The Sat-Nag is the in-car gadget that gets you nowhere fast! This mock-up Sat Nav is crammed with totally unhelpful & embarrassingly familiar offerings from a patronising voice such as In 100 metres turn left. No right, err, no left. Sorry, I never can tell my left from my right. Using a lenticular imaging, the Sat Nag has the appearance of a holographic screen highlighting roads such as Earache Avenue. Recommended suitability for ages 16 years & above due to strong language. ...

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi`s wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies` Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles of Private Detection: never lie to the client. Apprentice mechanic Charlie seems to be avoiding certain important responsibilities. & as Mma Makutsi`s big day approaches, her nemesis violet Sephotho is casting her net wider: by standing for election which could spell trouble for the entire nation. But as friends & family gather under starry African night skies, it turns out that even the most perplexing of apparitions
- & the most shocking of crimes
- may yield to rational explanation. &, of course, to Mma Ramotswe`s inimitable way with love, intuition & redbush tea.

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Before Stieg Larsson, there was Asa Larsson...” The Savage Altar” is a truly absorbing, atmospheric & fast-paced thriller featuring lawyer Rebecka Martinsson, a fantastic character in the mould of ” The Silence of the Lambs”` Clarice Starling. A church in the glittering frozen wastes of northern Sweden. Inside, a sacrifice: the body of a man
- slashed to pieces, hands severed, eyes gouged out. The victim`s sister, Sanna, is first to discover the body & immediately finds herself the police`s only suspect. Terrified & confused, she calls on a friend: got-shot city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson. Rebecka hardly wants to return to Kiruna
- the small town she fled in disgrace years ago. But Sanna is frightened & she needs a loyal friend to clear her name. Someone not scared to dig deep & find the true killer. Yet Rebecka is not especially welcomed into the closed-lipped community. She might know the town, the people & how suspicious they can be of strangers but she has still to find out how dark the town`s secrets have become in her absence. ”A chilling plot knee-deep in blood-spattered snow”. (Jim Kelly). ”A labyrinthine conspiracy, superlative storytelling”. (” Independent”).”A nail biting, suspense-filled mystery”. (” Sunday Telegraph”). Asa Larsson was born in 1966 & lives in Sweden. Her second novel, ” The Blood Spilt”, is available from Penguin now & she is the winner of Sweden`s best first crime novel award.

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New Year`s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano & Ulises Lima, poets & leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert
- & obscurity
- decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, & their search for the past will end in violence, flight, & permanent exile. In this dazzling novel, Roberto Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes on a twenty-year, multi-continent, tragicomic quest through a darkening universe.

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For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook & the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled ” Great Southl&.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, & Aboriginal encounters with the more than three hundred Europeans who washed up on these distant shores long before the land was claimed by Cook for Engl&. The author relates dramatic, previously untold legends of survival gleaned from the centuries of Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, & Indonesian voyages to Australia, & debunks commonly held misconceptions about the earliest European settlements: ships of the Dutch East Indies Company were already active in the region by the early seventeenth century, & the Dutch, rather than the English, were probably the first European settlers on the continent. ...

The Sèvre Niortaise: La Rochelle to Niort in a series of guides from Editions Grafocarte/ Editions de l` Ecluse to France’s canals & navigable waterways with mapping showing facilities & navigational hazards along each route, general information on signals & regulations, & descriptions of places of interest. The guide covers the river itself as far as Niort, plus provides a maritime chart for the coastal waters between its mouth & La Rochelle. Also included is a street plan of central La Rochelle. Each guide provides mapping of the route showing locks, stop gates, mooring quays, tunnels, weirs, dangerous shoals, sand or mud banks, etc., as well as a wide range of facilities from drinking water & rubbish disposal to various types of shops, restaurants, pharmacies, shipyards & engine repair workshops, etc. The mapping is usually presented as vertical 28 x 8.5cm panels which, together with the annotations, occupy one whole page of the guide & so each cover 14km or more of the route. Also included as necessary are more detailed enlargements of main basins or photographs of bridges, shown usually as viewed from both directions. The text providing navigational information & tips as well as descriptions of places of interest & a general background are kept separate from the maps but, where possible, placed on the adjoining page to the relevant section of the route. The guides also provide general information on rules & regulations, plus illustrations of navigational signals. Each guide also has an index of locations along the route annotated with symbols indicating various facilities, accompanied where possible with contact details.* All of the text, explanations & the map legend are in French, English & German.** Please note:** The publishers’ name has changed from Editions Grafocarte to Editions de l’ Ecluse & the series name shown on each title is Fluviacarte of Navicarte depending on whether mapping of coastal waters is included. Various combinations of these names can be found"ed in other publications on French waterways. ...

If the Sun is the size of a Grapefruit, the Earth is a grain of s&, then the distance between the two is a London bus. Scale is intriguing. Scale is everywhere. Scale is our experience of the world, from our perception of time to physical distance to weights & measures. The human scale is 1:1, the point of reference. Everything is designed around it. Wealth is an example of scale, so is a sculpture, a building, a planet or a molecule. Scale is a universal & timeless subject. It`s a BIG subject. The Scale of Things brings together facts & figures in a visual way, embracing popular science, space, economics, politics, geography, nature, technology & architecture in an accessible & entertaining way. Fun & informative, it will change the way you look at the world around you. ...

Fresh from his world record attempt at the legendary Brooklands motor racing circuit, in which the Toy Stories team built a 2.7-mile circuit entirely out of Scalextric track, James May re-enters the world of Scalextric, Britain`s leading slot-car racing br&. Remembering many childhood hours spent recreating the thrills & spills of Goodwood, Silverstone & Brands Hatch, James examines the development & expansion of Scalextric from its true British roots to its international appeal today. He investigates the history of the br&, documenting the greatest sets & cars ever produced
- including Formula 1, rally, touring cars & Le Mans. James also looks at what it takes to be a Scalextric champion, the essential elements of good track design, how to customise your racer & gets technical with the difficulties involved in scaling a full-size performance car down to an accurate, working slot-car.
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`I start asking questions. How do you do this? How do you get away with it? How much money do you make from it? Who supports you? Who resists you? & what happens to the people who resist you?` Scam City`s Conor Woodman goes undercover to meet the world`s dodgiest dealers. Creeping through the lawless backstreets where the black market thrives, he intentionally falls for scam after scam, from back-alley dice games to counterfeit cash. Woodman`s risky & occasionally reckless reporting exposes how crooks dupe their unsuspecting victims time & time again. A dark adventure through cities as diverse as Mumbai, Bogota, New Orleans, Barcelona & London, The Scam Hunter is a shocking reminder of who really runs the world`s biggest metropolises. A truly electrifying read. Previously published as Sharks: Investigating the Criminal Heart of the Global City. ...

THE 7-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ` As popular Swedish exports go, Backman is up there with ABBA & Stieg Larsson.` The New York Times Book Review ` Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else`s forehead & pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there.` Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold & dark that brings people closer together
- or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Everyone can feel the excitement. Change is in the air & a bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up & forgotten, & those who`ll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. With the town`s future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other. Which side would you be on?
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