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Name:
Motor Mania
Author(s): Ivan Berg & Nik
Berg
Publisher: BBC Books
Released: 12th October 2006
Type: Hardback
Pages: 192
RRP Price: £9.99
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Dip inside this car book which is like no other which is full of the
strangest stories, fascinating facts and spectacular stats. In the book
you will discover what's its like to drive on the worlds most dangerous
world and find out about flying, amphibious and atomic cars. This book
is a must for any car nut. |
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Name:
My Dad Had One of Those
Authors:
Giles Chapman &
Richard Porter
Publisher: BBC Books
Released: 17th May 2007
Type: Hardback
Pages: 160
RRP Price:
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Good old Dad and his good old
Dad's car. Since it was for a family, is meant soft tops, hard
suspension and nothing remotely sporty. In this book, cars spanning from
the 1950's to the 1980's, its a celebration of the simple, honest cars
that were flawed and also as loveable as your Dad himself. You can learn
what was special about the cars that your Dad was always going on about.
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Name: Top Gear Top
Drives
Author(s): Michael
Harvey
Publisher: BBC
Books
Released: 5th June
2008
Type: Paperback
Pages: 224
RRP Price: £18.99
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Pitting man and machine against the most challenging natural and manmade
elements, this book takes six cars across six continents to bring you
some of the most spectacular car journeys in the world. From a Ferrari
over the mountains of Ecuador, a Toyota hulix in the north pole and a
smart through Russia. Its all here. |
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Name:
Top Gear Funfax
Author(s): Unknown
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Publishers Ltd.
Released: 1st July 2008
Type:
Hardback
Pages: 72
RRP Price: £5.99
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This Top Gear funfax has loads of photos and information from the
series. Featuring Jeremy, Richard, James and the Stig, with some of the
amazing cars from the series, its a brilliant way for your child to be
organised. It has posters, dairy, puzzles, quizzes, a door hanger,
bookmarks and stickers. |
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Name: Cool wall poster Book
Author(s): BBC
Publisher: Penguin Character
Books
Released: 3 July 2008
Type: Paperback
Pages: 8
RRP Price: £3.99
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We all know that how
fast a car is doesn't matter but whether it's cool or not. And there's
only one judge, and it's not Richard. He's too short to reach
the real cool wall. So here's your own wall where you can be judge,
jury and Jeremy. Use the poster and the 45 removable stickers to
create your very own 'Cool Wall'.
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Name: The Challenges
Sticker Book
Author(s): BBC
Publisher: Penguin Character Books
Released: 3 July 2008
Type: Paperback
Pages: 24
RRP Price: £3.99
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The boys have been
faced with some pretty interesting, often bizarre and always very
funny challenges. This activity book is based around their adventures.
The activities in
this book include word searches, quizzes, crosswords, sticker
activities, and more.
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Name: Top Gear: The
Races
Author(s): BBC
Publisher: Penguin Character Books
Released: 3 July 2008
Type: Hardback
Pages: 48
RRP Price: £5.99
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Jeremy, Richard and James
answer one of life's big questions: what's the fastest? Jeremy in a
Bugatti Veyron or Richard and James in an aeroplane? An Audi RS4 or a
rock climber? A Mitsubishi Evo or a boy on mountain board? You'd be
surprised. |
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Name: Top Gear: The
Challenges
Author(s): BBC
Publisher: Penguin Character Books
Released: 3 July 2008
Type: Hardback
Pages: 48
RRP Price: £5.99
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This book helps you relive the incredible
Africa challenge, the amphibious vehicles, building a convertible, and
the launching of the faithful Robin Reliant into the beyond. |
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Name: Top Gear: SuperCars
Author(s): BBC
Publisher: Penguin Character Books
Released: 3 July 2008
Type: Hardback
Pages: 48
RRP Price: £5.99
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This book profiles the some of the best
supercars to feature on "Top Gear": from Jeremy's beloved Ford GT to the
beast of the Koenigsegg that even The Stig couldn't tame. |
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Name: Top Gear: Winter Olympics
Author(s): BBC
Publisher: Penguin Character Books
Released: 3 July 2008
Type: Hardback
Pages: 48
RRP Price: £5.99
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Boosting a Mini Cooper with rocket power
and launching it down a ski jump certainly sounds like fun to us. |
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Name: Clarkson: Motorworld
Author: Clarkson
Publisher:
Penguin
Released:
27/05/04
Type: Paperback
Pages: 208
RRP Price: £7.99
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Back in 1996, he took himself
off to twelve countries in search
of the how's, why's and wherefores of different nationalities and their
relationships with cars. Why is it that Italians are more interested in looking good than
looking where they are going? Why do Indians crash a lot? From Cuba to
Iceland, Australia to Vietnam, Japan and Texas, Jeremy Clarkson tells us
of his adventures on and off four wheels as he seeks to discover just
what it is that makes our motor world tick over. |
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Clarkson on cars
Author: Clarkson
Publisher:
Penguin
Released:
27/05/04
Type: Paperback
Pages: 368
RRP Price: £7.99
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In these Classic
Clarkson columns stretching back to the 1980's, he's pulled together the
car columns that made his name. As coal mines closed and
house prices exploded to a soundtrack of men in make-up playing
synthesizers, Jeremy was already waxing lyrical on topics as useful and
as diverse as why Australians need bull bars and why bus lanes cause traffic jams.
Irreverent, damn funny and offensive to almost everyone, this is writing
with its foot to the floor, the brake lines cut and the speed limit
smashed to smithereens. Sit back & enjoy the ride. |
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The world according to Clarkson
Author: Clarkson
Publisher:
Penguin
Released:
26/05/05
Type: Paperback
Pages: 352
RRP Price: £7.99
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Jeremy Clarkson has been around a bit. And
as a result, he's got one or tow things to tell us about how it all
works and being Jeremy Clarkson he's not about to voice them quietly,
humbly and without great dollops of humour. Clarkson
hilariously attacks the pompous, the ridiculous, the absurd and the
downright idiotic ideas, people and institutions that we all have to put
up with at home and abroad, whilst also celebrating the eccentric, the elever and the sheer Bloody brilliant. This is the world according to
Clarkson. Don't leave home without it. |
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I know you got Soul
Author: Clarkson
Publisher:
Penguin
Released:
25/05/06
Type: Paperback
Pages: 256
RRP Price: £7.99
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It will come as no surprise to anyone that
Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's not just any old bucket of
bolts, cogs and bearings that rings his bell. In fact, he's scoured the
length and breadth of the land, plunged into oceans and taken to the
skies in search of machines with that elusive certain something. Clarkson tells the stories of the geniuses,
innovators and crackpots who put the ghost in the machine. From Brunel's
SS Great Britain to the Blackbird spy-plane and from Graf Zeppelin to Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, they
were built by people who love them. And we can't help but love them in
return.
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Born to be Riled
Author: Clarkson
Publisher:
Penguin
Released:
25/01/07
Type: Paperback
Pages: 549
RRP Price: £7.99
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Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening
place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you
can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not)
of a ton of metal. In this collection of classic colums, first published in
1999, Jeremy takes a look at the world through his windscreen, shakes his
head at what he sees - and then puts the boot in. |
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The world according to Clarkson volume 2
Author: Clarkson
Publisher:
Penguin
Released:
4/10/07
Type: Paperback
Pages: 352
RRP Price: £7.99
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Jeremy Clarkson finds the world such a perplexing place that he wrote a
bestselling book about it. Yet, despite the appearance of the world
according to Clarkson, things - amazingly - haven't improved. Not being
someone to give up easily, however, he's decided to have another go. In
And Another Thing... the king of the exasperated quip discovers that: we
can look forward to exploding at the age of 62 and wasps are the highest
form of life. Thigh-slappingly funny and in your face, Jeremy Clarkson
bursts the pointless little bubbles of the idiots while celebrating the
special, the unique and the sheer bloody brilliant... |
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Don't Stop Me Now
Author: Clarkson
Publisher:
Penguin
Released:
1/05/08
Type: Paperback
Pages: 352
RRP Price: £7.99
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There's more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after
all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he
gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he takes time out to consider
many things, whether its problems of being English or the madness of
tortoises, he's wrote it. Then there are the cars: whether it's the poxiest
little runabout or an exotic, fire breathing supercar, no one does cars like
Clarkson. He writes about anything on four wheels without fear or favour.
What emerges from the ashes is rarely pretty. But always very, very funny. |
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Richard Hammond |
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What not to drive
Author: Richard Hammond
Publisher:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Released: 13/10/05
Type: Hardback
Pages: 276
RRP Price: £7.99
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One positive aspect of British-originated
cars is they have become among the coolest on the planet. Range Rover,
Mini, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin. But what of the not so cool
cars, the cars you shouldn't opt to buy - and those you shouldn't even
be seen in or alongside? As funny as it is cool and aspirational, this
book will entertain all who love Top Gear. |
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Can you feel the force?
Author: Richard Hammond
Publisher:
Dorling Kindersley Publishers
Released: 29/06/06
Type: Hardback
Pages: 96
RRP Price: £9.99
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Physics doesn't just happen in a lab it
happens in the kitchen, in your bath, in a car! Richard is passionate
about science and learning, and this title helps you join a thrilling
high-energy journey through time, space and beyond and find out about
the physical forces that make our world what it is. Here, find out how
science affects everything, from roller-coasters to fighter pilots. The
book is crammed with fascinating physics facts and interactive
experiments. It has a totally cool look at physics! |
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Richard Hammond's car confidential
Author: Richard Hammond
Publisher:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Released: 5/10/06
Type: Hardback
Pages: 144
RRP Price: £12.99
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Richard Hammonds's car confidential is packed
with information and a must for anyone even remotely interested
in cars. It includes an enormous variety of hints and tips, about cars
and all related stuff. There are also
lots of lists of everything - such as the top noble failures. The odd, the mad, the bad, the curious or ridiculous
are all here in this wonderful, witty and incredibly useful compendium
of everything to do with cars and their drivers - all we ever needed to
know about the modern world of motoring. |
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Richard Hammond: On the Edge
Author: Richard Hammond
Publisher: Phoenix
Released: 29/05/08
Type: Paperback
Pages: 368
RRP Price: £7.99
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Richard
Hammond is one of our most popular television presenters. But in
September 2006, a high speed crash whilst filming for Top Gear left him
fighting for his life. On the Edge is his compelling account of life
before and after the accident and an honest description of his recovery,
full of drama and incident. His wife Mindy tells the story of the
anxious hours and days of watching and waiting until he finally emerged
from his coma. She and Richard then piece together the stages of his
recovery, and his triumphant return to Top Gear. |
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Richard Hammond: Car Science
Author: Richard Hammond
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers
Released: 02/06/08
Type: Hardback
Pages: 96
RRP Price: £14.99
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Underneath
the bonnet of every car there's a lot of fast, furious, and spectacular
science going on. G-force, combustion, power, you name it, a car's got
it. Find out how cars revolutionised the world, see how a car functions
with jaw-dropping diagrams, cutaway drawings and cool graphics. Plus,
find great things your child will love to make and do!
Help your child discover all about the science of cars in this explosive
tour.
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OZ and James's Big Wine Adventure
Authors: OZ clarke & James May
Publisher: BBC Books
Released: 19/10/06
Type: Hardback
Pages: 224
RRP Price: £18.99
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An inspiring
introduction to French wine with a unique travel angle, tied in to a
primetime 8-part BBC2 series, "Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure" brings
us French wine made simple. In Sideways style, Oz Clarke (wine expert)
and James May (Top Gear presenter and journalist) travel through wine
regions of France for 6 weeks. Oz teaches James about wine with the aim
of turning him into a top sommelier, while James indulges his passion
for cars by driving a different car each week. |
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May on Motors
Author: James May
Publisher: Virgin Books
Released: 10/05/07
Type: Paperback
Pages: 288
RRP Price: £7.99
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James has lived, breathed and dreamt about cars his entire life. There
is something about cars that stirs up intense feelings in people. These
feelings are humorously described in "May on Motors", as James takes us
on the road and looks at the cars that have shaped him, his world and
the ordinary people of Britain. In "May on Motors", James has brought
together his most controversial and amusing pieces to make a brilliant
collection that will amuse and inspire all car enthusiasts. |
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James May: Notes from the Hard Shoulder
Author: James May
Publisher: Virgin Books
Released: 10/05/07
Type: Paperback
Pages: 224
RRP Price: £7.99
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Top Gear presenter and columnist for the "Daily Telegraph" James May
brings together another brilliant collection of his most controversial
and humorous writing. From tales of motoring adventures through India,
Russia and Iceland, to classic articles on essential subjects such as
driving songs and haunted car parks, these gems from the number one car
connoisseur will take readers on a motoring journey that will amuse and
entertain in equal measure. |
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James May's 20th Century
Author: James May
Publisher: Virgin Books
Released: 10/05/07
Type: Paperback
Pages: 224
RRP Price: £19.99
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The 20th
century was a time of extraordinary change as new technologies and new
inventions emerged at a bewildering rate. Our world was transformed
beyond recognition, and so were our lives and our aspirations.
Throughout this book, James May explores the iconic themes of the
century: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine,
video games, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage and
much more. But he also reveals the hidden story behind why some
inventions like the Zeppelin, the hovercraft or the Theremin struggled
to make their mark. |
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James May's Magnificent Machines
Authors: James May & Phil Dolling
Publisher: Hodder Paperback
Released: 29/05/08
Type: Paperback
Pages: 352
RRP Price: £7.99
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Our world has
been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the twentieth
century, and so were our lives and our aspirations. Throughout james
mays magicent machines, he reveals the hidden story behind why some
inventions like the Zeppelin, the hovercraft or the Theremin struggled
to make their mark. He examines the tipping points and gets up close to
the nuts and bolt of remarkable inventions. Packed with surprising
statistics and intriguing facts, this is the ideal book for anyone who
wants to know how stuff works and why some stuff didn't make it. |
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Top Gear DVD's |
Name: Richard Hammond's Top Gear interactive Challenge
Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Released: 12/11/07
Special Features: None
RRP Price: £19.99
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DVD Description
This Top Gear Interactive Quiz DVD
Challenge is for anyone who loves Top Gear and all related stuff.
Within this disc there is a series of rounds designed to test your skill
and judgement, or maybe just your powers of guesswork.
We've got Ferraris, Aston Martins, Lamborghinis and even the Stig. What
more do you want?
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Name: Top Gear the Challenges vol.1
Publisher:
Released: 21/05/07
Special Features: None
RRP Price: £19.99
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DVD description
Top Gear does do a good challenge. Not only do they attempt to drive on water,
send a car into space and race a bunch of jumping French men only to
lose, they also manage to embroil several celebrities. Top Gear: The
Challenges features the most ludicrous stunts ever undertaken in a TV
show.
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Name: Top Gear Winter Olympics
Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Released: 5/06/06
Special Features: None
RRP Price: £15.99
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DVD Desciption
The Winter Olympics Special episode in full, including a
Mini driven down a ski jump and an ice hockey game with cars!
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Name: Top Gear Revved up
Released: 6/07/05
RRP Price: £15.99
No. Of Discs: 1
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DVD Description
Jeremy,
Richard and
James have had some fun racing, crashing and generally mucking
about in the most unlikely vehicles. Now direct from the Top Gear
bunker, Richard brings us the best, and most requested petrolhead stunts
from the unmissable show's series 5.
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Name: Top Gear: Back in the fast lane The best of series one
and two
Released: 27/10/03
RRP Price: £15.99
No. Of Discs: 1
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DVD Description
A DVD containing all the best bits from
the first and second series of the nation's favourite motoring
show. Featuring Clarkson
test driving supercars and then The
Stig demonstrates exactly how fast these cars can go. Including reviews of Aston Martin Vanquish
and DB7, the Pagani
Zonda, Lotus Elise and Espirit, as well as some fantastic features such as 'Doughnut Grannies', 'Plane vs. Car' and 'Bus Jump Motorbike'.
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