Ever worry that in your immaculately clean kitchen attire that your dinner guests may take for granted how hard you’ve been slaving away preparing a banquet for them? Well now you can make sure you are known as the ‘Butcher of Birmingham’ and with just a quick glance this Butchers Apron will get the point across. Fear not though, if you happen not to live in a town/city beginning with ‘B’ we’ve tried and it sounds just as menacing with any place name, especially when teamed with a maniacal grin and a brandished meat cleaver!

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In “Post Everything”, Luke Haines demonstrates that the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider. The ‘avant-garde Arthur Scargill’ calls upon the nation’s pop stars to down tools and go on strike. We learn the story of Haines’ post-Britpop art house trio Black Box Recorder (Chas and Dave with a chanteuse), we meet a talking cat, two dead rappers (Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur), a mystical England football manager, and a shady transgender German Professor – exponent of a dangerous and radical ‘Beatles denial’ cult and author of “The Theorem of the Moron” (the most important book about rock that you’ve never heard of). Haines even finds time to write a musical for the National Theatre. Blisteringly funny and searingly scathing, “Post Everything” may quite possibly be the first and only truly surreal comic rock memoir. It even contains a killer recipe for scrambled eggs.

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Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists ‘as if they were all members of a loosely constituted and quarrelsome political party’ – a party which includes such members as Cindy Sherman, Salman Rushdie, Jacques Derrida, Walter Abish, and Richard Rorty – creating a vastly entertaining framework in which to unravel the mysteries of the ‘postmodern condition’, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct.

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With a super strong sucker that’ll pucker up to your shower tiles like a teenager at a school disco (not an endearing image we know) this great little Shower Tap Radio has both AM and FM and you simply turn the ‘tap’ to get it going and control the volume. It’s waterproof of course and is the perfect accompaniment to a serious session of shower yodelling. Waterproof FM/AM radio Suction cup to attach to tiles Requires 2 x AA batteries (not included) Size:12.2 x 12.3 x 11.5cm

• Gift – Home & Office

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In 1977 Stephen Donaldson changed the face of epic fantasy. With the publication of THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER Donaldson took the world of fantasy publishing by storm and created a true phenomenon: an epic fantasy instant bestseller that has gone on to sell millions. The ‘hero’ Thomas Covenant is mysteriously struck down with a disease believed eradicated; he is abandoned by his wife and young son and becomes a pariah. Alone and despairing Covenant falls – and is drawn into a mysterious new world where gentle people work magic and the earth itself brings healing. He is welcomed as the reincarnation of a legendary saviour but Covenant refuses to believe; he’s convinced he’s having delusions. At the end of the sixth book as Covenant battles to save the world he is killed – in both worlds – as Dr Linden Avery his horrified companion looks on. Now comes the book every fantasy reader has been waiting for. It’s ten years later and Linden Avery thought she would never see the Land or Covenant her beloved again. But Lord Foul has stolen her adopted son and is unmaking the very laws of nature.And though she believes Covenant dead he keeps sending Linden messages: ‘Find me’ and ‘Don’t trust me’. The Land is in turmoil and Lord Foul has plans for them all …

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The ‘snooze’ button was obviously invented by some sadist with no interest in you actually getting to work in time.

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