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Bears Can't Run Downhill
Ever wondered whether Bob Holness really did play the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street? Or whether a swan can break a man's arm? Or whether computer games are illegal in Greece?! If so, you've probably spent far too much time down the pub, conversing with a mate on the wrong end of four pints of lager. We've all heard them: wild claims, spurious rumours and barely believable 'pub facts'. Don't pretend you've never wondered whether a crocodile really can run faster than a racehorse. Or pondered the possibility that there is only one cash machine in the whole of Albania? If this sort of thing keeps you awake at night, then this book has come to the rescue. Bears Can't Run Downhill... debunks and explains 201 common claims and popular misconceptions. It's the ideal stocking-filler for the quiz fanatic, the trivia buff, the show-off down the pub - or the wife or girlfriend who wants a way to a) get the upper hand and b) put a stop to this nonsense once and for all. So here is the definitive tome - all you will never need (until the sequel at least) - of well-known 'facts' both true and apocryphal.
The American Bar
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Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub
Lori Kendall is one of the first to explore the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is a first-rate analysis of the emerging social phenomenon of Internet-mediated communication and a ground-breaking study of the social and cultural effects of a medium that allows participants to assume identities of their own choosing. Despite the common assumption that the personas these men and women craft for themselves bear little resemblance to reality, Kendall discovers that the habitués of BlueSky stick surprisingly close to the facts of their actual lives and personalities.
20th Century Pub
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Pirates of Passion
Alicia has an adventurous side to her that was unacceptable in the 1700s, but this didn't stop her. Blessed with beauty and love of life, she met her handsome captain, Arnold. Their adventures and dreams expanded into five beautiful talented daughters. Their third daughter, Aurora, was blessed and cursed with both her parents love of life and thirst for the sea. Her story is shared here.
City of London Pubs
This fascinating collection of photographs, facts and stories charts the history of some of the Square Mile's most famous and interesting old pubs, inns and taverns.
Love in the Lakes Level 4
Laura and her new boyfriend Nick are in the beautiful Lake District of England for a short holiday. Laura has taken Kip, a neighbours dog, with her against Nick's wishes. When Kip gets ill Laura meets Robert, the local vet. At first Robert doesn't like either Laura or Nick. And Laura doesn't understand why Robert dislikes people from the city. But soon Laura and Robert find out more about each other and she has to make a choice : Nick or Robert. -- cover.
Cold-Blooded Killer
Junior Smith has eliminated his major competition and is very close to being the undisputed leader in the Manchester drug trade. He needs to secure more markets and more firepower to ensure his continued success, but getting involved with the Irish paramilitaries proves to be more dangerous and complicated than he expected. Detective constable Paul Dean has been targeting Junior and his operation for some time, but events move up a pace when Junior threatens to kill him. Dean uses friends and colleagues to try and track Junior down, but his own deteriorating mental state makes this more of an obsession rather than his duty. This fictional story, based on real life events, gives a "no holds barred" account of the violent, dangerous and destructive lives of those on both sides of the law.
Tales from the Two Puddings
In 1962, exactly fifty years before the Olympic Games rolled into Stratford, East London, the Johnson family took over the Two Puddings, the most notorious pub in the area. Due to a combination of its cream-tiled walls and the volume of blood spilt, it was also known locally as the Butcher s Shop . Within a few short years, it had become one of London s busiest and most fashionable pubs, its hugely popular music nights acting as a magnet for a large and colourful cast of disparate characters who would regularly descend upon the premises, including renowned actors, writers, singers, musicians, champion boxers, infamous gangsters, television personalities, and World Cup-winning footballers. By the time the Puddings closed its doors for the last time, nearly four decades later, landlord Eddie Johnson was the longest serving licensee in London. Tales from the Two Puddings is a poignant, at times hilarious, look back upon a lost world of East End eccentrics, local villainy, vindictive policemen, punch ups, and practical jokes, all now lying buried beneath the concrete blocks and sterile shopping centres of the new Stratford.
Dylan
The ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore—including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One. DYLAN: The Biography focuses on why this beloved artist has touched so many souls—and on how both Dylan and his audience have changed along the way. Bob Dylan is an international bestselling artist, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, and an Oscar winner for "Things Have Changed." His career is stronger and more influential than ever. How did this happen, given the road to oblivion he seemed to choose more than two decades ago? What transformed a heroin addict ...
