When Jimmy OConnell took a job as chauffeur for 007 producers Eon Productions it would not just be Cubby Broccoli Roger Moore & Sean Connery he would drive to James Bond
- his grandson Mark swiftly hitched a metaphorical ride too. In Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan Mark OConnell takes us on a humorous journey of filmic discovery where Bond films fire like bullets at a Thatcher era childhood closeted adolescence & adult life as a comedy writer still inspired by that Broccoli movie magic. Catching Bullets is a unique & sharply-observed love-letter to James Bond Duran Duran title songs & bolting down your tea quick enough to watch Roger Moore falling out of a plane without a parachute.
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After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen returns to her district hoping for a peaceful future. But Katniss starts to hear rumours of a deadly rebellion against the Capitol. A rebellion that she & Peeta have helped to create. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless Katniss & Peeta can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. This is the terrifying sequel to The Hunger Games"." ...

After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen returns to her district hoping for a peaceful future. But Katniss starts to hear rumours of a deadly rebellion against the Capitol. A rebellion that she & Peeta have helped to create. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitols cruel Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless Katniss & Peeta can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. This is the terrifying sequel to The Hunger Games"." ...

In this stunningly original book Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire" lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink & the human brain to grow helped structure human society & created the male-female division of labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire humans emerged as 'the cooking apes'. Covering everything from food-labelling & overweight pets to raw-food faddists " Catching Fire" offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social intelligent & sexual species we are today." ...

This is the second book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games" trilogy. After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss & Peeta return to their district hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out.. .and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitols Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. Then comes the cruelest twist: the contestants for the next Hunger Games are announced & Katniss & Peeta are forced into the arena once more." ...

Musical verse accompanies a milkman & his cranky kitty as they make their morning rounds. The milkman knows his hometown; he knows who needs ice cream for a birthday party who just broke a leg & who has a new baby. He even helps return a lost dog thats hiding along his route. This pitch-perfect retro read-alouds gentle sensibility is ideally matched with beautiful art that powerfully evokes an era of classic illustration. ...

Angling with a rod & line is a gift as old as history itself. It is something everyone can enjoy
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Jamie & Tom are off for another adventure in Dino World through their secret smugglers cave. This time they decide to try crabbing
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Welcome to the Cretaceous! It's a wild & dangerous place but it's too awesome to resist! So Jamie & Tom set off to the Cretaceous again by stepping in the fossilized footprints in their secret smugglers' cave. They decide to try some crabbing & manage to catch a real-life prehistoric crab. But as the boys inspect the amazing creature a sneaky velociraptor runs up & grabs the Fossil Finder. Disaster! The boys have to get it back
- if they don't then future scientists might find a fossilized Fossil Finder & that could mess up the whole of dinosaur science! The chase is underway
- through a valley of geysers spurting boiling water
- & on to the velociraptor's lair.. . This is the fifth book in the hugely popular Dinosaur Cove series which has now sold over a million copies. This new edition

Includes:: a set of Cretaceous collector cards.




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Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket Thail&. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of
- a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass & this young family is free to grow. But both man-made disaster & the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finns family. CATCHING THE SUN is a gripping moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise
- & end up discovering themselves.

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