Carl Hiaasen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, has earned a reputation for perceptive, sharp-edged suspense that also cuts to the bone of environmental issues. His novels have been translated into many languages and are touted worldwide for their quirky characters and surreal adventures set in the ravaged cultural wasteland …
When his sozzled cousin Egremont (Eggy, to his chums) runs away to Hollywood, the Earl of Havershot fears he may be caught in the clutches of an American “red hot momma.” Before he can rescue Eggy, though, the Earl is stricken with a terrible toothache that sends him straight to …
6 BBC audio cassettes containing 3 wacky P.G. Wodehouse tales. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit(dramatized by Michael Hordern,Richard Briers, and James Villiers); The Golf Omnibus (read by Simon Cadell) and Summer Lightning(read by Ian Carmichael). Comes in a wooden collector box.
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‘I have always collected football stories like other people collect stamps, and it’s great to get this opportunity to stick them in a book’ From the bestselling author of RICKY comes this collection of hilarious anecdotes about football, with stories about the stars themselves, the fans, the girlfriends, the managers …
The Company builds planets. Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After 21 decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession.
Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilised plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the …
Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue.
In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the …
He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Satan, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager: Johannes has one year to persuade 100 …
Here is Bill Bryson’s entertaining and illuminating book about the history of the way we live – complete, unabridged and read by the author.
Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history …
On his new album, Stark Raving Black, Lewis Black brings his singular style of profane and profound humor to the stage. Compelled by his passions and discontentedness with the absurdities of the world, he erupts in a hand-shaking, body-trembling, spewing of diatribe-laced dialectic comedy. Focusing on the personal and the …
This adventure story has everything you could want: the good guy, some bad guys, the girl, sword fighting, revenge, romance, of course a happy ending, and rodents of unusual size. Join Westley the plucky farm boy, Buttercup the beautiful young maiden, Inigo Montoya the driven, embittered swordsman, and many other …