. Living in Stockwell while she moves through a series of jobs ranging from the horrifying mindless to the bemusingly witless to the simply extraordinary, she realises that something isn't right.

Who cares about a boss who trusts you? She'd settle for a boss who knows her name. This can't be Real Life, can it?

Building on the success of her INDEPENDENT column, Serena Mackesy has created a wonderfully witty, acerbic exposé of office anthropology & a genuinely moving story about the early-twenties doldrums.





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In this enthralling historical detective story, the authors of The Holy Blood & the Holy Grail trace the flight after 1309 of the Knights Templar from Europe to Scotl&, where the Templar heritage was to take root, & would be perpetuated by a network of noble families. That heritage, & the Freemasonry that arose from it, became inseparable from the Stuart cause. The Temple & the Lodge charts the birth of Freemasonry through the survival of Templar traditions, through currents of European thought, through the mystery surrounding Rosslyn chapel, & through an elite cadre of aristocrats attached as personal bodyguards to the French king. Pursuing Freemasonry through the 17th & 18th Centuries, Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh reveal its contribution to the fostering of tolerance, progressive values, & cohesion in English society, which helped to pre-empt a French-style revolution. Even more dramatically, the influence of Freemasonry emerges as key facto in the formation of the United States of America as an embodiment of the ideal ' Masonic Republic'. ...

Famously, Jane Austen created a fictional universe for 'three or four families in a country village'. In this remarkable first novel James Fleming achieves something very similar: out of the relationships of two men & one woman in Derbyshire in 1788 he has created a fiction that bears comparison with the great novelists of the nineteenth century. Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Edward covets Daisy, Anthony's wife. On such simple foundations, James Fleming builds a novel of extraordinary richness, at once a wholly convincing representation of an eighteenth-century world & an utterly modern dissection of two of mankind's most powerful passions: greed & love ...

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. This powerful story of dedication & sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion & national history to dazzling effect. ...

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. This powerful story of dedication & sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion & national history to dazzling effect. ...

Generally regarded both in Japan & in the West as his most successful novel, THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION brings together all Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life & the history of his own nation. Based on actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple, the novel is both a vivid narrative & a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period. ...