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Hiding under the witness protection programme, Rick Jarmin gets nervous when his old flame Marianne recognises him as her fiancè who vanished years ago. But before he can assume a new identity, the man he put in jail is released and comes to pay his respects. Rick and Marianne are thrown together on the run across the country, barely evading the police, gangsters and an amorous veterinarian. Also stars David Carradine, Joan Severance and Bill Duke. -
This novel spans 130 years and follows the line of women of the Wrotham family, beginning with Sabrina in 1806. The daughter of a socially disgraced, sadistic roué, she is sponsored into 'Society' by her step-aunt - after having had some good manners vigorously instilled in her and her tomboyish ways smoothed out. Her brother Prior's marriage and production of children play a part in keeping the Wrotham name going. The next Wrotham woman is Clare - her brother Anthony's marriage to Harriet brings Charlotte to the line and the last is Gillian Rose, known as 'Jill'. The diaries and letters of the women are fictitious but the times in which the story is set are not, and many historical characters and events of England are brought to the story. As the generations overlap, with the members of each generation subscribing to the beliefs of their day, there is little sentimental romance involved - just a very good story, tinted with gentle romance and enhanced by the backdrop of historic reality. -
Honouring those who continue to improve our gene pool by removing themselves in sublimely idiotic ways, such as: the woman caught in an American national park, smearing honey all over her small son's face so she could get a photo of a bear licking it off; the man who decided to add a plastic bag to his collection of solo sex toys, and who was found with the plastic bag over his head, the vacuum cleaner still running and himself being very very dead; and the two allegedly experienced twenty-something construction workers who fell to their deaths after cutting a circle in a thick concrete floor without realising they were standing in the middle of the circle. All this and much much more! Also includes sections on honorable mentions and debunks.
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Funny people, sportsmen...in more ways than one! From the sublimely amusing to the ridiculous, the sporting arena - be it a circket field, a gold course or a billiard table - sees them all. Sport can be a very serious business, but it's the sportsman's ability to laugh at his friends, his foes and himself which sets him apart from those who merely look on. Illustrated by Paul Rigby. -
The Seven Seas is a series of poems centred on Britain’s role in colonialism and Empire building. With reverberating lyrics and powerful imagery, Kipling writes of the ruthless means that were often employed to add nations to the glorious Empire, and the subsequent effects upon these colonised nations. Though disturbing and unsettling in theme, Kipling’s lyrical dexterity makes these poems strangely compelling reading. -
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! Such as..Henry VIII did NOT have six wives; Everest is NOT the world's tallest mountain; ALexander Graham Bell did NOT invent the telephone; and Strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are NOT berries. Great potential for trivia nights. -
Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) brings it all to create a cinema spectacular of the classic tale of the legendary gorilla brought from a treacherous island to civilisation, where he faces the ultimate fight for survival. Also starring Adrien Brody, Colin Hanks and Andy Serkis as Kong. -
No matter how conservative science can explain somethings, strange phenomena continues: Yeti sightings, the Loch Ness Monster, spontaneous human combustion and encounters with angels are just a very few of the explorations of this author. -
Erewhon: Samuel Butler
$8.00Book I of Erewhon. After a series of near-mishaps, Biggs, a traveler, crosses a mountain range and stumbles into a fantastic land utterly unknown to him - only to be jailed: for in this odd place being penniless is tantamount to criminality. Here, criminals are treated as sick people, sick people are treated as criminals and machines are outlawed. Slowly learning the language and gaining the confidence of his hosts, he comes to know their strange ways and their stranger ideas and institutions - including the Hospital for Incurable Bores, the Musical Banks, the College of Unreason - and the Museum of Old Machines. First published in 1873 and written as a commentary on marriage, religion education, crime and a world dominated by machines, this classic could apply to any time and anywhere in the world.
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