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Author: Gerard Stembridge
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2007

Follows a family into it's darkest corners... an enjoyable read. 

Author: Tom Sharpe
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1982

Don't expect anything as innocent as the old Whitehall Farces. This one is for real.

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2006

Witty, hard-edged and mouth-watering. A tightly crafted, vibrant book filled with the romance and hardships of family life, violence, music and butter.

Author: Patrick McCabe
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2004

Pat McCabe is back with a dizzy drunk book that leaves you the next day with a sore head and heart from the laughter and smoke of ideas.

The number one bestseller by the author of Trainspotting. 'Welsh is the undisputed leader of the new wave of contemporary British fiction'- Observer.

Author: Matthew Kneale 
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 2000
Pages: 462

It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson had set out for Tasmania, hoping to find the true site if the Garden Of Eden.  But the journey is turning out to be less than straight forward - dissent is growing between him and sinister reacial - theorist Dr Potter, and unknown to both the ship they had hurrriedly chartered is in fact a Manx summgling vessel, fleeing from British Customs.

Author: Winston Groom
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1994
Pages:  239
Type:  Softcover

Laugh, cry, stand up and cheer: Forrest Gump is everyman's story, everyman's dream. A wonderfully warm, savagely barbed, and hilariously funny 'tale told by an idiot'. from the razor - sharp pen of a contemporary wizard.

No one is spared and everyone is included. If you've ever felt lacking, left out, put upon- or just wanted to have a rollicking good time - this book is for you. At 6'6", 240 pounds, Forrest Gump is a dfficult man to ignore, so follow Forrest from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to the Vietnam War, from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to powwows with Chairman Mao. Go with Forrest to Harvard University, to a Hollywood movie set, on a professional wrestling tour, and into space on the oddest NASA mission ever.

Author:  Ben Goode
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2004

This book contains every letter necessary for you to write the next great American novel. All you have you to do is orginize them in the proper order.

Author: Martin o' Brien
Condition: New
Published Date: 2007

Twnety years after leading the French Rugby Team to victory over England, billionaire bussinessman Pierre Dombasle organises a reunion for his former team-mates to mark the celebrated triumph.  Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot, who scored the winning try, wouuld prefer to decline the invitation.  On the Cote d' Azur Daniel Jacquot discovers that heroes can turn into villians and success can demand the ultimate price...

Author: John o' farrell
Condition: 10/10
Published Date:2006

Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world - or is it normal to sit up in bed all night popping bubble wrap? She worries that too much gluten and dairy may be hindering her children's mental arithmetic. She frets that there are too many cars on the road to let them out of the 4x4. Finally she resolves to take control and tackle her biggest worry of all: her daughter is definitely not going to fail that crucial secondary school entrance exam. Because Alice has decided to take the test in her place...

Author: Alasdair Gray 
Condition: 7/10
This books Published Date: 1992
Pages: 316

The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean.

What strange secret made beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter,  irresistible to the poor medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her queen origin in the home of monstrous Godwin Baxter, the genious whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of love and scientific daring storms through Victorian operating theatres, continental Casinos and a Parisian brothel to its happy end in a decent, old- fashioned Scottish marriage. 

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Author: Adam Jacot de Boinod
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2006

A book no well-stocked bookshelf, cistern top or handbag should be without. At last we know those Eskimo words for snow and how the Dutch render the sound of Rice Krispies. Adam Jacot de Boinod has produced an absolutely delicious little book: It goes Pif! Paf! Pouf! Cric! Crac! Croc! and Knisper! Knasper! Knusper! on every page.

Author: William Faulkner
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1970

The striking thing about this superlative book is that it is Faulkner's only complete comedy. The farce is as deeply embedded in local life as everything else in Faulkner is. It easily surpasses Somerville and Ross or Surtees: it matches Mark Twain. A wildly comic and brilliantly invented tale.

Author: Martin Chatterton
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 1998
This Edition: 2001
Pages:  96
Type:  Softcover

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Author: Tom Sharpe
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: ****

'Fans will relish the gamy imbroglio, complete with peeping Toms in the loo, comic American air force officers, a cod Greenham Common and a herbalist whose preparations, lacing Wilt's homebrew, induce an irrepressible erection' - The Observer