* The sequel to the Bad Dogs Diary
- now in paperback. * A st&-out book in the thriving dog book market. * More fantastic illustrations
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I adore stories in which people have weird dreams & strange things happen. But thats in books. Real life is supposed to be real & I like my world to be solid around me... Mel is the class bookworm. She prefers books to people & doesnt want
- or need
- friends. She certainly doesnt want to be first-week minder for new girl Imogen. & Imogen is odd. Slowly Mel discovers that Imogen has a special talent
- a family gift that Mel thinks is more like a curse. & thats when she realizes that stories can happen in real life too. For only she can stop Imogens private horror story
- stop the bad dreams...



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A terrible accident. A secret discovered. An inescapable nightmare. Who needs enemies with friends like these? The unnerving new novel from the acclaimed author of LULLABY En route from ending a destructive love affair TV producer Maggie Warren is involved in a freak accident. Lucky to escape with her life Maggies further disturbed to discover shes now front-page news. When invited to discuss her trauma on a chat-show Maggie comes face to face with fellow survivor the beautiful but damaged Fay Carter
- fame-hungry needy & now apparently infatuated. One by one the tentacles of Maggies past mistakes seem to be reaching inexorably into her future. Her compromised career is catching up with her ex-boyfriend Alex just wont take no for an answer
- but worse the secret Maggie has tried so hard to bury is coming back to haunt her. When Maggies flat is ransacked she refuses to believe its a coincidence. Now Maggies clutching onto sanity for dear life but shes horribly aware that one final push might send her over the edge...or is that exactly what someone wants?

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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as Lily in Lima in 1950 where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as Comrade Arlette an activist en route to Cuba an icy remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as & however poorly she treats him Ricardo is doomed to worship her. Gifted liar & irresistible maddening muse
- does Ricardo ever know who she really is?
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The Quinns are one of the most feared criminal gangs in London's East End. So the reaction of Joe Quinn to the news that his daughter Lynsey is involved with a policeman is predictable & swift & a pregnant Lynsey finds herself out on the street bruised & alone. At the age of eleven Lynsey's daughter Helen is returned to the clan. Hated by her grandfather loved only by her uncle she struggles to fit into a world she doesn't underst&. As warring factions battle for control of the East End tragedy is about to strike again. How can Helen survive? & who can she trust when the Quin family's criminal past comes back to haunt her? ...

They met in rehab
- but some of them had rather more therapy than they bargained for. Supermodel Amber Peters should have the world
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Mandy White is a good girl that the bad girls like to pick on. Until a bigger badder girl makes Mandy her special friend. Mandys mother wants her daughter to have nothing to do with the new neighbor but Mandy is growing up & learning about herself & the world. Illustrations. ...

In London on the brink of the Sixties two runaways plunge into the whirl of Soho nightlife. Mattie faces the hard slog of repertory companies & a sleazy strip-club in search of fame as an actress. But when it comes stardom is not enough & the love that Mattie desires seems to elude her. Julia choose marriage & Ladyhill a beautiful Dorset manor house. Then after the tragedy she realises that to achieve true independence she will have to risk her marriage & her child. Though each has to make her own choices their friendship
- despite the guilt & betrayal
- endures over three turbulent decades.

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Lucretia Crum is a little monster with big bad & very nasty habits. She wants a birthday party but all the really big monsters turn up & theyre really really bad! The curing of Lucretia is told through fantastically comical illustrations & a naughty but fun text. ...

Bad Jack Fox is on the run
- can Dan catch him & save the stolen box? Part of the award-winning Usborne Very First Reading"
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