A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated & with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked by the roadside. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife's body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy, accompanied by one of the child's fingers... Jack Frost, scruffy & insubordinate, foul-mouthed & fearless, staggers from crisis to crisis, his bumbling modus operandi disguising his extraordinary powers of detection. ...

DI Kate Burrows could never keep away for long...

Kate Burrows might be a retired DCI, but she never could stay away

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They're both making their final play
- & this time it's for keeps. Neurologist Helen Chang Frobisher is on a mission to ban ice
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Things haven't been going all that well for Greg Heffley recently.

For one thing, his best friend Rowley has a GIRLFRIEND,

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Life on the NHS front line, working within a maternity system at breaking point, is more extreme than you could ever imagine.

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It begins with the road...

Join Bruce Anstey, John Mc Guinness, Steve Plater & a host of other riders for an action-packed

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The thrill of the hunt. It's the ultimate drug, & the more intense the rush, the higher the price. International superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up with world-famous action director John Woo for this electrifying thriller. Van Damme is the target ...

Using a golf pencil sharpened on a cell wall, Shaun Attwood wrote one of the first prison blogs, Jon's Jail Journal, excerpts of which were published in The Guardian. This book gives an account of the time Shaun spent submerged in a nightmarish world of gang violence, insect infested cells & food unfit for animals. ...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, violet-dyed river & hordes of downtrodden mill hands.

Here headmaster Thomas Gradgrind sternly prepares his pupils for their pre-determined fate as industrial fodder. Facts & figures are all that he will tolerate, because he scorns fancy & forbids any use of the imagination. Gradgrinds own children are brought up on the same bleak doctrine.

There will be tragic consequences, both for his submissive daughter Louisa & degenerate son Tom, before their father acknowledges the value of the human heart. Hard Times is Dickens shortest novel, yet one of his most politically controversial & hard-hitting.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781788280495
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Publisher: Arcturus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 253
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm











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