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Steve Aylett is the author of several books including LINT, Slaughtermatic and Novahead. A series of administrative errors have resulted in his doing stand-up comedy and making comics, music and a film. Steve won the Jack Trevor Story Award and was a finalist for the Philip K Dick Award.

A moment at which the sun's energy streamed towards Earth, focused precisely on Stonehenge. Solstice explores the unequal balance between male and female energy - the Sun and Moon energy that Stonehenge was built to honour equally - that pervades our time.

Meet Brenda Monk. She's a woman who does stand up.

Nothing much has ever happened to Rev Arnold Drive, the meekly quiet vicar of St Tobias's. Feeling safe only within the walls of his church and the gentle rules of his faith, Arnold is ironically a man utterly without drive,

Alan Cadbury is a professional archaeologist: a digger of ancient sites and a man who likes to unravel the mysteries and meaning of the past. For many years, Alan has worked with the 'Circuit Diggers', so called because they work the 'circuit', moving from one excavation to another, as new sites open across Britain.

Following on from legendary course angler Chris Yates's popular "River Diaries", detailing his fishing exploits between 1982 and 1984, this is the diary that fans called for for years, and which Chris recently recovered from the depths of his study, exploring his next set of days along the river, outlining his great catches and distilling his experience and wisdom as a lifelong angler. 'Nature writing at its most alive' "The Telegraph".

Many of us think of the ill-behaved celebrity and the tabloid splash as modern inventions, but the antics of footballers and soap stars are as nothing when set alongside the hell-raising of the 18th century celebs. and famous courtesans who ate 1, 000-guinea banknotes stuffed into sandwiches, simply to make a point.

Paperback edition of the 2nd book in the sci-fi "News" trilogy. Ties in with the publication of the final volume in hardback, "News From The Clouds".

Gavin Meckler has slipped sideways in time again to a far more treacherous future than he has ever faced before. Ever since Gavin left the world of 2011 and landed 200 years in the future, he has navigated the garden lands of Gardenia, escaped a world run by women in the Squares, and now finds himself in a floating city in the Clouds.

A memoir of childhood in the late 1970s, at the dawn of Thatcher's Britain. Godden is a much-loved performer on the Spoken Word scene, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 with the documentary "Little Tenderness".

Imagine a piece of technology so valuable that it turns the world's two most powerful lobbies - the oil industry and the arms trade - against one another. Yavlinsky, a brilliant Russian scientist has created a piece of wonder-technology, a drilling process that uses the forces of supercavitation. Named 'Version Thirteen', it enables oil explorers to take 40 per cent more oil out of the ground - it's worth trillions.But there's a problem. Super...

When Gavin Meckler's light aircraft encounters a mysterious cloud and crashes to earth, he discovers that the eerily quiet landscape in which he has landed is 200 years older than the one from which he took off.

They say you should walk towards the light. Well I didn't. I fled. I ran away from it. I pushed the light back and it splintered in my hands like glass. I thought I might be dead because there was no blood. I raged, I wept. I shouted. There was no pain. I screamed. There was no noise. It wasn't time. It wasn't right. But still, I did not know that I was dead. Still, I hoped that I was not. I wasn't ready... Has it been done before? We don't th...

Jessica Jones had a complicated life - booze, cocaine, bad boyfriends, a rollercoaster ride of what self-help writers call 'opportunities for growth' - but she got away from all that. She rebuilt her career, became prosperous and, at last, found happiness in a wonderful new relationship.Just when things were almost perfect, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. So Jessica did what she's always done: she got through it. With the help of doctors...

John-Paul Flintoff is a writer, journalist, public speaker and life coach. For years, he wrote exclusively for the magazines at the Financial Times and the Sunday Times and he has interviewed everyone from Hollywood actors and politicians to Nobel-winning scientists and 'ordinary' people who have had extraordinary experiences. He has spoken at major public events in the UK and internationally, including at The Barbican and Royal Festival Hall....

Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of is a full-colour illustrated compendium of the most painfully bad games, based on Ashens' YouTube series of the same name.

Structured around the fourteen days in 2011, from the moment the News of the World's hacking of the phone of a murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl was exposed, The Fall of the House of Murdoch is a riveting account of the scandal that closed the world's best-selling English-language newspaper, forced one of the most powerful families in the world to appear before Parliament and finally prompted Murdoch's departure from the UK newspaper world he do...

Imagine you're in a museum. You might spot a gargantuan four-poster bed that was a 16th century pub tourist attraction or a threadbare sackcloth robe worn in church by a 17th century adulteress. Yet despite their rarity, we often fail to engage with these extraordinary objects. We simply nod and move on. But it doesn't have to be that way. Through its 26 Treasures project, writers' collective 26 is exploring how to create emotional connections...

Music business legend Simon Napier-Bell tackles the history of music, from 1713 when British artists were granted ownership over what they wrote, to today's $100 billion industry owned entirely by Russians, French and Japanese. Full of anecdotes and witty asides. Now in paperback.

One of the UK's most controversial journalists narrates the story of her obsessive love for the Jews, from discovering a copy of her father's "World at War" magazine about the holocaust as a child, to being exiled from her local synagogue for being too pro-Israel. Full of strong opinions and wit. Now in paperback.