Eight people take part in an ecological experiment in 1990s Arizona Inspired by real events The Terranauts places human behaviour under the microscope to spellbinding effect Linda is desperate to be one of the lucky eight chosen to take part in the world's most ambitious ecological experiment She knows that she can survive for two years under the glass dome of Ecosphere II set in the Arizona desert Competition is fierce between the hopefuls among them smooth-talking PR man Ramsay & Dawn a naive beauty Inside the humid microcosm the terranauts' labours over crops & livestock their battles with creepy crawlies their hostilities & sexual dalliances are all observed by tourists who come to gawp Mission Control's cameras & the watchful eye of the media As they struggle to control nature & hunger sets in the snake in this Eden starts to look unmistakably human ...

There's nothing unusual or different about the Brocket family
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From superstar authors & friends Mac Barnett & Jory John comes the third installment in their smart & funny New York Times bestselling Terrible Two series The Terrible Two Go Wild Everyone's favourite pranksters & founders of the International Order of Disorder are at it again! Miles & Niles find themselves marooned for the summer at Camp Good Times which is all about peace & good vibes (Can you say BOR-ING?) With no clear prank-ortunities the Terrible Two fail to see what about all of this is so good But when kids from the nearby Yawnee Valley Yelling & Push-Ups Camp raid Good Times's super-secret candy stash the campers look to Miles & Niles for help Will our heroes break free from the feckless feel-goodery of Camp Good Times? Are their sharp minds & close friendship a match for the fists of the rival campers? & why has Stuart changed his name to Tree? All these questions plus some other ones you haven't thought of yet will be answered in The Terrible Two Go Wild With short chapters & plenty of illustrations The Terrible Two series engages reluctant readers & appeals to a wide range of kids-both pranksters & not-as they laugh out loud ...

Part of The New Age of Heroes a bold new line of comics starring a thrilling array of heroes! In The Terrifics Vol 1 when Mr Terrific Metamorpho Plastic Man & Phantom Girl find themselves bound together by a tragic accident our team of unlikely allies must rely on one another to make their way back home 144 pages Lemire Jeff ...

Noa lives in what's left of a Britain where flooding means land is scarce Everyone must sit an exam at 15 if you pass you can stay in the Territory if you fail you must go to the Wetlands Rich families can buy their children an upgrade to help but ' Norms' like Noa must succeed on their own merits Noa is a bright funny teenager not sure which boy she likes devoted to her friends The book follows her as she & her friends face the exam Who will pass & who will fail? ...

'dreaming of bears or fire or water' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers Nashe had a magical ability with words never more so than in The Terrors of the Night where he mulls over ghosts demons nightmares & the supernatural Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Thomas Nashe (1567-?1601) Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller & Other Works is available in Penguin Classics ...

The three films in this Terry Thomas Collection--The Naked Truth Too Many Crooks & Make Mine Mink--are each an unalloyed delight from beginning to end Though produced on slim budgets they possess witty scripts by Michael Pertwee deft direction in two instances by Mario Zampi inventive music scores & marvellous casts featuring two generations of British actors from Athene Seyler to a young Kenneth Williams Individually & as an ensemble these players are a pleasure to watch But of course Terry Thomas the catalyst of the collection runs the gamut with a plethora of facial expressions body language & verbal repartee that contribute so much to the unbuttoned joy of each film In the earliest of them The Naked Truth (1957) TT plays a dodgy peer of the realm being blackmailed in the company of Peter Sellers Peggy Mount & Shirley Eaton by a gutter press journalist Dennis Price (" Don&t try to appeal to my better nature because I haven&t one") The moments of slapstick are brought off to a tee as when the larger-than-life Peggy Mount attempts a suicide drop from her window to be saved by an awning on a shop front Too Many Crooks (1959) has TT being blackmailed once again this time for the hoards he&s stashed away as a renowned tax dodger Look out for the very funny court scene where TT makes three appearances on separate charges before a bemused magistrate John Le Mesurier Make Mine Mink (1960) the odd one out in this collection was adapted from a West End stage farce Breath of Spring TT leads a gang of middle-aged biddies who decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns The splendid cast

Includes:: Hattie Jacques & Kenneth Williams On the DVD The Terry Thomas Collection comes in an attractive box containing the three discs All are 43 ratio & with mono sound The only extras are a trailer for each film which in the instance of Make Mine Mink is introduced by Terry Thomas himself who presents us to his gang of fur thieves as the voice on the soundtrack announces him as "fur fur funnier than you&ve seen him before" --Adrian Edwards

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Collecting hundreds of quips "es & beautifully illustrated throughout The Test Match Special Book of Cricket"es is a cricket fan's indispensable guide to bats beards boundaries & bowls From witty sayings & wise words to doubles entendres & legendary moments from cricketing history you'll find the perfect line for every occasion I've never got to the bottom of streaking'- Jonathan Agnew On the first day Logie decided to chance his arm & it came off'
- Trevor Bailey Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator'- John Arlott' Strangely in slow motion the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer'
- David Acfield'I'm not into caps with lots of diamonds on them like KP'
- James Anderson' How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match & then not come back for five days?'
- Rafa Benitez on test cricket I don't think we choked this time We never played well enough to choke'
- Craig Matthews Flintoff starts in his shadow beside him Where else would it be?'- Henry Blofeld I once delivered a simple ball which I was told had it gone far enough would have been considered a wide'
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The Testament of Gideon Mack is James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith & belief For Gideon Mack faithless minister unfaithful husband & troubled soul the existence of God let alone the Devil is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies Until the day he falls into a gorge & is rescued by someone who might just be Satan himself Mack's testament
- a compelling blend of memoir legend history & quite probably madness
- recounts one man's emotional crisis disappearance resurrection & death It also transports you into an utterly mesmerising exploration of the very nature of belief' Fascinating extraordinary strange rich' Sunday Telegraph' Overwhelmingly compassionate & thought-provoking Demands another read' Irvine Welsh Guardian' Hugely enjoyable very funny deeply refreshing its touch of devilry makes it even more of a joy' Herald' Fabulous a work of the highest literary quality' Scotland on Sunday' Astonishingly accomplished utterly compelling from start to finish could well be the best novel published anywhere this year' Big Issue' James Robertson is a brilliant novelist It's a long time since I read a novel in which the contemporary notions of faith & belief were so frankly tested' Ali Smith James Robertson is the author of the novels The Fanatic Joseph Knight The Testament of Gideon Mack & the Land Lay Still & The Professor of Truth The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize picked by Richard & Judy's Book Club & shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award & And the Land Lay Still was the winner of the Saltire Book of the Year Award 2010

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family From the author of Brooklyn in a voice that is both tender & filled with rage The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief For Mary her son has been lost to the world & now living in exile & in fear she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death To her he was a vulnerable figure surrounded by men who could not be trusted living in a time of turmoil & change As her life & her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human Praise for The Testament of Mary' This is a short book but it is as dense as a diamond It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta but it is completely heretical Toibin maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her' Edmund White Irish Times' Depicting the harrowing losses & evasions that can go on between mothers & sons Toibin creates a reversed Pieta he holds the mother in his arms' Independent 'A beautiful & daring workit takes its power from the surprise of its language its almost shocking characterization' Mary Gordon New York Times ...