This book offers a powerful polemic on the decline of modern day Britain. Hitchens identifies everything that he feels has gone wrong with Britain since the Second World War & makes the case for the 'many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land & wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock back'. Writing with brilliance & flair Hitchens targets the pernicious effects of TV culture the corruption & decay of English language the loss of deference & the syrupy confessional mood brought on by the death of Princess Diana. This new paperback edition

Includes:: a brand new introduction taking the story up to the present day.

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Crime is a political football
- both left & right are terrified of seeming soft" on the issue but for all their efforts or
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The seventh book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s & 70s
- the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian
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A hundred years ago in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In a secret valley Agatha Farley is introduced to a family of motherless yetis & devotes her life to their upbringing. She teaches them to speak tells them stories & insists on polite manners. But as the decades pass tourists come to the mountains a hotel is built & yeti-hunters arrive. Agatha knows that there is one place in the world where they would be protected
- her ancetral home at Farley Towers. When a boy & his sister stumble upon her hidden valley she knows she has found the courageous people who will carry out her plan. The excited yetis are smuggled into the bridal suite at the hotel. A freezer lorry is waiting to put them into semi-hibernation on the long trip home. But the baby yak that has fallen in love with the youngest yeti foils the refrigeration plan & they set off on a hugely entertaining road trip half way across the world. In the Sultan of Aslerfan's kingdom the yetis release all the animals from his zoo. In the Alps they rescue a lost child in a blizzard. In Spain the yak creates chaos at a bullfight. But when they arrive in England a terrible shock awaits them at Farley Towers... This early novel never submitted for publication contains all the trademark qualities that made Eva's subsequent books so successful; comedy loveable & eccentric characters perfectly-crafted plotting & inspiring themes of tolerance kindness to animals & the defeat of cruelty.
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A hundred years ago in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In a secret valley Agatha Farley is introduced to a family of motherless yetis & devotes her life to their upbringing. She teaches them to speak tells them stories & insists on polite manners. But as the decades pass tourists come to the mountains a hotel is built & yeti-hunters arrive. Agatha knows that there is one place in the world where they would be protected
- her ancestral home at Farley Towers. When a boy & his sister stumble upon her hidden valley she knows she has found the courageous people who will carry out her plan. The excited yetis are smuggled into the bridal suite at the hotel. A freezer lorry is waiting to put them into semi-hibernation on the long trip home. But the baby yak that has fallen in love with the youngest yeti foils the refrigeration plan & they set off on a hugely entertaining road trip half way across the world. In the Sultan of Aslerfan's kingdom the yetis release all the animals from his zoo. In the Alps they rescue a lost child in a blizzard. In Spain the yak creates chaos at a bullfight. But when they arrive in England a terrible shock awaits them at Farley Towers... This early novel never submitted for publication contains all the trademark qualities that made Eva's subsequent books so successful; comedy loveable & eccentric characters perfectly-crafted plotting & inspiring themes of tolerance kindness to animals & the defeat of cruelty.
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THE VICTIM: On the steps of Santa Maria della Salute lies the body of a woman wearing the robes of a Catholic priest. In the eyes of the Church she is an abomination. THE INVESTIGATOR: Captain Kat Tapo has matched the victim's tattoo to graffiti in an abandoned asylum. Now she's been ordered to close the case. THE HACKER: Carnivia.com is a virtual Venice that holds the city's secrets. Only its reclusive creator can help Kat unearth the shocking truth...THE ABOMINATION has arrived. ...

Mucker Boogster Cheesy & Bob are THE ABOMINATORS. Recently posh boy Cecil has jumped into their lives like a demented grasshopper & they're not at all happy about it. Having a gang member who wears ridiculous panty wanty woos is UNTHINKABLE! Will an adventure involving baked beans a midnight quest & an escaped bear help to change their minds? There's only one way to find out.. . ...

About a Boy" is Nick Hornby's comic & heart-warming million-copy bestseller. ' How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six he's as hip as a teenager. He's single child-free goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell & Mozart looks after his mum & has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will
- & won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? & can Marcus help Will just to grow up? This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film " About A Boy" starring Hugh Grant & Nicholas Hoult. Fans of " One Day" by David Nicholls & " Any Human Heart" by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere. "A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping". (" Marie Claire"). " About the awful hilarious embarrassing places where children & adults meet & Hornby has captured it with delightful precision". (" Irish Times"). " It takes a writer with real talent to make this work & Hornby has it
- in buckets". (" Literary Review"). Nick Hornby has captivated readers & achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic well-observed novels " High Fidelity" " How to be Good" "A Long Way Down" (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) " Slam & Juliet" " Naked". His three works of non-fiction "31 Songs" (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) " Fever Pitch" (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) & " The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" are also available from Penguin."

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About a Boy" is Nick Hornby's comic & heart-warming million-copy bestseller " How cool was Will Freeman?" Too cool! At thirty-six he's as hip as a teenager. He's single child-free goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell & Mozart looks after his mum & has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will
- & won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? & can Marcus help Will just to grow up? This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film " About A Boy" starring Hugh Grant & Nicholas Hoult. Fans of " One Day" by David Nicholls & " Any Human Heart" by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere. "A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping". (Marie Claire). " About the awful hilarious embarrassing places where children & adults meet & Hornby has captured it with delightful precision". (" Irish Times"). " It takes a writer with real talent to make this work & Hornby has it
- in buckets". (" Literary Review"). Nick Hornby has captivated readers & achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic well-observed novels " High Fidelity" " How to be Good" "A Long Way Down" (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) " Slam & Juliet" " Naked". His three works of non-fiction "31 Songs" (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) " Fever Pitch" (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) & " The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" are also available from " Penguin"."

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The brand new summer bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Tess Brookes has always been a Girl with a Plan. But when the Plan goes belly up she's forced to reconsider. After accidently answering her flatmate Vanessa's phone she decides that since being Tess isn't going so well she might try being Vanessa. With nothing left to lose she accepts Vanessa's photography assignment to Hawaii
- she used to be an amateur snapper how hard can it be? Right? But Tess is soon in big trouble. & the gorgeous journalist on the shoot with her who is making it very clear he'd like to get into her pants is an egotistical monster. Far from home & in someone else's shoes Tess must decide whether to fight on through or 'fess up & run...
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