Warning! You are about to enjoy poetry!
If you are one of the few people left in the world who has not seen the
wonderful animated video for Tim
Minchin's Storm I recommend you set a little time aside. Please
be aware Tim does use a small amount of potentially offensive language.
Tim's much loved pro-reason rant is now a beautifully illustrated book. Storm
is in stock and shipping now so grab your copy today!
This is truly one for the hugest of Game of
Thrones fans! Living
Language: Dothraki is a full guide to learning conversational
Dothraki. Wonder no longer how you would survive among the ranks of the nomadic
horselords!
Living
Language: Dothraki is written by David Paterson who was responsible for
creating a full, coherent language for the HBO production of George R.R.
Martin's much loved series.
Check out Paterson's talk for TED in which he discusses language and the
strange craft of language creation.
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Check out the trailer for James Frey's Endgame:
The Calling. This book kicks off a trilogy that is guaranteed to be
the next big thing. Endgame has its mysterious tendrils in a Google
Niantic-created augmented reality game for mobile devices and the movie is
already in the works.
The book itself contains clues that can lead one lucky (or clever) reader to
a real world prize! The real details are enough of a secret that the advance
reader copies contain fake puzzles. There goes my head start!
Our first shipment quickly sold out but we are expecting more stock any
moment now. Place your
order to join the hunt!
Set to be one of the hugest sports books of the year is Playing
It My Way, the auto-biography of the man Brian Lara calls
“the greatest cricketer of all time”.
Tendulkar has achieved that rare level of sportsmanship in which he has
become both an international star and a hero in his native India. He has been
awarded the highest of accolades at home and triumphed to an unprecedented
degree at the crease.
One of the most gifted and entertaining batsmen to have played
international cricket, he scored more runs and made more centuries than any
other player in history – in both Tests and ODIs. He made his first Test
century at the age of 17, at the age of 36 he became the first player to make a
one-day double century and in 2012 he scored his 100th international hundred.
With India he won the World Cup in 2011 and reached the top of the world Test
rankings in the same year. In 2013, he retired from cricket after playing his
200th and final Test in front of his home crowd in Mumbai.
"I knew that agreeing to write my story would need me to be completely
honest, as that’s the way I have always played the game. It would require
talking about a number of aspects I have not shared in public before.
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Video Games Day celebrates popular video games that have taken the world by
storm. From Atari to Nintendo to Xbox, video games have changed the way kids and
adults play and now represent one of the largest and fastest growing
entertainment industries today.
We think it's a really great excuse for enthusiasts to take a day to play
favourite games with mates, but it's also a time to reflect on how much an
impact video games have had on our lives, and even an opportunity for non-gamers
to give something new a try!
To celebrate we thought we'd pick out our favourite video game themed items
available in the jungle that we don't want you to miss out on…
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Towards the end of last year we saw the release of the wonderful and moving
Quake
Dogs, a beautifully presented collection of canine tales following the
Christchurch earthquakes. Now Craig Bullock's beautiful photography is set to
return with the forthcoming release of Quake
Cats.
Quake
Cats promises to be every bit as heartwarming as it's predecessor but this
time with its lens on the feline inhabitants of Christchurch. Each true-tale is
accompanied by Craig Bullock's characteristically engaging photography.
You can expect to see some cute and resilient companions among these
stories.
Quake
Cats is releasing October 3rd so pre-order
yours today!
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Book to movie adaptations are incredibly popular at the moment. We'd like to
highlight a few that have yet to come out this year!
1. If
I Stay
Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old
Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend
decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and
love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an
instant.
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With the announcement of Stephen King's new book Revival –
we're counting down our current Top 5 Stephen King Books Of
All Time!
5. The
Stand
A chilling look at a post-civilisation earth. When a man crashes his car into a
petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He
dies and it doesn't take long for the plague which killed him to spread across
America and the world.
4. IT
The classic that introduced the world to a nightmare clown…They were seven
teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men
and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness.
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We are being spoiled for choice in 2014, loads of amazing musicians are
bringing out some stellar biographies, check out our top choices in this
Top 5 Music Books of 2014!
You listen to their music, you love their style – and now we get to look
behind the curtain into their lives.
1. The
Universal Tone – Carlos Santana – Due 6th November
In the realm of guitar gods, Carlos Santana stands alone for what's come to
be called his “universal tone” – both the fact that you can recognise a
Santana song from just one note and that Santana is famous for his belief that
music and soul are interconnected. This is a long awaited memoir from an
incredibly influential musician!
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