And then there was David Bowie the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowies third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist. This is the performance that turned Bowie into a star embedding his Ziggy Stardust persona into the nations consciousness. With a tall flame-orange cockade quiff (stolen from a Kansai Yamamoto model on the cover of Honey) lavishly applied make-up white nail polish & wearing a multi-coloured jump-suit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin (chosen by Ziggy co-shaper the designer Freddie Buretti) & carrying a brand spanking new blue acoustic guitar a bone-thin Bowie appeared not so much as a pop singer but rather as some sort of benevolent alien a concept helped along by the provocative appearance of his guitarist the chicken-headed Mick Ronson with both of them unapologetically sporting knee-length patent leather wrestlers boots (Bowies were red). Most people are scared of colour Bowie said later. Their lives are built up in shades of grey. It doesnt matter how straight the style is make it brightly coloured material & everyone starts acting weird. Suddenly Bowie
- a man called alias
- had the world at his nail-varnished fingertips & in no time at all he would be the biggest star in the world.

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Lily loves Blue Kangaroo but sometimes he disappears & Lily says Where are you Blue Kangaroo?" & Blue Kangaroo waits for Lily to find him!. When Lily goes to the park she has a great time but forgets to hold on tight to Blue Kangaroo & nearly loses him. & when Lily goes shopping with Aunt Jemima she leaves poor Blue Kangaroo on the bus! Luckily he is returned to her but by now Blue Kangaroo is feeling very anxious. Then one day Lily goes to the zoo with Uncle George & again Blue Kangaroo is nearly lost but the trip gives him an idea that will mean he never be lost again. But where oh where is Blue Kangaroo the very next morning? AGE 2-6" ...

The first books from My Cat Pip a popular international brand in merchandising homeware stationery & apparel. Pip is an award-winning character with over 1.5 million products sold to date worldwide. Can you find Pip? Follow the footloose feline onto the beach through the jungle & even into space! Look out for Pip's friends outfits & favourite things then put the items together at the end to reveal their own secret story. Preschool children will love this interactive look & find title. Pip regularly appears in Sparkle Girl (the number one multi-character magazine) & Easy Peasy alongside some of the biggest brands in the industry. He is a star in the making! If you like Hello Kitty you'll love Pip! Other books in the series: Pip Pip Hooray! (an interactive flap book) Purrfect Pip! Sticker Book & Showtime Pip! Sticker Book. Read more about Pip at www.pipthecat.com. ...

Finally...the first international restaurant guidebook by the real insiders: over 400 of the world's top chefs. From bargain noodle joints to high-end restaurants; late night haunts to all day breakfasts; neighborhood eateries to destination restaurants; Where Chefs Eat reveals over 2 000 personal recommendations by chefs of their top places to eat in all major cities around the world. With entertaining reviews "es from the chefs clever maps & an easy-to-use system of organization Where Chefs Eat breaks the mould of the traditional guidebook. Find out where to eat when to go & what to order. It's like having a top chef as your best friend to give you advice whenever you need to book a reservation. Chef contributors include: Hugh Acheson Ferran Adria Alex Atala Michael Anthony John Besh Daniel Boulud April Bloomfield Heston Blumenthal Sean Brock David Chang Wylie Dufresne Gabrielle Hamilton Fergus Henderson Daniel Humm Corey Lee Anito Lo Matt Molina Carlo Mirarchi Magnus Nilsson Ken Oringer Daniel Patterson Rene Redzepi Andy Ricker Eric Ripert Marcus Samuelsson Ben Shewry Craig Stoll & hundreds more. ...

Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother & sister & none of his friends drowned in a canal. He has never stayed overnight in a hospital & has no emotional scars from his upbringing except a slight lingering resentment that Anita Barker once mocked the stabilisers on his bike. Where Did It All Go Right? is a jealous memoir written by someone who occasionally wishes life had dealt him a few more juicy marketable blows. The author delves back into his first 18 years in search of something
- anything
- that might have left him deeply & irreparably damaged. With tales of bikes telly sweets good health domestic harmony & happy holidays Andrew aims to bring a little hope to all those out there living with the emotional after-effects of a really nice childhood. Andrew Collins kept a diary from the age of five so he really can remember what he had for tea everyday & what he did at school excerpts from his diary run throughout the book & it is this detail which makes his story so compelling.

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Everyone has heard of say the Irish Fusliliers the Glorious Glosters or Royal Scots Greys. But where are these regiments today? What are they called? & what were they called a hundred years ago? The painful & much-resented rationalisation of the British regiments
- which meant amalgamation or simply disbandment
- has been going on since the first regiments were raised in the 17th century according to the perceived needs of the nation in war or peacetime. But it accelerated in the mid-1950s & the task has now been completed on General Jacksons watch in 2007. Anyone trying to follow the name changes of a particular regiment soon gets caught up in & confused by different histories in different books. By using clear family trees Gerry Murphy sorts out all the confusion in one indispensable volume. The appendices alone are invaluable showing the number of regimental antecedents honours colours & insignia.

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Fizzing with the one-liners & surreal humour for which Milton Jones is famous this is an authentic hilarious story of the life ...

The Junior Doctor is back! He's into his second year of medicine but this time Max is out of the wards & onto the streets working for the Phoenix Outreach Project. Fuelled by tea & more enthusiasm than experience he attempts to locate & treat a wide & colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for.. .from Molly the 80-year-old drugs mule & God in a Tesco car park to middle-class mums addicted to appearances & pain killers in equal measure. His friends don't approve of the turn his career is taking his mother is worried & the public spit at him but Max is determined to make a difference. Despite warnings that miracles are rare & that not everyone's life can be turned around Max is still surprised by those that can be saved. Funny touching & uplifting Max goes from innocence to experience via dustbin-shopping-trips without ever losing his humanity. ...

Many horse health & behaviour problems are rooted in chiropractic issues. Through a series of 27 body checkups the horse owner can locate where a problem lies
- not always obvious! Large format with concealed wiro binding allowing the book to open flat for ease of use.
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The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. One winter night seven men & a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans. ...