' The only plan right now is to kill everybody' Joey Jordison, drummer Ignoring every rule in the book & more besides, Slipknot are a notoriously controversial band who combine a talent for outrage with their music. Reminiscent of the outlandishness of punk, 'nu metal' has become the fastest growing area in rock, with Slipknot selling over 2 million copies of their debut album. & yet Slipknot spit, swear & risk injury night after night in their extraordinary live performances. Incredibly, their apparel of masks & boiler suits, which they refuse to remove, means that their fans still do not know what they look like. Jason Arnopp, the first British journalist to interview Slipknot face to mask, describes the transformation of the Des Moines crew into unorthodox mega stars. Featuring an introduction by the legendary Gene Simmons of Kiss, this biography will be the first published on the band either in the UK or America & will include exclusive interviews & in-depth information on the mysterious nine masked men. ...

Penny Birch assembles her famous cast of naughty girls for a slippery & messy week of fun. Gabrielle, the mischievous Poppy, & their nurse Sabina (from Naughty, Naughty) receive a gift from Monty Hartle of one week at an SM boot camp in Wales. Gabrielle if doubtful, but Poppy & Sabrina are keen, so they go. The camp turns out to be a converted home hired for the purpose, & is run by Mistress Kimiko, a poisonous individual with a serious uniform fetish. According to the rules Mistress Kimiko has absolute authority, save for the mysterious Master. The girls are assigned to the kitchens, which is asking for trouble... ...

For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete transformation for himself & his future. It was the year in which the American War of Independence changed to an all-out struggle for freedom from British rule
- & the year when Bolitho took command of the Sparrow, a small, fast & well-armed sloop of war.

As the pace of war increased, the Sparrow was called from one crisis to another
- & when the great fleets of Britain & France convened on the Chesapeake, Bolitho had to throw aside the early dreams of his first command to find maturity in a sea battle that might decide the fate of a whole continent.



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Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 & 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent ...

Slow Loris was a slow loris & he was very slow. He lived in a zoo. The visitors thought him boring. The other animals did too. ' It took Loris ten minutes to eat a satsuma... twenty minutes to get from one end of his branch to the other... and an hour to scratch his bottom. But Slow Loris didn't care. He had a secret... ...

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully & efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, & for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life & the affairs of his heart. Unflinching in its vision of suffering & generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers. ...

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully & efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, & for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life & the affairs of his heart. Unflinching in its vision of suffering & generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers. ...

Rubina Ali doesn't know when her birthday is & she's never eaten chips or pizza. She lives in a rat-infested slum in Mumbai. But after being picked from hundreds of children to star in the multi-Oscar winning film, Slumdog Millionaire, nine-year-old Rubina's life will never be the same again.

This is the true story of how her dreams of being a world-famous actress actually came true. But once her fairy-tale of film sets, parties & Oscars is over, what comes next for Rubina? Can she return to life as normal?

Royalties from this book will be shared with the author & Medecins du Monde in India.



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