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Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he renounces his Communist past & deserts his wife & mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Goring. ...

On 8 CD's. Christmas Eve in Boston for medical examiner Dr Maura Isles is no time for celebration. In a rundown house, a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves veteran cops in shock. Drawn on the wall are the words: 'I have sinned.' Then a second woman is found butchered, just outside the home of the leader of the Mephisto Club, a secret society dedicated to the study of evil & to confronting it. This is a form of evil Boston PD has never encountered before. & the only way Dr Maura Isles & Detective Jane Rizzoli can defeat it is by turning to the people who understand the devil himself. Read by Lorelei King. ...

One day at the beach, Anna, Ellie & Joe find a funny-looking fish in a rock pool. To their surprise, they find that it is a baby mermaid! They take the merbaby home in a bucket & keep it a secret from Mum. But, four year-old Joe isn't very good at keeping secrets, & soon the merbaby is in danger. Will Anna & Ellie be able to save her? ...

When Johnny Silver's brother, Carlo, the head of an investment bank, disappears along with ten million euros, Johnny, an ex-mercenary on the run, is persuaded to come out of hiding to track him down. The trail leads Johnny into the world of gambling human-trafficking to a crime that shocks the core of a man who had thought he had seen everything. ...

What makes a man the greatest of all time? Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pel? to football: quite simply the best there has ever been. Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories (445); it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. In 1969, while already comfortably leading the Tour de France, Merckx hammered a further eight-&-a-half minutes out of his nearest rivals during an 85-mile solo break in the Pyrenees. He didn't just beat his opponents, he crushed them. But his triumphs only tell half a story that

Includes:: horrific injury, a doping controversy & tragedy. He was nicknamed ' The Cannibal' for his insatiable appetite for victory, but the moniker did scant justice to a man who was handsome, sensitive & surprisingly anxious. Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, goes back to speak to those who were there at the time & those who knew him best to find out what made Eddy Merckx so invincible. ' Merckx
- a natural champion who, famously, never knew what prize money was, but regularly rode himself & others into agony & glory
- is a fine choice for a writer of Fotheringham's skill & cycling knowledge... A fascinating, often bleak portrait of a remarkable athlete & an unnerving man'



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Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pel? to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Throughout his professional career Merckx amassed an astonishing 445 victories. Lance Armstrong, by comparison, managed fewer than 100. Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories; it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. In 1969 while already comfortably leading the Tour de France, Merckx hammered a further eight-&-a-half minutes out of his nearest rivals during an 85-mile solo break in the Pyrenees. He didn't just beat his opponents, he crushed them. But his triumphs only tell half a story that

Includes:: horrific injury, a doping controversy & tragedy. He was nicknamed ' The Cannibal' for his insatiable appetite for victory, but the moniker did scant justice to a man who was handsome, sensitive & surprisingly anxious. For Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, the burning question remains, why? What made Eddy Merckx so invincible? In Half Man, Half Bike, Fotheringham goes back to speak to those who were there at the time & those who knew Merckx best. The result is this extraordinary & definitive story of a man whose fear of failure would drive him to reach the highest pinnacles before ultimately destroying him.

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Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories (445); it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. He didn't just beat his opponents, he crushed them. ...

Insight depends on attentiveness, but can also strike us spontaneously as revelation. This collection features poems that are unified by the urge to look into things & reflect on them, but the responses they represent are as varied, & as revelatory, as the subjects they address. ...

Simon, an autistic nine-year-old, has inadvertently cracked the US government's new secret code, making him a prime security threat in the eyes of the FBI. With Programme Chief Nick Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) ordering his elimination, Simon's only hope of surv ...