It Works for me....sometimes....!

Advantages: Cheap. Good for buying presents.
Disadvantages: Sell a lot of titles you've never heard of....

...The Works is a discount bookstore which can be found on many high streets. I have browsed around a fair few discount bookstores, but have always found this store to be the best in it?s class. Overall, I tend to find that a lot of discount bookstores sell a lot of uninteresting titles, & books you?ve never heard of. The Works does also fall into this category, but seems to also sell more bestsellers than other stores (often current ones at that), covering a wide range of authors. Books are laid out according to genre & are for the most part stacked on shelves with the cover facing forwards, so that you can see at a glance what titles are in stock. The more popular fiction & bestsellers are laid out on tables at the front of the store, with reference books & childrens books being on shelves running down the sides & back of the store...

sambam000 13.07.2009 · Read review
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Work It Out

Advantages: Cheap, random selection
Disadvantages: Random selection, rather hit and miss

...Student life requires budgeting, which often involves purchasing daily essentials in cheap pound shops or from chains like Morisons, Wilkinsons and the like. Unfortunately Oxford does not have many of these, The Works is about the only cheap shop there is ? though there are two or three of these (on in the Westgate Centre next to Sainsburys, one on Cornmarket Street and maybe one on the High Street). I don?t know how many branches there are nation wide; but I know there?s also a branch in Colchester, which is much the same. What do they sell? The Works is primarily a cheap book shop, but also sells stationery, art equipment and other bits and pieces from time to time. The books tend to be slightly obscure, but are often going cheap. There seem to be a lot of biographies of D-list celebrities, for example Ulrika?s Johnson?s ?Honest...

a-true-ben 22.06.2003 · Read review
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Working Girl

Advantages: Interesting and well thought out story
Disadvantages: A bit dated and lacked depth in descriptions of characters

...Background: I have had this book on one of my many bookshelves for a few years and for one reason or another never got round to reading it. That sounds very grand I suppose but it?s not I love reading and have lots of bookshelves but not much else!! So as a wet and cold weekend was forecasted the other week I decided to give it a crack, so with several cups of coffee and a cuddly blanket and set myself the task of doing just that. About the author: Graham Ison is a well-respected crime novelist, having written 27 books to date. He began his career as a Soldier before spending the next 30 years in Scotland Yard?s Special Branch, working in a variety of different roles. These days he is a full time author as well as being an after dinner speaker and occasional obituaries writer for the Daily Telegraph. Synopsis...

CPTDANIELS 26.04.2009 · Read review
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WORKS BUT COULD WORK HARDER

Advantages: Cheap books
Disadvantages: Can rarely find what you're looking for

...This opinion is part of the "School Report" write-off organised by teacherofhooch. Full details can be found on her personal homepage. If you decide to join in, please let her know. ~~+~~+~~ School: The High Street Pupil: The Works Bookshop Age: 23 ~ English ~ The Works has shown a reasonable understanding of the English language during the term with her area of special interest being books on a variety of subjects including sport, local history, art and design, gardening and health. Unfortunately, she hasn?t shows a great deal of interest in classic literature although she can surprise on occasion with the unusual choices she makes. Perhaps a little too keen on celebrity biographies and would therefore benefit from developing a broader variety of available subjects to enable her to hold their own amongst...

CherryBlossom 23.05.2004 · Read review
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Khyam Vector PoP Up Tents.

Advantages: So auick & easy! Saves you getting wet when others are still constructing...
Disadvantages: None that I can think of!

...The Mutts Nuts! These things go up & down in minutes (or at least the 2 man vector does!) stand up to all sorts of weather (I've used mine in a hailstorm in gale force winds in Biarritz!!) & they are pretty light. They also came in all shapes & sizes which are variations on the basic Dome. When new you just fix the inner inside the Fly & that's where it stays, the tent is almost free standing when the poles are locked straight although like all tents it is important to stratch the peg rubbers when anchoring it down & apply the Guy lines if expecting rough weather. Even with the Guys in place this tent only uses 12 pegs! I've been touring on a mountain bike with one in France numerous times & the simplicity when you have to keep putting up / taking down is great. Mine's also made from a ripstop nylon, which helps when it...

salty_monk 08.02.2001 (06.02.2001) · Read review
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Do you want 'The Works'?

Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

...This review is on that good old British shop, known only to those of us who for some reason admit to going in there as The Works. It is one of those shops that you just like to either love and/ or hate, but sadly I hate it. The Works is one of those shops that sells off all the old 'rejects' from other places, and they stock everything from books to music to craft things. They sell everything at stupidly low prices, just really for the simple reason that no-one will buy them otherwise. Take foro example an encyclopaedia of the Royal Family that would normally retail at £20 or more in one shop, but take it and put it in the works - and you are looking at probably £3 or £4 for exactly the same thing. Although everything is placed in to different categories within the shop to make it supposedly easier for you to find what it is that...

dynamicnurse 20.03.2008 · Read review
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It Works for me!

Advantages: Lot of books to buy
Disadvantages: Lot of books to buy. Can get expensive!

...The Works. This is one of my favourite bookshops, as you are almost always sure of a bargain. Although every branch of The Works should be the same (and they all follow the same basic design, bearing in mind restrictions resulting from shape and size of premises, etc., all branches seem slightly different. For example, the branch in New Street, Birmingham , is different from the branch in over New Street Station, which is different again from the branch in Shrewsbury, which, in turn, is different from the branch in Telford. The idea behind The Works is a simple one Publishers think that new books only have a very limited shelf life. To this end they sell books on a sale or return basis. New books that are not sold through ordinary bookshops are sold through publisher's remainders bookshops such as The Works. What books does...

Martinscholes 30.09.2005 · Read review
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TheWorks

Advantages: Good Variety,Great offers
Disadvantages: Not always the best quality

...The Works is a very nice, cheap and with great variety of books shop. I have been in several around Britain. I liked the one in Newport S. Wales but I?m shopping mainly from the one in Preston or the one in Chorley, Lancashire. The layout and the presentation of the shops are almost the same wherever I have been. They differ only in size and quantity. Why To Go There. You can go there if you want buy books really cheap. That?s a great reason to visit a shop isn?t it? What Books You Can Find Children Books The children section is usually the first near the door for obvious reasons. The book that I noticed from that section was an amazing Face Painting book. You can have really good fun with the kids. On offer for only £2. I almost bought it even though I don?t have children. COOKERY BOOKS One of the big sections is...

vassilis73 20.06.2003 · Read review
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Devil's Work

Advantages: Great suspense thriller
Disadvantages: Little obvious, no epilogue at all.

...Background: I have read several novels written by Margaret Yorke over the past few years and enjoyed her style of writing. This is her 42nd book. Yorke is a respected and highly popular English writer. In 1999 she received the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for her outstanding contribution to literature. I was looking for a book that I would find easy to read and difficult to put down. I'm glad to say in this book I found it. The storyline: Alan Parker has been made redundant from Briggs and Company (an engineering company) having worked there for 25 years. Alan now 50 years old, finds it impossible to tell his busy wife Daphne. So he maintains the pretence of going to work every morning and arriving home at the same time, so as not to upset or alarm her. In the meantime he is busy filling in job application forms...

CPTDANIELS 17.05.2008 · Read review
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Suunto Vector Black Negative face

Advantages: Light weight, good features if calibrated properly. Rugged.
Disadvantages: Quite big, but it does do a lot to be fair!!!!

...Spent some time looking for a good outdoor watch with Altimeter, Compass and Barometric Pressure etc.. The Vector hits all those and so far seems pretty accurate. The compass once calibrated properly is accurate to within 3-5 degrees, one nice feature is the levelling bubble on the face that allows you to get a more accuarte reading. A big watch in terms of circumferance but really light weight you will not notice it on your wrist after a few minutes. The Altimeter is pretty good but you do need to update it quite regularly, the best way to do this is to put the height in to the Altimeter, being one of the older watches in the suunto range it doesn't have the function as some of the newer one s do of being able to freeze the altimeter mode when at home and leave it in Barometer mode and then switch to Altimeter when out hiking, but i...

sasco05 18.02.2008 · Read review
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