If ever there were a book to make you switch off your television set The Dangerous Book for Boys is it. How many other books will help you thrash someone at conkers race your own go-cart & identify the best"ations from Shakespeare? The Dangerous Book for Boys gives you facts & figures at your fingertips
- swot up on the solar system learn about famous battles & read inspiring stories of incredible courage & bravery. Teach your old dog new tricks. Make a pinhole camera. Understand the laws of cricket. Theres a whole world out there: with this book anyone can get out & explore it. The Dangerous Book for Boys is written with the verve & passion that readers of Conn Igguldens number one bestselling novels have come to expect. This book his first non-fiction work has been written with his brother as a celebration of the long summers of their youth & as a compendium of information so vital to men of all ages. Lavishly designed & fully illustrated in colour & black & white throughout its set to be a perfect gift for Fathers Day & beyond. Chapters in The Dangerous Book for Boys include: The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World Conkers Laws of Football Dinosaurs Fishing Juggling Timers & Tripwires Kings & Queens Famous Battles Spies Making Crystals Insects & Spiders Astronomy Girls The Golden Age of Piracy Secret Inks Patron Saints of Britain Skimming Stones Dog Tricks Making a Periscope Coin Tricks Marbles Artillery The Origin of Words & The Solar System.
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Finally a book that teaches a man how to be a man that harks back to a less sheltered & pampered age when without the aid of technology men had to use their military training & outdoor skills & were prepared for any eventuality. The Dangerous Book for Men" offers useful but often long-neglected skills & imparts wisdom gleaned from many sources. You can learn & relearn forgotten skills like how to light a fire in a downpour set a broken limb or harvest food from the wild among many other skills that a true adventurer cannot do without. Presented in an elegantly designed but hardy volume " The Dangerous Book for Men" teaches the importance of self-reliance common sense & background knowledge. With this book every man will be able to overcome whatever perils & difficulties he might encounter in the course of an adventurous life." ...

So your husband/boyfriend/partner (delete as necessary) has just tipped over 35/40/45/50 (delete as necessary) & you can see that he's not quite as keen on Emmerdale as he once was. He's started to dress with his jeans hoiked too high like his hero Jeremy Clarkson & he's bought a home gym
- the one recommended by George Clooney. Then there are those Harley Davison brochures delivered in brown envelopes. You've noticed he's started pulling in his beer gut when he's talks to his teenage secretary. & why have his grey sideburns turned that browny black? That's a sure sign of hair dye. & then you stumble into the bathroom in the morning & he's got his hands in a jar of your face cream. LADIES BEWARE! That dangerous age has arrived. It's the male menopause. The mid-life crisis. The time when suddenly you find your partner has put a whole Scalextrix track in your attic without you noticing. He's bought an electric guitar & insists on playing Smoke On The Water" to the cat at all hours. It that time when no matter what you say they suddenly don't mind making a fools of themselves. They come home almost every week with a new enthusiasm. Dangerous Men don't just cook
- they COOK. With truffles that cost GBP210 for one the size of a wrinkled scrotum & have to be from the right region of France. & they must be served with a side order of blowfish because you saw that in a " James Bond" DVD that came free with the " Mail on Sunday"."

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When Rachel Kemp is in danger of losing her job at a London University visiting academic Luke Holloway takes her for a sybaritic weekend in the country to cheer her up. Her encounters with Luke & his enigmatic friend Max open up a world of sensual possibilities & she is even offered a new job editing a sexually explicit Victorian diary. But when Rachel returns to London she is accused of smuggling papers out of the country & is sacked on the spot. When she tries to clear her name she discovers her actions have dangerous
- & highly erotic
- consequences.

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As plain-clothes men go Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny & minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod his outsized & unruly dog Kitty his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames
- none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes & the outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend Jemma & every so often he stumbles upon something really big.
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Set in 1949: one year in the childhood of Candida Lycett Green in the remote village of Farnborough in Berkshire. Here she lives with her father John Betjeman & her mother Penelope Chetwode in one of the bleakest & highest spots on the windswept downl&. Candida runs wild with the 'gang' of village children. Stimulated by regular excursions to the cinema in Wantage Candida & her best friend June became fascinated by the idea of love. Their romantic imagination is fuelled by the beautiful Ruby Mason who cleans the cottage of a reclusive scientist Dr. Fox employed at the neighbouring Harwell Atomic Research Centre. They stealthily engineer a romance between the two
- until it is revealed that none of the children's special adult friends are what they seem & the real world shockingly intervenes to overturn their innocence.
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In Melbourne's urban underworld there's a nightclub for every fetish fantasy & desire. But for Riley Jenson a rare hybrid of vampire & werewolf one such club has become an obsession. Riley hasn't come in pursuit of pleasure but of an unknown killer who's been using the steamy nightspot as his hunting grounds. Leave it to Riley to find the only ticket into the heavily guarded club: Jin a deliciously hot-bodied bartender who might just provide the key to unmasking a killer unlike any other in the Directorate's experience. Taunted by a former colleague-turned-rogue distracted by an ex-lover's attentions Riley follows Jin into a realm of pleasure she could never have imagined. & as danger & passion ignite a shocking mystery begins to unravel
- one where Riley herself becomes the ultimate object of desire.. .
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A walk through Kensal Green Cemetery a meat pie in the greasy spoon a weekend away complete with flannel pyjamas
- Dangerous Davies
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The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey cousin of Elizabeth I has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married & produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London Catherine hears ghostly voices echoes she thinks of a crime committed in the same room where she is imprisoned. The story flashes back to 1483 & another Catherine
- Kate Plantaganet bastard daughter of Richard III. She has heard terrible rumours of the death of the young deposed Edward V & his brother (the Princes in the Tower) but loyalty to her father prevents her believing them. After his death at Bosworth she is viewed with suspicion by Henry VII's court even more so when she becomes pregnant. Catherine too is pregnant a friendly warder having sneaked Edward into her room. She finds documents relating to Kate's life & gets swept up both in Kate's story & the mystery of the Princes which she realises Kate never solved. Kate dies in childbirth & it is left to Catherine to discover the truth about the Princes.
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Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history the Princes in the Tower. Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Newly pregnant she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin Queen Elizabeth I who sees her as a rival to her insecure throne. Alone in her chamber in the Tower she finds old papers belonging to a kinswoman of hers Kate Plantagenet who forty years previously had embarked on a dangerous quest to find what really happened to her cousins the two young Princes who had last been seen as captives in the Tower. But time is not on Kate's side
- nor on Katherine's either...
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