A collection of stories that depicts the recurrent theme of denial, or unshakable naivety, in the face of disaster & its inevitable consequences. It features such characters as a Bible-beating preacher, a tattoo-covered man who plies dead armadillos with empty beer cans & a mother who is bent on retaliating against her daughter's attacker. ...

Details: Dylan duckling & his three sisters are off to the pond for their very first swim. " Hold on to the daisy chain,
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Set against the vibrant background of one of the world's most dangerous cities, Oh Mexico! is not only a classic travel memoir, but also contains great narrative & stuffed with amazing facts about this country's colourful history, lit up by warmth, wit, wisdom & pizzazz. With an eye for the bizarre & comic, Lucy's engaging account of surviving life & love in a vast, bustling Central American city is irresistible. After graduating from university with an Arts degree, she is faced with a dilemma: find a job or disappear to Latin America, the exotic land of her childhood dreams! Arriving in Mexico City with little money & only basic Spanish, Lucy's To-Do list is simple enough: ' Next morning I awoke & began writing a to do list. Not that I am an organised person, but I was feeling overwhelmed
- & I always find that a to do list gives me a sense that there is a potential to cope with the situation. 1. Find something to eat, 2. Wash undies, 3. Learn Spanish & 4. Get a job' Lucy promptly finds work as an English teacher & scores a room in a sunny apartment. Her new flatmate, the well-connected Octavio, is unnervingly attractive. So begins a comic tsunami of challenges as Lucy negotiates Mexico City's stratified worlds, meeting everyone from street hawkers to crazy gringos, academics & socialites. Then, as the two men she accidentally falls in love with discover each other's existence, her extrovert family arrive for a visit! With a curious mind & a knowing eye, Lucy's account of life in this riotous third-world metropolis that is Mexico City is utterly irresistible.
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From declaring my love to Vanessa Redgrave to being fed cockroaches by Steve Buscemi, from turnip-based comedy with Blackadder to being farted on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Graham Norton's sofa to Alan Cumming's campervan, my life has been (and continues to be) a riotous adventure. Oh Miriam! has been such a constant refrain in my life, said in all kinds of tones
- laughs, surprised gasps & orgasmic sighs (I'm hoping for all those from you as you read on!)
- that it had to be the title of this book. & with a castlist that stretches from Churchill to di Caprio, Dahl to Dietrich, Princess Margaret to Maggie Smith, I've got so much more to tell you & so much more to say. My chapters range from ' How to Stay Married' to ' Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down'. Discover how to break the thickest conversational ice; why swearing is actually good for you (though not on the Today programme); the unexpected things I actually learnt at school & what my Spice Girl name would be. Not to...

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Katy & her brother build a magical snowman. When it gets too cold to play outside, they go into the house
- but Mr Snowman wants
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A tale of a little boy speeding through the night on his dream-train to far off lands where endangered animals beg for a lift. The author also wrote " Mr Gumpy's Outing", Would You Rather & " Come Away From the Water". " Granpa" won the 1984 Emil/ Kurt Maschler Award. ...

Iggy is different from the rest of his tribe, the Urks. He isn't interested in the usual things such as flint tools, hunting or boulder-rolling. He's always daubing on the walls of his cave or coming up with infuriating new ideas. According to his dad: ' We don't need new ideas
- we have plenty of old ones.' Iggy's latest invention is a primitive scootalong or Stone Age skateboard. His parents don't want him playing outside in case the neighbours complain. Besides, they have more important things to talk about: tomorrow is the Sons of Urk ceremony, when boys who come of age are accepted into the tribe as hunters. Iggy is eager to take part, but he'll have to pass the ritual initiation test, which means facing the one thing he dreads more than anything: snakes! The size of this book is 18.2cm in height & 12.7cm wide
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Describes the basic principles of colour mixing & applying colour. This book presents a series of eight step-by-step projects designed to teach you oil painting techniques, such as colour blending, lifting out, working dark to light, glazing, & painting with a palette knife, all applied to subjects from still lifes to landscapes. ...

A brilliant selection of 12 high quality tubes of oil paints in a range of colours.

Perfect for beginners, experienced

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Intended for both amateur & professional artists, this book acts as a guide to mixing 25 popular Winsor & Newton Artist's oil colours. The 25 colours have been specially chosen as the most useful for a range of oil paintings, & the book shows how to match precisely any shade you want to reproduce in your work. ...