No one can deny the impact that Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell has made. His acerbic put-downs & witty one-liners have sparked ...

No one can deny the impact that Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell has made. His acerbic put-downs & witty one-liners have sparked ...

The Little Princess hates having her hair combed. There are always tangles & it always hurts! When the King agrees to put her in charge of combing, she makes sure that everyone in the castle has beautifully combed hair, but she leaves her own until last...with disastrous consequences. ...

Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter & director Nora Ephron turns her sharp powers of observation back onto herself in these autobiographical essays as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation. Filled with wickedly witty autobiographical pieces like 'I Hate My Handbag', ' Blind as a Bat' & ' What I Wish I'd Known', this book offers the consolation that no matter how much your neck sags, your boobs droop, your skin wrinkles & your children don't appreciate you, someone has been there before you.

Nora Ephron captrues the essence of what it means to be a grumpy old woman, in a laugh-out-loud funny, frank & unexpectedly moving book that will be an irresistible treat for any woman who reads it.

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Allegra Taylor has journeyed throughout the world in a quest to understand how healing works. She chronicles her own gradual acquisition of healing skills as she explores a whole range methods & ideas.

She discovers that the healer is essentially a catalyst, not a magician. That health is much more than mere absence of disease. That the power to heal is one face of the power to love. That anyone can do it.

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Originally intended to be a simple Christmas humour book, I Fought The Law ended up becoming something rather different. The premise was simple enough. Dan was going to spend a year trying to break as many stupid old laws as he could find, for your amusement. You see there are loads of ridiculous laws on the statute book...

It is still illegal to beat a carpet in the Metropolitan Police District, to take possession of a beached whale or to get within a hundred yards of the Queen without wearing socks. The list goes on & on. But in the process of researching these silly old laws Dan found a glut of stupid legislation that was equally ridiculous, but these laws had one thing in common
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