The Essex Boys firm was one of the most violent criminal gangs in Britain. This book returns to the scene of the murders & relives the bloody encounters of the gang. Divided by greed, bonded by the blood of their victims, Essex Boys' rise to the top of the criminal underworld was as dramatic as their final fall. ...

Deals with one of the oldest healing forms of nourishment
- bone broths. This book shows you how you can use this simple, effective
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To date, the Reverend Francis Oughterard, vicar of St Botolph's, Molehill, & genteel murderer of parishioner Mrs Elizabeth Fotherington, has eluded arrest. He is nevertheless in the grip of his blackmailing pal, the shady Nicholas Ingaza, who has instructed him to steal a valuable figurine of a prancing pig. Naturally the project backfires, & Francis is once again plunged into further skulduggery, in the course of which another murder is committed. As ever, it is up to his world- weary cat, Maurice, & intrepid mongrel, Bouncer, to conspire & scheme to save his bacon. ...

Her mother destroyed her. The garden saved her.

Poppy was six years old when she was rescued from her abusive mother

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She felt like a ghost. She woke in the night. What was that music? Sylvia has never been so far away. Her mother has brought her to this village, this place of silence & dark, endless forest, & she yearns for the city, the bright lights, her friends, even a phone signal. Late one night she hears the music, a weird jagged spiralling sound. It is played by Gabriel, a troubled, beautiful boy. Gabriel uses the strangest of flutes, a hollow bone. Play it well enough, he says, & you cross the borders between the living & the dead. Sylvia knows she’ll follow him into the depths of the forest. But will they ever find their way out again? Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9781444952926 •†Author: David Almond •†Publisher: Hodder Children's Books •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages: 208 •†Dimensions: 12.6 x 1.8 x 19.6cm ...

Taking place in 1871 against a backdrop of the golden age of paleontology & the beginnings of human fascination with dinosaurs, this story begins with the violent destruction of a Paleozoic museum in New York City & the unique competition that results. ...

The crowning achievement of an astonishing career, ' Boneland' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in ' The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'. If the sleeper wakes, the dream dies... Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time, & in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock & dances, to keep the sky above the earth & the stars flying. Colin can't remember; & he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years & nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day. But Colin will have to remember what happened when he was twelve, if he wants to find his sister. & the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall, & there will be only winter, wanderers & moon... ...

In this collection of miscellaneous writings by Margaret Atwood, Gertrude describes what really happened in Hamlet, an ugly sister & a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves, & a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. ...

Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec, is brought in to investigate. While there, she discovers the mummified remains of two more babies within the same room. Shocked & distressed, Tempe must use all her skills & inner strength to focus on the facts. ...

Having extricated himself from the embarrassment of murdering his lady parishioner, the Reverend Francis Oughterard is now plunged into the traumas of art theft. Forced by the shady Nicholas Ingaza into being a fence for stolen paintings, he endures the investigative probings of terrifying female novelist & amateur sleuth, Maud Tubby Pole, hell-bent on portraying him in her next novel. Haunted by the recent murder & fearful of exposure in his new role of 'receiver', the Reverend blunders haplessly in mesh of intrigue & risible deceit. As before, his antics are commented upon by his cat, the acidic Maurice, & redoubtable bone-grinding ally, the dog Bouncer. ...