Enjoy It!
Precious me time
Play It!
Keep the kids entertained all summer long even if the weather disappoints with the latest titles from GAME.
LEGO Indiana Jones
The Original Adventure
All platforms, Rating PC
 Hot on the heels of the new Indiana Jones film, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, this game translates the fun, humour and excitement of the original films into animated LEGO. Following the tradition of the hit LEGO Star Wars games, fans can build, battle and brawl their way through a tongue-in-cheek take on classic scenes from the original adventures. You can play it straight, or mix-and-match body parts to create your own unique characters. Creative puzzle solving and co-operative gameplay makes this an ideal game for the whole family.
Metal Gear Solid 4
Playstation 3, Rating 15
 A fast and furious next-generation first person shooter style game, with a unique 3rd person perspective and surround sound specially designed for the graphical power of the Playstation 3. Metal Gear Solid 4 casts players in the role of Solid Snake, a super secret agent with an arsenal of weapons at the ready and a mission to journey deep into enemy territory. Expected to be the final instalment in the highly successful Metal Gear Solid series, this game features exciting new equipment and abilities, and the most advanced graphics yet seen on the console.
Read It!
A book is the perfect summer leisure time indulgence – take it to the beach if it’s hot, or curl up with it indoors if it rains!
WATERSTONES have put together their top four recommended summer reads to get you started.
Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks (writing as Ian Fleming)
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new James Bond book, commissioned to mark the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth
in 2008. Acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks makes a deliberate attempt to
imitate the writing style of Ian Fleming and the format of the original novels,
which can be very different in tone from the films.
A savage execution in the desolate outskirts of Paris sets in motion a chain of
events designed to lead only to global catastrophe, as a tide of lethal
narcotics threatens to engulf Sixties Britain, a British airliner goes missing
over Iraq and the thunder of coming war echoes round the Middle East...
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The book sees the authentic literary Bond battling a larger-than-life villain of
the vintage sort, with plenty of exotic locations and beautiful women along the way. Great fun! |
Calum’s Road
Roger Hutchinson
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Calum MacLeod was a lighthouse-keeper who lived all his life on the northern tip of the Island of Raasay, near Skye.
When changing economic times meant that the population of the area declined dramatically, Calum set about a remarkable venture – to build a road single-handed from his native village of Arnish to link it and the whole of northern Raasay to the south of the island.
With nothing more than a pickaxe and a wheelbarrow, Calum spent twenty years constructing his ‘impossible’ road in the hope of bringing people back to his homeland.
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| This book recounts the extraordinary story of one remarkable man’s vision and heroic endeavour. A great read for fans of real life stories. |
Aftershock
Quintin Jardine
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The latest from Scotland’s ‘Queen of Crime’, this new instalment in the series featuring Edinburgh detective Bob Skinner centres round a disturbed serial killer with a potential connection to a Tory MP.
Set during the second week of July Trades Holiday in Edinburgh, everything seems quiet until Bob gets a call informing them that the body of a young woman has been found on a golf course. The body’s been there for ten days but the way she has been laid out is uncannily familiar to the bodies of three other young women in a previous case. Is it the work of a copycat killer?
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| The victim is a local art teacher who was having a relationship with the son of a Tory MP. Her ex-boyfriend is a policeman with a reputation as a serious womaniser. Is the murder trail too close for comfort? You’ll have to read it to find out! |
The Lollipop Shoes
Joanna Harris
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Sequel to Joanna Harris’s bestselling Whitbread-shortlisted novel Chocolat, the story picks up on the life of Vianne Rocher. Vianne has fled the fame that followed the events of the book and is seeking a new, anonymous existence in Paris with her two daughters.
After living peacefully for a while above their tiny chocolaterie in Montmartre, the family’s life is disrupted by the appearance of Zozie de l’Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes. But this new friendship is not all that it seems. Ruthless, devious and seductive, Zozie has plans of her own - plans that will shake their world to pieces.
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| With everything she loves at stake, she faces a difficult choice: flee, as she has done so many times before, or confront her most dangerous enemy? An enticing, magical summer read. |
Don't Miss It!
Juno (DVD)
Rating 15
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A quirky, intelligent comedy about a pregnant teenager, Ellen Page, who wants to find adoptive parents for her unborn baby, and ends up more deeply involved in their lives than she had anticipated.
Juno crackles with razor-sharp dialogue throughout, to the point where every character talks like they’re in the funniest sitcom ever made. In fact, the witty script contains so many hilarious lines that you’ll find yourself stifling your laughter so as not to miss the next one.
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| Juno is a genuinely hilarious teen comedy with delightful characters and a fabulous script. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll search HMV in vain for the soundtrack album afterwards. Highly recommended. |
Hear It!
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Music to keep you happy on those long car journeys, and DVDs to relax with if you stay at home – HMV has something for everyone this summer.
Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (CD)
Coldplay
The eagerly awaited fourth studio album from Coldplay, the band which first won global acclaim with the 2000 album Parachutes, one of the year’s biggest releases.
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