Books.Byline: PAMELA HOEY La Diva Nicotina: The Story of How Nicotine Seduced the World by Iain Gately (Sabrina UK, pounds 7.99) ASK any smoker why they haven't yet given up despite health warnings and the expense and they will usually look at you as if you were missing the point and say: ``Because I enjoy it.'' Why they enjoy it can be altogether more difficult to answer. What is it that makes some people prefer a cigarette to food? Iain Gately has tried to answer this question in an enjoyable trawl trawl - To sift through large volumes of data (e.g. Usenet postings, FTP archives, or the Jargon File) looking for something of interest. through the 18,000-year history of this controversial weed. First used as a pesticide and cure for snakebites, it had magical powers attributed to it by South American Indians. Irony of ironies, it has also been used as a cure for cancer in its chequered past. Mysteries by Tom Slemen (The Bluecoat blue·coat n. A person who wears a blue uniform, especially a police officer. blue  coat Press, pounds 5.99)FOR all
you X-Files fans, here is a collection of the unexplained from
Merseyside's own Fox Mulder.
Tom has brought together mysteries from around the world. If you are expecting a book full of stories about the Bermuda Triangle or UFO UFO: see unidentified flying objects. (United Functions and Objects) A programming language developed by John Sargeant at Manchester University, U.K. abductions, you will be disappointed. With chapters entitled Bruce Lee: Was the Marital Arts Superstar Murdered? The Magi: Who Were the Wise Men From the East? and, still popular one year on from September 11, which he allegedly foresaw, Michel de Nostredame: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. This book delves into mysteries surrounding people who have escaped the probing of historical chroniclers and left unanswered questions. Bod's Way by Alison and Lo Cole (Contender, pounds 2.99)FOR those who grew up in the Spangles generation but have now left such frivolous things as sweeties behind and moved on to macrodiets, this is the book for you. Adults of a certain age will remember fondly the antics of Bod, Aunt Flo, Farmer Barleymow, Frank the postman and PC Copper and its fantastic jazz theme tune. Now Bod has moved on and is looking for the meaning of life with the help of his friends. This pocket-sized book is illustrated with the simply drawn cartoons that made the TV show so watchable. It is also full of the sayings which made the Little Book of Calm a bestseller. A beautiful, simple book that is a joy to read.THE 25th Hour by David Benioff (Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 5.99)THIS original and tightly written New York-based tale has won plaudits for its 20-something author, a native of the Big Apple. Amid the welter of tributes for Benioff's first novel, written while he was recovering from near fatal appendicitis Appendicitis Definition Appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix, which is the worm-shaped pouch attached to the cecum, the beginning of the large intestine. The appendix has no known function in the body, but it can become diseased. and gangrene gangrene, local death of body tissue. Dry gangrene, the most common form, follows a disturbance of the blood supply to the tissues, e.g., in diabetes, arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, or destruction of tissue by injury. , is fulsome praise from crime fiction legend George P Pelecanos. Set in an atmospheric New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of shrouded in snow, it follows Monty Brogan on his last night of freedom before he must report for seven years jail for drug dealing. |
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