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My favourite tree is the Ankerwyke Yew, beside the River Thames at Runneymede. While that remains outside the scope of this book, it is my pleasure to recommend visiting these great trees of London. - Tristan |
On 14th February 2007, I turned over the last page of this remarkable book and extinguished my final cigarette. This simple exercise in positive thinking, by someone with no medical training or clinical expertise, has literally saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people - myself included. Allen Carr, I salute you! - Tristan. |
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This remarkable novella first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and was Conan Doyle’s first significant work of fiction. Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H Watson MD, we are introduced to Sherlock Holmes for the very first time. An unexplained murder reveals its antecedents in a travesty of justice in Salt Lake City, Utah. - Tristan. |
This remarkable novella first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and was Conan Doyle’s first significant work of fiction. Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H Watson MD, we are introduced to Sherlock Holmes for the very first time. An unexplained murder reveals its antecedents in a travesty of justice in Salt Lake City, Utah. - Tristan. |
Madden’s Exercises in Style is a series of one-page comics that tell the same story in a variety of ways. This is a really clever, amusing and addictive book with plenty of ideas to spark the imagination of anyone involved and/or interested in the creative process. Who would have thought you could have so much enjoyment out of seeing some guy looking in a fridge on every page!
- Susan |
I don’t like Derren Brown. At least, that’s what I thought until I read this book. It is the antithesis of his television ‘magic’ shows, and reveals the incredibly thoughtful, intelligent man behind his carefully-crafted stage persona. Oh, and his tricks for remembering are very useful indeed! - Tristan. |
Arthur Conan Doyle; Ed Glinert; Iain... This remarkable novella first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and was Conan Doyle’s first significant work of fiction. Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H Watson MD, we are introduced to Sherlock Holmes for the very first time. An unexplained murder reveals its antecedents in a travesty of justice in Salt Lake City, Utah. - Tristan. |
I emerged from this book blinking, stunned and more than a little high on caffeine. Compulsive, thought-provoking and as down-to-earth as a book about time travel can be, the story follows Ariel, a charmingly messed-up PhD student living in a mouse-infested flat on a diet of cigarettes, coffee and cheap wine. When she stumbles upon a semi-mythical - and supposedly cursed book, the fabled existence of which brought her to her studies in the first place, she can’t resist reading it. The End of Mr Y will sweep you into an intense world of 19th century philosophy, thought experiments and dusty libraries, with just a dash of time travel, nail-biting action and of course, romance. If you can start this book and then concentrate on anything else before finishing it then you’re a stronger person than me.
- Lisa |
This beautifully illustrated children’s book tells the story of early man’s ineffectual attempts to acquire protein in the days before animal husbandry. A perfect present for vegetarian or vegan friends who have recently become parents for the first time! - Tristan |
A darkly comic novel that manages to capture the ambience, tone and snappy dialogue of classic noir fiction, while at the same time creating something unique. Louie Knight is a detective straight out of a Raymond Chandler novel. Only he is not working cases is Los Angeles, but in Aberystwyth! - Tristan. |
Arthur Conan Doyle; Owen Dudley Edwards This remarkable novella first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and was Conan Doyle’s first significant work of fiction. Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H Watson MD, we are introduced to Sherlock Holmes for the very first time. An unexplained murder reveals its antecedents in a travesty of justice in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Association football is now a sport and an industry assimilated into every culture on the planet, but it was once a typically Victorian English institution of rules and rectitude. Beastly Fury maps the C19 birth of what became the global game through the English class system and growing urbanisation of the nation. There is also a chapter on the early years of women's football. - Sean. |
Arthur Conan Doyle; Anne Perry This remarkable novella first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and was Conan Doyle’s first significant work of fiction. Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H Watson MD, we are introduced to Sherlock Holmes for the very first time. An unexplained murder reveals its antecedents in a travesty of justice in Salt Lake City, Utah. - Tristan. |
Definitive account of a long ignored conflict. Stone analyses the preparation, performance, challenging many accepted myths. - Sean. |
Winner of John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2007. The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and. Assets and weapons have been seized, every movement is monitored and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices. This is Sister’s story of her attempt to escape the repressive regime. From the confines of her Lancaster prison cell she tells of her such for The Carhullan Army, a quasi-mythical commune of 'unofficial' women rumoured to be living in a remote part of Cumbria. If you liked Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, you’ll love this.
- Susan |