George Michael is the single most played artist on UK radio for the last two decades. He has sold 100 million albums world-wide & had seven UK number one singles & albums. This revealing new biography tells his story from the formation of Wham! in the early 1980s with friend Andrew Ridgley. Their success with hits including Young Guns (Go For It) & Club Tropicana & their split in 1986. His success as a solo artist with albums including Faith & Listen Without Prejudice. His legal battle with Sony which cost him millions of his own money. His personal life including his secret boyfriend Anselmo Feleppo who died in 1993 his former muse Kathy Jeung & art dealer Kenny Goss. The drug & sex scandals that eventually led him to be sent to prison in 2010 following a car crash.

Includes:: commentary by those best placed to observe his career
- such as former Wham! Manager Simon Napier-Bell.


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As an Arrow an elite soldier in the Psy Council ranks Judd Lauren was forced to do terrible things in the name of his people. Now a defector his dark abilities have made him the most deadly of assassins
- cold pitiless unfeeling. Until he meets Brenna.. . Brenna Shane Kincaid was an innocent before she was abducted
- & had her mind violated
- by a serial killer. Her sense of evil runs so deep she fears she could become a killer herself. Then the first dead body is found victim of a familiar madness. Judd is her only hope yet her sensual changeling side rebels against the inhuman chill of his personality even as desire explodes between them. Shocking & raw their passion is a danger that threatens not only their hearts but their very lives.. .


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Every island of the Caribbean has its own character & so not surprisingly does the food from their kitchens. Indeed when Christopher Columbus first arrived in the Carribean he is said to have remarked that he saw so many islands he hardly knew which to go to first. So variety is the spice of life in Caribbean cooking. It is a delightfully eclectic blend of tastes & textures influenced by ingredients & cooking techniques from Europe Asia & Africa; a diversity born out of the mixture of races
- Chinese Portuguese British Indian Amerindians & Africans whose travels & histories are the heart of the Caribbean. The essence of good Caribbean cuisine is in using fresh vegetables & fruit & seasoning meats & fish in herbs & spices. Rosamund Grants introduction to this cuisine presents recipes for traditional dishes as well as some created using ideas & ingredients borrowed from other cultures.
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In the BBC2 programme Caribbean Food Made Easy" Levi Roots travels around the UK & the Caribbean & reveals how delicious Caribbean food can be prepared at home with easy-to-prepare mouth-watering recipes using fresh healthy & readily-available ingredients. The show made by BBC Scotland will consist of four 30-minute prime-time shows from 8-8.30 pm including 3-4 dishes per programme. The accompanying cookbook

Includes:: 100 delicious Caribbean recipes including all of those that appear on the TV programme."

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With amazing culture beaches activities & weather not to mention the rum the Caribbean is a joyous riot of islands offering the ultimate escape. Ryan Ver Berkmoes Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage & you can rely on us to tell it like we see it. Inside This Book 65 islands covered 13 expert authors 500 days (and nights) of research 874 gorgeous beaches Inspirational photos Clear easy-to-use maps Cruising feature In-depth background Comprehensive planning tools Easy-to-read layout ...

An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed! As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True the warmth eased her rheumatism but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually her interest was aroused by an old soldiers yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph the Majors attention wandered. He never did finished the story! ...

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True the warmth eased her rheumatism but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually her interest was aroused by an old soldiers yarn about strange coincidence. Infuriatingly just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph the Majors attention wandered. He never did finish the story... June Whitfield stars as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Throws off false clues & misleading events as only a master of the art can do. (New York Times) ...

A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form
- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design.
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As more critically ill patients are cared for on acute general wards rather than in ICUs many nurses are having to cope with the particular problems of very sick patients without the specialist knowledge of an ICU trained nurse. This book considers the key issues surrounding the critical patient's care in the acute general hospital. The anatomy & physiology of each body system is explored looking at the major associated conditions & illnesses & how the patient is assessed & monitored. ...

Carl Andre (born 1935) the American minimalist artist is perhaps best known for his grid-based floor sculptures but also for large outdoor public artworks & small sculptures poetry & installations. Alistair Rider here shows that it is the materials that he uses to make his works that inspire him
- from his controversial bricks to all sorts of metals found wood even hay bales Andre is fascinated by what materials make up the world & presents them for contemplation. Andre's early wood sculptures show the influence of Brancusi who he had met through their mutual friend Hollis Frampton when a student in the early 1950s. Then towards the end of that decade he shared a studio with Frank Stella & their conversations led to rapid development in his work when he began using a radial saw to shape his sculptures. Between 1960-4 Andre worked as freight brakeman & conductor in New Jersey for the Pennsylvania Railroad & focused mainly on writing including his poems in the tradition of Concrete Poetry that makes visual use of the words on the page. His experiences working on the freight trains would have a later influence on Andre's sculpture in ordered organization & his artistic personality
- it was not uncommon for Andre to dress in overalls & a blue work shirt even to attend formal occasions. His most well known writings were published in 1980 in a book called 12 Dialogues in which Andre & Frampton took turns responding to one another at a typewriter using mainly poetry & free-form essay-like texts. Andre's Concrete Poetry has exhibited in the USA & Europe a comprehensive collection of which is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His first public exhibition of work was in 1965 in the ' Shape & Structure' show curated by Henry Geldzahler at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery & in 1966 his controversial Lever was included in the important exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York Primary Structures. In 1970 he had a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & has had one man exhibitions & participated in group shows in major museums & galleries throughout the USA & Europe. His work features in many important collections including the UK's Tate which bought Equivalent VIII in 1972 & a few years later was the inspiration for much public controversy over the nature of contemporary art. He is now represented by the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York by Sadie Coles HQ in London & Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris & lives & works in New York. Alistair Rider here divides Andre's works into the major themes & series that have shaped his career's development exploring how each has grown from Andre's philosophies & artistic growth. For the first time Andre's poetry is given due place in his oeuvre making this a uniquely comprehensive understanding of the artist & his art.

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