Peter Kay is one of Britain's best loved comedians & comic actors. Following on from his bestselling autobiography The Sound of laughter, Saturday Night Peter rejoins him as his st&-up career is just taking off. This book follows him to the Edinburgh Festival where he wins the ' So You think you're funny?' competition & being shortlisted for the Perrier award & through his comedy apprenticeship on the comedy club circuit. Brilliantly funny, Saturday Night Peter is a heart warming, life affirming memoir from one of the greatest comedians of our time. ...

Saturday's child works hard for a living... & so they did
- three females, one born in the 19th century, two in the 20th, each
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Details: It was 1950. Magsy O? Gara, her husband killed in the war, plodded through her daily routine as a hospital
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Scarcely a year goes by without a new book, TV programme or magazine article claiming to have solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper
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The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing saucy postcards in 1910. These cheeky designs became synonymous with the English seaside resorts where they were sold, but were exported all over the world. After WW2, Bamforth artists began to satirise the classic comic archetypes that still resonate today
- henpecked husbands, naughty nurses & randy milkmen. Contemporary concerns ranging from the contraceptive pill to the Space Race also received the irreverent Bamforth treatment. Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection celebrates the golden age of these comic gems, with a selection of more than 250 cards originally published from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The books introduction reveals the story behind the company, & the battles with the postcard censorship committees that resulted in almost 150 prosecutions.
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Have lots of fun squeezing & reshaping this cute Sausage Dog stress ball.

An adorable little sausage dog squidgy

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After his dad's death, Blue Baker finds comfort in dreaming of a wild kid who survives on a diet of berries & the occasional hapless passerby. But when the savage pays a night-time visit to the local bully, boundaries become blurred & Blue begins to wonder where he ends & the savage begins. ...

Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes, pagan statues & classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own – & a secret message, too, for those with eyes to read it.

Young scholar Adam Strickland is just such a person. Arriving in 1958, he finds the Docci family, their house & the unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange, even dangerous place, & the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away which Adam finds himself compelled to investigate.

Before this mysterious & beautiful summer ends, Adam will uncover two stories of love, revenge & murder, separated by 400 years… but is another tragedy about to be added to the villas cursed past?



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An account of feral children
- those brought up with no human contact, sometimes raised by wild animals, unable to speak or perform
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Explores Democrat collusion in the invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq & support for Israeli assaults on Gaza & Lebanon, while revealing their overlooked appetite for planning wars & selling them to the electorate. This work shows a party at odds with its public image on this key issue in the race for the White House. ...