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Narinder
Dhami |
| Bend It like
Beckham |
Jess'
parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl and learn
to cook the perfect chapatti. But jess wants to play football like
her hero, David Beckham. Anyone can cook Aloo Gobi, but who can
bend it like Beckham? |
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Heathrow |
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Kathy
Lette |
| Mad Cows |
Maddy
Wolfe's first day out with her newborn is a disaster when she's
arrested for shoplifting in Harrods. Detained in Holloway's Mother
and Baby Unit she smuggles darling Jack to freedom in her friends
handbag.
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Harrods
is London's most famous department store. Architectural gems
worth a visit include the Food and Egyptian Halls. |
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Harrods, Brompton Road, SW1 |
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Knightsbridge |
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David
Lodge |
| The British
Museum is Falling Down |
Adam
Appelby is working in the Reading Room of the British Museum.
A practising Catholic, with three children, before the Pill,
he is racked with anxiety about the possibility of a fourth. On
a particular foggy day a sequence of coincidences propels him
through a series of impending disasters.
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The
Great court of the British Museum, with its glass and steel curved
roof, is Europes largest covered outdoor space. |
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The British Museum, Great Russel Street WC1. Tel 020 7636 1555 |
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Russell
Square |
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Tim
Moore |
| Do Not Pass
Go |
Tim
Moore tackles the Monopoly board's real streets; one man's erratic
journey around the 28 streets, stations and utilities that make
up the world's most popular board game.
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Find
out more about the history of London at the London Transport Museum. |
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London
Transport Museum, Covent garden Piazza, WC2E. Tel: 020 7379 6344 |
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Covent
Garden |
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Robert
Rankin |
| The Brentford
Triangle |
All
over Brentford electrical appliance begin to fail. Pooley and
Omally mistake the laser-operated gravitaional landing beams for
the malignant work of Brentford Council. Is Brentford really the
first base in an alien onslaught on planet Earth?
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South
Ealing |
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Mike
Ripley |
| Double Take |
How
to rob Heathrow Airport and get away with it - an 'Italian Job'
for the 21st century, with swearing in several languages and chillis
as offensive weapons. The funniest caper movie never made!
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Heathrow |
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P.G.
Wodehouse |
| Carry On,
Jeeves |
Meet
the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves. He glides into Bertie
Wooster's life with a magical hangover cure, disentagling the
hapless Bertie from scrapes with formidable aunts and madcap girls.
His ability to dig fellows out of sundry holes is nothing short
of miraculous.
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Piccadilly
Circus |
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Howard
Jacobson |
| Who's Sorry
Now? |
Marvin
Kreitman lives for women. At present he loves four and is in
love with five more. Charlie Merriweather just loves his
wife. Once a week the two friends meet in Soho for a Chinese.
One week Charlie takes the dangerous step of asking for a piece
of Marvin's life.
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China
Town - Gerrard Street W1 |
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Leicester Square |
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