Miranda's life is starting to unravel. Her best friend, Sal, gets punched by a kid on the street for what seems like no reason, & he shuts Miranda out of his life. The key that Miranda's mum keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen. & then a mysterious note arrives:
'I am coming to save your friend's life, & my own.
I ask two favours. First, you must write me a letter.'

The notes keep coming, & Miranda slowly realises that whoever is leaving them knows things no one should know. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she's too late.



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When You Walk Through The Storm is the moving story of Anne Williams, whose son Kevin died at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. It is a remarkable personal account of a mother's determination to discover the true circumstances of her son's death on that tragic afternoon. She vividly relates the grief she felt when she realised Kevin wasn't coming home, followed by the anger she experienced on discovering that he could have been saved. In the aftermath of the tragedy, controversy raged over who had been responsible for the events, & in When You Walk Through the Storm Anne Williams describes her feelings towards those who, she felt, had blood on their hands. Finally, she became embroiled in a bitter fight for justice for her son. ...

To the armchair fan, the life of the sports writer is one of unalloyed joy: all-expenses-paid trips to the most exciting events in the world, the best seats in the house, & one-on-one interviews with Anna Kournikova
- Well, up to a point. Where Am I & Who's Winning? describes what it's really like to make your way through the world of sport, always on deadline, always between time zones, on a frantic, chaotic & hilarious tour of the planet's most famous & most bizarre sporting venues. There's football to be watched. & Formula One. & tennis. & two Olympics, two Commonwealth Games, ocean racing, tropical cricket, curling, & of course the queen of sports
- synchronised swimming. But every minute of every day there's copy to file, editors to be appeased, & daughters wanting to know when Daddy's coming home. Permanently handicapped by jet-lag & incompetence, Andrew Baker travels by bullet train, bobsled, go-kart, & (most dangerous of all) bus in his constant quest to arrive at the match/race-meeting/mountain-top on time. Between soul-enhancing visits to the Dead Goat Saloon & the Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum, he breakfasts with Steve Redgrave, pub-crawls with Audley Harrison, discovers the unexpected affinity between Michael Schumacher & a brown slug
- & even takes in a game or two. Because nothing
- not Brazilian muggers, nor Chinese security services, nor Norwegian pornography
- shall stand between him & his noble calling: to bring the great British public its daily sporting fix. Andrew Baker's brilliant comic debut will appeal to the armchair traveller & the armchair sports fan alike. But most of all to anyone who enjoys the misfortunes of others-




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Only Nick Tosches, best-selling author of Dino & The Devil & Sonny Liston, could have woven this irresistible tale: ...

Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up, in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother & sister & none of his friends drowned in a canal. He has never stayed overnight in a hospital & has no emotional scars from his upbringing, except a slight lingering resentment that Anita Barker once mocked the stabilisers on his bike. Where Did It All Go Right? is a jealous memoir written by someone who occasionally wishes life had dealt him a few more juicy marketable blows. The author delves back into his first 18 years in search of something
- anything
- that might have left him deeply & irreparably damaged. With tales of bikes, telly, sweets, good health, domestic harmony & happy holidays, Andrew aims to bring a little hope to all those out there living with the emotional after-effects of a really nice childhood. Andrew Collins kept a diary from the age of five, so he really can remember what he had for tea everyday & what he did at school, excerpts from his diary run throughout the book & it is this detail which makes his story so compelling.

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Where did that baby come from... & can we take it back? An older sibling has all sorts of questions about the new arrival. Why does it always cry? Did it come from the shop or the zoo? Or maybe Dad built it from a kit? But when baby laughs & plays peek-a-boo it doesn't seem so different from me or you! ...

Have you ever wondered just what it is that other people get up to in bed, or why it is that some people are kinkier than others? Well, worry no more. Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies? has the answer to every question you could ever have imagined, & quite a few more besides. Including:

WHAT DO THEY CALL A BRAZILIAN BIKINI WAX IN BRAZIL?
WHY DO MEN FALL ASLEEP AFTER SEX?
DOES THE ETIQUETTE OF SWINGING EXTEND TO ASKING YOUR MATE



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When fashion designer Lauren Redstone gets drunk in Las Vegas to celebrate a successful deal, she does something very impulsive: she bumps into a tall, drawling cowboy called Grayson, sleeps with him & then marries him the same day. Sober the next morning, she flees the hotel room & tries to renage on the arrangement. But Grayson refuses to play ball, insisting she gives their unlikely coupling a chance out on his ranch where she can get to know the stranger she married. & in return, he agrees to spend an equal amount of time in her high society Californian world. But as the couple fall for one another in these wildly different environments, it seems both Lauren ...