The Malvern Hills, an official Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, have fired the imagination of painters, poets, writers, composers & scientists for many years. & the area has not lost any of its power to surprise, charm & thrill. The Malverns run almost directly north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, dipping into Gloucestershire at its southern most end. The special quality of the Malverns lies in the contrasts. They make up an easily identifiable narrow ridge that thrust above the patchwork farmland of the Severn Vale 600 million years ago, producing a mountain range in miniature. Mike Smart's collection of photographs capture the spirit of these hills. ...

Despite our tendency to think of the demonic as evil & the angelic as good, our own legends don't always bear this out. Angels can be the incarnation of light & salvation, but they can also fall
- Satan himself is a fallen angel. Demons can be truly demonic, but these unearthly creatures can also, on occasion, lend humankind a h&. Temptation can lead to revelation, supernatural messengers who bring true justice may not be welcomed, & beings seeking redemption can be blind to mortal needs. Stories from world-renowned authors of science fiction & fantasy
- including Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin & Joyce Carol Oates
- & rising stars portray angels in all their glory, demons at their most dreadful, & a surprising variety of modern interpretations of ancient myth.


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If you're just intrigued or a lover of manga, The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga continues to break new ground with this latest volume. With award winning contributors such as Paul Duffield, Satanasov, Yishan Li & Niki Smith there's plenty for everyone. With 23 stand alone stories in every genre you can imagine including romantic mystery, action adventure, super spy sci fi & many more, this is the biggest & best collection of new manga. ...

A gripping collection of stories of human criminality at its most bizarre. These unusual, sensational murders recall not only gruesome historical crimes, but also touch on shocking & macabre modern murders. Included are details of ground-breaking advances in crime detection, law enforcement & forensic science. This is the top-secret report on the most grisly, & unusual, criminal activity of our time. ...

Bob Dylan's impact on popular music has been incalculable. Having transformed staid folk music into a vehicle for coruscating social commentary, he then swept away the romantic platitudes of rock 'n' roll with his searing intellect. From the zeitgeist-encapsulating protest of " Blowin' in the Wind" to the streetwise venom of " Like a Rolling Stone", & from the stunning mid-sixties trilogy of albums
- " Bringing It All Back Home", Highway 61 Revisited & " Blonde on Blonde"
- "to Time Out of Mind", his stunning if world-weary comeback at the age of 56, Dylan's genius has endured, underpinned by the dazzling turn of phrase that has made him the pre-eminent poet of popular music. Because Dylan's achievements have no equal, his career is the most chronicled in rock history. Here, Sean Egan presents a selection of the best writing on Dylan, both praise & criticism. Interviews, essays, features & reviews from Dylan intimates & scholars such as John Bauldie, Michael Gray, Nat Hentoff & Jules Siegel are interspersed with new narrative & reviews of every single album to create a comprehensive picture of the artist whose chimes of freedom still resound.

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The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, the Da Vinci Code, The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor, The Illuminati, Protocols of Zion, Hess, The Bilderberg Group, New World Order, Elvis Fluoridization, Martin Luther King’s murder, Opus Dei, The Gemstone Files, John Paul I, Dead Sea Scrolls, Lockerbie bombing, Black helicopters...

In other words everything ‘they’ never wanted you to know & were afraid you might ask!

Jon E. Lewis explores the 100 most terrifying cover-ups of all time, from the invention of Jesus’ divinity (pace the Da Vinci Code) to Bush’s & Blair’s real agenda in invading Iraq.

Entertainingly written & closely documented, the book provides each cover-up with a plausibility rating. Uncover why the Titanic sank, ponder the sinister Vatican/ Mafia network that plotted the assassination of liberal John Paul, find out why NASA ‘lost’ its files on Mars, read why no-one enters Area 51, & consider why medical supplies were already on site at Edgware Road before the 7/7 bombs detonated.

Just because you are paranoid, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to conspire against you.

This paperback book has 542 pages & measures: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.3cm









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Twenty-three spellbinding tales of sorcery, wizardry & witchcraft, of the ceaseless battle between good & evil. From dark lords & epic clashes between the forces of good & evil to a child's struggle to control magical powers for the first time this wonderfully varied collection comprises stories by the most outstanding writers of fantasy: A. C. Benson, James Bibby, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Louise Cooper, Ralph Adams Cram, Peter Crowther, Esther M. Friesner, Tom Holt, Doug Hornig, Diana Wynne Jones, Michael Kurl&, Tim Lebbon, Ursula K. Le Guin, Richard A. Lupoff, Michael Moorcock, John Morressy, Tim Pratt, David Sandner, Lawrence Schimel & Mike Resnick, Darrell Schweitzer, Clark Ashton Smith, Steve Rasnic Tem & Robert Weinberg. ...

The ultimate collection of X-rated & decidedly politically incorrect limericks! This bumper new volume contains over 2, 000 dirty verses, from the moderately blue to the absolutely filthy ? all illustrated throughout by Gray Jolliffe, creator of the bestselling Wicked Willie cartoon character. Here are verses so rude that even a blonde would blush, on subjects ranging from the bedroom to the bathroom & beyond. You?ll find plenty of up-to-date limericks relevant to contemporary life as well as lewd old favourites on every imaginable topic, all of them guaranteed to make you laugh.

Includes:: many newly devised limericks. On the breast of a barmaid named Gail Was written the price of the ale & on her behind, For the sake of the blind Was the same information in Braille.

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Love will find a way
- 19 fantastic future-set romances. The good news is, in the future there will be no shortage of romance.
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This is a doorstopper of a collection of the very best of both contemporary & classic British wit & humour. From Monty Python's ' Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.. .' to Dan Antopolski's ' Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?'. From George Bernard Shaw to Michael Mc Intyre, from Eric Morecombe to Omid Djalili, & from Oscar Wilde to Jimmy Carr, this is a side-splitting look at Britain, the British & life in general. It

Includes:: these gems from Britain's finest comedians: 'I was delighted to learn that my friend's "schadenfreude" was not as satisfying as mine'
- Armando Iannucci. 'I went on a girls' night out recently. The invitation said 'dress to kill'. I went as Rose West'
- Zoe Lyons. ' For a while I was the perfect mother. Then the Pethidine wore off'
- Jenny Eclair. ' My girlfriend was complaining last night that I never listen to her. Or something like that'
- Jack Dee. This title also
Includes:: ' Why do dogs always race to the door when the doorbell rings because it's hardly ever for them?'
- Harry Hill. 'I went to the doctor & he said, ' You've got hypochondria'. I said, ' Not that as well"
- Tim Vine. 'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge'
- Spike Milligan. ' When someone close to you dies, move seats'
- Peter Kay. ' My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower & I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden'
- Eric Morecambe. ' My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen'
- Jimmy Carr. This title also contains: ' Eighty-two point six per cent of statistics are made up on the spot'
- Vic Reeves. ' Getting divorced isn't like a bereavement at all, because if he's died, I'd have had me mortgage paid, & I could've danced on his grave'
- Sarah Millican. ' My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela: incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990, he's been out about 18 years now & he hasn't re-offended'
- Ricky Gervais. ' If you want to confuse a girl, buy her a pair of chocolate shoes'
- Milton Jones. ' Phil Collins is losing his hearing, making him the luckiest man at a Phil Collins Concert'
- Simon Amstell. ' We'll continue our investigation into the political beliefs of nudists. We've already noticed a definite swing to the left'
- Ronnie Barker. 'A guy walks into the psychiatrist wearing only Clingfilm for shorts. The psychiatrist says, ' Well, I can clearly see your nuts'
- Tommy Cooper.



















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