Just make sure weve got plenty of hams on board. I didnt really enjoy our last adventure much because we ran out of hams about halfway through. & whats my motto? I like ham! It is 1837 & for the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain & his rag-tag pirate crew life on the high seas has gotten a little dull. With nothing to do but twiddle their hooks & lounge aimlessly on tropical beaches the Captain decides its time they had an adventure. A surprisingly successful boat raid leads them to the young Charles Darwin in desperate need of their help. & so the pirates set forth for London in a bid to save the scientist from the evil machinations of a diabolical Bishop. There they encounter grisly murder vanishing ladies the Elephant Man
- & have an exciting trip to the zoo.
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To tie in with the DVD release of The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists this exclusive fully illustrated guide takes us behind the scenes to discover how 2012s hottest film was made. Packed with previously unseen visual material including storyboards & designs for sets & key characters this highly collectible full-colour book charts the journey from paper to screen: a five-year process for a crew of just 320 people
- requiring 3.000 storyboard images 19 456 square metres of foam board & 893 different mouths for the Pirate Captain alone. Also included are rare interviews with the directors producers & key members of the production team giving insight into the creative & technical challenges of a project of this size & ambition. The Making of The Pirates! is a must-have for the many fans of the film & for anyone interested in the methods passions & eccentricities of Aardman this most quintessentially British animation studio.
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Whilst visiting their bank manager on the shores of Lake Geneva the Pirate Captain & his crew encounter no less than the literary giants of their age: the swaggering Lord Byron the oddly shifty Percy Shelley
- & his beautiful young fiancee Mary. Together they embark upon a journey that leads them away from Switzerland into the bowels of Oxford & finally to the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. It is an adventure that will force the Pirate Captain to confront some important questions namely: what is the secret behind his mysterious belly tattoo? Is Zombuloid the corpse-beast a better name for a monster than Gorgo: Half-man half-seaweed? & most importantly
- what happens when a pirate finally falls in love? Women in diaphanous nighties running down corridors! Brooding men with dark hair! Sinister taxidermy! Ghostly banging noises! The Pirates! In An Adventure with the Romantics contains all these things as well as a bit where the Captain dresses up as a sexy fireman.

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In the broom cupboard of a Rose Cottage stands a house fit for a mouse
- well two mice actually. A house made from pebblestone
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This vibrant series covers over 170 destinations worldwide including our new range of UK specific titles from cosmopolitan urban delights to sun-kissed beach idylls. Bursting with insightful & easily accessible information these guides are full of practical information on how to make the most of a city break or longer holiday. The compact format quickly locates the top must see & do attractions. It spans a wide range of destinations including those served by budget airlines. It offers the most comprehensive list of UK city titles currently available. It has practical listings to suit varied budgets & tastes. It has imaginative suggestions that reveal each destination's hidden gems. It is organised by recognisable areas making orientation easy. ...

First-time mum Roxy feels perennially ticked off. She & her partner Jack have left London for a new life in the village of Riverside with their ten-month-old daughter Joey. But their new house resembles a building site & Roxy is struggling to cope with parenthood. With no family or friends to turn to for help Roxy sets up a club in order to meet like-minded parents & so begins The Pissed-Off Parents Club. Hilarious & refreshingly original this is a story telling it like it is -- for mums & dads of all descriptions. ...

The work pistache (pis-tash) means a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [ Derivation uncertain possibly a cross between pastiche & p**stake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser the work of the great & the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four's The Write Stuff" but have been retooled for the printed page. Others such as Martin Amis' " First day at Hogwarts" have been written specially for this collection. Philip Larkin's " Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mother's 115th Birthday" first banned then cut by the BBC appears in its entirety for the first time. This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without." ...

Benjamin Disraeli & William Gladstone Edward Heath & Margaret Thatcher Gordon Brown & Tony Blair
- personal rivalry is the very
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Affairs of honour between bucks & blades rakes & rascals; & affairs of the heart between heirs & orphans beauties & bachelors; romance intrigue escapades & duels at dawn: all the gallantry villainy & elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely revived in these eleven stories of the Regency. Georgette Heyer's historical accuracy & eye for a wonderful story of romance is unequalled & in Pistols For Two we can see the skills which won her a devoted audience that continues to this day. ...

Shaft sinking for the extraction of minerals has taken place for centuries & for much of this time coal mining was carried out in the North East of Engl&. Various methods of pit sinking developed from the use of shallow bell pits to the excavation of deep shafts in order to access rich seams of coal & other minerals for sale in rapidly urbanising areas such as London. In the close mining communities of Northumberland & Durham those who dug the initial shafts the sinkers themselves were regarded as the mining elite. This book not only tells the story of mining itself through upheaval & technological developments but also focuses on the lives of miners & their families above ground in the emerging pit towns adn villages; places where religion adn miners galas were an integral part of life. Peter Ford Mason descended from three generations of County Durham miners has written a fascinating investigation onto miming society which makes a compelling read for anyone interested in the social history of the North East or the mining industry as a whole. ...