Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian______________'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a trav...

DISCOVER PUCKOON, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S CLASSIC SLAPSTICK NOVEL'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily MailIn 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon.Houses are...

When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightm...

When David left his home in Beavers Bluffs, Nebraska to take up the all-expenses-paid Arnold Shuttlebottom Scholarship to major in European History at the University of Yorkshire in Sheffield, England (he was the only applicant!), little did he realise what awaited him.What did await him were the stunningly beautiful Samantha, the chain-smoking, private school-educated Paul, the vivacious Pam, the gargantuan Lard-Arse, the nymphomaniac Cathy and the bed-wetting lunatic Brain-Dead.

Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . .Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics of the twentieth century to some of its most famous politicians, actors, celebrities and rock stars (as well as a host of unlikely individuals on some surprising subjects):- rounded teabags ('what did you do with the co...

In a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker's Working on the Edge re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing and the crash that followed.No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); th...

VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times______________A voice is calling across the land, 'Bombardier Milligan.' 'Bombadier Milligan is dead,' I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, 'The...

VOLUME THREE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail______________'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.' 'This could mean wa...

Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.The Old Testament: but more mad, more merry, more... Milligan!"And God said, Let there be light; and there was light, but Eastern Electricity Board said He would have to w...

**“I guess you could say gaming is my life…or my life is a game.”What could be nicer than the semester at the elite Hope’s Peak High School to kick off with a class trip to the tropical resort of Jabberwock Island? And what could be more horrific to then be told by the principal that now they’re all trapped there…and the only way they can ever leave is to play a murder game!**The rules are simple: to escape, you must not only kill a fellow student, but get away...

Dr. Tiffany Vance's world is built on a single principle: information must be protected. Her life's work, the Silicon Archives, is a digital fortress—impenetrable, orderly, and absolute.But someone just picked the lock.The vandal is Julian 'Jax' Thorne, a brilliant, anti-establishment hacker who sees her fortress as a cage and its data as something that yearns to be free. He didn't come to steal; he came with a warning. A shadowy conspiracy is exploiting th...

The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide is intended primarily for use onvessels where there is no medical professional, such as a doctor,on board. It provides assistance and direction for crew memberswhen it becomes necessary for them to assess and treat traumaand medical illness. Ships and fishing vessels which carryCategory A or Category B stores are required also to carry acopy of the guide.This new guide, the 24th edition, continues to k...