 A fascinating insight into the experiences of the quarter-million people selected to do jury serivce every year. Grove was a juror in a four-month Old Bailey case and discusses his experiences, and the often strange and daunting English legal system. He mounts a passionate defense of trial by jury in the face of current doubts over its effectiveness and its future. Will appeal to anyone who has ever done jury service, or anyone who enjoys John ... |  "Better than Pokemon. I sent this to my eight year old nephew and I hear he's very upset that he's not Beetle Boy. He's memorised much of the book already. It's replaced Pokemon as his reason for living." - A customer from Amazon.com. ... |
 Most people would think Annie Baker had it all: an idyllic life in the country and a fabulous job as a producer in London. And so would she, if it weren't for the men in her life. Her six-year-old son Charlie gets traumatised if she buys the wrong kind of sausages. Her tempestuous boss Barney is a Great Director, but keeps getting stuck with dog food commercials, and as for Lawrence, well, he just wants to get her fired. And then she meets Mack ... |  Red Adair is now a multimillionaire, but he has worked his way up from a poor childhood in Houston where he spent years on the railways and on bomb-disposal before becoming an expert on oil-well firefighting. This is an account of his heroic life fighting fires all over the world - the 800-foot Devil's Cigarette Lighter in Algeria, fires in the giant wells of the Awaz Field in Iran, the sabotaged wells of Sumatra and Libya, and most recently, ... |
 Brilliantly fast paced and sophisticted thriller for teenagers. An aging, debonair master-criminal runs his own unique job creation scheme for children with special skills, where they are trained to become professionals and undertake cimes. Ages: 12+. ... |  A story of taboos, of the hidden passion between a brother and sister, and of the Jesuit missionary who turns the pursuit and destruction of their incestuous union into a righteous crusade. "The Ventriloquist's Tale" is Melville's debut novel and recently won the Whitbread First Novel Prize. "Striking and brilliant" "Daily Telegraph". ... |
 An examination of the hypothesis that the earth's oceans came from outer space; and that the cosmos may be scattered with watery worlds. ... |  An inspirational gardening book which encourages novice gardeners to try whatever appeals to them. ... |
 "This is a good book which succeeds in entertaining and informing" - "Manchester Evening News". An absent minded mother hen can't find her chicks! She searches here and there and relies upon the help of the other farm animals to track the naughty chicks down. But soon she is surrounded by more chicks than she started with - whose can they be? This is a perfect first picture book for children just learning to count, identify animals and of ... |  Detailed investigation of one of Britain's most successful directors, whose film "Kes" established his reputation. Ties in with the fortieth anniversary of his first work. ... |
