At last, Lady Angelica Cottington returns, in this mysterious & hilarious sequel to Brian Froud's huge international hit Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. In this quirky & seductive new volume, 15-year-old Angelica stumbles on an annotated photo album belonging to her long-dead sister, Euphemia. The revelations within tell of fairy enchantments, wanton romance, & bawdy trysts -- & they cast young Lady C's ancestry into shocking doubt. Angelica responds to the album in true character, & her fits of fairy pressings & squashings instigate terrible (if weirdly entertaining) consequences. Along with its mysterious tale of Cottington family deviance, this extraordinary artefact offers near-indisputable evidence of the existence of fairies in the form of letters & never-before-published Victorian photographs of actual fairies, authenticated by Brian Froud, the Cottington Archive, & the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies. Fairies defiant, fairies au natural, &, of course, fairies squashed: they're all here. Without doubt, Lady Cottington's Fairy Album will radically alter the study of the fairies' hereto-fore-secret world. ...

The Cottington Archive is pleased to announce that more information about Lady Cottingon has surfaced: a scrapbook compiled by the notorious fairy smasher herself of "actual" letters, Valentines, calling cards, & more that she received from luminaries Queen Victoria, Annie Oakley, Igor Stravinsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Lang, P.T. Barnum, Rudyard Kipling, Wendy Darling, Beatrix Potter, & more. All about fairies, these hilarious letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement. Lady Cottington has made notes in the margins not to mention smashed fairies throughout (will she EVER STOP this nasty habit?!). & the fairies!ah the fairies!they too have done their part, sprinkling magic & mayhem throughout. Lady Cottington's Correspondence, a facsimile reproduction of this original volume, combines the nutty artistry of the first two Lady Cottington books with the novelty components of Griffin & Sabine. Containing "actual" letters, invoices for "spiritual services, a fairy Valentine, an invitation from Alice Liddell to tea, & more, this newest, interactive addition to the Lady Cottington series is the most innovative to date. ...

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Friday is here! The race is on to find the secret of the Middle House. The fifth eagerly awaited installment in Garth Nix's best selling fantasy series, The Keys to the Kingdom. Arthur Penhaligon's adventures in the House get ever more perilous as the week unfolds. On the fifth day, there was fear! Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated & their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue & Fred Initial Numbers Gold have been captured by the Piper, & his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House & blocking the Front Door. Arthur can't even find out what is happening back home. All he knows is that Leaf isn't on earth any more. She's missing & so are hundreds of other people who were transferred from regular hospitals to a private institution run by a ' Doctor Friday'. From there they have been taken somewhere else in the Secondary Realms, for Lady Friday's own horrible purposes. Amid all this trouble, Arthur's mother is also missing, & he must weigh up an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize -- before Superior Saturday or the Piper beats him to it. ...

John Wayne double-bill. In ' Lady From Louisiana' (1941), John Reynolds (Wayne) meets a beautiful southern belle, Julie Mirbeau (Ona Munson), on a Mississippi river boat
- a woman he is soon completely in love with. Unfortunately, it seems that Julie is th
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Stefani Joanna Angelina Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga, was always destined to be a star. Showing talent from the tender age of four, she followed a uniquely creative musical path to success & was destined to be on the stage, no matter what. Sometimes shocking, always fresh & creative, Gaga deserves the headlines she grabs. Just Dance reveals what a truly exceptional artist she is & how she has conquered the pop world, pushing the boundaries of music, fashion & culture. ...

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 2 May 1536, & tried & found guilty of high treason on 15 May. Her supposed crimes included adultery with five men, one her own brother, & plotting the King's death. She was executed on 19 May 1536. This title tells the story of Anne's fall. ...

Jane Grey’s tragedy was her royal blood. As Henry VIII’s great-niece she stood perilously close to the throne & from early childhood was used as a pawn in the deadly power game of Tudor politics.

Jane was not happy at home – she once famously remarked that she thought herself in hell in her parents’ company – & sought consolation in her studies & the uncompromising Protestantism fashionable in the l 550s.

When it became clear that her cousin Edward VI was dying she was forced into marriage with a son of the powerful John Dudley Duke of Northumberland & confronted with the news that the king had made her his heir.

So began her reign as the Nine Days Queen, leading to her imprisonment in the Tower & execution at the age of sixteen.

Alison Plowden reveals with insight & skill the complex intensity of the woman behind the myth, the brilliantly gifted child who was developing into a passionate, forceful young woman.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780750978521
• Format: Paperback
• Author: Alison Plowden
• Publisher: The History Press
• Pages: 200
• Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.6cm















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Mary Di Nunzio has become a big-time business-getter at Rosato & Associates, but the last person she expects to walk into her office one morning is supersexy Trish Gambone, her high school rival. Trish's life has taken a horrifying turn. She's terrified of her live-in boyfriend, who's an abusive, gun-toting drug dealer for the South Philly mob. ...

When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper & Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender?

The narrative were comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, There are no female serial killers.

Lady Killers, based on the popular online series that appeared on Jezebel & The Hairpin, disputes that claim & offers fourteen gruesome examples as evidence.

Though largely forgotten by history, female serial killers such as Erzsebet Bathory, Nannie Doss, Mary Ann Cotton, & Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova rival their male counterparts in cunning, cruelty, & appetite for destruction.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781786061218
• Author: Tori Telfer
• Publisher: John Blake Publishing
• Format: John Blake Publishing
• Pages: 316
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm













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