In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano a coalminer's son met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame
- emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields unknown & untutored he has become Scotland's most successful & controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters & cards mugs & umbrellas prints of his work outsell Van Gogh Dali & Monet & his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. ' The Singing Butler' Britain's most reproduced painting fetched a record GBP744 800 at auction in April 2004. Vettriano's images have an often mysterious narrative & are a gateway to an alluring yet sinister world. Daylight scenes of heady optimism painted against backdrops of beaches & racetracks are counterbalanced by more disquieting canvases of complex night-time liaisons in bars & clubs bedrooms & ballrooms. Both sexes are clearly styled
- the men hard-edged & mysterious the women seductive & enigmatic. Yet beneath the confident posturing Vettriano recognizes our inherent human frailty that there is no victor in the struggle between duplicity & desire. Men & women are ultimately trapped by the machinations of intense love & passion with little control over their destiny. ' Jack Vettriano' presents about thirty new images as well as some recently surfaced works plus the best of the paintings previously published in ' Lovers & Other Strangers' & ' Fallen Angels' also by Pavilion. In March 2004 Melvin Bragg's The South Bank Show broadcast a programme dedicated to Jack entitled Jack Vettriano: The People's Painter. Now reissued in smaller user-friendly format.

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Jack is one of the UKs most popular & yet most controversial contemporary artists. His pictures sell for a record amount of money the paintings in his exhibitions are always sold out before the opening & The Singing Butler made history for being the most expensive painting by a Scottish living artist ever to be sold at auction. (And surely the same painting is one of the worlds most replicated fine art images?) Here for the first time we get up close & personal with Jack in the studio. We see how he works in his studios in Scotland London & Nice & we see how these locations influence his paintings. The book also

Includes:: brand new paintings never before seen. We analyse Jacks own cultural influences & the influences his work has come to have on popular culture in turn. With outstanding & revealing photography by Jillian Edelstein & a foreword from friend & fellow son of Fife author Ian Rankin this is a book to delight Jack Vettrianos fans.

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When a charismatic billionaire asks Ben Webster to investigate his personal affairs it isn't long before the private spy is convinced that there is something very wrong with his new client. What is Darius Qazai's real motive for contacting Webster? & what -- beneath his generous honourable image -- does he have to hide? Soon Webster will discover that the tycoon's secret is far bigger & more dangerous than he could have imagined & that his new enemy will think nothing of destroying him or his family.. . In a heart-pounding journey which will take readers from London to Marrakech from Italy to Dubai Chris Morgan Jones once again asserts himself as the spy thriller writer for a new generation. ...

Two weeks before D-Day the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications -- but the building is heavily guarded & the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet a young British secret agent proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the Jackdaws & they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But unknown to Flick Rommel has assigned a brilliant ruthless Intelligence colonel Dieter Franck to crush the Resistance. & Dieter is on Flicks trail... From the master storyteller & best-selling author of Eye of the Needle & Code to Zero comes the new thriller set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War & crackling with suspense & action. Jackdaws is an irresistible novel of the Resistance & of love courage & revenge. ...

The behind-the-scenes story of the worlds most notorious & controversial video games company
- Rockstar Games. Jacked is the incredible
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Greg Jackson is the most accomplished & celebrated mixed martial arts coach in the world. In Jacksons Mixed Martial Arts" he brings you into his stable of fighters which

Includes:: UFC Welterweight Champion Georges Rush St. Pierre UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans UFC Light Heavyweight contender Keith Jardine & UFC Middleweight contender Nate Marquardt. For the first time he unveils his methods for developing fight strategies detailing everything you must accomplish from the moment you sign the contract up to the time you step foot into the octagon. Next he shares his arsenal of st&-up striking techniques that allow his fighters to dominate the world of mixed martial arts. He shares dozens of striking combinations counter striking combinations takedowns & throws. If your goal is to rise to the top of the MMA mountain " Jacksons Mixed Martial Arts" is a mandatory tool."

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This handy-sized guide is drawn from the extensively revised edition of Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks of England Scotland & Ireland published by the Antique Collectors' Club in 1989. Ever since its publication in 1905 English Goldsmiths & Their Marks or Jackson's has been the 'bible' for scholars dealers & collectors selling in hundreds of thousands. The Antique Collectors' Club revised edition contains Approx. 15 000 marks with over 10 000 corrections to the second edition published in 1921. This pocket edition contains complete cycles of silver marks for all the important Assay Offices with variations shown for gold platinum Britannia Standard import marks etc. & has been updated to 1991 to include current assay marks. The Pocket Edition of Jackson's Hallmarks contains 1 000 makers' marks listed alphabetically by mark with comments as to rarity value & the speciality of the maker (e.g. spoons) making it the best available pocket guide to hallmarks. Other small guides to hallmarks based on outdated information have been rendered obsolete by this pocket edition which is the most accurate complete & up to date guide on the market. ...

Jackspeak is a comprehensive reference guide to the humorous & colourful slang of the Senior Service explaining in laymans terms the otherwise cryptic everyday language of the Royal Navy the Royal Marines & the Fleet Air Arm. Featuring more than 4 000 alphabetical entries it was compiled by an ex-RM surgeon who spent 24 years in the service. With useful cross-references & examples of common usage throughout along with excellent illustrations by Tugg the cartoonist from service newspaper Navy News it is the essential book for current & ex-Navy personnel & their families or anyone interested in the modern armed forces. Conway is proud to present a revised & updated edition of this classic volume which is already acknowledged as the standard reference for every Jack Jenny & Royal joining the Andrew or for any civvy who wants a real insight into the unique culture of the Navy. ...

Lots of Jacqueline Wilson's characters are well-known & well-loved by thousands of readers: Hetty Feather Ruby & Garnet Pearl & Jodie Elsa Lily & of course the brilliant Tracy Beaker! But how much do you know about Jacqueline herself? Jacqueline takes a look back at her own childhood & teenage years in this captivating story of friendships loneliness books family life & much more. She explores her past with the same warmth & lightness of touch that make her novels so special. Best of all she reveals how she was always determined to be a writer; from the very first story she wrote it was clear that this little girl had a very vivid imagination! But who would've guessed that she would grow up to be the mega-bestselling award-winning Jacqueline Wilson? With original photographs & new illustrations by Nick Sharratt this book is a delight for all of Jacky's fans & a treat for any new readers too. ...

Since time began there have been Nightwalkers
- the races of the night who live in the shadows of the moonlight. Love with humans
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