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Tony Hancock reigned for fifteen years as the undisputed king of comedy. In this relatively short timespan he managed to leave an astonishing legacy of hilarious radio and television, including...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in British comedy cast as long a shadow as Tony...

In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" ( In These Times ), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization...

AN EPIC LOVE STORY, A SOARING THRILLER, AND A SWEEPING COMING-OF-AGE TALE: A READING EXPERIENCE UNLIKE ANY OTHER... A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK - and selected for...

**THE UNPUTDOWNABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRST LIE WINS ** *AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 'The story spins and twists towards the perfect end' Andrea...

On the surface Mary Weiland had a fairy tale life. She was a successful model married to a successful rock star-Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland-and a...

Angela Throgmorton decides it is high time that Old Tom helped around the house. But Old Tom has other ideas.... Who is that mysterious figure disappearing into the night? Join...

This is no ordinary parish, and no ordinary priest - a true story of poverty, haunting, exorcism, birth, death and murder. Seth was a priest. He served for 10 years...

'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of BIRD SENSE 'A glorious, beautifully written pilgrimage into the soaring world of birds' Bel Mooney, DAILY MAIL Written by a beginner-birdwatcher with the...

CHOAS. FURY. DESTRUCTION. THE GREAT CHANGE IS UPON US . . . 'Dazzlingly gruesome and gripping' Daily Mail * * * * * * * * * * * *...

Ambition-the want, the hunger, the need to achieve-is woven into America's fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the "right" college...

'The most sought-after tenor in the world', the greatest tenor of today', 'the new king of tenors' - for years Jonas Kaufmann has occupied a unique status among the world's...

The Ultimate General Knowledge Pub Quiz Book contains hundreds of quizzes and a wealth of fascinating information on a huge variety of subjects. The quizzes are divided by difficulty level...

By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U. S. as a hyperpower, to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented...

Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to...

GPS For Your Organisation is a practical guide to help company boards, CEOs and leadership teams add clarity and gain ongoing buy-in to their organisation's long-term direction, purpose and values....

We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is drying up. In When the Rivers Run Dry , Fred Pearce...

'Utterly charming and expertly plotted with twists I genuinely never saw coming!' Jessica Bull, author of Miss Austen Investigates A gripping and twisty standalone instalment in a charmingly bookish new...

My nuts are mine! They're for no other squirrel! I've labelled each one: Property of Tyril! The squirrels are throwing a party and everyone is invited! But greedy Tyril is...

Shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize for Illustrated Books Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Christopher Bland Prize 'Honest, evocative, inspiring' SARAH WATERS 'A thing of beauty' CLARE BALDING 'A...

Peter Alliss has spent his entire life steeped in golf. He was born in 1931, the son of Percy Alliss, one of Britain's leading professionals between 1920 and 1939. Peter...

**An instant New York Times Bestseller** Named one of the best cookbooks of 2025 by Serious Eats, The Smithsonian Magazine , Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Foreword by Martha Stewart...

In the Spring of 1811 the military situation in the Iberian Peninsula is looking grim for Britain and her allies. While Wellington has pushed the French out of Portugal, the...

It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace....

'The naughtiest, helpiest, laughieoutloudiest and goodest book I've ever done reading on. Give that girl a banana!' DAWN FRENCH THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SARAH MILLICAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY WILL MAKE YOU...

WITH A FOREWORD BY NIGEL McCRERY, CREATOR OF SILENT WITNESS Going beyond the popular TV show, this is the true story of forensic science from those who solve crimes without...

Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle the issue of the effects of children on their parents, isolating and analysing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives,...

Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn is a traditional solicitors firm in the small Midlands town of Hockam (pronounced Hokum, as the local residents are at pains to point out). This...

With the population expanding at an alarming rate, it's time for all new dads to take their fair share of parental responsibility and step up to the plate - after...

National Bestseller In this inspiring book, bestselling author Wayne Dyer draws from various spiritual traditions to help us unplug from the material world and awaken to the divine within. With...

*** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER *** Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . . 'Book lovers and fans of John...

No one knew Led Zeppelin like Richard Cole. The band's tour manager for more than a decade, Cole was there when they burst onto the music scene, achieved cult status,...

In January 1936, the thirty-two-year-old George Orwell left his home in London and travelled to the industrial north of England with the intention of experiencing first-hand the conditions in which...

The gripping autobiography of broadcasting legend 'Whispering' Bob Harris. Radio 2 DJ Bob Harris first became a household name in the 1970s as the face of live music TV show...

Since winning the Hunt and saving her new BFF, Princess Evelyn, Sam Kemi has been royally busy.. What with TV interviews, working in her family's potion store and preparing to...

For those whose memories of learning science at school consist of burning magnesium and playing with iron filings and a magnet, and whose brains shut down as soon as things...

Howard Carter's career was a remarkable one: he had arrived in Egypt as a 17-year old "tracer" with rudimentary education, and progressed to become the first Chief Inspector of Antiquities...

With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of post-modern America: reality TV,...

This book captures the painstaking, step-by-step process of excavation, and the wonders of the treasure-filled inner chamber. 106 on-the-spot photographs depict the phases of the discovery and the scrupulous cataloging...

'Brilliant, intriguing and fast-paced ... I loved Roman and Beau and I think their story is going to find a lot of hearts!' L. D. Lapinski, author of Jamie Roman...

It's the book that started it all, the well-loved edition that first bought Betty Crocker cookbooks into American homes and hearts. Published in 1950, this ground-breaking title made cooking easy,...