Set in London & Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes & ribbons, as people of her class do for food & warmth. It's a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant & almost dies on the dangerous streets of London. Her saviour is Doll
- a prostitute. Mary roams London freely with Doll, selling her body to all manner of 'cullies', dressed whorishly in colourful, gaudy dresses with a painted red smile. Faced with bad debts & threats upon her life she eventually flees to Monmouth, her mother's hometown, where she attempts to start a new life as a maid in Mrs Jones's house. But Mary soon discovers that she can't escape her past & just how dearly people like her pay for yearnings not fitting to their class in society...
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Embracing vivid literature, language, history, & personalities, this title covers sex in all its delightful variety, taking a light-hearted look at the biological mechanics, & drawing on the intimate true-life stories of sex-havers young & old, prof ...

Popular Texan high-school student Starla Grady (Jane Mc Gregor) gets more than she bargained for when she plays host to French exchange student Genevieve Le Plouff (Piper Perabo). It turns out that Genevieve is as treacherous as she is ambitious, & she so ...

Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) is the veteran player-coach of the Charleston Chiefs, a failing ice hockey team on the verge of being disbanded due to lack of support & finance. Dunlop's response to a long losing streak is to ask his players to throw the ru ...

It is twenty years since the events of the first Slap Shot movie, & ice-hockey team the Charlestown Chiefs are facing another challenge. In the face of financial difficulties the team has been sold to Richmond Claremont (Gary Busey) a media mogul with a ...

The third instalment of the ice-hockey comedy franchise. Struggling Junior League hockey team the Charlestown Chiefs are in big trouble. Firmly entrenched at the bottom of the league & regularly taken to the cleaners by their rivals, something has to be done
- & quickly. Enter the notorious Hanson brothers, Jeff (Jeff Carlson), Steve (Steve Carlson), & Toe (Trevor Chong), the roughest, dirtiest trio of reprobates ever to set foot in a hockey rink. Now, with support from the town's mayor (Leslie Nielsen) & their new badass mentors on board, the Chiefs begin to scale the heights & show their opponents that in the world of hockey only the strong survive.
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Comedy featuring five feisty kids from Dartmoor Academy. Nicknamed the ' Stinkers', the gang skip opera appreciation classes to cause chaos. Having smuggled Slappy the sea lion onto the school bus & into principal Brinway's hot tub, the Stinkers find the ...

It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world's greatest & most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. Saul " Slash" Hudson was born in Hampstead to a Jewish father & a black American mother who created David Bowie's look in The Man Who Fell to Earth. He was raised in Stoke until he was 11, when he & his mother moved to LA. Frequent visitors to the house were David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Wood & Iggy Pop. At this time Slash got into BMX bikes & would eventually turn professional, winning major awards & money, but at 15 his grandmother gave him his first guitar. Sessions with numerous local LA rock bands followed until a fateful meeting with singer W Axl Rose...and the rest was rock history. Guns N' Roses spent two years builiding their reputation before Appetite for Destruction was unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Chart success & global domination followed but with it came the inevitable fall
- addicted to heroin, booze & cigarettes the band imploded in a rift between Axl & Slash that is as deep today as ever. But with a new wife, kids & new band Velvet Revolver, Slash is back on track. As raucous & edgy as his music, Slash sets the record straight & tells the real story as only Slash can.
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Joe Hunter is always ready to help a lady in distress. Particularly when Kate, the lady in question, is the sister of a dead Special Forces mate. Robert Huffman pretends to be a respectable businessman. But the psychopathic twins he uses as his enforcers give lie to that. Huffman is a player in the murky world of organised crime & needs Kate as bait for one of his schemes. Joe is way outnumbered by the bad guys, but since when did that stop him? He'll rescue Kate if he has to slash & burn to get her... ...

Books Mystery Books Disaster strikes at the Sapperton Tunnel in Gloucestershire when a goods train collides with an unusual blockage on the line: seven sheep penned onto the tracks.  Specially requested to investigate the carnage, Inspector Colbeck & Sergeant Leeming are confronted with a bizarre case unlike anything they’ve encountered before. Stephen Rydall, board member of the Great Western Railway that manages the route, is convinced this tragedy is a personal attack on him & fears for the safety of his shepherd, missing since the incident.  Rydall has many enemies but, as Colbeck will soon discover, the man also has a closely guarded secret of his own...  Product Information: • ISBN: 9780749026813 • Author: Edward Marston • Publisher: Allison & Busby • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.81 x 12.9 cm   ...