Longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize & shortlisted for the for the Guardian First Book Award Ned Beauman was chosen by The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Writers in 2011. This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes & the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas & deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase. There are riots & sex. There is love & murder. There is Darwinism & Fascism nightclubs invented languages & the dangerous bravado of youth. & there are lots of beetles. It is clever. It is distinctive. It is entertaining. We hope you are too. www.boxerbeetle.com ...

Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: Hell is other people. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War & quickly became friends comrades & mutual admirers. But the intellectual honeymoon was short-lived. In 1943 with Nazis patrolling the streets Sartre & Camus sat in a cafe on the boulevard Saint-Germain with Simone de Beauvoir & began a discussion about life & love & literature that would finally tear them apart. They ended up on opposite sides in a war of words over just about everything: women philosophy politics. Their friendship culminated in a bitter & very public feud that was described as the end of a love-affair but which never really finished. Sartre was a boxer & a drug-addict; Camus was a goalkeeper who subscribed to a degree-zero approach to style & ecstasy. Sartre obsessed with his own ugliness took up the challenge of accumulating women; Camus part-Bogart part-Samurai was also a self-confessed Don Juan who aspired to chastity. Sartre & Camus play out an epic struggle between the symbolic & the savage. But what if the friction between these two unique individuals is also the source of our own inevitable conflicts? Martin reconstructs the intense & antagonistic relationship that was (in Sartres terms) doomed to failure. Weaving together the lives & ideas & writings of Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre he relives the existential drama that binds them together & remixes a philosophical dialogue that speaks to us now. ...

This is the complete story of boxing from the pugilists of the classical amphitheatres to the heroes of today. This is the ultimate companion for any serious fight-fan. The Champions

Includes:: illustrated biographies of Corbett Sullivan ' Kid' Lewis Dempsey Tunney Freddie Mills Joe Louis Rocky Marciano Henry Cooper Muhammad Ali Foreman Frazier Holmes Bruno Mc Guigan Hagler ' Sugar' Ray Leonard Mike Tyson & many others. The Great Fights covers over eighty epic encounters in detail each famous for its savagery artistry controversy spectacle or prize-money. The World of Boxing offers a behind-the-scenes look at the managers the promoters the trophies & the venues & a pictorial guide to the books magazines cards & collector's items that document boxing's past & present. Boxing combining brute force & raw courage with classic skill & artistry appeals to a broader range of emotions & senses than any other form of human sport. The first section The Champions offers biographies & visual portraits of the legendary names in boxing including the greats of the modern era. The second section The Great Fights highlights those contests & moments that form the core of boxing lore. Eighty encounters are covered in detail. The final section The World of Boxing offers a behind-the-scenes insight into the managers promoters trophies venues magazines books paintings & collector's items.

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This is the best boxing fitness book in the World! Whether youre serious about boxing or just serious about getting in shape this book will help. The same methods that build speed stamina & power in the ring have just as much to offer the fitness enthusiast or the beginner. Ian Olivers credentials are indisputable & his advice indispensable. Whether youre young or old male or female experienced fighter or enthusiastic amateur Boxing Fitness" will get you in the best shape of your life." ...

No one is more qualified to answer the time-honoured question who was the greatest fighter? than Bert Randolph Sugar. In Boxings Greatest Fighters" the former editor of " The Ring" magazine not only tells us who the greatest fighters are but tells us the order of their greatness. Could Sugar Ray Robinson have beaten Sonny Liston? The answer most experts agree would be no. But what if as Bert Sugar has done here one were to take all the boxers & reduce them in the minds eye to the same height the same weight the same ring conditions? The answers are very different. & while some fans may express outrage that Rocky Marciano is not in the top 10 & Marvelous Marvin Hagler is barely in the top 50 others will nod sagely when they read why Sugar selects Henry Armstrong & Willie Pep as better than just about anybody else. So whether you read " Boxing Greatest Fighters" cover-to-cover or merely flip to your favourites be prepared at the bell to come out arguing. For Sugar makes The Sweet Science one helluva sweet quarrel." ...

This sturdy boxset contains the first six books from the Key Words with Peter & Jane reading scheme (1a 1b 1c 2a 2b & 2c). 100 Key Words make up half of all those we read & write. This essential vocabulary is carefully introduced practised & developed throughout the scheme. ...

Roald Dahls life was as bizarre exciting & funny as the stories he wrote & here is the whole of his own extraordinary autobiography in one volume. With a new Quentin Blake cover & a whole new end section of fascinating facts about Roald Dahl. ...

Boy: Tales of Childhood" is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood. Including takes of sweet-shops & chocolate mean old ladies & a Great Mouse Plot
- the inspiration for some of his most marvellous storybooks in the years to come. These tales are full of exciting & strange things
- some funny some frightening all true. ' An autobiography is a book a person writes about their own life & it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiogrpahy'
- Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations."


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I sat down in assembly one day & started to read this book to my two hundred & forty students deciding that I would stop when restlessness became too obvious. I went on...and on...and on. In the end I had to stop before the school seized up & still the children clamoured for more." Gerald Haigh TES" ...

Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death.. . We the few who survived the war & the majority who perished in the camps did not use & would not have understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march'. These were coined later by outsiders." Boy 30529 tells the story of a boy who at the age of twelve lost everything: hope family & even his own identity. As Nazi persecutions grew in intensity young Felix's father went to England to obtain travel papers to allow the family to emigrate from Czechoslovakia. But they never made it out of Prague. Felix spent the next three years in a series of concentration camps
- Terezi´n Auschwitz-Birkenau Blechhammer Gross-Rosen & Buchenwald
- & survived the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. The book is a meditation on memory & of how to forget & how the Holocaust remains an event at the center of historical debate."

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