Mama is a battle-hardened beauty of Tokyo's famous nightclub circuit - her life spent feeding the egos of politicians, businessmen and celebrities. With Tokyo in trouble, suicides are rising so she decides to act in her own novel way, stumbling into a lot of lives and laughs while she and her bumbling old barman Kenji embark on a scheme to enrich her failing nightclub.

Highway humour for any driver. New to the wheel? Laugh as you learn! A chuckle on every page, it lists 120 questions from Driving Theory Tests, that apply to road users worldwide. A great way to get some grins as anyone struggles through the rules of the road. In each set of wacky answers there's a genuine response to help you remember on test day. Packed with original cartoons. Enjoy!

'A funny thing happened on my way to the billabong…' Sure did. In fact, a lot of funny things happened on the 3rd Altrincham Rover Crew Australasian Expedition fifty years ago.Here's how my expedition from the UK to Australia missed its target by 5000 miles and ended up in Tokyo. In an old van it was a rough ride - few roads, but enough interesting memories and amusing stories for a lifetime

The China Plot dramatizes an epic that could well stand as a sequel to The Last Emperor . It reveals an enthralling chapter in Asian history that has been overlooked for eighty years.In the l930's Pu-chieh, brother of the last emperor of China, was used by the Japanese military in an effort to establish a Japanese bloodline on the throne of China following their conquest of Manchuria.The Kwangtung Army, Japan's army of occupation, with the cooperation of the military-politica...

An entertaining novel centered around Britain's most popular indoor sport. Okay, perhaps the second most popular sport. Probably the only humour book written on the game, with lots of incidents that will be familiar to anyone who has been around the pub scene.Under the guiding hand of his canny old grandpa Kerry sets off toconquer the world of darts. And finds out that the climb up is not as easy as he thought. But he has a lot of fun trying.Both players and non-player...

A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fue...

Now available for the first time with two additional stories!Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology—and its various uses—run amok."Anda's Game" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of "cyber sweatshops," in which p...

As everyone knows, there are three ways of doing things. The right way, the wrong way and the Top Gear way. Although, on reflection, that's usually just the wrong way, but faster and with more shouting. Anyway, the good news is that this third way of doing things can be applied to almost anything, and that includes motoring in general. All you need is the right guidance, which is where the brand new Top Gear Alternative Highway Code comes in.Top Gear's Altnern...

YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWNIn this part of Ireland, the past can never stay buried.In Blarney, Cork, an old millworker's cottage guards its secrets. In 1921, a mother, father and their two young children disappeared from this house. Now their mummified bodies have been discovered under the floorboards.As DS Katie Maguire investigates a ninety-five-year-old murder, the flames of old family rivalries flare up once more, catching ...

From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers—if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh.The Randall family was always a little strange. For generations, each member receives a prophetic vision of the apocalypse—but always on a different date. When the End of Days fails to materialize, yet another Randall goes mad....

More of Paul Carter's hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures.Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name.Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera back to front in the midst of filming a TV series, or startin...

'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ... Recourse to air travel, even as a convenient means of escape, was not allowed.'Following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the...