Say goodbye to the rickety bridge ... the perfect playground ... the skyscraper tree ... the BEST PARK EVER has just been cursed by an evil ultra-villain! It's up to best friends Amelia (Miles) and Shackleton (Jones) to save their favourite place, no matter what curious curses should strike along the way.A brilliant new graphic novel series by popular New Zealand comedian Sam Smith and artist César Lador, MILES AND JONES is like THE BAD GUYS crossed with Indiana Jones - pe...

Happiness is the name of a planet, whose moon one day disappears. At the same time that the moon disappears all radio (speed of light) communication to and from that planet is blocked. Within the same intergalactic empire as Balant only farmers and cranks live on planets. An unseen force destroys any craft that tries to leave the planet…. During the investigation into the missing moon, there are 2 love affairs and many considerations upon the nature of intelligence, government and society....

The New York Times bestseller about the legendary basketball star's impact on the sport during his team's championship seminal season. With a new introduction by Sam Smith, NBA Hall of Fame columnistA highly competitive force of nature, Michael Jordan's ambition and endurance drove him—and his Chicago Bulls teammates—to victory. After three years of consecutive losses to the "Bad Boys" Detroit Pistons in the playoffs, the Bulls defeated them in the 1991 Eas...

The legendary sportswriter and the Hall of Fame, eleven-time NBA champion coach separate the music from the noise in the stories of the greatest who ever played and their impact on the gameSam Smith and Phil Jackson grew to know and respect each otherin the late 1980s, when Smith was a Chicago Tribune sportswriterand Jackson was an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls. Fortyyears later, the two remain close friends. In 2021, Smith helped theNBA arrive at ...

Amelia: Phew, how about those snakes?! Surely the next curse won't be as bad . . . UH OH. INCOMING!!!Glam-Evil's pet anacondas have been vanquished, but she's still on a rampage and there's a storm headed straight for the gang.Say goodbye to the rickety bridge . . . the perfect playground . . . the skyscraper tree - the BEST PARK EVER has just been cursed by an evil ultra-villain! It's up to best friends Amelia (Miles) and Shackleton (Jones) to save their favourite...

In 2012, Derrick Rose was on top of the world.After growing up in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard known to his family as "Pooh" was a phenom, winning the Rookie of the Year award and electrifying fans around the world. In 2011, he became the youngest MVP in league history. He and the Bulls believed the city's first berth in the NBA Finals since ...

These are not your usual private detectives, although there are occasions when they fancy themselves as such. So the usual detective tropes are lightly explored and, I hope, taken in new directions. The private detective in the first of the three Chronicles is a five foot, genderless hacker who was recruited to The Company when a teenager. He is called Sean. One line of work requiring Sean's specialist skills is doing background checks on prospective brides and grooms, especially on those ...

This period piece has its beginnings in the early 1960s, opens with a description of the motorbike/coffee bar culture then prevalent. From those motorbike days in that nameless town in southern England our narrator, the Chicken Farmer to be, takes his group of friends on through the next twenty plus years.Giving instances from the ordinary lives happening around him the Chicken Farmer discourses on, not only Love and its many betrayals, but on most other aspects of life. Told from ...

This is what reviewer Anthony Lund made of 'Eternals'. "The unMaking of Heaven is the equivalent of an album's title track, giving the series its title and bringing the saga to a conclusion in three separate threads covering the missing history of Space, events that have just passed and a 1st person narrative taken from the memory files of an AI robot called the Shining Knight. With hints of a future where machines have dominated life. Like a collision of tribes, the final showdown between...

Shackleton: WHOA WHOA WHOA. ANACONDA attack?! Don't worry, there aren't any giant, kid-eating snakes in this book. I'm just having my best friend Amelia for a sleepover. Right? ... RIGHT?!Say goodbye to the rickety bridge ... the perfect playground ... the skyscraper tree ... the BEST PARK EVER has just been cursed by an evil ultra-villain! It's up to best friends Amelia (Miles) and Shackleton (Jones) to save their favourite place, no matter what curious curses should stri...

A book within a book Son & Daughter of O/V purports to be an analysis of, and a page by page description of a fictional graphic novel, child of time. Soon after its first publication child of time got condemned by a quasi religious group and copies publicly burnt. Defenders of free speech came to the book's defence. In the ensuing brouhaha the child of time's author, having published the novel privately under a nom de plume, had his real...

The cockerel crowed across Pettington Zoo.The animals woke with a big job to do.'The Harry is coming! Today is the day!We have to get ready! There's no time to play!'It's Harry's birthday and the all the animals at Pettington Zoo are planning a big surprise. It's time to get ready to party!Written by comedian Sam Smith and illustrated by Daron Parton, this is a heartwarming and hilarious book so full of laughs that yo...