Queenie Bedford fled her native Blackburn & the bitter knowledge that she & Rick Marsden, the man she loved, could never marry. But in 1965 she returned north again to stand by her friend Sheila Thorogood, imprisoned for running a brothel with her mother Maisie. Though Rick had vowed to find her, Queenie took care that he should not know of her whereabouts.

The magnificent Edwardian house in Blackpool was sadly neglected
- but Queenie moved in with the ailing Maisie, & set about transforming it into a sparklingly clean, highly respectable guesthouse. Meanwhile, Queenie was to meet the frail & confused Hannah Jason, locked away years ago for murder, & desperate for news of her long-lost son. As Rick continued his dogged search for Queenie, she set out to find Hannahs son. But both their enquiries threatened to unlock the cage where crucial secrets had long been held captive.


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Queenie’s past threatens more than one person’s future Queenie Bedford fled her native Blackburn & the bitter knowledge that she & Rick Marsden, the man she loved, could never marry. But in 1965 she returned north again to stand by her friend Sheila Thorogood, imprisoned for running a brothel with her mother Maisie. Though Rick had vowed to find her, Queenie took care that he should not know of her whereabouts. The magnificent Edwardian house in Blackpool was sadly neglected – but Queenie moved in with the ailing Maisie, & set about transforming it into a sparklingly clean, highly respectable guesthouse. Meanwhile, Queenie was to meet the frail & confused Hannah Jason, locked away years ago for murder, & desperate for news of her long-lost son. As Rick continued his dogged search for Queenie, she set out to find Hannah’s son. But both their enquiries threatened to unlock the cage where crucial secrets had long been held captive. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035417230 •... ...

From the moment the six-year-old Paul Arnott sampled the contents of Tate & Lyle's magnificent green & gold tin of Golden Syrup, it was love. As he looks back over his life as a constant enthusiast, an occasional connoisseur & a relentless collector of sweet sensations, he remembers the Great Royal Icing Disaster of '72, High Tea at Buckingham Palace, Seb Coe & Treacle Tart, & discusses the legal implications of cake-naming in Vienna. Inevitably, such dedication to sweet stuff has taken its toll
- which is how Paul found himself dressed as Father Christmas, no padding required. But this is not a man who believes that eating cake is a sin. It's an indulgence. & the experiences that cause every extra pound should be revered & celebrated. The size of this book is 19.7cm in height & 12.9cm wide with 233 pages
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Anne Claire Poirier, filmmaker extraordinaire, lost her daughter to heroin. Yanne, aged twenty-six, was strangled. In this text, Poirier unearths her daughter's past in an effort to understand her, & to understand what pushes young people to risk their lives for the drugs they believe will set them free. ...

Details: The autobiography everyone has been waiting for: a shockingly candid & raw confessional from an international
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Whisky is the world's favourite spirit & is enjoying booming sales, especially in the USA & Asia, yet too often it's shrouded in mystery, myth & complex-sounding terminology. This authoritative guide cuts straight through all of this, with simple advice on how to seek out & enjoy the immense diversity of flavours on offer. ...

Whatever happened to Oskar & Eli? & what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body & decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, & a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist's rich imagination. They are about love & death, & what we do when the two collide & the monsters emerge. ...

Throughout his 33-year political career as a councillor, MP & MSP Dennis Canavan has been recognised as one of the most colourful politicians to grace the halls of Holyrood. This autobiography chronicles an extraordinary & fascinating life of devoted service to Scottish & UK politics. ...

Oskar & Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. & how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, & wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school & never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, & condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel is a unique & brilliant fusion of social novel & vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship & loyalty. ...

Brannagh Maloney returns to her hometown for a reunion of old friends, carrying the burden of thinking she has lost her lover, Nikolai Mirsky. Once there, she decides to visit the house where she was raised & treated cruelly by her grandfather. When Nikolai turns up unexpectedly, Brannagh's life takes another turn as her mysterious past deepens. ...