New Releases by Nick Parker

''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.)

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.

Funnier than Delia Smith, and with more recipes than Longitude, Toast tells you everything you could possibly want to know about the nation''s favorite fast food. Learn why the Victorians thought toast-flavored water was good for your health, marvel at Mrs Beton''s "toast sandwich" (a piece of toast between to slices of bread), and get needlessley embroiled in the Great Marmite Debate. With over 30 recipes, Toast takes a satirical look at our fondness with one of the world''s greatest fast foods.

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.