The first official trivia collection from Britain's best-loved radio drama.

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The first official trivia collection from Britain's best-loved radio drama.

Have you ever wondered about the attractions at

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The Success Through the Zodiac Series goes far beyond the Sun signs to provide penetrating & eerily accurate insights into readers' person-alities. In addition to an in-depth analysis of the Sun sign, the mean-ings, motivations & characteristic behaviours of the Moon, Mercury & Venus signs are presented in detail, something that has never been done before in popular astrology. This throws light on individuals' em-otional needs, distinctive learning styles & relationship patterns which may be quite different from the traits of the Sun sign. Often light-hearted but never lightweight, the lucid & entertaining style of writing makes the profound wisdom of astrology, psychology & spirituality readily accessible to the popular market without compromising meaning or depth. Individual books for each sign of the zodiac help readers to under-stand & make sense of their sometimes confusing & often conflict-ing character traits as well as helping them to accept & appreciate themselves better. The darker, more difficult, & often disliked, parts of the personality are seen not as shameful, but as life chall-enges & essential material for the business of living wisely & well. ...

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition & a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he posited of constant & chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos, 'of a person or thing, the best or most excellent its kind'.' What I was really trying to define was an ideal of human freedom (the Aristos) in an unfree world, ' wrote Fowles in 1965. He called a materialistic & over-conforming culture to reckoning with his views on a myriad of subjects
- pleasure & pain, beauty & ugliness, Christianity, humanism, existentialism, socialism
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so having weighed the pros & cons you've decided to approach your boss to ask for that well-earned raise in salary but before you schedule the all-important meeting you decide to dip into this handy volume in the hope of finding some valuable tips but instead find a hilarious, mind-bending farcical account of all the many different things that may or may not happen on the journey to see your boss which uses no punctuation or capitalisation & certainly no full stops.

Georges Perec famously wrote a whole novel without using the letter 'e'. Now, in this playful short novel, brilliantly translated by David Bellos, Perec once again dispenses with the normal rules for literary compostion, with similarly pyrotechnic results.

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