The twin-engine Vickers Wellington was one of the outstanding RAF bomber aircraft of the Second World War, as well as a capable maritime patrol aircraft & submarine hunter with Coastal Comm&.

Centrepiece of this manual is Wellington Mk Ia, N2980, 'R' for Robert, one of only two surviving examples of the Wellington in the world & restored to display condition at the Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey.

Iain Murray gives a fascinating insight into operating, flying & maintaining Barnes Wallis' geodetic wonder with the help of many rarely seen photographs & technical illustrations.

This hardback book has 161 pages & measures: 27.5 x 21.3 x 1.2cm





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Needlework dynamo Vickie Howell is back with a high-spirited, playful collection of goodies to crochet. Vickie Howells Pop Goes Crochet! Pays creative tribute to popular culture past & present with 40 projects inspired by celebrities in fashion, music, film & television. Howell has whipped up a spectacular array of hip clothing, jewellery & accessories, ranging from an intriguing ' Yohji' asymmetrical jumper (in homage to designer Yohji Yamamoto) to a funky striped ' Cameron' hoodie with the laid-back California style of actress Cameron Diaz. Everythings fashionable & as fun to make as it is to wear. ...

' You look as if you've seen a ghost!' Jade is so used to being with & agreeing with Vicky, her best friend, that when a tragic accident occurs, she can hardly believe that Vicky's no longer there. But Vicky's a sparky girl who's not going to let a small thing like being dead stop her from living life to the full. Whether Jade is in lessons, out running or tentatively trying to make new friends, Vicky is making her presence felt... This is another best-selling novel from award-winning author, Jacqueline Wilson. ...

Marilyn Monroe's death in August 1962, apparently suicide, shocked the world. A Hollywood star, a global icon, why would she have killed herself? Yet the coroner's report stated her death was due to a massive overdose of 47 Nembutal capsules. But what about the discrepancies between the official report & the scene of her death? ...

Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the film's release, John Coldstream's study of ' Victim' (1961) addresses the film's importance in the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality, the contribution of its stars Dirk Bogarde & Sylvia Syms to its emotional impact, & the risk Bogarde took in taking on the central role. ...

Not since Jack the Ripper has there been such a gruesome crime scene. One look at the victim's apartment turned charnel house is enough for Milo Sturgis to summon The Crime Reader. But even Alex Delaware's skills may be stymied when more slayings occur in the same ghastly fashion...with no apparent connection between them. The only clue left behind
- a blank page bearing a question mark
- seems to be both a menacing taunt & a cry for help from a killer baffled by his own lethal urges. This one will haunt The Crime Reader's waking life, & his darkest dreams, long after its end.

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Victims of a Map presents fifteen translated poems by each poet. It

Includes:: thirteen poems by Darwish never

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The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers & the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, & still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. Moreover, in 1982 it was only the Victor tanker fleet based on Ascension Island that made possible the Vulcan Black Buck bombing of Port Stanley airfield & the long-range reconnaissance of Argentina by Nimrods.

Victor Boys tells the story of all the great things that were achieved, recounted first hand by the operators themselves, aircrew & ground crew. Starting with accounts by test pilot Johnny Allam, who undertook the major development of the aircraft, through its work as a nuclear bomber during the cold war, testing Blue Steel in Australia, to its superb performance during the Falklands war & later as a first class air-to-air refuelling tanker & vital support tool for fighters & other aircraft.

Published to coincide with the Victor's 60th anniversary, the gripping text is superbly illustrated with photographs from the operators themselves, never released before. The stories are collated & set in context by Tony Blackman, ex chief test pilot of Avros who helped develop the Vulcan & initiated the development of the Victor K2 tanker. For him, initially, the Victor seemed a competitor but he now readily admits what a wonderful aircraft the Victor became.

This hardback book has 198 pages & measures: 24 x 16 x 2.4cm





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Victor Frankenstein, It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window & had been struck by his auburn locks." The long-haired poet
- ' Mad Shelley'
- & the serious-minded student from Switzerland spark each other's animated interest in the new philosophy of science which is over-turning long-cherished beliefs. Perhaps there is no God. In which case, where is the divine spark, the soul? Can it be found in the human brain? the heart? the eyes? Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office in Clarendon Street provides corpses
- but they have often died of violence & drowning: they are damaged & putrifying. Victor moves his coils & jars & electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. &, from Limehouse, makes contact with the Doomesday Men
- the resurrectionists. He pays better than any hospital for the bodies of the very recently dead. Even so, perfect specimens are hard to come by.. . until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, wrapped in his greatcoat, on his wooden jetty, hears the splashing of oars & sees in the half-light that slung into the stern of the approaching boat is the corpse of a handsome young man, one hand trailing in the water.... Show More Show Less



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Using unrestricted access to material from the Royal Archives, including previously unpublished passages from Queen Victoria's celebrated journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic account remains the definitive biography of this extraordinary woman. She shows the queen tormented by an unhappy childhood; tantalised by an all-too-brief happy marriage; deeply shocked at the Prince Consort's death. She depicts the gradual emergence of the queen's renowned qualities, together with some surprising traits, & presents her in a fresh, affectionate & thoroughly human light. ' Gives us more than the general reader has ever had, revealing the queen as a character at once simple & complex, authoritarian & humble' Daily Telegraph ' Dazzlingly readable, & very enjoyable' Stella Gibbons ' Longford has brought Queen Victoria to life again, & presents to a new generation of readers one of the most truly remarkable personalities of history with scrupulous care, fidelity & wit' Spectator ...