The Spice Boys is the tale of four young men from Manchester who are homeless & addicted to the legal high spice' which has plagued the city The novel shows the harsh reality of the hardships politics & truths of modern day homelessness & how society manages those young people who have been through the care system prison system & are homeless The story revolves around Ricky Mo George & Vinnie & takes the reader on a twelve-month journey with these individuals from drugs the care system prison & life on the streets Peter Morgan's gritty & distinctly Mancunian novel is an astoundingly relevant & detailed depiction of the realities for those addicted to this horrific drug ...

Warm up the cold dark days with some Indian spices
- from the founder of Mowgli Nisha Katona as seen on Sunday Brunch & Channel
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One of the most celebrated pulp heroes of all time is back & re-launched into the 21st century! Richard Wentworth is a decorated war hero who has sacrificed everything including the woman he loves for duty But the New York City Wentworth returns to is riddled with crime & corruption With the police overwhelmed & a populace helpless Wentworth becomes The Spider a vigilante as ruthless & merciless as the criminals he hunts But now there's a new danger on the rise A deranged woman called Anput has begun a series of attacks that turn ordinary citizens into mindless zombies bringing New York & the police force to its knees Wentworth will stop at nothing to save the city he's sworn to protect but in the process he will risk his family his friends & the woman he still loves Written by bestselling novelist David Liss (Black Panther Mystery Men) with stunning art by Colton Worley (Dracula Lobster Johnson) The Spider is dark hard-hitting neo-pulp at its best Collecting issues 1-6 of the critically acclaimed series The Spider along with a complete cover gallery ...

The Spider a grim & relentless vigilante stalking the criminals of New York City faces a terrifying new threat! Who has the drive the intelligence & the means to destroy the Spider? The Fly a wealthy playboy with all the resources & power of Richard Wentworth's masked alter-ego! Dedicated to criminal perfection the Fly targets the outlaw hero & the city itself in the midst of a serial killer's rampage & corporate terrorist attacks! Will the Spider be pushed to the brink of human endurance? Or will he overcome the Fly's machinations & prevent the wholesale slaughter of every police officer in the Big Apple? ...

Arabella lands in the dreaded orphanage & discovers a monstrous spider is feeding on orphans' souls Stitch Head must help rescue her but he finds himself caught up in the spider's web of intrigue with no chance of escape 208 pages Bass Guy ...

An Autumn evening in 1937 A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station Tonight he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow at a workers' bar in the city's factory district he will meet with the military attache from the French embassy Information will be exchanged for money So begins THE SPIES OF WARSAW with war coming to Europe & French & German operatives locked in a life-&-death struggle on the espionage battlefield At the French embassy the new military attache Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier a decorated hero of the 1914 war is drawn in to a world of abduction betrayal & intrigue in the diplomatic salons & back alleys of Warsaw At the same time the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage a lawyer for the League of Nations Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows amidst an extraordinary cast of venal & dangerous characters
- Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence last seen in Furst's THE POLISH OFFICER; the mysterious & sophisticated Doctor Lapp senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka & Viktor Rozen at work for the Russian secret service; & Mercier's brutal & vindictive opponent Major August Voss of SS counterintelligence & there are many more some known to Mercier as spies some never to be revealed
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In 1945 the Second World War was over & a shattered world faced the future For the men & women of the newly formed GCHQ however the next global conflict had already begun Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller The Secret Life of Bletchley Park renowned author Sinclair Mc Kay uncovers the story of what happened after the end of the Second World War Once victory was declared many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley Park by cracking the impenetrable Enigma codes & giving the Allies an invaluable insight directly into the Nazi war machine moved on to GCHQ This was the British government's new facility established to fight a different but no less formidable foe
- Stalin & the KGBFascinating & insightful revelations from deep within the archives of this secret organisation reveal the story of the tumultuous early years of GCHQ as it navigated its way through an era of double agents deception & betrayals From the defection of the Cambridge Five & the treachery of the atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs to the collapse of the British Empire the ascension of Chairman Mao & the emergence of the US as a superpower Mc Kay deftly explores the impact these events had on the fledgling organisation During the years of the Cold War the men & women of GCHQ penetrated Soviet encryptions & gathered crucial intelligence from all over the world The Spies of Winter tells the story of the codebreakers themselves & how they used new technology to expand the horizons of cryptography in order to defend the nation & maintain the fragile peace in a world now under the shadow of nuclear holocaust
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play One day three farm boys come upon a wounded outlaw named Harry Spikes They take him to one of the boys& barn nurse him back to health shield him from a sheriff&s posse & let him go on his way Later to escape the tyrannical discipline of their parents the three boys run away from home in search of adventure & excitement In the first town they come to they bungle a bank robbery & shoot & kill a state senator by accident Then with the law in hot pursuit they flee across the Texas border into Mexico Upon arriving there they happily reunite with Harry Spikes He takes the boys under his wing teaches them the outlaw&s trade & the four of them cross the border back into Texas After careful preparation they attempt a bank robbery that goes horribly wrong Tragically the boys discover that Harry Spikes is not the genuine hero that they thought he was Lee Marvin Gary Grimes Ron Howard & Charles Martin Smith star in this thrilling Western tale that examines the tragic consequences of hero worship & the loss of youthful innocence ...

Every good knitting project begins with great yarn In the quest for one-of-a-kind fibres many knitters & weavers have discovered the deep satisfaction of spinning one's own An art in itself spinning requires an array of basic technical skills & decisions to produce a particular style of yarn While knitters have long had stitch dictionaries to guide their hands no similar resource has existed for spinners Until now The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs is a step-by-step guide to creating 70 distinctive yarns from classics such as mohair boucle to novelty features like supercoils Lush full-colour photographs illustrate the process of turning fleece into yarn reveal the architecture of each yarn & demonstrate exactly how to manipulate & combine the fibres to achieve the desired result Images of knitted & woven pieces reveal how the spun yarn looks in a variety of projects ...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012" My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in I go there every day to see is he dead & every day he lets me down He hasn't yet missed a day of letting me down" In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town As violence flares the characters face a battle between public persona & inner desires Through a chorus of unique voices each struggling to tell their own kind of truth a single authentic tale unfolds The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel Wry vulnerable all-too human it captures the language & spirit of rural Ireland & with uncanny perception articulates the words & thoughts of a generation Technically daring & evocative of Patrick Mc Cabe & JM Synge this novel of small-town life is witty dark & sweetly poignant Donal Ryan's brilliantly realized debut announces a stunning new voice in literary fiction ...