Bill Oddie has been the voice & face of birding broadcasting for more than three decades Those of a certain age will fondly remember Bill as the shortest & hairiest of the trio of The Goodies a popular & long-running comedy series that followed hot on the heels of Monty Python After those heady days Bill reinvented himself as the face (and voice) of mainstream birdwatching in Britain He fronted television & radio programmes & wrote widely in the press on subjects close to his heart Never one to shirk controversy Bill&s writings were always informative & entertaining In this new book Bill has compiled & expanded a collection of his recent published musings about birds & birdwatching & the wildlife he has been fortunate to see on his many travels over the years The collection covers a wide array of subjects from a less than satisfactory press trip to the Galapgaos in the 1980s & recent disagreements with his London neighbours over the noisy squadrons of parakeets over their respective gardens to encounters with Orcas in Argentina & Iceland & with an invisible Tiger in India Writing in his witty & inimitable style Bill is sure to entertain & enthrall his many fans with this new book of thoughts & opinions on the world of natural history The book is illustrated throughout with Bill&s charming & comic line drawings ...

When Bill Oddie was growing up one of his favourite books was a collection of essays called The Bird-Lover&s Bedside Book His new book Bill Oddie Unplucked is just that sort of book It contains 50 of Bill&s essays magazines articles & blogs designed to be read in any order you want with each tale short enough to allow you to dip into something new every time you pick up the book whether you choose to read it in bed on the way to work during your lunch break in the doctor&s waiting room or on the loo Representing some of the very best of his writing & general musings of the last twenty years Bill Oddie Unplucked is generously illustrated with Bill&s own whimsical if artistically primitive drawings Inside these pages you&ll find tales of Bill trespassing in a nunnery being terrified by a Tiger wading in sewage paddling with dinosaurs slagging off the government & nearly drowning in both Costa Rica & the Seychelles There are of course some stories about birds ...

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ORCHESTRATED DEATHMiddle-class middle-aged & according to his partner menopausal Detective Inspector Bill Slider is never going to make it to the Yard Passed over for promotion again the last thing he needs in his life or on his patch is an unidentifiable naked female corpse A priceless Stradivarius & a giant tin of olive oil are the only clues in an investigation that takes the steely-eyed furry-headed detective all the way from the exotic backstreets of Shepherd's Bush to far-flung Birmingham DEATH WATCHWhen a noted womaniser dies in mysterious circumstances in a sleazy motel & the whole of his murky past comes to light DI Bill Slider begins to question more than whether the game is worth the candle Right is right & indivisible As soon as he's solved the motel mystery & found out what the Neary boys & Gorgeous George are up to Slider's going to have to start putting his own house in orders NECROCHIPDetective Superintendent ' George' Dickson's replacement by DS ' Mad Ivan' Barrington
- a new broom determined to sweep clean
- is all par for the course for DI Bill Slider as he faces the unhygienic fact of a dismembered corpse in a catering establishment But there are still niggling questions to distract him why didn't Barrington like Dickson? What is the mystery of the stake-out they once did together? & why is Slider's home life in almost perpetual stride?

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Bill Viola began producing video works in the early 1970s & since then has captivated audiences with his poignant & beautifully wrought interpretations of human experience He is today considered among the most celebrated proponents of the medium of video art This is the first monograph to chart Viola's career in full covering his education in New York his earliest major films of mirages in the Sahara desert & of hospital medical imagery his retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York 1997 & his recent installations in Venice New York Tokyo London & Berlin Hanhardt outlines the key visual literary & spiritual influences on Viola's work & his changing approach to the medium of film in response to technological advancement Woven into the discussion are illustrations of Viola's most significant works including Information (1973) The Passing (1991) The Greeting (1995) Going Forth by Day (2002) & Martyrs the 2014 film commissioned for St Paul's Cathedral in London as well as reproductions of Viola's sketches & notebooks that bring his working process to life Supplemented by a select chronology bibliography & list of public collections Bill Viola offers a rare & fascinating account of one of contemporary art's most powerful creative minds ...

Track Listings Disc 1 1 Use Me 2 Friend Of Mine 3 Ain't No Sunshine 4 Grandma's Hands 5 World Keeps Going Around 6 Let Me In Your Life 7 Better Off Dead 8 For My Friend 9 I Can't Write Left-Handed 10 Lean On Me 11 Lonely Town Lonely Street 12 Hope She'll Be Happier 13 Let Us Love 14 Medley Harlem Cold Baloney 15 Cold Baloney ...

Lovely Day Use Me Just the Two Of Us Lean On Me Ain&t No Sunshine I Don&t Know Who Is He (And Who Is He to You) Harlem Kissing My Love Hello Like Before Let Me Be The one You Need Watching You Watching Me In The Name Of Love Tender Things Lonely Town Lonely Street I Don&t Want You On my Mind Grandma&s Hands I Want To Spend The night Lovely Night For Dancing I Wish You Well ...

Track Li&115;ting Ain't No &83;un&115;hine Lovely Day Lean On Me Ju&115;t the Two of U&115; U&115;e Me Grandma'&115; Hand&115; Who I&115; He (And What I&115; He to You)? Harlem Ki&115;&115;ing My Love I Don't Know Hello Like Before Let Me Be the One You Need Watching You Watching Me Tender Thing&115; Lonely Town Lonely &83;treet I Want to &83;pend the Night Lovely Night for Dancing I Wi&115;h You Well I'm Her Daddy ...

Track listing 1 Just The Two Of Us 2 Use Me 3 Ain't No Sunshine 4 Lovely Day 5 I Want To Spend The Night 6 Soul Shadows 7 Lean On Me 8 Grandma's Hands 9 Hello Like Before 10 Who Is He What Is He To You ...

Artists Bill Wyman Label Demon Records Format Vinyl 12 Album Tracks 1 Ride On Baby 2 A New Fashion 3 Nuclear Reactions 4 Visions 5 Jump Up 6 Come Back Suzanne 7 Rio De Janeiro 8 Girls 9 Seventeen 10 (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star ...