Michael Copon takes up the reins as the young warrior Mathayus in this prequel to the 2002 film ' The Scorpion King'. Warned against joining the Emperor of Akkad's elite fighting warriors, the Black Scorpions, by his father Ashur (Peter Butler), Mathayus ( ...

Balls!! Is a hilarious new collection of football stories from the Scottish Sun. Featuring all your favourite players, it's crammed full of insults, scandal, confessions, pranks, boozy benders, toilet humour & practical jokes. Nothing is out of bounds as players, managers & backroom staff get stuck in & dish the dirt in the funniest collection of football stories around. ...

In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia & Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest
- 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects
- had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, ' Civilization' & Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history. This book has 738 pages & is 19.7cm x 12.9cm x 4.9cm

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In August 2007 the world reacted with consternation as Russia planted a flag beneath the ice of the North Pole, symbolising the Kremlins claim to the Arctic with its vast mineral resources, & firing the starting gun on the worlds last colonial scramble. The Scramble for the Arctic examines the history of the region & its exploration, the current state of ownership, the legal status of the Arctic & its waters, the likely outcomes of todays powerplays, & what is at stake both politically & ecologically. With the map literally being redrawn by global warming, the ownership of the Arctic will be one of the defining issues of the next decade. In this deeply informed & clearsighted account by two of the worlds leading Arctic scholars & explorers, Richard Sale & Eugene Potapov analyse the competing interests of nations, corporations, & indeed species. ...

From the rowdy backstreets of Dublin, full of earthy homour & spirit, emerges a young boxing hopeful
- Sparrow Mc Cabe. Sparrow's
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Noel Fielding's book channels the creative influences of Henri Rousseau, Roy Lichtenstein & Salvador Dali, through the comedian's strange & singular, not to say surreal mind. Hilarious & beautifully produced, the book is a visual feast which will delight & entertain Noel's millions of fans. " Growing up in the jungles of India there was no need for drawing or painting. I would sometimes arrange ants into primitive still lives or scratch out portraits onto the trunks of trees. Things changed when I was 11, a lame tiger who owned a stationery shop gave me the keys to his stock room, I would roll around in acrylic & oil pastels in reverie, licking canvases & tucking coloured pencils into my wild hair. It was here I learned how to draw & paint well enough to be accepted into Croyden Art College. There, Dexter Dalwood (Turner Prize nominee) taught me & after two years under his supreme tutelage & much hard graft he adviced me to become a comedian." Noel Fielding ...

Meet the Scruffs
- the ugliest pets ever!

There is a new addition to the Pet Shop & the scruffy pets arent happy. Ursula


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When the scruffy pets accidentally get sent to the dog show, they find themselves plunged into the middle of a fiendish criminal

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One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets...

Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of

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Cussler explores the secret world of undersea adventures, unearthing more than 60 shipwrecks Cussler & his NUMA volunteers, he now highlights 12 of the most memorable. With immense research he begins each introduction with a creative dramatisation of how each ship met its end. ...