It is now estimated that as much as 10 percent of the population in the UK & USA carries a tattoo. The huge recent growth in tattoo culture has in turn led to an influx of new talented artists advancements in pigments & refinement of the equipment used. This giant volume

Includes:: the very best of the new work made possible by modern improvements in tattoo art. Here are 500 striking photographic images of tattoos covering all styles from bold tribal pieces Chinese characters & hieroglyphs to delicate air-brushed designs & from all-over body suits to individual motifs
- works as distinctive as the bodies they adorn. This book features the work of the Discovery Channels L.A. Ink stars Corey Miller Kim Saigh & Hannah Aitchinson & London Inks Nicole Lowe Louis Molloy & Phil Kyle amongst many others.


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For twenty years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror" has been recognized as the world's foremost annual showcase of horror & dark fantasy fiction. Now with one story from each year in which it has been published from 1989 to 2008 representing the work of dozens of authors many of them acknowledged as the foremost practitioners of the genre multi-award-winning editor Stephen Jones looks back on two decades of superb writing to bring readers the ultimate horror fiction anthology. With names such as Ramsey Campbell Christopher Fowler Neil Gaiman Michael Marshall Smith Paul J. Mc Auley & Lisa Tuttle this collection represents a true landmark in horror fiction publishing. Praise for Stephen Jones: ' Horror's last maverick'
- Christopher Fowler. ' Stephen Jones.. .has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country'
- Lisa Tuttle " The Times Books". ' The best horror anthologist in the business is of course Stephen Jones'
- Roz Kavaney " Time Out". ' Edited by Stephen Jones a member of that tiny band of anthologists whose work is so reliably good that you automatically reach out & grab hold of any new volume spotted if you are wise'
- Gahan Wilson " Realms of Fantasy". ' One of the genre's most enthusiastic cheerleaders'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' Horror readers owe Stephen Jones a lot'
- Rue Morgue. ' Edited by the prolific & reliable Stephen Jones'
- "SFX Magazine". ' Jones performs his usual exemplary job'
- " Starlog (UK)". 'A new horror anthology from Stephen Jones is always an event'
- Dennis Etchison."








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The original Kama Sutra" was designed to help lovers to explore the height of sensual & erotic pleasure. Since then numerous variations have been produced on this manual for love-making. Here in one giant volume is the fullest ever collection of " Kama Sutra" positions & its modern variants including all the positions featured in the original text plus over 50 more. Each position is clearly explained with specially commissioned illustrations by award-winning artist Carolyn Weltman & Louisa Minkin. Also included are little known revelatory stories of how each position developed plus the full unexpurgated history of the Kama Sutras own genesis. Packed with beautiful illustrations & sensual nuggets of inspiration " The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra" is the fullest ever collection of the worlds most popular lovemaking text." ...

Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance" contains 25 stories of adventure & love; settings include medieval Scotland sixteenth-century England the nineteenth-century ' Wild West'. Some stories are set in the present & a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman whisked into the present day & a troubled young woman who lands in the sixteenth century able to break a curse of lost love. It

Includes:: stories from: Nina Bangs Jude Deveraux Sandra Hill Linda Howard Lynn Kurland Karen Marie Moning & many more."

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This giant collection

Includes:: a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings such as the

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Paranormal romance is a supernatural force to be reckoned with. Although packed with a menagerie of werewolves shapeshifters & assorted demons its undisputed king is none other than our favourite centuries-old bloodsucker
- the vampire. Were now living in a post-Buffy world of dark urban fantasy a la Laurell K. Hamiltons Anita Blake Sherrilyn Kenyons irresistible Dark Hunters & the blood-lusting soul mates of Christine Feehan. But it doesnt stop there. This Mammoth collection opens a vein to reveal the mind-boggling scope of the supercharged phenomenon created when vampires met romance. Let the biggest & brightest names in the paranormal romance business take you hot on the haemoglobin trail of the sexiest creatures of the night. Witness the bewildering array of complex vampire codes of conduct dark ritual & dating practices as they chat up the locals & engage in the most erotic encounters you will sink your teeth into this side of un-Death. These aint your mothers vampires!
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The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogy Now a film starring Anjelica Huston & Tom Jones ' And what was the cause of death?' 'A Hunter' Agnes said. ' Was he shot' the girl asked incredulously 'was your husband shot?' ' By who?' Agnes asked this question as if the girl had found out something about her husband's death that she didn't know herself. Then a look of realisation came into her face. ' No! A Hillman Hunter he was knocked down by a Hillman Hunter!' Agnes Browne is a widow of only a few hours when she goes to the Social Welfare Office. Living in James Larkin Flats with Redsers' legacy
- seven little Brownes
- to support on the income from her Moore Street stall she can't afford to miss a day's pension. Life is like that for Agnes & her best pal Marion. But they still have time for a laugh & a jar & Agnes even has a dream
- that one day she will dance with Cliff Richard. THE MAMMY describes the life & times the joys & sorrows of Agnes mother of the famous Mrs. Browne's Boys from the daily radio soap. A book of hilarious incidents glorious characters & a passion for life it is written with a sure touch & great ear for dialogue.


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James Bailey's form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was as bizarre as it was unbearable. He was obsessed by a fear of drugs & their effects believing himself to be in constant danger of becoming insanely high through people spiking his food or even by just touching a photograph of a marijuana leaf. The treatment programme he went through at a specialist American clinic was challenging to say the least. He was asked to shake hands & mingle with the local junkies fighting his anxieties & the urge to go & wash for as long as possible in order to 'expose' himself to his fears. Man Interrupted gives us a glimpse into the tortured world of a man suffering from what is an increasingly common disorder. But far from being a doom-laden account of mental illness the result is uniquely revealing hilariously entertaining & wonderfully rewarding. ...

What would you say if you knew there was ONE solution to every man's most vexing problems?
- Bigger muscles? Easy.
- Less fat?

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A fabulously engaging & exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life & love the hard way. Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV a gorgeous wife a lovely child. & in one moment of madness he chucks it all away. Man & Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life & achieves a degree of self-respect bringing up his son alone & gradually learning what words like love & family really mean. It is very well written pacy funny & heart-breakingly moving. ...