New Releases by Nick Parker

More toast is eaten in this country than any other food, yet it has been shunned by recipe books and ignored by history. Toast is here to set the record straight and to sing the praises of this much undervalued staple of our diets.

''Astonishing... forty two short, swift, crowd-pleasing stories. Full of little pleasure bursts. Proof that the short story is still a public good.''Ian Sansom, The Guardian. ''I bloody LOVE these stories: short, clever, oblique. Just what the form is for.'' John Mitchinson, author of QI: The Book of General Ignorance. ''Creepily brilliant'' The Mail on Sunday ''Fit to rub shoulders with the likes of Richard Brautigan... a tremendous collection which sets the bar extremely high.'' Bookmunch These forty two short, funny and sometimes strange short stories ask the questions that are on everybody''s lips: Why did the national anthem turn out rubbish? Why has the supply teacher blacked out all the windows? Why have the islanders run amok like that? Where do those ladders go, anyway? And what, exactly, is up with all the walruses? Parker''s brilliantly bizarre stories have been compared to George Saunders, Magnus Mills, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Donald Barthelme and Richard Brautigan. (Which made him feel pretty smug, as you can probably imagine.)

O National Maritime Museum, nos Estados Unidos, é o maior do mundo em seu gênero. Para comemorar o 70o aniversário de sua inauguração, a instituição produziu uma coletânea de novos contos, inspirados pelo mar. Dos remotos e selvagens cenários da costa de Orkney e da face oeste da Irlanda aos mistérios situados no litoral mediterrâneo, dos contos inspirados pela expedição de John Franklin em busca da Passagem Norte -Oeste a um navio de cruzeiro da década de 1970, repleto de adolescentes a bordo, aqui estão histórias que nos fazem embarcar na viagem, desafiando nossa maneira de ver o mar. A presente coletânea reúne contos de reconhecidos autores britânicos e irlandeses que visam a homenagear não apenas o mar, mas também a riqueza e a diversidade da escrita contemporânea.

Wallace and Gromit are back in an exciting new adventure - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. This full-colour Ultimate Sticker Book contains over 60 reusable stickers, cool pictures and information from the film.No Wallace and Gromit fan should be without it.

Games War describes how the video games market was created, how massive the numbers really were; and, perhaps most significantly of all, how, with the arrival of new competitors such as Sony, the foundations have already been laid for another boom in 1996 and beyond.