For years Tom Cox might have seemed like a regular hard-living sort of bloke -- a lover of late nights rock music & beer -- but he had a dark furry secret. Tom was a cat lover. For a while he kept his passion in check but there was only so long he could postpone his true dream especially after he met Dee his moggy-loving soulmate. He let London & his job as a rock critic behind & he & Dee her cat Janet & three new kittens moved to a remote part of Norfolk. They thought it would be easy. They thought their cat madness had reached its limit. They were wrong. In Under the Paw Tom records the chaos of owning seven of the most charismatic idiotic & duplicitous cats in the country. Suddenly on call around the clock for multiple sets of whiskers Tom encounters death depression flying fur & the first human sentence spoken by a feline. Running through all the maelstrom is the heartbreaking story of his relationship with The Bear his oldest cat: a 'painfully sensitive' survivor moggy who may or may not be an evil genius. ...

In the middle of the night the sisterhood is your only hope. A sisters work is never done
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1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable the great delta-winged machines are also equipped with state of the art electronic warfare devices that jam American radar systems. Evading the fighters scrambled to intercept them the British aircraft target Washington & New York reducing them to smoking ruins. They would have done at least if this were not an exercise. This extraordinary raid (which actually took place) opens James Hamilton-Paterson's remarkable novel about the lives of British pilots at the height of the Cold War when aircrew had to be on call 24 hours a day to fly their nuclear-armed V-bombers to the Western USSR & devastate the lives of millions. This is the story of Squadron-Leader Amos Mc Kenna a Vulcan pilot who is suffering from desires & frustrations that are tearing his marriage apart & making him question his ultimate loyalties. Relations with the American cousins are tense; the future of the RAF bomber fleet is in doubt. & there is a spy at RAF Wearsby who is selling secrets to his Russian handlers in seedy East Anglian cafes. A macabre Christmas banquet at which aircrew under intolerable pressures go crazy with tragic consequences & a dramatic & disastrous encounter with the Americans in the Libyan desert are among the high points of a novel that surely conveys the beauty & danger of flying better than any other in recent English literature. ...

Dive down & discover the secrets of the seven seas to reveal the hidden secrets of the briny deep. This book is full of colourful scenes with information on different underwater habitats from coral reefs to arctic ice flows to the dark deeps of the ocean trenches as well as fantastic facts on tsunamis tides & flooding. It contains informative features on how humans are affecting the oceans with overfishing pollution & global warming. It contains over fifty sturdy embedded flaps. ...

Stick this bright bold book to the side of your bath! With a detailed underwater scene on one side & a collection of fun sea creatures on the other this fully reversible bath frieze is the ideal way to keep your baby happy at bathtime. The book comes with two robust suckers is packaged in a high quality PVC gift bag & has soft durable wipe-clean pages. The perfect addition to baby's bathtime routine. ...

Frances Mayes
- widely published poet gourmet cook & travel writer
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One of the twentieth centurys great undisputed masterpieces Malcolm Lowrys Under the Volcano"

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Under the Walnut Tree is an inspiring cookbook by mother & daughter team Anna & Fanny Bergenstrom. Combining international & Scandinavian flavours recipes are organised by ingredient such as coconut ginger chillies chocolate & vanilla. There are also menu suggestions covering everything from small intimate dinners to large parties. Filled to the brim with 400 recipes & over 300 colour photographs this is a cookbook to be used & relished year after year. Anna & Fanny Bergenstrom have previously collaborated on a number of best-selling titles in their native Sweden. ...

Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent & the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians veteran photographer Paul Conroy & Marie Colvin one of the foremost war correspondents of her generation decided to smuggle themselves across enemy lines & into the blood & terror of Homs. But tragedy struck before the pair could finish documenting the slaughter. A rocket killed Colvin & ripped a hole in Conroy's leg. As Syrian ground forces closed in on his position Conroy was forced to make a terrifying last-ditch attempt to escape from a regime that appeared determined to murder him. Under the Wire is the epic untold account of Conroy & Colvin's last tragic assignment together. A rare & touching portrait of an extraordinary woman driven by an unquenchable desire to 'bear witness' it is as much a tale of courage & survival as it is the poignant account of a friendship forged amid the carnage of war. ...

Determined to take on the Nazis Texan Bill Ash joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939 & in so doing sacrificed his citizenship. Before long he was sent to England wherehe flew Spitfires. Shot down over France in March 1942 he survived the crash-landing & thanks to local civilians evaded capture for months only to be betrayed to the Gestapo in Paris. Tortured & sentenced to death as a spy he was saved from the firing squad by the Luftwaffe who sent him to the infamous Great Escape POW camp Stalag Luft III. It was from there that Bill began his tour of Occupied Europe. Breaking out of a succession of camps he became one of only a handful of serial escape artists to attempt more than a dozen break-outs
- over the wire under it in tunnels through it with cutters or simply strolling out of the camp gates in disguise! They were years of extraordinary hardship frustration & brutality
- the penalty for escaping was a long spell in solitary
- but throughout it all Bill Ash displayed not just remarkable courage but also an anarchic sense of humour great humanity & an unstoppable desire for freedom. Honest funny & exciting Under the Wire is both a riveting war memoir & a tribute to the bravery & resolve of an entire generation.


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