In the Jiggys Genes series we will meet a whole host of Jiggys ancestors & discover that through centuries past there have always been Jiggys! Its not easy being a peasant. Jiggys medieval life is one dirty dung heap of trouble after another. Worse he has to work for the dumbest Knight in the land Sir Bozo de Beurk. But when Jiggy discovers a pair of magic balls his fortunes might be about to change... ...

Take your partners please. Suburban witches defiant old ladies ageing monsters suicidal Lottery winners wolf men dolphin women & middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear: in Joanne Harris' first collection of short stories the miraculous goes h&-in-hand with the mundane the sour with the sweet & the beautiful the grotesque the seductive & the disturbing are never more than one step away. This is an eclectic selection of tales for our times that shows a side to Joanne Harris you have never seen before. So go on be tempted. After all it's only dancing. ...

On a bitter winter evening during rush hour a bomb explodes in a crowded train in the London underground. More than a hundred people are horrifically & senselessly slaughtered. In the absence of any terrorist claims come distressing unanswerable questions: Who planted the device? & why? A few hours later in a Mayfair flat a young prostitute is murdered & an enigmatic message written in blood is left in her room... It is addressed to Frank Pagan counter-terrorist specialist who has been shunted aside by the political infighting at Special Branch but is now brought back from exile to investigate the most terrifying case of his career. Pagan who moves in his own mysterious ways who flaunts the rule-book & follows his own instincts is plunged into a darkening puzzle more sinister than a bomb in an underground tunnel. He finds himself pitted against two old adversaries: the deranged terrorist Carlotta a woman whose appetite for blood is matched only by Pagans hunger for justice
- & the ghost of Jig his most famous antagonist whose death has given birth to new demons.
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Forensic psychologist Paul Britton asks himself four questions when he is faced with a crime scene: what happened: who is the victim: how was it done & why? Only when he has the answers to these questions can he address the fifth: who is responsible? An intensely private & unassuming man Britton has an almost mythic status in the field of crime deduction because of his ability to 'walk through the minds' of those who stalk abduct torture rape & kill other human beings. What he searches for at the scene of a crime are not fingerprints fibres or blood stains
- he looks for the 'mind trace' left behind by those responsible; the psychological characteristics that can help police to identify & understand the nature of the perpetrator. Over the past dozen years he has been at the centre of more than 100 headline-making investigations from the murder of Jamie Bulger to the abduction of baby Abbie Humphries the slaying of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common the pursuit of the Green Chain rapist & the Heinz baby food extortionist the notorious Gloucester House of Horror & most recently the murder of Naomi Smith. Told with humanity & insight The Jigsaw Man is Paul Britton's absorbing first-hand account of those cases & of his groundbreaking analysis & treatment of the criminal mind. It combines the heart-stopping tension of the best detective thriller with his unique & profound understanding of the dark side of the human condition.
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Award-winning illustrator Mini Grey turns her inimitable hand to Hilaire Belloc's classic cautionary tale of Jim: who ran away from his Nurse & was eaten by a Lion! First published in 1907 Belloc's wickedly funny poem describing the sad end of Jim is now fabulously illustrated by Mini Grey for this extra-special new edition. This is a perfect gift with much to explore... ...

Part one of a three-part graphic novel prequel series delving into the origins of the Skeksis Mystics Gelflings the world of Thra & The Dark Crystal itself. Spanning a time period from thousands of years ago to right up to the start of the original film this graphic novel epic will tell the definitive origin of The Dark Crystal" under the supervision of The Jim Henson Company & " The Dark Crystal" concept designer Brian Froud." ...

Jim Morrisons electrifying live performances & appetite for sexual & psychedelic experience enflamed the spirit of a generation. In Jim Morrison critically acclaimed journalist Stephen Davis brings together insights gleaned from dozens of original interviews long-lost recordings & Morrisons own unpublished journals to create a vivid portrait of a misunderstood genius. Each page brims with new details on every phase of Morrisons life from his troubled youth in a strict military household to his coming of age in the avant-garde scene of 1960s LA his epic alcohol & drug binges & sexual affairs. In a gripping final chapter Davis synthesizes new evidence recently uncovered in Paris to resolve at last many of the mysteries surrounding Morrisons death & reconstructs the final days & hours of Americas greatest rock star. Compelling & harrowing intimate & revelatory Jim Morrison is the definitive biography of the rock god who defined the 1960s. ...

Jimi Hendrix was very probably the greatest solo rock artist of all time. He was the supreme physical & musical emblem of rock music. If anyone personified the genre in its purest most potent & inflammatory form it was Hendrix. He was unparalleled as a sonic sculptor of fretboard electricity. With a deceptively theatrical sexuality he wrought a molten & massive body of sound which left his contemporaries sounding small monochrome & tinny by comparison a body of sound which is still awe-inspiring today. ...

Song by song album by album concert by concert this book analyzes how Jimi Hendrix achieved his unique sound. The book examines all of Hendrix's equipment providing a nuts-&-bolts analysis of each of his guitars (including serial number history provenance) choice of amps & his singular use of revolutionary effects from wah-wahs to overdrives to bizzar-o pedals like the Fuzzface. A practical reference book like no other this volume gives the proper guidance & tools to any guitarist who wants to emulate & learn from the greatest guitar player of all time. ...

The book reveals for the first time the true story of Hendrix discovery in the US his arrival in swinging London & his acceptance of (and by)the British & the London music establishment. Packed with new interviews Brian Southall weaves a narrative that brings the period to life & charts his success in England that acted as a springboard for him to return to the US for Monterey & superstardom. ...