The Stylophone Beatbox is possibly too much fun. Most people are familiar with the original Stylophone (thanks to the pioneering influence of Rolf Harris) but it’s now received a serious makeover with its hipper grimier cousin the Stylophone Beatbox. The principle remains the same – use the stylus to touch the metal areas complete the circuit and make a sound. Instead of the distinctive shrill wail of the original Stylophone the Beatbox version produces several different percussion sounds from bass drum all the way to hi-hat and beyond. There are three different sound palettes – percussion actual beatboxing (provided by beatbox champion MC Zani) and bass tones allowing you to create enough beats and melodies to get a production credit on the next Girls Aloud album. One of the craftier features though allows you to create a percussion loop which means you can form a beat over which to improvise with any of the other voices. It’s difficult to describe the sense of pure giggliness that creating your own beats and tapping along with them can produce. You might look like a giddy fool while you drum away but you’ll sound like a beatmaster genius. You can take the fun even further by connecting your MP3 player or hi-fi to the Beatbox (via the headphone socket and included cable) and tapping along with your favourite records. We recommend something a little jauntier than The Complete Works Of Daniel O’Donnell (though it certainly benefited from a little more ‘street’ influence). All in all it’s pretty much impossible to get bored of this percussive gem – you can play alone with headphones out loud or with friends. Heck you could even start a Stylophone orchestra just make sure you pick up the Stylophone Beatbox and start drumming.

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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien’s own design the definitive text and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Sauron the Dark Lord has gathered to him all the Rings of Power — the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring — the ring that rules them all — which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Part of a set of three paperbacks this popular edition is once again available in its classic black livery designed by Tolkien himself.

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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien’s own design the definitive text and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Sauron the Dark Lord has gathered to him all the Rings of Power — the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring — the ring that rules them all — which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Part of a set of three paperbacks this popular edition is once again available in its classic black livery designed by Tolkien himself.

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Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan he is bound to the town’s residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he’s killed her Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn’t as clear to Cam’s wife Allie. While she is devoted to her husband she finds herself siding against Cam seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he’d grant all her wishes! even the one that meant taking her life. Into this charged atmosphere drifts Mia a new assistant at Allie’s floral shop for whom Cam feels an instant and inexplicable attraction. While he aids the prosecution in preparing the case against Jamie who killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy Cam finds himself betraying his own wife.

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