Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo Dicaprio (The Great Gatsby, The Aviator), Matthew Mcconaughey (Mud, Magic Mike), Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Zero Dark Thirty) & Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), & adapted for the screen by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire). By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, & international globe-trotting. From the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, & ran up a $700, 000 hotel tab, to the wife & kids who waited for him for at home, & the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king & did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called...THE WOLF OF WALL STREETIn the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street & into a massive office on Long Isl&. In this astounding & hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, & excess no one could invent
- the story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down? What separates Jordans story from others like it, is the brutal honesty.
- Leonardo Di Caprio

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Hattie Morohan reads this exciting, atmospheric tale of a mysterious princess, a magical palace & a pack of white wolves. Alone in the world, Sophie dreams of being someone special. But she could never have imagined this... On a school trip to Russia, Sophie & her two friends find themselves abandoned on a train. They are rescued by the glamorous Princess Anna Volkonskaya, who takes them to her winter palace & mesmerises them with stories of lost diamonds & a tragic past. But as night falls & wolves prowl, Sophie discovers more than dreams in the crumbling palace of secrets... A complete & unabridged reading. ...

Remake of the 1941 horror film of the same name set in the 1880s. Benicio del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a gentleman tormented by the death of his mother & subsequent end of his childhood, who leaves home to try & rid himself of the memories & h ...

Remake of the 1941 horror film of the same name set in the 1880s. Benicio del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a gentleman tormented by the death of his mother & subsequent end of his childhood, who leaves home to try & rid himself of the memories & h ...

Delve into a gripping medieval mystery from the bestselling author, Edward Marston…

In 1086 England's mighty king,

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Libby has a nice life with a gorgeous husband & a big home by the sea. But over time she is becoming more unsure if jack has ever loved her
- & if he is over the death of Eve, his first wife. When fate intervenes in their relationship, Libby decides to find out all she can about the man she hastily married & the seemingly perfect Eve. Eventually Libby stumbles across some startling truths about Eve, & is soon unearthing more & more devastating family secrets. Frightened by what she finds & the damage it could cause, Libby starts to worry that she too will end up like the first woman Jack loved.
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Someone has left a severed hand in the centre of Manchester & the only clue Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel has to go on is CCTV footage of a woman in a long black robe placing it carefully on the ground. With a lengthy missing persons list & frantic families wondering if the body part could belong to their absent loved ones, the detective has plenty to deal with
- & that's before a detached finger arrives in the post. By the time a second hand is found & a local MP's wife goes missing, Jessica is left struggling to find out who the appendages belong to, how they are connected & just what the mysterious woman in black has to do with it all... This is the third book in the smash-hit Jessica Daniel series of novels, which have sold over 300, 000 copies in the UK. Read by Becky Hindley
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Details: Someone has left a severed hand in the centre of Manchester & the only clue Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel
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The murder of women priests in Norfolks spooky shrine town of Walsingham draws forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway into a thrilling new adventure. A must-read for all crime fiction fans, especially addicts of Ann Cleeves VERA books & TV series.

When Ruths friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, in a white gown & blue cloak, in Walsinghams graveyard, he takes it in his stride. Walsingham has strong connections to Mary, & Cathbad is a druid after all; visions come with the job. But when the body of a woman in a blue dressing-gown is found dead the next day in a nearby ditch, it is clear that a horrible crime has been committed, & DCI Nelson & his team are called in for what is now a murder investigation.

Ruth, a devout atheist, has managed to avoid Walsingham during her seventeen years in Norfolk. But then an old university friend asks to meet her in the village, & Ruth is amazed to discover that she is now a priest. She has been receiving vitriolic anonymous letters targeting women priests
- letters containing references to local archaeology & a striking phrase about a woman clad in blue, weeping for the world.

Then another woman is murdered
- a priest. As Walsingham prepares for its annual Easter re-enactment of the Crucifixion, the race is on to unmask the killer before they strike again...

This paperback book has 368 pages & measures: 19.7 x 13 x 2.4cm









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Global superstar, songwriter, singer & Princess of Pop Britney Spears tells all in her heartfelt & honest memoir that portrays her rise to fame, tumultuous relationship with her father, controversial conservatorship, widely documented mental health struggles & so much more. Battling with a parent to take control of your own life at the age of 39 seems impossible. But this is where superstar Britney Spears found herself, 13 years into a conservatorship constructed by her father. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as she spoke in open court for the first time, delivering a bombshell statement in which she described the complex legal arrangement as abusive & condemned the actions of her own father, Jamie. The impact of voicing her truth was undeniable, & it changed the course of her life & the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey & the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music histo... ...