Bobby Cummines was only 28 when he passed through the grim gates of Parkhurst, Britain’s Alcatraz, as a category-A prisoner with a host of crimes to his name.

Joining the most notorious gangsters & criminals of the day – from the Krays, the Yorkshire Ripper & Charles Bronson, to high ranking members of the IRA – nothing could have prepared him for the brutal regime, violent convicts, vindictive screws & riots on the inside.

It’s the story of Britain’s most hellish prison, from one of its hardest inmates.

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• ISBN: 9781785035166
• Author: Bobby Cummines
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 303
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm











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TV comedian Steve Coogan makes the move to the big screen with this crime caper. Parole officer Simon Garden (Coogan) is transferred from Blackpool to Manchester & soon finds himself on the trail of corrupt cop Burton (Stephen Dillane). Burton then real ...

A man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars. So will its rightful owners. Patrick S. Lanigan died in a car crash in February 1992. He left behind a mourning wife, young daughter & bright future. Six weeks after his death, ninety million dollars disappeared from the law firm he'd worked at. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. & the chase was on... Product information: •†ISBN: 9780099537151 •†Author: John Grisham •†Publisher: Arrow •†Format: Paperback •†Pages:†416 •†Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8cm ...

When Rachel wakes up in a strange room, the morning after a neighbour’s party, she has no memory of what happened the night before.

Why did her husband leave her alone at the party? Did they row? Why are Rachel’s arms so bruised? & why are her neighbours & friends so vague about what really happened?

Little by little, Rachel pieces together the devastating events that took place in a friend’s house, at a party where she should have been safe.

Everyone remembers what happened that night differently, & everyone has something to hide. But someone knows the truth about what happened to Rachel. & she’s determined to find them.

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• ISBN: 9780008214999
• Author: Lisa Hall
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 281
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm













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This superb book is a comprehensive guide to choosing, making, cooking & enjoying Italian pasta.

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The eighth novel in the Wheel of Time series
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Details: Does the path in the garden really lead to the stars? That's what Barnaby Bear says, for a little girl once
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Books History Books The incredible story of the crack team of men & women who transformed RAF Bomber Command & helped the Allies deliver decisive victory over Nazi Germany. The Pathfinders were ordinary men & women from a range of nations who revolutionised the efficiency of the Allies' air campaign over mainland Europe. They elevated Bomber Command
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Box set of films starring Paul Robeson, the actor, athlete, singer & civil rights activist, who could sing & speak in more than twenty languages & was a huge role model for African Americans during the 1920s & '30s. In ' Body & Soul' (1925), a dissolute, venal black preacher (Robeson) shows up in a seedy speakeasy full of criminals & cardsharps, then appears to be trying to dupe a pious mother (Julia Theresa Russell) into marrying off her daughter (Mercedes Gilbert). In ' Sanders of the River' (1935), RG Sanders (Leslie Banks) has established peace in the river district of West Africa where he is a British Resident Commissioner. His probationary chief, Bosambo (Robeson), uses Sanders' orders to free a slave convoy. ' Song of Freedom' (1936) tells the story of a successful British concert singer (Robeson) who discovers he is descended from a West African queen whose tribe is now leaderless. He goes to Africa where he is met with hostility
- can he win their hearts & minds? In the musical, ' Big Fella' (1937), a Marseille dock worker (Robeson) befriends a small boy (Eldon Gorst) who has lost his parents after arriving on an ocean liner. Can he reunite the young lad with his mother & father? In ' King Solomon's Mines' (1937), fortune hunter Patrick O' Brien (Arthur Sinclair) is on a trek across the desert in hope of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. His daughter (Anna Lee) persuades hunter Allan Quartermain (Cedric Hardwicke) to lead a party to rescue him. Robeson plays the O' Brien's guide, Umbopa.
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