Meet Mohan, a rhino with painfully sore feet.
And Patch, a falcon with a broken wishbone.
And Kachina, a bear cub with

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Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet & drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments & disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose & free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Miracles. Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted. ...

Strange things have been going on at Swafford Hall. Miracles, Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted Wallace. An old, sour, womanising, cantakerous, whiskey-sodden beast of a failed poet & drama critic, but he has his faults too. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS is remarkable & original, savagely comic & profoundly humane, celebrating the human spirit in a manner that will simultaneously shock, delight & inspire. Read by the author in this new, abridged version, THE HIPPOPOTAMUS hurtles towards a breathtaking climax. ...

' You can't expect an arse like me to tell a story competently. It's all I can bloody do to work this foul machine. I've counted up the words processed, a thing I do every hour &, if technology can be trusted, it looks as if you're in for 93, 682 of them. Good luck to you. You asked for it, you paid me for it, you've got to sit through it. ' So starts THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. A novel as surprising & entertaining as you would expect. ...

Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet & drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments & disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose & free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Miracles. Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted. ...

Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight & Bob Lomas into & extraordinary investigation of 4, 000 years of history. This astonishing bestseller raises questions that have challenged some of Western civilisation's most cherished beliefs: Were scrolls bearing the secret teachings of Jesus buried beneath Herod's Temple shortly before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman's? Did the Knights Templar, the forerunners of modern Freemasonry, excavate these scrolls in the twelfth century? & were these scrolls subsequently buried underneath a reconstruction of Herod's Temple, Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland
- where they are now awaiting excavation? The authors' discoveries shed a new light on Masonic ceremony & overturn out understanding of history.
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' At times, ' writes Golo Mann, 'the Germans seem a philosophical people, at others the most practical & most materialistic at times the most peaceful, at others the most domineering & brutal. Time after time they have surprised the world by things least expected of them. ' It is this quality of paradox, even of mystery, in the German nation that the distinguished historian renders with such subtlety & penetration in this celebrated study. THE HISTORY OF GERMANY SINCE 1789, which was revised & expanded for the English edition, is 'history in the round': it traces the whole sweep of intellectual development in Germany since the French Revolution. As well as chronicling historic events, the book deals in detail with the contributions of philosophers, poets & novelists alongside those of parliamentarians & generals. ...

The steel pan is the only musical instrument to have been invented in the 20th century.
The story begins in Trinidad, in the
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Tom Jones, born a foundling, grown into a gallant & irresistible hero, romps through the English countryside getting himself into all kinds of trouble through his good nature & eye for the ladies. Betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home & must undergo a variety of trials & adventures in his quest to be reunited with his one true love & redeem himself in the eyes of society.

One of the cleverest & funniest novels ever written, Tom Jones is Henry Fielding

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Tom Jones, born a foundling, grown into a gallant & irresistible hero, romps through the English countryside getting himself into all kinds of trouble through his good nature & eye for the ladies. Betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home & must undergo a variety of trials & adventures in his quest to be reunited with his one true love & redeem himself in the eyes of society.

One of the cleverest & funniest novels ever written, Tom Jones is Henry Fielding

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