Informed by his love of hip hop & grafitti, editor JAKe has compiled a fresh, diverse collection drawn from Rio, Berlin, London, Philadelphia & other street art hotspots. The emphasis is on humour & the artworks venture beyond grafitti to 'installations' such as RONZO's Credit Crunch Monster, cemented in the centre of London's financial district. JAKe brings an insider's awareness of context to this collection which comprises both photographs from his personal archives & a selection of the world's best street art from the artists themselves. ...

Over 700 full-colour photographs of the work of leading tattoo artists from all over the world, including: Horiyoshi III, Filip Leu, Louis Molloy, Hannah Aitchison, Jime Litwalk, Mike De Vries, Buena Vista Tattoo Club, Adam Collins, Face the Fact, Kore Flatmo, Jeff Gogue, Dan Gold, Good Times, Barba Kari, Cecil Porter, Sarah Schor, Bob Tyrrell, Motomichi Nakamura, Holy Cow & Mick from Zurich. As jam-packed with the very best in tattoo art as the bestselling first volume, The Mammoth Book of Tattoos, this is a must-have for any fan of skin art. Praise for the The Mammoth Book of Tattoos: ...

Details: It is now estimated that as much as 10% of the population in the UK & USA carries a tattoo. The huge recent growth
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Images of life in the Mob pervade our film & TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific
- what is the reality? Nigel & Colin Cawthorne
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The romance & danger of the great explorer's daring expeditions captured the public imagination & the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Journalists vied for their stories, & publishers rushed their first-hand accounts of exciting & dangerous journeys into print for a wide & voracious readership. This book has 487 pages & is 19.7cm x 13cm x 3cm ...

A humorous collection of hundreds of funny news stories, whacky phenomena, & hilarious blunders & gaffes from around the world, such as: the woman who smuggled 75 live snakes in her bra; the man who held a funeral for his amputated foot; the radioactive cat which got mistaken for a bomb; the human tongue that got served up in a hospital; the X-ray that revealed E.T.'s face in a duck; the youth who woke to find a bullet in his tongue; the tortoise that set a house on fire; & many more. ...

Agnes Brown is a formidable woman. By day she sells fruit & vegetables from a stall in Dublin's busy Moore Street. By night, she is wife to Redser Brown & mammy, nurse, teacher & psychiatrist to her unruly brood of seven children. Then Redser dies. How Agnes copes with widowhood, with the help of her best pal Marion, an unquenchable sense of humour & the attentions of the amorous Pierre, makes this a memorable & moving account of one woman's life & of inner-city Dublin in the late 1960s. ...

There's a mole at the top of the KGB...

A double agent is leaking crucial Soviet secrets to London from the heart

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Be honest, How often do you: Immediately check out the Facebook page of a guy you?ve just met? Send drunken texts that make you want to cringe the next morning? While away whole evenings analysing your love life with your mates? Answered yes to any of the above? Then you need this book. The single woman has never had it so good ? or so you'd think. As Zoe Strimpel discovered, the reality can often be one of Junk Food Love, in other words: negative man-related experiences, corrosive man-obsessing thoughts & damaging man-related actions. Determined to help her fellow single woman, Zoe put herself on The Man Diet: ten no-nonsense rules to stop you binging on bad romance & help you sort the wheat from the chaff ? emotionally, sexually & romantically. This isn?t a book about snaring a man; its about treating yourself well while you're single & putting you on the right track to happiness. If you loved Caitlin Morans How to be a Woman & Grace Dents How to Leave Twitter, you will love this book. ...

It is just before the outbreak of World War 1 & Britain must enlist the aide of Russia. Czar Nicholas's nephew is to visit London for secret naval talks with Lord Waldren, who has lived in Russia & has a Russian wife, Lydia. But there are other people who are interested in the arrival of Prince Alexei: the Waldrens' only daughter Charlotte
- wilful, idealistic, & with an awakening social conscience; Basil Thompson, head of Special Branch; & above all, Feliks Kschessinky, the ruthless Russian anarchist. No one could have foretold that Lydia should recognise Feliks, or that she might put her own daughters life at risk for his sake. As the secret negotiations progress, the destinies of these characters become ineluctably enmeshed. & as Europe prepares for the catastrophe of war, the final private tragedy which will shatter the complacency of the Waldens is acted out.
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