Images of life in the Mob pervade our film & TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific
- what is the reality? Nigel & Colin Cawthorne
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The romance & danger of the great explorer's daring expeditions captured the public imagination & the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Journalists vied for their stories, & publishers rushed their first-hand accounts of exciting & dangerous journeys into print for a wide & voracious readership. This book has 487 pages & is 19.7cm x 13cm x 3cm ...

New mysteries, as well as variations on recurring ones, continue to surface on a weekly basis around the globe, from showers of frogs over Hungary to birds falling to earth in Arkansas. This compendious round-up of unexplained phenomena examines everything from the experiments being done with the Large Hadron Collider to classic maritime mysteries involving inexplicably missing crews, via UFOs, mediums, cryptozoology, panics, paranoia & a universe proving stranger in fact than we'd imagined. ...

A humorous collection of hundreds of funny news stories, whacky phenomena, & hilarious blunders & gaffes from around the world, such as: the woman who smuggled 75 live snakes in her bra; the man who held a funeral for his amputated foot; the radioactive cat which got mistaken for a bomb; the human tongue that got served up in a hospital; the X-ray that revealed E.T.'s face in a duck; the youth who woke to find a bullet in his tongue; the tortoise that set a house on fire; & many more. ...

Agnes Brown is a formidable woman. By day she sells fruit & vegetables from a stall in Dublin's busy Moore Street. By night, she is wife to Redser Brown & mammy, nurse, teacher & psychiatrist to her unruly brood of seven children. Then Redser dies. How Agnes copes with widowhood, with the help of her best pal Marion, an unquenchable sense of humour & the attentions of the amorous Pierre, makes this a memorable & moving account of one woman's life & of inner-city Dublin in the late 1960s. ...

Be honest, How often do you: Immediately check out the Facebook page of a guy you?ve just met? Send drunken texts that make you want to cringe the next morning? While away whole evenings analysing your love life with your mates? Answered yes to any of the above? Then you need this book. The single woman has never had it so good ? or so you'd think. As Zoe Strimpel discovered, the reality can often be one of Junk Food Love, in other words: negative man-related experiences, corrosive man-obsessing thoughts & damaging man-related actions. Determined to help her fellow single woman, Zoe put herself on The Man Diet: ten no-nonsense rules to stop you binging on bad romance & help you sort the wheat from the chaff ? emotionally, sexually & romantically. This isn?t a book about snaring a man; its about treating yourself well while you're single & putting you on the right track to happiness. If you loved Caitlin Morans How to be a Woman & Grace Dents How to Leave Twitter, you will love this book. ...

It is just before the outbreak of World War 1 & Britain must enlist the aide of Russia. Czar Nicholas's nephew is to visit London for secret naval talks with Lord Waldren, who has lived in Russia & has a Russian wife, Lydia. But there are other people who are interested in the arrival of Prince Alexei: the Waldrens' only daughter Charlotte
- wilful, idealistic, & with an awakening social conscience; Basil Thompson, head of Special Branch; & above all, Feliks Kschessinky, the ruthless Russian anarchist. No one could have foretold that Lydia should recognise Feliks, or that she might put her own daughters life at risk for his sake. As the secret negotiations progress, the destinies of these characters become ineluctably enmeshed. & as Europe prepares for the catastrophe of war, the final private tragedy which will shatter the complacency of the Waldens is acted out.
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Clarissa befriends impoverished stunner Hesther who then repays her friendship by trying to steal Clarissa's evil husb&. An all-star cast (Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert & Stewart Granger) bring this elaborate, romantic, melodramatic costume drama to life. ...

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D' Artagnan, Athos, Porthos & Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV & change the face of the French monarchy. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark, Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis & Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? & what is the nature of the threat he poses? Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading & guessing until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers. ...

The acclaimed film of Alexandre Dumas’ classic story, about good & evil twin brothers – one is the imprisoned man in the hideous iron mask, the other is his foppish, elegant twin, King Louis XIV of France. The man trapped by his brother, King Louis XIV of France, in a brutal iron mask is Philippe (Richard Chamberlain
- The Count of Monte Cristo). He is the assumed dead twin to the King who, though the rightful heir to the throne, was spirited into obscurity from birth for political motives & is ignorant of his true identity. His destiny: to assume the throne in place of his brother, Louis, who is manipulated by Fouquet (Patrick Mc Goohan
- The Prisoner). Both the captain of the Musketeers, D’ Artagnan (Louis Jourdan
- Dracula), & Colbert (Sir Ralph Richardson
- The Four Feathers), the King’s Minister for Home Affairs, are determined that France has her real King, & plan to restore the wilting fortunes of the throne by substituting Philippe for the King...



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