Bill German knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life when he was a teenager: chronicle the career & adventures of his favourite rock b&, the Rolling Stones. His Stones-only newsletter was quickly discouraged by family, friends & teachers alike but managed to impress the Stones & enjoyed an invitation to hang with his heroes. In a span of a few months, he went from wanting to know everything about his favourite rock stars to knowing too much as he found himself witnessing the feud between Mick & Keith becoming a fixture in the band's inner sanctum. ...

Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) is a secret agent working for the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., a covert organisation dedicated to overthrowing The Man & his racist schemes. For his latest mission, he teams up with martial arts expert Sistah Girl (Aunjanue ...

Cat Tuong Nguyen has gained significant recognition for a highly individual, intelligent & poetic work. Nguyen confronts the viewer with strange, humourous & mysterious things & investigates our everyday reality. This book focuses on Nguyen's art. It contains the oeuvre of this extraordinary young artist. ...

This practical, research-informed text will provide students across all disciplines with models, tasks & activities to enable them to plan, action, write & present quality research. It will help develop ideas, creative thinking & systematic research practices to enable students to produce high quality dissertations & reports. ...

For Stephen Smith, author of UNDERGROUND LONDON, beneath the dales & downs of England's green & pleasant land there exists another country, its equal in beauty & fascination. On his underworld odyssey from Newcastle to Brighton, from the Welsh Marches to the Suffolk coast, Smith uncovers smugglers' tunnels & drowned cities, burial mounds & underground waterfalls, & investigates the errant nuns & secret societies, the eighteenth-century rakes & troglodyte communities who have made the netherworld their home. Erudite, curious & unfailingly entertaining, UNDERGROUND ENGLAND is at once subterranean ghost train, rollercoaster ride, & passport to a mysterious other world. This book has 306 pages & is 2.5 x 13.3 x 19.7 cm ...

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide & history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages & tunnels of the city, the bunkers & tunnels, crypts & shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground, posters still warn that ' Careless talk costs lives'. Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers, tunnels under such places as Hampton Court, ghost tube stations, & long lost rivers such as the Fleet & the Tyburn. This is 'alternative' history at its best. This book has 416 pages & is 3.2 x 12.7 x 19.7 cm ...

Steven Soderbergh directs this thriller starring Peter Gallagher as Michael Chambers, a charming drifter who returns home after leaving years earlier under a cloud of gambling debts & indiscretions. Following his homecoming, he becomes embroiled in a de ...

The ants are feeling a bit chilly
- can Mouse help with her knitting skills?

A lively story with irresistible illustrations,


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When elite SBS operative John Stratton is given orders to retrieve a missing computer ship, she soon discovers that this mission could be his most dangerous yet. The chip is embedded beneath the skin of a fearless Taliban terrorist who has been captured by the American military & placed inside the notorious Stynx penitentiary. & the Styx is no ordinary prison it is located 300 feet beneath the sea. Even if a prisoner did manage to break free, the pressure of water as he rose to the surface would make his head explode. With murderous convicts, crooked guards & a kamikaze terrorist to contend with, it seems that Stratton may have signed his own dearth warrant. ...