You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom & do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again it might not. So begins our nameless heros trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrows hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights Big City" is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay Mc Inerney as one of the major writers of our time." ...

This is an updated edition of the critically acclaimed biography of Abba bringing the story right up to date. It contains new afterword which

Includes:: details of how all four members attended the Swedish opening of Mamma Mia" in 2005
- but they were not seated together. How " Mamma Mia" keeps getting more successful & is being made into a film that will premiere in July 2008. It also covers: how Benny is enjoying domestic success with his band Benny Anderssons orkester how Bjorn has emerged as a spokesman for the Swedish Humanist Association how Frida leads a low-key life out of the spotlight & how the story of Agnetha & her boyfriend turned stalker continues."


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Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars & down-&-outs. Palm-lined beaches & gridlock. Shopping sprees & gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Freys trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters bringing their egos & ideals hopes & despairs anxieties & absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded or grounded & have luck on their side. Others like the countless actresses-turned-hookers or schoolboys-turned-gangsters are doomed. ...

Far below the waves a little fish called Stanley lived with the rest of his shoal. They were the brightest sparkliest fish in the whole of the deep dark sea. One morning Stanley woke up rather late. Coo-ee! Its me-ee!" he called to his friends as usual. But the reef was strangely quiet..." ...

Bright Young Things is a thoroughly entertaining non-fiction account of the real Downton Abbey which brings to life the historical backdrop of the series in an informative fun & engaging book. As one viewer told The New York Times: Im just enjoying the show so much I thought I needed to get a book about it. & I was watching [the historical scenes] & thinking I dont know enough about this. So maybe I can learn something in the process. So step into a time of hot jazz & even hotter all-night dance halls as Alison Maloney shares the gossip about life in the Roaring Twenties. Read all about it: high societys scandalous exploits fresh new fashions the Charleston dance craze costume parties talking movies & of course the feisty flapper. With chapters such as Makin Whoopee Cocktail Hour & Upstairs Downstairs Bright Young Things takes a sweeping look at the changing society of the Jazz Age as life below stairs vanished forever loose morals ran riot & new inventions made it seem anything was possible. Peppered with first-person accounts that convey the spirit of the era in the words of those who lived it Bright Young Things is a scintillating celebration of a truly iconic decade. ...

Curious events almost seem to cry out for the Saints intervention & in these stories he is faced with enough peculiar crimes to keep him well occupied. The various adventures he gets himself into lead him to kiss a policewoman buy a racehorse invest in bootlegging dabble in antiques rent a flat recover a treaty get arrested demonstrate an invention
- & always come out on top.
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Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street her husband Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The happily married couple head into New Yorks 1980s gold rush where prospects & money seem to be flying everywhere & the best & the brightest vie with the worst & most craven for riches fame & the love of beautiful people. But the Calloways soon find out that what goes up must come crashing down both on Wall Street & at home. Brightness Falls" captures lives-in-the-making: men & women confronting their sudden middle-age with wit & low behaviour fear & confusion & just occasionally a little honesty & decency." ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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