Few people achieve success & notoriety in more than one field but Tony Mason has managed it! He joined a local car club before he even had a car eventually climbing to the top with rally wins in his native Lake District before joining the prestigious Ford works team & co-driving Britain's biggest rally star Roger Clark to win outright the RAC Rally
- Britain's toughest event of its kind. He started a successful car accessory business then ventured onto the stage for a short while before being signed by the BBC to appear on its popular Top Gear programme on which he was a main presenter for 15 years. His cheery presence became a popular part of the programme & he moved from rallying to driving all manner of vehicles from vintage Rolls-Royces Reliant Robins tanks fire engines & Eddie Stobart trucks. After he was famously bombarded with snowballs during a report on the Monte Carlo Rally he became even better known with the famous out-take being shown on programmes around the the world. Tony Mason's light-hearted jovial persona transfers from television to page in this autobiography taking readers on a trip from his early life in the seaside town of Morecambe through almost 100 countries with thrills spills ups-&-downs all vividly remembered & often shown in photographs.
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Compelling insightful often sombrely beautiful Sunday Telegraph Moving beyond travelogue The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms the foreign religions of Christianity & Islam the cults of leaders & mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization. Beginning in Uganda at the centre of the continent Naipauls journey takes in Ghana & Nigeria the Ivory Coast & Gabon & ends as the country does in South Africa. Focusing upon the theme of belief -- though sometimes the political or economical realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account -- Naipaul examines the fragile but enduring quality of the old world of magic. To witness the ubiquity of such ancient ritual to be given some idea of its power was to be taken far back to the beginning of things. To reach that beginning was the purpose of this book. Naipaul travels he asks he listens attentively & above all else he notices often seeing what others do not or cannot. That acute gift has never left him.. .he is sustained by the old ideal of unadorned truth-telling New Statesman The quality of Naipauls writing -- simple concise engaging -- rarely varies... Above all Naipauls latest African journey is eyewitness reporting at its best Time ...

But if modern manhood had let me down at least the past boasted brighter specimens. To wit the Scarlet Pimpernel the violet Gentian & the Pink Carnation that dashing trio of spies who kept Napoleon in a froth of rage & the feminine population of England in another sort of froth entirely. Modern-day student Eloise Kelly has achieved a great academic coup by unmasking the elusive spy the Pink Carnation who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Carnations deadly nemesis the Black Tulip. & shes pretty sure that handsome Colin Selwick has the answers somewhere in his familys archives. While searching through Lady Henriettas old letters from 1803 Eloise stumbles across something more exciting than she ever imagined: Henrietta & her old friend Miles Dorrington were on the trail of the Black Tulip & had every intention of stopping him in his endeavour to kill the Pink Carnation. But what they didnt know was that while they were trying to find the Tulip
- & trying not to fall in love in the process
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Preparations are under way for the ball of the century. But as any true Blue Blood knows it's the after-party that counts. & the cunning Mimi Force is getting ready to make sure her masquerade ball is the place to be for the Young Fabulous & Fanged. But Schuyler Van Alen has more on her mind than fancy dresses even if her crush Jack Force is sure to make an appearance. She's getting closer to finding out what's been preying on the young vamps
- & discovering the deadly secrets hiding under the masks... Rich with glamour attitude & vampire lore this second instalment in the Blue Bloods saga will leave readers thirsting for more.
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Robin & Prudence Merriot have been dissemblers since they were children. & in this age of slippery politics they need to be. So it is nothing for them to rescue a rich heiress from her abductor. But once committed to their masquerade they must see it through. ...

This novel continues the all-new completely original story begun in the first three MASS EFFECT stories. The heroine Gillian was once the subject of horrifying scientific experiments but now after her rescue she is beginning to master her amazing powers. But when she falls under the sway of a radical group who believes their powers make them superior to ordinary humans she finds herself faced with a choice between her destiny.. .and her humanity. ...

Mass Effect 2" lead writer Mac Walters reveals an essential moment in the life of Commander Shepard the galaxy's greatest hero only in " Mass Effect: Redemption"! The eagerly anticipated sequel to the blockbuster science-fiction epic IGN.com named the number 1 Xbox 360 game of all time " Mass Effect 2" begins with the disappearance of Commander Shepard. The story of what happens next
- exclusive to this graphic novel
- will have the commander's companion Dr. Liara T' Soni undertake a deadly mission of extraordinary importance in the Milky Way's lawless Terminus Systems."

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Mass Effect 2 & 3 lead" writer Mac Walters returns with an essential story from Bio Wares massively anticipated video game " Mass Effect 3"! The Omega space station is the center of lawlessness in the galaxy a den of vice ruled by the deadly asari Aria. It is also a strategic foothold in a galaxy-wide power struggle & when the station comes under attack from a new threat unleashed by the humanity-first organization Cerberus Aria is forced to become more ruthless than ever to protect her home
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Mass Effect 3" lead writer Mac Walters masterminds this new collection of action-packed tales from different corners of the " Mass Effect" universe! These four essential stories from Walters & the writers of " Mass Effect 3" star characters central to Bio Wares latest epic including James Vega Tali Garrus & Liara in adventures that reveal their unbreakable connections to their homeworlds. With " Mass Effect 3" shattering records & blowing minds dont miss these canonical pieces of the " Mass Effect" saga!" ...

Location: Our galaxy at a time set far in our future.. . Every 50 000 years a race of machines returns to harvest the galaxys organic life forms. In the first MASS EFFECT game it is the year 2183 & the machines are about to return once again. This book will be a bridging novel set between the first & second MASS EFFECT games. ...