New Arrivals: Beauty & Fashion
Friday, September 3, 2010
The Cocktail Dress by Laird Borrelli-Persson RRP: RM96.90 Price: RM24.90
The Cocktail Dress is the first volume to pay homage to this fashion classic with an entertaining history of the dress and its evolution, this book features a dazzling presentation of cocktail frocks throughout fashion history. Extended captions at the back of the book provide details on each dress and its place in fashion history. Immerse yourself into the world of fashion history, where you can see which piece becomes a legendary and how its story began to unfold.
Trinny and Susannah: What You Wear Can Change You RRP: RM69.50 Price: RM24.90
Trinny & Susannah have advised and dressed more than 3,000 women. They know instinctively the finer points & secrets of looking good. All their advice is presented in this book, whether it is something simple like knowing when to add a touch of blusher to your face or something more dramatic like changing the colour of your hair. They show how to choose the colours that suit you best, what underwear to buy, how to store clothes & how to revamp your wardrobe at no cost. They recommend beauty & makeup products & cover dressing for pregnancy. They give valuable hints on choosing accessories (handbags, shoes, belts, hats, jewellery) & travelling, including how to pose to best advantage in those holiday photographs.
Trinny & Susannah: What Your Clothes Say About You RRP: RM109.90 Price: RM24.90
Susannah & Trinny can tell how you feel about yourself by how you dress. This book shows how to project yourself in a positive way through your clothes. It shows how to re-tune your appearance so that you can tell the world you are who you want to be. When you look different you will act different, when you act different you will feel different. Susannah & Trinny’s last television series attracted 5 million viewers and sold more than 400,000 copies.
Coleen’s Real Style by Coleen Rooney RRP: RM99.90 Price: RM29.90
What Coleen Rooney doesn’t know about style and shopping isn’t worth knowing, and she is a fashion inspiration to girls everywhere. Now she’s put together a glossy, gorgeous style guide that contains everything you could EVER want to know about high-street fashion, beauty, hair and makeup, body care and style without spending a fortune or stepping out of the high street. Glossy and gorgeous, accessible and fun, Coleen’s Real Style is your ideal high-street shopping partner: chatty, friendly, honest and open, and highly knowledgeable about fashion. A must for all real women out there!
New Arrival: Non-Fiction Picks
Friday, July 23, 2010Are you ready for a life changing journey to a more postive self-persona from the way you package yourself?
Or are you feeling into different heart-warming or heart-wrenching biographies?
Look no more, BookXcess presents our new arrival of non-fiction picks, mostly Biographies this time around. 
What Your Clothes Say About You: How to Look Different, Act Different and Feel Different by Susannah Constantine, Trinny Woodall RRP: RM109.90 Price: RM24.90
Susannah and Trinny can tell how you feel about yourself by how you dress. This book shows how to project yourself in a positive way through your clothes. It shows how to re-tune your appearance so that you can tell the world you are who you want to be. When you look different you will act different, when you act different you will feel different. Susannah & Trinny’s last television series attracted 5 million viewers and sold more than 400,000 copies.
Real Heroes introduced by Jeremy Clarkson & Ross Kemp RRP: RM49.90 Price: RM9.90
A unique, full-colour, action-packed collection of true stories of heroism from the British Armed Forces. Discover a wealth of fascinating information about servicemen’s kit, weapons, vehicles, survival aids, tactics, bases and frontline accounts of experiences of battle. Other features include detailed maps, interviews with key personnel, understanding Afghanistan, military awards, breakdowns of battle units and insightful pieces from expert authors including Ben Brown, Patrick Bishop, Christina Lamb, James Holland and Ed Macy.
‘Real Heroes’ is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to support our troops — proceeds from the book will be donated to Help for Heroes, a tremendous charity set up to support the men and women of the British Armed Forces who are wounded in the line of duty. Exciting, eye-catching and informative, ‘Real Heroes’ is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about modern warfare, or simply enjoys a fast-paced account of real courage, comradeship and battle.
Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger by Nigel Slater RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
This book aims to capture 30 years of British cooking and the recipes that we have grown up with since the days when a grilled grapefruit was the last word in dinner party chic. Everyone has gorged on cake mix, endured disastrous dinner parties, and put up with the loved one who can only ever produce burnt toast. Nigel Slater is no different.
The Sunday Times Bestseller, and the biggest memoir of the year, from Britain’s best loved food writer. TOAST is Nigel Slater’s truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. Whether relating his mother’s ritual burning of the toast, his father’s dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered somehting of a status symbol in Wolverhampton) this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in sixties surburban England.
The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth by Stefanie Marsh, Bojan Pancevski RRP: RM38.90 Price: RM9.90
The only inside account of the Fritzl case – Josef Fritzl’s horrific incarceration of his daughter in a windowless dungeon for 24 years and the seven children he fathered with her – from the journalists who helped to break the story. Until April 19 2008, Josef Fritzl seemed like an upstanding member of the community in the Austrian town of Amstetten: an ideal father and successful businessman who had worked his way up from humble beginnings to become a role model of respectability. Yet for over two decades he had been living a double life of unimaginable and unparalleled horror.
This bold and forensically-researched study sheds new light on the mind and the psychological development of the man who became one of the most unique and frightening criminals in history. Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski were the first English-speaking reporters to break the case and were there as the police uncovered the dungeon.
The Pocket Book of Death by Morgan Reilly, Joanna Tempest, Rob DenBleyker (Illustrator)
RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM14.90
A laugh-out-loud miscellany of everything you ever wanted to know about death. From bizarre funeral practices and macabre urban myths to lucrative jobs in the death business. Accompanied by cartoons from the creators of the hit webcomic, ‘Cyanide & Happiness.’ There’s just something about the end that makes us want to run screaming back to the beginning! The Pocket Book of Death is a jaw-dropping miscellany of macabre word origins, hysterical famous last words, bizarre death rituals, the last meals of death row inmates and more.
Helpless: The True Story of a Neglected Girl Betrayed and Exploited by the Neighbour She Trusted by Marianne Marsh, Toni Maguire RRP: RM34.90 Price: RM17.90
Eight year old Marianne, the eldest of five children, was neglected by her slovenly mother and her violent alcoholic father. Uncared for and unkempt she was rejected at school by her peers and scarcely tolerated by her teachers. Only one person gave her the affection she craved; a neighbour who, seeing the vulnerable child, knew she was easy prey for his perverted desires. ‘Little Lady’ he called her over the few months he groomed her. Less than twelve months later she was caught in a trap of fear – if she talked she would be punished. With no one to turn to she kept ‘their secret’. At thirteen she fell pregnant. Without family support the teenager gave birth to a daughter in the unmarried mother’s home. Six weeks later the baby she had already grown to love was taken away for adoption. Marianne returned home, but the neighbour’s abuse continued and a year later she was pregnant again. Marianne who still missed her first child desperately struggled to keep her second daughter. Two months after the birth she realized that for the baby’s sake she would have to give her up for adoption. Helpless is Marianne’s heartbreaking story.
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings RRP: RM129.90 Price: RM24.90
Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and what they were capable of delivering. Here is an intimate and affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britain’s saviour, but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led and the performance of its armed forces.
Torres: El Nino: My Story by Fernando Torres RRP: RM99.90 Price: RM19.90
Fernando Torres is one of the hottest properties in world football. From local Madrid idol to Kop hero and European Championship winner, he talks here for the first time about the unique challenges faced in his two years in England, with candid snapshots of his life on and off the field. At the age of 25, Spain’s Fernando Torres has already established himself as one of the Liverpool greats and a proud wearer of the fabled No 9 shirt. His first book provides a captivating illustrated story of his career to date, alongside candid snapshots of his early life in Madrid, as a child football prodigy and lifelong fan of local club Atletico. Away from the football, Torres talks about life out of the spotlight with his childhood sweetheart Ollala, his family and friends, and what inspires and motivates him.
Excellent Box Gift Set for Hobbies!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010This new shipment brings awesome box set specially for hobbies, which makes an excellent gift for family, friends, colleagues, etc.! Priced only at RM29.90 each!
- Cookies, Biscuits, Bars & Brownies (contains 6 cookie cutters for making hearts, stars & gingerbread men)
- 175 Papercrafts (contains scissors, stencils, ruler, pencils, 9 fun stamps & inkpad)
- The Complete Practical Guide to Scrapbooking (contains 100 beautiful scrapbooking decorations)
- The Complete Practical Encyclopedia of Bonsai (contains a set of professional bonsai tools)
- The Ultimate Encylopedia of Knots & Ropework (contains 6 ropes & cords to help perfect your skills)
- 80 best Ever Projects of Origami (contains 70 pieces of high-quality origami papers)
- The Bartender’s Guide to Making 600 Cocktails & Drinks (contains 100 cocktail decorations)
- The Practical Handbook of Card-Making (contains 15 blank cards & envelopes & 100 fantastic stick-on 3-D decorations)
- Kid’s First Cookbook (contains a set of 3 fantastic cooking utensils)
- The Practical Encylopedia of Calligraphy (contains calligraphy pen with four changeable nibs)
- The Illustrated Guide to Professional Haircare & Hairstyles (contains fantastic collection of 37 hair bands, clips, grips & stylers)
- The Practical Encylopedia of Drawing (contains 16 artist’s pencils, eraser, sharpener & artist’s sketchbook)
- Yoga & Pilates (constains a classic yoga belt)
- Total Body Massage (contains 2 wooden hand-held massagers)
Nothing But The Real Thing
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
If fiction is not your cup of tea, then we’re almost certain you’ll like one book among our selection of non-fiction books we have here! Coupled with amazing prices you would not get elsewhere, it’s really hard not to like any of our books, really! 
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BookXcess Reviews The Look – Randolph Duke
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Look – Randolph Duke
Price: RM24.90
1. So, what’s this book about?
Do you ever wonder, “Does this dress suits me?” You can find the answer in this book. The Look is a guide to personal style by the person who has dressed Hollywood A-listers for the red carpet and understands that putting together a truly fabulous look has everything to do with the woman who’s wearing it.
2. What’s special about it?
Go through the book, you’ll be guided to identify your body type, exploit your positive features and find clothes that fit your lifestyle. Also included are tips on how to choose accessories and matching make-up with outfit. Plus some other fashion nuggets of wisdom to make you more fashion-savvy.
3. What did you think about this book?
“Authentic personal style comes from understanding our bodies, recognizing the demands of our particular lifestyle, mining our experiences, and finding what we really like” says the author of this book. And I could not agree more.
4. Would you recommend this book to anyone?
For girls who want to learn about dressing for themselves, this book is for you. For women who love their bodies and want to celebrate them, this book is for you. For ladies who want to be admired, this book is for you. For anyone who just wants to know, this book is for you too.
5. Random question: Name some fashion designers off the top of your head.
Miuccia Prada, Stella McCartney and Tom Ford.
Review by BookXcess staff Malis
BookXcess Reviews Queen of Fashion – Caroline Weber
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Queen of Fashion – Caroline Weber
Price: RM29.90
1. So, what’s this book about?
Before style icons like Princess Diana and Jacqueline Onassis, Marie Antoinette was an icon of style in her time. This book is a story about her and the style she developed to command attention.
2. What’s special about it?
You get to learn about the woman behind King Louis XVI of the French Revolution (1789–1792), and how she was the trendsetter during her time for hairstyles and outfits.
3. What did you think about this book?
The book made me marvel at the women during Marie Antoinette’s time. How did they survive wearing huge, heavy dresses with tight corsets and elaborate hairstyles?? And they couldn’t wear trousers then too – quite unthinkable!
4. Would you recommend this book to anyone?
If you consider Princess Diana and Jacqueline Onassis to be elegant, beautiful and stylish women, you would probably add Marie Antoinette in that list after you read this book.
5. Random question: Which celebrity do you most admire for her sense of style?
Charlize Theron.
Review by BookXcess staff Malis