Does My Bum Look Big in This?
10 best books like Does My Bum Look Big in This? (Arabella Weir): Roadwork, Filth, Porno, The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, The Doors of Perception, Dead Famous, Madame Doubtfire, Winger, The Epigenetics Revolution, DMT: The Spirit Molecule
| Author | Richard Bachman |
| ISBN | 0451197879 |
Barton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway construction puts him out of work and simultaneously forces him out of his home. Dawes isn’t the sort of man who will take an insult of this magnitude lying down. His single-minded determination...
| Author | Irvine Welsh |
| ISBN | 0393318680 |
With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially—kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam.
There are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some...
| Author | Irvine Welsh |
| ISBN | 8433972618 |
In the last gasp of youth, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his own; old pal Mark Renton; and a...
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
| Author | John Lewis-Stempel |
| ISBN | 0857523260 |
From the Winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015
Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare...
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book...
| Author | Ben Elton |
| ISBN | 0552999458 |
The cover says: "One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. One survivor."
You think: Big Brother? You're right. Here it's called "House Arrest", produced by "Peeping Tom Productions".
You know from the beginning that one of the inmates will be killed on day 27....
| Author | Anne Fine |
| ISBN | 0140373551 |
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their volatile mother, Miranda, and their out-of-work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will...
| Author | Andrew Smith |
| ISBN | 1442444924 |
Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids in the Pacific Northwest. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little...
The Epigenetics Revolution
At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still...
| Author | Rick Strassman |
| ISBN | 0892819278 |
A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death & Mystical Experiences.
A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT: A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research.
From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted US DEA-approved...
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
| Author | Sue Townsend |
| ISBN | 0718153707 |
"...when a woman sighs and you ask her what is wrong and she says, 'Nothing,' do not believe her - there is always something wrong and you must stick at it until you find out what it is."
The wisdom of Adrian Mole, aged 39 3/4
Not much is going right for the Mole man in this go-round.
He's...
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
The presenter of the BBC's The Incredible Human Journey gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies, allowing us to understand how we develop as an embryo, from a single egg into a complex body, and how our embryos contain echoes of our evolutionary past.
Bringing together the...
SMALL, WELL APPOINTED FUTURE. SEMI DETACHED.
If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make alternative arrangements. Certainly the Earth has its points, but what most people need is something smaller and more manageable. Of course there are those who say that's planetary...
The Boy Who Could See Demons
"I first met my demon the morning that Mum said Dad had gone."
Alex Connolly is ten years old, likes onions on toast, and can balance on the back legs of his chair for fourteen minutes. His best friend is a 9000-year-old demon called Ruen. When his depressive mother attempts suicide yet again,...
Ella and Tina Learn about Responsibility: The Easy Way To Teach Your Child Important Life Lesson About Resposibility
AS Level and A Level Biology
| Author | Mary Jones |
| ISBN | 0521703069 |
Cambridge International AS and A Level Biology meets the requirements of the Cambridge syllabuses for Cambridge International AS level and A level Biology, and is endorsed by Cambridge for use with these examinations. In one volume, this textbook covers the complete AS level syllabus, the core A...
Cambridge Checkpoint Science Coursebook 7
| Author | Mary Jones |
| ISBN | 1107613337 |
Written by well-respected authors, the Cambridge Checkpoint Science suite provides a comprehensive, structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 framework and seamlessly progresses into the next stage. This engaging course supports teaching of the Science framework both...
Cambridge Checkpoint Science Teacher's Resource 8
| Author | Mary Jones |
| ISBN | 0435089129 |
Written by well-respected authors, the Cambridge Checkpoint Science suite provides a comprehensive, structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 framework and seamlessly progresses into the next stage. This Teacher's Resource CD-ROM for Stage 8 gives suggestions for how...
