I was the Fool-king of Soho & the number-one slag in the Groucho Club the second drunkest member of the worlds drunkest b&. This was no disaster though. It was a dream coming true. For Alex James music had always been a door to a more eventful life. But as bass player of Blur
- one of the most successful British bands of all time
- his journey was more exciting & extreme than he could ever have predicted. In Bit of a Blur he chronicles his journey from a slug-infested flat in Camberwell to a world of screaming fans & private jets
- & his eventual search to find meaning & happiness (and perhaps most importantly the perfect cheese) in an increasingly surreal world.


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Tom is finding it hard to come to terms with the death of his father & life just gets worse as Mum meets a new man & a bully joins his class at school. Unkind people say that his firefighter father ought not to have risked his life in a blaze when he had a family to support but Tom knows that his father was a true hero. Will he find the same courage within himself to stand up to the bully & also accept his mother's new friend? ...

Fontaine Khaled has an Arab millionaire among her yesterdays & hard-gambling Nico for all her tomorrows. Which only leaves the problem of choosing a man for today... From London to Las Vegas Hollywood to Athens
- she calls the shots from her plush limos & black satin sheets. She is The Bitch & she is in control. & that could never change
- could it? THE BITCH is the sizzling sequel to THE STUD.

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In a small-town high school in 1988 three misfit girls join forces to form the Bitch Goddesses a take-no-prisoners gang of fierce teenage rebellion. Rennie the stunningly attractive straight-A student finds herself way out of her depth when she embarks on an affair with her married teacher. Cherry builds a shrine to Princess Diana in her bedroom while nursing her hippy mother through her coke-fuelled rages. Amy tears up her cheerleaders uniform while her drunken parents concentrate on presenting a facade of perfect family life to the outside world. The three girls swear to stick together whatever life throws at them until one night when something so horrific happens it shatters their friendship for ever. Fifteen years on Rennie is a writer living in New York struggling to keep her life on track & hiding an erotic obsession. In her Lake Superior show-home a heavily pregnant Amy is certain that her husband is cheating on her & that she is jinxed by her past. Cherry a model patient in an institution suffers horrific nightmares of four red letters carved on human skin. The Bitch Goddesses may have grown up but one way or another they must come to terms with a shared past... ...

Morganville Texas is a quiet college town where humans & vampires live in relative peace. But lately a great deal of blood is being spilled
- not in a feeding frenzy but for someone's twisted idea of entertainment. After discovering that vampires populate Morganville
- & surviving a number of adventures with her new night-dwelling friends
- college student Claire Danvers has come to realise that for the most part the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble. There's a new extreme sport being broadcast over the Internet: bare-knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against one another
- or worse against humans. Tracking the out-of-town signal leads Claire
- accompanied by a loyal group of friends & frenemies
- to discover that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville. & if they want to survive they'll have to do a lot more than fight...





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As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family & friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers many no older than children themselves attacked & tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands. Stumbling through the countryside Mariatu miraculously survived. The sweet taste of a mango her first food after the attack reaffirmed her desire to live but the challenge of clutching the fruit in her bloodied arms reinforced the grim new reality that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her & living in a refugee camp she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown. In this gripping & heartbreaking true story Mariatu shares with readers the details of the brutal attack its aftermath & her eventual arrival in Toronto. There she began to pull together the pieces of her broken life with courage astonishing resilience & hope. ...

Rule 1: Never get involved with someone who wont be there for you when the sun comes up. Rule 2: Never kiss a vampire.. .it can be a pain in the neck. Once bitten twice shy
- & sexy PI Jackie Morrisey *so* wasnt going there again with a vampire. Vincent Argeneau might be the hottest guy shed ever met living or dead but shed been hired to stop a killer from turning him into dust not to jump into bed with him. So what if Vincents had four hundred years to perfect his kissing skills & looks incredibly tempting when he runs around the house shirtless. Hes also charming protective.. .and did we mention he can kiss? Jackie needs to be on her guard or else shell have to come up with a new rule: if youre going to fall in love with a vampire make sure its a bite to remember.
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In this landmark series literary"ations legend Fred Metcalf builds on the success of his bestselling series of"ations books for Penguin to produce classic far-ranging volumes of humorous"es on just about every subject you will ever need. This amazing new series is a must-have for every bookshelf. ...

Turned into a vampire against her will Merit found her way into the dark circle of Chicagos vampire underground where she learned there was more to supernaturals than met the eye & more supernaturals than the public ever imagined. & not all the secrets she learned were for sharing
- among humans or inhumans. Now Merit is on the hunt charging across the stark American Midwest tailing a rogue supernatural intent on stealing an ancient artefact that could unleash catastrophic evil on the world. But Merit is also the prey. An enemy of Chicagoland is hunting her & hell stop at nothing to get the book for himself. No mercy allowed. No rules apply. No lives spared. The race is on.
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Ive been fighting it all night. Im going to lose.. . Nature wins out. It always does. Elena Michaels didnt know that her lover Clay was a werewolf until he bit her changing her life forever. Betrayed & furious she cannot accept her transformation & wants nothing to do with her Pack
- a charismatic group of fellow werewolves who say they want to help. When a series of brutal murders threatens the Pack
- & Clay
- Elena is forced to make an impossible choice. Abandon the only people who truly understand her new nature or help them to save the lover who ruined her life & who still wants her back at any cost.


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