Moving into a new home in Easterhouse in 1961 was the start of some great adventures for Rikki Brown. For a young boy, it was hard to tell what to worry about more
- the threat of nuclear war or starting primary school! Certainly each offered its own horrors. But after surviving Scarlett Fever, primaries were a whirl of games & lessons.
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In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. This story of the Arctic discovers Franklin: a character far more complex, & more truly heroic, than previous histories have allowed. ...

Work! Consume! Die! Is the collected wisdom of an idiot. Interwoven with this numb hymn to show business are chapters detailing Boyle's worldwide view, an incessant fusillade of laughter & despair, the hollow clanging scream of a dying mechanical God & an honest attempt to describe the world by refusing to take it seriously. ...

Following the death of her mother, Franziska turns away from love in order to pursue a career as a concert pianist. She goes on from a humble home in a small Czech town, to Prague & a life that does not conform in any way to convention. It all ends in Berlin, with a bitter lesson learned: the fragility of life, & how debilitating love can be. ...

What do estate agents & the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? What do schoolteachers & sumo wrestlers have in common? How can your name affect how well you do in life? This title shows you a totally new way of seeing the world. ...

Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? The author, Luke Jackson, writes briefly about his younger autistic & AD/HD brothers, providing insights into the antics of his younger years & advice for parents, carers & teachers of young Asperger Syndrome children. ...

Simon Moss is just an ordinary boy who loves action comics & wishes he were brave enough to star in one.

Mossy is

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Could Whippet be developing his own comic superpower?

The boys are heading off to the woods for an Explorers Camp weekend.

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Five people. Five chances. One woman’s search for happiness.

Allegra Bird’s arms are scattered with freckles, a

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Fred & Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband & wife who loved & killed together. During their long relationship, the Wests murdered a series of young women, burying the remains of nine victims under their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, including those of their daughter. What was left of Fred West's eight-year-old stepdaughter was dug up from under the Wests' previous Gloucester home; his first wife & nanny were buried in open country. Most victims had been decapitated & dismembered, their remains showing signs of sexual torture. These twelve are just the ones police found when the Wests were arrested in 1994. There may be more whose bones have not been located... Howard Sounes broke the first major story about the Wests as a journalist, & covered the murder trial of Rosemary West, before writing Fred & Rose, the definitive account of this infamous case. Beginning with Fred's & Rose's bizarre childhoods, Sounes charts their lives... ...