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Of talking teabags, Ryvita and graphic novels

Hannah Berry is hopefully a name that will be on everyone’s mind in the next few weeks, as Random House release her debut graphic novel Britten & Brülightly. She talks to Student Times about getting into the mind of a talking teabag, Fern Britten (and Britton) and how luck played a large part in her getting published. By Jonathan Williams.

BRIDA – PAULO COELHO

We used to sit until late at night in a café in Lourdes. I was a pilgrim on the sacred Road of Rome and still had many more days to travel in search of my Gift. She was Brida O’Fern and was in charge of a certain stretch of that Road.

On one such night, I asked if she remembered having felt especially moved when she arrived at a particular abbey that forms part of the star-shaped trail followed by Initiates in the Pyrenees.

School For Scumbags

Published Midnight 19 July 2007
£7.99 paperback original

Put down your adult editions of Harry Potter – this is a Boy’s Own adventure for grown-ups
Habitual teenage delinquent Wayne Banstead is expelled from yet another school for sticking up the tuck shop and finds himself hauled off to Gafin School for Misdirected Boys: a “special school” for “special children”.

Posted: 21.05.07

The Battle For Bond

The Battle For Bond will undoubtedly become the most important book ever published about the evolution of Ian Fleming’s James Bond from Fifties’ literary sensation to Sixties’ cinematic icon.

Comments Graham Rye, Editor and Publisher 007 Magazine: “Having read Robert Sellers’ manuscript, The Battle for Bond will undoubtedly become the most important book ever published about the evolution of Ian Fleming’s James Bond from Fifties’ literary sensation to Sixties’ cinematic icon.

Posted: 21.05.07

Bangkok Underworld Explored!

Bangkok Haunts is published by Bantam Press on 21st May, priced £12.99

The eagerly awaited next instalment of John Burdett’s critically acclaimed series featuring Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, Bangkok Haunts once again lifts the lid on what lies beneath the surface of one of Asia’s most vibrant cities.

Posted 25.04.07

“WHOSE SPACE IS IT ANYWAY?”

AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE SITES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

On the new breed of social networking sites, everyone can hear you squirm. Artists, film-makers, musicians, lonely kids looking for love … all twists on life can be found here in their dubious glory. These sites are the most powerful social force since the formation of the internet itself, their easy-to-use interface’s have allowed users to upload and share music, videos, online diaries and search for users with similar interests in a way that has revolutionised not only the internet, but an entire generation’s social lives. .

How to Get Rich

by Felix Dennis

'Making money is a knack, a knack that can be acquired. And if someone like me can become rich, then so can you - no matter what your present circumstances. Here is how I did it and what I learned along the way.' So writes Felix Dennis, who believes that almost anyone of reasonable intelligence can become rich, given sufficient motivation and application.

THE ATLAS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge

Your essential resource for understanding climate change – including what we can do – individually and collectively – to deal with it

Climate change is increasingly prominent in the media, and of growing concern to the general public – yet there is no single clear, authoritative and comprehensive explanation and reference covering all aspects of climate change that people can refer to. This book will provide that resource. Rigorous in its science and insightful in its message, The Atlas of Climate Change condenses the consensus knowledge of thousands of scientists into 50 powerful and easy-to-read maps and graphics. It conveys the very long and complicated story of climate change with an immediacy and comprehensibility that narrative accounts are unable to match – and is an excellent starting point for anyone wanting to understand the evidence, causes and consequences of climate change