Julia and Mark are stuck in a loveless relationship. Julia thinks a baby will help but perhaps that isn’t the answer to her problems. Maeve is totally allergic to commitment – she breaks out in a rash whenever she passes a buggy. Then a one-night-stand results in an unwanted pregnancy. But just how unwanted is it? Samantha is besotted with her new-born baby. But how is husband Chris coping with his suddenly unavailable wife and is Samantha’s obsession as healthy as it seems?

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‘This is a much better book about why boys are how they are than “Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus”‘. – Jenny Colgan. ‘Gorman is becoming the Bill Bryson of stand-up.’ – “Sunday Times.” After a heavy night of tequila flatmates Dave and Danny set off on what turns out to be a 24 000-mile journey to meet all the other Dave Gormans in the world. They visit Scotland Israel America France and Ireland. They even hold a party in London where 50 Dave Goffilans attend including two women who have kindly changed their name via deed-poll. Silly but engrossing fascinating and addictive – and a touching story of two friends who grow to share a mutual obsession. ‘You’ll like this so much you may want to change your name to Dave Gorman’ – “The Big Issue.”

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George Hall doesn’t understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. ‘The secret of contentment George felt lay in ignoring many things completely.’ Some things in life however cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven George is settling down to a comfortable retirement building a shed in his garden reading historical novels listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie his tempestuous daughter announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her family is not pleased – as her brother Jamie observes Ray has ‘strangler’s hands’. Katie can’t decide if she loves Ray or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband’s former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover Tony to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip and quietly begins to lose his mind.The way these damaged people fall apart – and come together – as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddon’s disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.

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Man’s obsession with power tools has finally spilled over into the kitchen with the Pizza Boss.  It’s shaped like a circular saw and will make short work of your freshly baked pizza. Unlike real power tools it doesn’t require batteries and you won’t have to hook it up to the mains as the blade is powered by pure elbow grease. Every task requires the proper tool and the Pizza Boss is the manliest tool in the box.

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This story begins on a windy summer’s day in the Chilterns when the calm organised life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. What happens is shocking and tragic but strangely inco-sequential. The consequences come after for that fatal accident brings Joe together briefly with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose something passes between them – something that gives birth to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose’s beloved scientific rationalism threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to take desperate measures merely to stay alive.

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A study of “Twin Peaks”, the first foray into television for film director David Lynch. It addresses topics which include the series’ cult status, its obsession with doubling and its silencing of women. It also analyses the series from feminist, deco

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