Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes & he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them in spite of his ragged shorts & bare feet When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis Ababa Solomon cannot believe his ears A trip to the capital? It's unfathomable Solomon's joy is increased when he realizes that the Ethiopian running team will be doing a victory parade through the city that day Maybe he'll get a glimpse of Haile Gebrselassie or Derartu Tulu?! But Solomon's grandfather has other plans As Solomon follows him through the big overwhelming streets he learns something he cannot believe The strict old man is a war hero who once risked his life to save a friend & has been in hiding ever since When grandfather collapses Solomon knows that getting help from his village is up to him It's a twenty-mile run from the city to home & grandfather's life hangs in the balance Can the small bare-footed runner with the big heart do itshortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird is the inspiring story of a small Ethiopian runner with a very big heart ...

Utah USA 1869 Work on the Transcontinental Railroad connecting the east & west coasts keeps suffering mysterious mousehaps Can it be the dastardly work of Catardone & his band of Pirate Cats? In the unlikely role of deputy sheriff Geronimo Stilton must once again save the future by protecting the past! ...

Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language & a wild joy for storytelling In prose alternately stark lush & hallucinatory occasionally nightmarish & often absurd the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear & desire introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love jealousy megalomania & despair As in his acclaimed debut novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore the voices in these stories speak from the margins a dominatrix whose longtime client a US congressman drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippie in Colorado in the summer before 911 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis these stories rove freely across time & place carried by haunting peculiar narratives threads in the vast tapestry of American life Weaving a pleasure in the absurd with an exploration of the extraordinary variety of the human condition & the sway our most private selves & hidden pasts hold over us the stories in The Fat Artist reside in the unnerving intersections between life & death art & ridicule consumption & creation ...

In this beautiful smaller format edition of the award-winning Big Fat Duck Cookbook we hear the full story of the meteoric rise of Heston Blumenthal & The Fat Duck birthplace of snail porridge & bacon-&-egg ice cream & encounter the passion perfection & weird science behind the man & the restaurant Heston Blumenthal is widely acknowledged to be a genius & The Fat Duck has twice been voted the Best Restaurant in the World by a peer group of top chefs But he is entirely self-taught & the story of his restaurant has broken every rule in the book His success has been borne out of his pure obsession endless invention & a childish curiosity into how things work
- whether it's how smell affects taste what different flavours mean to us on a biological level or how temperature is distributed in the centre of a souffle In the first section of The Fat Duck Cookbook we learn the history of the restaurant from its humble beginnings to its third Michelin star (the day Heston received the news of this he had been wondering how exactly he would be able to pay his staff that month) Next we meet 50 of his signature recipes
- sardine on toast sorbet salmon poached with liquorice hot & iced tea chocolate wine
- which while challenging for anyone not equipped with ice baths dehydrators vacuum pumps & nitrogen on tap will inspire home cooks & chefs alike Finally we hear from the experts whose scientific know-how has contributed to Heston's topsy-turvy world With an introduction by Harold Mc Gee incredible colour photographs throughout & illustrations by Dave Mc Kean The Fat Duck Cookbook is not only the nearest thing to an autobiography from the world's most fascinating chef but also a stunning colourful & joyous work of art


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Comedy based on the characters from the Viz comic books Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England Sandra (Fiona Allen) & Tracey (Sophie Thompson) head for London in search of fame & fortune Sean Cooley (Jerry O& Connell) an internationally renowned billionaire suffers a blow to the head rendering him temporarily insane on the day The Fat Slags arrive in London; spotting them on a TV chat show he falls in love with their larger than life look & is determined to make them stars ...

The cruel Merdrun the greatest warriors in the void have invaded Santhenar but their portal failed leaving them stranded They're desperately trying to regain contact with the summon stone so they can reopen the portal & begin the slaughter of humanity Llian hurled through another portal sees the summon stone wake & knows the allies have but one chance to destroy the Merdrun
- though it will involve an alchemical quest that has always ended in ruin a mad invasion in untested sky ships with untrained pilots & the most unequal battle in all the Histories
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Another case for James Lee Wong to solve; this time uncovering a smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront involved in a murder Boris Karloff James Lee Wong Grant Withers Capt Bill Street Marjorie Reynolds Roberta ' Bobbie' Logan Charles Trowbridge John T Forbes Frank Puglia Harry ' Hardway' Lockett Craig Reynolds Frank Belden Jr Lita Chevret Tanya Serova Written by Scott Darling & George Waggner Directed by William Nigh Actors Boris Karloff Directors William Nigh Format Import Multiple Formats PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

In 1787 the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia An epic description of the brutal transportation of men women & children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag & was the origin of Australia The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning scholarly brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia ...

London the 1720s Welcome to ' Romeville' the underworld of that great city The financial crash caused by the South Sea Bubble sees the rise of Jonathan Wild self-styled ' Thief-taker General' who purports to keep the peace while brutally controlling organised crime Only two people truly defy him Jack Sheppard apprentice turned house-breaker & his lover the notorious whore & pickpocket Edgworth Bess From the condemned cell at Newgate Bess gives her account of how she & Jack formed the most famous criminal partnership of their age a tale of lost innocence & harsh survival passion & danger bold exploits & spectacular gaol-breaks
- & of the price they paid for rousing the mob of Romeville against its corrupt master Bess dictates her narrative to Billy Archer a Grub Street hack & aspiring poet who has rubbed shoulders with Defoe & Swift But he also inhabits that other underworld of 'molly-houses' & 'unnameable sin' & has his own story of subterfuge treachery & doomed romance to deliver As the gallows casts its grim shadow who will live to escape the Fatal Tree? By the acclaimed author of THE LONG FIRM this is a tour de force; inventive atmospheric & rich in the street slang of the era Drawing on real figures & a true history of crime punishment & rough justice it tells a heartbreaking story of love & betrayal
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Tracklist Right Here Right Now Block Rockin& Beats Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)19 2000 (Soulchild Remix)I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Radio Edit) Lazy (Fatboy Slim Remix) Nyc Beat We Are Your Friends Kelly Watch The Stars (Moog Cookbook Remix)1999 Trippin On Sunshine Body Movin& (Fatboy Slim Remix) Because Of You Magic Carpet Ride A Deeper Love (A Deeper Love Mix) Waterfall (Original Netherlands Mix 7" Radio Edit Eat Sleep Rave Repeat (Calvin Harris Edit) Bonus Track Uptown Funk ...