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Best Of Battle (vol 1)
Before the days of 2000AD’s future wars, the British comics revolution exploded with Battle, which offered a refreshingly different, more adult take on traditional stiff-upper lip...
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Static Shock: Re-birth of the Cool
Originally conceived as a one of Milestone imprint titles for DC Comics, Static inhabits a comics universe where all the main heroes are black, reflecting the audience which...
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The Best Of Judge Dredd
It's difficult to believe that thirty years ago there was a single judge patrolling our crime-riddled streets. But then in 1977, 2000AD was launched onto an unsuspecting world...
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Tank Girl: Volumes One And Two
Forget Minnie the Minx, she’s all sugar and spice compared to Tank Girl. With her liking for beer, big guns and kangaroos, she became the anti-hero of late 80s comics culture in Britain...
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Judge Dredd: The Pit
Dredd hs been the mainstay of British comics for over thirty years and his success has been largely down to the adaptability of the main character to reflect a distorted view...
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Paperboy: A Memoir
Growing up in the 60s seems to have been a time of new energies and new ideas, a period of breakfast cereals, TV, comics and pop music. However, for the baby boom...
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The Four Agreements
In his book, The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz captures a line of John Lennon’s to describe the state of most humans within the world today: “Living is easy with...
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Horror Cinema
Taschen’s origins in comic selling and publishing have never been forgotten even with their eventual emergence in the book publishing world. The focus of their publications is all...
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The Best Of Tharg's Future Shocks
Whilst 2000AD was populated by characters reflecting all possible shades of our future, the ongoing actions of Dredd and Johnny Alpha were interspersed with quirky one-off stories...
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My Psychic Life
Whether we believe in ghosts or not, we all seem to have an interest in the supernatural, hence the popularity of TV shows such as Britain's Most Haunted. Equally there's an...
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The Wives Of Kings Of England: From Normans To Stuarts
One of the delights of The Wives Of The Kings of England is its ability to untangle the density of historic events and focus on specific people...
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Art: The Definitive Visual Guide
The publishers held a survey to celebrate the launch of this monumental tome. ‘Who is your favourite artist?’ they asked. The winning trio were Monet, Van Gogh and Rolf Harris...
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Doctor Who And The Green Death
Whether you are a child of the 1960s or a fan of the more recent revitalisation of the Doctor Who franchise on BBC Television and while there is no more shaky scenery and the special...
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Easy Entertaining
This is a first rate cookery book: easy to follow, well illustrated and inspiring. It does not assume great culinary skills and yet the range of dishes it covers would almost certainly introduce...
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Cucina Napoletana
Follow Arturo Iengo’s simple, fresh and nutritious recipes in Cucina Napoletana to create authentic-tasting food reminiscent of Naples, Italy’s most loved region...
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Waggit’s Tale
This charming book about a scared puppy who loses his owner in Central Park could be seen as a gentle tale about the rites of passage. Written by Peter Howe, and illustrated...
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Agatha Christie Mysteries (Graphic Novel)
There’s been a murder and the world’s most renowned detective is on the case. This time it’s not up to a little elementary crime solving or Dark Knight daring do. It’s Hercule Poirot exercising...
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Movie London: Exploring The City Film-By-Film
Just as London has been a popular centre for film activity over the years, it's also created an industry of books about using the city as a location. The latest is Movie London which...
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Skinheads
Reading a book on the tube can add so much atmosphere, and I'm halfway through Skinheads whilst heading back from Uxbridge and listening to reggae on my i-pod. Both location...
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The Model
Given a choice of losing your sight or your hearing, which would you choose? For an artist like Peter Wihl, there is only one answer and he won't accept it's happening to him...
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The Girls' Book of Glamour - A Guide To Being A Goddess
Perfectly packaged in shocking pink cover with a splash of silver this book is likely to appeal to any teens who know their eyelash curlers from their loofahs...
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Battle For Bond
James Bond has fought some devious villains in the past, but his battles with Blofeld and the agents of SPECTRE are nothing compared to the secret agent's own fight for his...
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Crimes Of War 2.0 - What the Public Should Know
Despite living in a new century, we still live on a troubled planet, war-torn by ethnic divisions and oppressive politics despite attempts to create an...
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Spider-Man The Icon
At a time when the world is in need of heroes, where better to turn than to those spandex-wearing guys from the comic books. And Spider-man has woven his magic for over...
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Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought and Good Manners
Success for Margaret Rutherford came at a late stage when she was entering middle aged but she became a national treasure. Merriman’s biography is...
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Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits
It is eminently easy to describe something that is revolutionary, in some ways quite disgusting and, by a quirk, ahead of its time, as ‘misunderstood’, yet Zo Street Howe, freelance...
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Movie Icons: Woody Allen
‘Behind the familiar comic persona of the bumbling neurotic is a serious cinematic artist who meticulously controls nearly every aspect of his films,’ writes film critic Professor...
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Sage-ing While Age-ing
There’s so much useful information in Shirley MacLaine’s new book, Sage-ing While Age-ing that I’m reading it for the second time around. “I have been a questioner all my life,”...
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Vol 1 - Orientation
Schooldays can be a little strange, and I don't mean Billy Bunter or St Trinians or the Molesworth. Just think more the magical surroundings of Harry Potter or then the...
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The Best Of The Spirit
Will Eisner is God. Well, in comic book terms, he is the creator of what we have come to know as the graphic novel. His storytelling has hugely influenced generations of artists...
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Shakara Vol 1: The Avenger
Vengeance comes in many forms and so do alien races. Shakara is one of 2000AD's glorious space epics that relishes reaching into the twisted depths of the unleased imagination...
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Stickleback: England's Glory
In the darkest shadows of Victorian London, it's always possible to imagine a netherworld lurking in the stinking sewers and mist-encrusted streets. There's realms where...
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The V.C.s: Vol 1 - You're Hit, You're Dead
When you're fighting an alien invasion which threatens the solar system, someone has to do the dirty work. So leave it to the V.C.s - the space patrol team monitoring the spaceways...
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The Use it All Cookbook
With more and people jumping on the eco-bandwagon and the credit crunch on everybody’s lips, a cookbook that promises to cut back on food waste, saving your pennies and the...
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Battle at Sea - 3,000 years of Naval Warfare
Battle at Sea: 3,000 Years of Naval Warfare may not sound like the most thrilling name for a book, but this stunningly illustrated publication will have even the most ardent...
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The Big Earth Book – ideas and solutions for a planet in crisis
This is the kind of book that makes you sit up straight and listen. It’s well-written, well-researched and tells it like it is, in no uncertain...
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Cardamom and Lime
At last, a selection of recipes from the Arabian Gulf. Evocatively named, Cardamom and Lime takes us on a tour of traditional cuisine throughout the region. The food of the Gulf is...
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The Celeb Diaries
These are the thoughts of the man who edited the gossip bible for ten years, Heat, helping define celeb culture. On the one hand, he's the ringmaster ushering the acts in the...
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Written on the City: Graffiti Messages Worldwide
Listen. Here that? That is the sound of nothing being said. Sure, the banal everyday 'rain again?', 'see the telly last night?' can be overheard. But where is...
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Nothing Can Stop You
This is an ideal book for short trips by train and plane. I read it on the Piccadilly line between South Ealing and Holborn. Primarily, it’s a PR vessel for learndirect, which is in bold...
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Batman: The Killing Joke - The Deluxe Edition
If there's one superhero who has continued to inspire continuous generations, it's Batman. Each decade the caped crusaer has evolved with the times from his early pulp detective days...
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London's Dead: A Guided Tour Of The Capital's Dead
Ed Glinert is a man that knows his London inside out, gathering together an astonishing catalogue of cultural, historical and social facts of the city...
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WOK
At last, a cookbook which shows you how to make quick, healthy and delicious but different meals to impress your friends in minutes using one pan.
Soups, starters, braised meats and...
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Bahia Blues
Bahia Blues focuses on a small group of individuals in a Brazilian village community, who daily congregate round the Square where they share their hardship and their dreams...
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Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes (Vols 1 & 2)
What a strange combination! Avril Lavigne and graphic novels, but it's not what it seems. These two volumes are enchanting tales for
teenagers but they carry a dark undercurrent...
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Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil
For anyone who remembers a more innocent age, Captain Marvel was a hero to champion. He was the alter-ego of a young boy, Billy Batson, who was given the combined powers of...
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The Boys - Vol 1: The Name Of The Game
Whenever the name Garth Ennis appears in the writing credits of a comic or graphic novel you know it won't be an easy ride. If anything, the Irish-born writer has systematically set out to...
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London Film Location Guide
Did you know that Michael Caine shot The Ipress File in Hyde Park and Knightbridge? And not a lot of people know that. Unless you know London street by or building by building. So you...
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