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Andrew Wild
All author royalties and publisher profits from the sale of this book will go to The Live Aid Trust. On Saturday, 13 July 1985, a blazing, cloudless summer day, millions…
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Robert F. Weir
A timeless account of life on a nineteenth-century whaler, from the misery of seasickness and rigors of sea voyages; to the thrill and violence of whale hunts; to the sights…
Jack London
Collects some of Jack London’s allegorical tales. This volume of Jack London’s stories of the North also includes Batard , in which an abused dog takes revenge on his owner…
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Andrew Wilding
In the beginning, a scarecrow made his own history, like a symbol that everyone sees year-around (like Halloween) placed in the middle of surrounding pumpkins and flames all around but…
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From ‘Arnold Layne’ to ‘Louder Than Words’, Pink Floyd wrote about anger, isolation, regret, dismay and fear. These themes, not always obvious starting points for popular music, were married to…
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This book examines every solo Beatles album from 1969 to 1980, track by track. It includes the classics, the lost gems, the turkeys, the collaborations, the back-biting, the hits and…
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The first book to analyse every Queen song - giving equal weight to album tracks alongside the hits. Includes analysis of about 20 classic songs using the original 24 track…
This book revisits and analyses all twenty-five official James Bond films, as well as the two attempts to steal some of that lucrative Bond audience and examines their place both…
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The music of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and especially their 1969 self-titled debut album, exemplified the Woodstock generation - three men, three voices, one common view of freedom and justice…
Dire Straits On Track revisits, re-evaluates and contextualises the band’s six studio albums and two live albums, as well as EPs and archive releases. Seven ex-members of Dire Straits have…
Here is the story of Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s - the music, the people, the tours, the rumours, the failures and the successes. While it’s impossible to ignore the…
Eric Clapton Solo reviews and analyses all of Clapton’s studio albums since 1974, as well as successful collaborations with BB King and JJ Cale. It’s been a long, varied journey.
If you’ve never delved into Eric Clapton’s contributions to other artist’s recordings, then this is a handy guide to help the reader find his way into such a lengthy and…
Phil Collins was everywhere in the 1980s. He had more top forty singles in the US than any other artist during the 1980s: fourteen as a solo artist and eleven…
In 1973, the Allman Brothers Band were one of the most popular in America: they headlined the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, attended by an estimated 600,000 people and their album…
George R. R. Martin
Superheroes and villains do battle over the human heart in this delightful anthology featuring all-new stories from a wide range of contributors, all set in the Wild Cards universe, where…
Justin Andrew Wild
If you took a blank calendar and looked at it month by month, would each month hold a special, life-changing anniversary?
Could you fill the calendar with events which have…
Andrew Wilson
Barnes nestles within the protective loop of the Thames, and retains many of the elements that reflect village life but is still within striking distance of central London. Join local…
Andrew Grey
Sparks fly when Dante meets Ryan. But the complications of the rodeo circuit will tear them apart if they can’t hang on for the wild ride.
Andrew Balmford
Takes readers to extraordinary places to meet conservation’s heroes and foot soldiers - and to discover the new ideas they are generating about how to make conservation work. In this…
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Andrew Bickerton
"Wayne Goes Wild" is a children's story about a wasp and his insect friends. Wayne begins behaving badly and gets into trouble.
Chelsea is well known as a fashionable destination but there’s so much more to discover. Join local photographer, Andrew Wilson, as he explores the wonder that is Chelsea and its…
Andrew Komarnyckyj
The Revenge of Joe Wild is a young adult novel about a semi-literate 12-year-old boy growing up in mid-19th-century Southern Illinois, an outsider who can’t fit in with the norms…
The London Wetland Centre in Barnes is an extremely special place and has won many awards for being one of the finest slices of green urban space to be found…
Mike Bartlett,Andrew Keatley
A darkly comic play that explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level.
Andrew 'Beezer' Beese
As a photographer, the author was in a unique position in Bristol in the 1980s. He was close friends with the Wild Bunch and other Bristol hip hop crews, and…
Andrew Kitchener
This text presents what is known about the 37 or so species of the world’s cats, including information on the often overlooked smaller members of the cat family - members…
Andrew Painting
This is the inspiring story of a Highland estate, which was rescued from the catastrophic effects of decades of human interference, and is now one of the most successful examples…
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This area on the borders of London is rightly known for its riverside and wonderful Royal Park but there are other Royal connections, oodles of history and a view so…
Mark Andrew Smith
This book of poems comes from an honest attempt to put the spiritual highs and lows of one person into verse but it also tries to find clues to living…
Putney with its wide open spaces and river setting is one of the most desirable places to live in London, join local photographer Andrew Wilson as he explores the leafy…
Walton on the Hill sits on the edge of the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty &is a wonderful place from which to explore some of the best sites…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Christopher Andrews
Andrew Flack
Established in 1836, the Bristol Zoo is the world’s oldest surviving zoo outside of a capital city and has frequently been at the vanguard of zoo innovation. In The Wild…
Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable…
Norman Taylor,Andrew Rule
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Erin Hunter
When Rusty, an ordinary housecat, becomes ThunderClan’s new apprentice, he realizes that his past life has not prepared him for the hardships he now faces and so must work extra…
For generations, four clans of cats have shared the forest. But ThunderClan is in grave danger, and ShadowClan grows stronger every day. In the midst of this turmoil appears a…
In this new book from local photographer, Andrew Wilson, discover something of Clapham’s history in a modern context and see why Clapham and its beautiful common is such a desirable…
Andrew Fusek Peters
In Dip, Andrew Fusek Peters describes an extraordinary year of wild swimming. As he takes the plunge and immerses himself in the elements, Andrew also begins to surface from a…
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