The autobiography everyone has been waiting for a shockingly candid & raw confessional from an international treasure The world's most trusted & beloved television News Anchor Ron Burgundy pulls no punches in Let Me Off at the Top! Burgundy tells the tale of his humble beginnings in a desolate Iowa coal-mining town to his years at Our Lady Queen of Chewbacca High School to his odds-defying climb to the dizzying heights of Anchordom In his very own words Burgundy reveals his most private thoughts his triumphs
- & his disappointments His life reads like an adventure story complete with knock-down fights beautiful women & double-fisted excitement on every page He has hunted jackalopes with Bobby Kennedy & Peter Lawford had more than his share of amorous exploits & formed the greatest on-air team in the history of televised news Along the way he's hobnobbed with people you wish you knew & some you honestly wish you didn't- celebrities presidents presidents' wives celebrities' wives dogs & of course Veronica Corningstone the love of his life Who didn't Mr Burgundy or Ron' as he is known to his friends rub elbows with in the course of his colourful & often criminal life? This may well be the most thrilling book ever written by a man of great physical moral & spiritual strength & not surprisingly a great literary talent as well We owe it to him & to ourselves to read it With never-before-seen photographs Some in colour!
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Provence May 1889 The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill An old monastery it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains amongst wheat fields herbs & olive groves For years the fragile have come here & lived quietly found rest behind the shutters & high sun-baked walls Tales of the new arrival
- his savagery his paintings his copper-red hair
- are quick to find the warden's wife From her small white cottage Jeanne Trabuc watches him
- how he sets his easel amongst the trees the irises & the fields of wheat & paints in the heat of the day Jeanne knows the rules; she knows not to approach the patients at Saint-Paul But this man
- paint-smelling dirty troubled & intense
- is she thinks worth talking to So ignoring her husband's wishes the dangers & despite the word mad Jeanne climbs over the hospital wall She will find that the painter will change all their lives Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew is a beautiful novel about the repercussions of longing of loneliness & of passion for life But it's also about love
- & how it alters over time





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From the peerless author of The Lottery & We Have Always Lived in the Castle this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark & funny stories essays lectures letters & drawings Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank & inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large rowdy family; & revelatory personal letters & drawings Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic
- dinner parties children's games & neighbourly gossip
- but one that is continually threatened & subverted in her unsettling inimitable prose This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller a sharp sly humorist & a powerful feminist' The stories range from sketches & anecdotes to complete & genuinely unsettling tales somewhat alarming & very creepy The whole of the book offers insights into the vagaries of her mind which was ruminant & generous For those of us whose imaginations & creative ambitions were ignited by ' The Lottery' Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses'
- Paul Theroux New York Times' Shirley Jackson made a reputation with a short story in 1948 Like a lot of people I read ' The Lottery' when I was young in an anthology of short stories from the New Yorker & never forgot it Let Me Tell You is a rich enjoyable compendium of her unpublished short fiction & occasional writings kicking off with a story of a dozen pages ' Paranoia' which I won't forget either'
- Tom Stoppard TLS Books of the Year



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The base of this goblet is black iron with a steel lace pattern The stem is a large brass screw with a nut fixed halfway along Another nut is fixed to the body made out of black iron plates riveted together & overlaid with mysterious machinery Arcane gears & pipes interlock strangely & in the centre is a grinning staring skull eyes filled with gears & held in place with iron screws With a removable stainless steel insert for ease of cleaning this goblet is an essential addition to any mad scientists drinkware collection ...

Are you brave enough to find out what happens when a spoilt girl is spiteful to a giant hungry worm? Can you bear to watch a (very silly) boy poke an angry sleeping sea-monster? Do you dare to discover why should you never ever steal milk from a Frid? Beware Naughty children always get their just deserts Eva Ibbotson's Let Sleeping Sea-Monsters Lie contains five delightfully funny cautionary tales with a foreword by Julia Donaldson author of The Gruffalo A dog-munching rock Doesn't everyone know that? ...

Jason Helopoulos encourages the church to embrace the important part children play in the life of the church & unfolds the enormous blessings to be found in having them present in the worship services of the congregation He points out how the struggles are temporary
- whereas the blessings can be eternal
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A sequel to the universally acclaimed Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry continuing in the story of the Logan family in Mississippi during the Depression The children especially Cassie are happy in their warm stable family but outside is a climate of fear & tension Their friend TJ goes on trial for murder & stands before an all-white jury Cousin Suzella tries to pass for white with humiliating consequences & when Cassie's neighbour stands up for her right to vote she & her cousin are driven from their home Cassie is realising what it means to grow up black & powerless but her family stand together proving that courage love & understanding can defy even the deepest prejudices ...

From award-winning author Jane Casey comes a powerful crime thriller with a delicious edge of psychological suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page If you only read one crime book this year make it this one! A murder without a body Eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home one day to find the house covered in blood & Kate her mother gone All the signs point to murder A girl too scared to talk Maeve Kerrigan is determined to prove she's up to her new role as detective sergeant She suspects Chloe is hiding something but getting her to open up is impossible A detective with everything to prove No one on the street is above suspicion All Maeve needs is one person to talk but that's not going to happen Because even in a case of murder some secrets are too terrible to share ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play An average guy who comes up with a golden business idea teams up with Wall Street wheeler dealer & an accomplished ladies man only to discover that attracting women & closing business deals have a lot in common What will he do with his new found knowledge? Actors Diora Baird Michael Madsen Natasha Henstridge Stephen Baldwin Adam Rodriguez Lisa Ray James Avery Thomas Ian Nicholas & Jesse Jane Director Amit Gupta Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 50 minutes (approx) ...

It's New York August 1974 a man is walking in the sky Between the newly built Twin Towers the man twirls through the air Far below the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other Corrigan a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara a drug-addled young artist; Gloria solid & proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie a hooker who used to dream of a better life; & Jazzlyn her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York In the shadow of one reckless & beautiful act these disparate lives will collide & be transformed for ever ...