Everyones favourite morning-loathing dog-taunting tart-tongued tabby is back for a slew of hilarious new antics in his new Pocket Book... Talk to the Paw" which contains over 120 daily strips not yet seen in book format. On 19th June 1978 Garfield appeared on the comics pages for the first time kicking off a career that has gone on to involve licensing television books computer games movies & much more. Now after 30 years in the spotlight Garfield is an international star & his humorous strip has become the fastest growing & most widely syndicated comic strip ever! Today it appears in 2570 newspapers around the globe & is read by 263 million people making it The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World as recorded by Guinness World Records. in addition Garfield enjoys a healthy product licensing programme whereby almost 400 licensees crank out thousands of products depicting Garfield & the rest of the gang. In fact his vast empire stretches into 111 countries &

Includes:: a popular website
- which attracts over 2 million visitors each month. Garfield has also joined the digital world...as well as featuring in two computer animated direct-to-DVD films (" Garfield Gets Real" & " Garfields Fun Fest") he is gearing up for his 2009 debut in 26 all-new TV episodes
- " The Garfield Show" which will offer a fresh & funny look at his day-to-day life blending the modern look of CGI animation with the familiar humour of Garfield Odie & Jon. At 30 Garfield is still feeling frisky & shows no signs of slowing down."



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Have you been taken to what youve been assured is the perfect house deep in the French countryside only to find theres no electricity or running water? Gone to the doctor with a nasty cough & been diagnosed with a rather more personal complaint? Walked into an half-empty restaurant only to be told that its complet? If the answer to any of the above is oui Talk to the Snail" is the book for you. Find out how to get served in a restaurant; the best way to deal with French hypochondria; learn the language of love sex & suppositories (not necessarily in that order); its all here in this funny informative seriously useful guide on how to get what you really want from the French. With advice on essential phrases & bons mots to cover all eventualities & illustrated with witty real-life anecdotes " Talk to the Snail" is a book that no self-respecting Francophile
- or Francophobe
- can afford to be without. Dont go to France without reading this book. & dont even think of buying a house there."

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Following on from Toms life with six cats in UNDER THE PAW he now picks up the story in TALK TO THE TAIL updating readers on what has happened with his feline friends as well as looking back for more confessions about his animal-loving past. Readers of Toms previous book will be delighted to read what has happened to his six eccentric cats. Why does Janet keep bringing 1980s sweet wrappers into the house? Will 24-hour surveillance of The Bear using a state-of-the-art cat GPS system finally solve the mystery of his wanderlust? Tom also writes about his bumbling forays into the remainder of the animal kingdom. He attempts to overcome his crippling fear of horses with disastrous results chase ostriches in Kenya put his hand into a tigers mouth for 0.9 seconds & he meets his alter-doggo -- the spaniel Tom regularly walks who likes to roll around in dead animals. Where will it all end? Will he give in to temptation & get a dog a goat or even more cats? With this soppy creature-obsessive anything is possible. Gerald Durrell has lots of family & other animals but Tom Cox has MY ANIMALS & OTHER FAMILY. ...

P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading & writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre from the birth of the detective story through Wilkie Collins & Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime & the rise of Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers Ngaio Marsh & Margery Allingham. There is a chapter on great American crime writers such as Raymond Chandler & Dashiel Hammett & P. D. James also discusses many of her favourite detectives from Sherlock Holmes to Kurt Wallender. ...

A London mum & Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now despite their differences they're the firmest of friends... Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad" by Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit is a touching & poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship. Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut & blow dry? May's a tough-talking hard-smoking lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad dodging bullets before breakfast bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars & battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Bee on the other hand is a London mum of three busy fighting off PTA meetings & chicken pox dealing with dead cats & generally juggling work & family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture religion & age. " Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad" is the story of two women who share laughter & tears & swap their confidences dreams & fears. & between the grenades the gossip the jokes & the secrets they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad... Bee Rowlatt is a former show-girl turned BBC World Service journalist. A mother of three & would-be do-gooder she can find keeping her career going while caring for her three daughters (and husband) pretty tough even in leafy North London. May Witwit is an Iraqi expert in Chaucer & sender of emails depicting kittens in fancy dress. She is prepared to face every hazard imaginable to make that all-important hairdresser's appointment." ...

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic tragically poignant & wonderfully uplifting Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic. This new edition which contains the complete collection of Talking Heads as well as his earlier monologue A Woman of No Importance is a celebration of Alan Bennetts finest work. ...

This title features stories like Playing Sandwiches with David Haig" " The Hand of God with Eileen Atkins" " Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Penelope Wilton" " Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet with Patricia Routledge" " Waiting for the Telegram with Thora Hird" & " The Outside Dog with Julie Walters". A second collection of astutely observed monologues tales of loneliness & eccentricity are handled with the light touch which has made Alan Bennett one of our best-loved writers as well as a national institution." ...

The complete Talking Heads" monologues twelve of Alan Bennett's most highly acclaimed & best-loved works. "A Chip in the Sugar" performed by Alan Bennett. "A Lady of Letters" performed by Patricia Routledge. " Bed Among the Lentils" performed by Anna Massey. " Soldiering On" performed by Stephanie Cole. " Her Big Chance" performed by Julie Walters. "A Cream Cracker Under the Settee" performed by Thora Hird. " Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet" performed by Patricia Routledge. " The Hand of God" performed by Eileen Atkins. " Playing Sandwiches" performed by David Haig. " The Outside Dog" performed by Julie Walters. " Nights in the Gardens of Spain" performed by Penelope Wilton. " Waiting for the Telegram" performed by Thora Hird. Performed by the author & eight of Britain's leading actors Alan Bennett's tales of loneliness & vulnerability are full of quirky insightful detail that bring these twelve memorable characters vividly to life." ...

Fear of Music the third album by Talking Heads was recorded & released in 1979. It is like each of their first four albums a masterpiece. Edgy paranoid funky addictive rhythmic repetitive spooky & fun
- with Brian Enos production its a record that bursts out of the downtown scene that birthed the band & hints at the directions (positive & negative) theyd take in the near future. Here Jonathan Lethem takes us back to the late 1970s in New York City & situates Talking Heads as one of the most remarkable & enigmatic American bands. Incorporating theory fiction & memoir & placing Fear of Music alongside Fritz Lang Edgar Allen Poe Patti Smith & David Foster Wallace. Lethems book is a virtuoso performance by a writer at the peak of his powers tackling one of his great obsessions.
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James Van Praagh enjoys an extraordinary gift
- he can communicate with the spirits of men women children & animals who have died.
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