Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality & into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic & fascinating
- only in the bizarre & disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat & his baby cousin, Kenneth.
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Containing seven interlinked stories, this work reveals the secret journeys of the grown-up Peter's metamorphoses & adventures in his childhood. It shows Peter's experiences as magical transformations when he swaps bodies with the cat, the baby Kenneth &, wakes up as a twelve-year-old inside a grown-up body & experiences falling in love. ...

Brace yourself for non-stop action & suspense! Sylvester Stallone races against time to lead a group of stranded commuters out of a collapsed tunnel 100 feet below the Hudson River, in director Rob Cohen's Daylight. When an explosion seals off a commute ...

Double bill of action blockbusters with square-jawed heroes saving hapless civilians. In ' Daylight' (1996) It's rush hour in Manhattan & commuters are making slow progress through the Hudson tunnel. When a gang of crooks crash their car into a lorry car ...

Something drastic has happened in Morganville while Claire & her friends were away. The town looks cleaner & happier than they've ever seen it before, but when their incoming group is arrested & separated
- vampires from humans
- they realise that the changes definitely aren't for the better. It seems that an organisation called the Daylight Foundation has offered the population of Morganville something they've never had: hope of a vampire-free future. & while it sounds like salvation
- even for the vampires themselves
- the truth is far more sinister & deadly. Now, Claire, Shane & Eve need to find a way to break their friends out of Daylighter custody, before the vampires of Morganville meet their untimely end.. .
Includes: a brand new & exclusive Morganville short story.




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Spaceman Spliff, Stupendous Man, the ferocious tiger Hobbes, & the rest of Calvin's imaginary friends return in this book. Other books featuring these characters include " Something Under the Bed is Drooling", Weirdos from Another Planet & " Scientific Progress Goes Boink". ...

Details: When Kristian Anderson received the diagnosis that every devoted husband & father fears, he refused to resign
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Days Like These is a romantic, colourful & heartfelt book by a writer whose pulse beats faster than most to the intoxicating rhythms of the racetrack. A personal & autobiographical account of one man's passionate love affair with horse racing & betting, it chronicles the origins & consequences of his obsession with the sport & his addiction to gambling, through good times & bad. By interweaving dramatic racing moments with key episodes from his own experiences, Reid shows how a love of 'the turf' can transform & intensify everyday life. The book celebrates some of the great racing personalities of the last 40 years
- from Sir Peter O' Sullevan & Lester Piggott to Jonjo O' Neill & Captain Ryan Price
- & focuses on some of the most legendary horses, including Arkle & Dawn Run. Beginning with a nail-biting account of a high-stakes gamble at the 2002 Cheltenham Festival & concluding with the jubilation of a 10-1 ante-post triumph at the following year's meeting, Reid evokes the people, the faces, the reek of fast food, & the potent adrenalin-charged atmosphere of the track. As well as being a vivid portrayal of horse-racing life, this is a book about fathers & sons, grandmothers & grandsons, & the sometimes painful path from childhood to adulthood. There is a memorable portrait of Reid's eccentric gambling-mad grandmother & a graphic description of the stifling horrors of conventional schooling & small town life in late '50s & early '60s Engl&, from which Reid escaped through horse racing. At times humorous, at times moving, Days Like These is destined to become a modern horse-racing classic in its own right.

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During the War of Independence Frank Gallagher was interned in Mountjoy where he took part in a mass hunger-strike of republican prisoners demanding political status. Gallagher's remarkable diary reveals his internal conflict during the hunger strike in April 1920. He describes a 'double personality', one half bent on self-preservation & the other on sacrifice. On the tenth day, he almost surrendered, but what kept him resolute was shame before his fellow hunger strikers. ' If there were an honorable way of escape, I should be glad...I'm afraid to die, & I'm going to die because I'm afraid not to... The papers will call me a hero & a martyr...a miserable, frightened fool, who hadn't the courage not to die.' ...

William Hoffer
- handsome, refined, a little cold perhaps
- is an established figure in London society.

But Hoffer



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