I thought I was the biggest dope smuggler. I wasnt. He was Howard Marks. On 29 June 1988 Michael Forwell (aka The Fox) had it all
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Lieutenant John Pearce is considering his future. Lacking funds an occupation if he leaves naval service or the evidence of perjury he once held against Captain Ralph Barclay the brute who pressed he & his friends into the navy his prospects are not promising. Ralph Barclay meanwhile has problems of his own. His wife Emily is refusing to live under the same roof as him & she has the means to get her own way: the perjury evidence Pearce believes lost at sea. Barclay's slippery clerk Gherson has as much at stake as his employer & is prepared to go to any lengths to silence Emily & Pearce. So when a smiling stranger offers Pearce & his companions the illegal yet profitable opportunity to fetch a contrab&-laden ship from a French port is all as it seems? Are Pearce & his Pelicans sailing into prosperity
- or danger?
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Blubber is a thick layer of fat that lies under the skin & over the muscles of whales.. . When Linda innocently reads out her class project everyone finds it funny. Linda cant help it if shes fat but what starts as a joke leads to a sustained & cruel ritual of humiliation. Jill knows she should defend Linda but at first shes too scared. When she eventually stands up to the bullies she becomes their next victim
- & whats worse Linda is now on their side.. .
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The wild childhood of a Glasgow tenement urchin Born during the Second World War in Glasgow Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child. Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat learning to avoid her hardworking hard-drinking one-eyed father making a menace of herself in the streets along with the other urchins Christine lived an impoverished life but never once cared until she was struck down by a terrible illness. Suddenly her wild days of childhood were over. A long spell in hospital completely changed her life. Now she found herself dependent on others for so many of her needs. & on top of that her mother & father died. Yet Christine was always resourceful & never once looked down. She knew that always there if you looked hard enough was some blue up above the chimneys. ...

The Blue Afternoon" is a classic prize-winning novel by bestseller William Boyd. It is winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer a young ambitious architect is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past initially in search of a murderer but finally in celebration of a glorious undying love. " The Blue Afternoon" will be enjoyed by fans of " Any Human Heart" & readers of Ben Macintyre Sebastian Faulks Nick Hornby & Hilary Mantel as well as lovers of the finest fiction around the world. William Boyd has always been described as a great storyteller..." Here he creates a world both elegiac & hopeful & achingly memorable". (" The Times"). "A brilliant achievement.. .has a sense of place & storytelling which you rarely find these days in British novels". (" Time Out"). " Richly entertaining... Boyd has organized his narrative into one elegant & almost seamless weave". (" Independent"). William Boyd was born in Ghana where his father was a doctor & was educated thereand in Scotl&. His first novel "A Good Man in Africa" won both the Whitbread First Novel & Somerset Maugham Prizes & his subsequent novels have gone onto win many awards. His books include: " On the Yankee Station & Other Stories" " An Ice-Cream War" " Stars & Bars" " School Ties" " The New Confessions" " Brazzaville Beach" " The Destiny of Natalie 'X' & Other Stories" " Armadillo" " Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960" " Any Human Heart" " Restless" " The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth" " Ordinary Thunderstorms" " Fascination" " Bamboo" & " Waiting for Sunrise". He divides his time between London & south-west France." ...

Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the twentieth book in the series. ' If we had only two or three of Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction... This is great writing by an undiminished talent. Now on to Volume Twenty & the liberation of Chile.' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE Literary Review This is the twentieth book in Patrick O' Brian's highly acclaimed bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey & his best friend Stephen Maturin part ship's doctor part secret agent. The novel's stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon's hundred days of freedom & his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo & Aubrey has finally as the title suggests become a blue level admiral. He & Maturin have
- at last
- set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea O' Brian's writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights & sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O' Brian has written.

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Ten years after it was first published THE BLUE BALLOON is now a celebrated classic which continues to delight millions of children. Kipper has found a soggy blue balloon in the garden. At first it seems like an ordinary balloon but it's not. It's full of fun & magic. This is a book to be treasured loved read time & time again with fantastic fold out pages. ...

The big bedroom was lovely: all pale blue & white satin & muslin cool & airy the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen-year-old Emily beautiful though it was it was all wrong. Her stepmothers bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died. & stretched out on the bed: Stephanie very white & pained. The new baby on its way a month early. All of a sudden with her father away on business Emily had to take charge keep calm ring for the doctor & the ambulance. The time for looking back had gone. The Blue Bedroom is just one of Rosamunde Pilchers magical collection of stories. Stories that will enchant everyone who has read & loved The Shell Seekers. ...

The big bedroom was lovely: all pale blue & white satin & muslin cool & airy the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen-year-old Emily beautiful though it was it was all wrong. Her stepmother's bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died. & stretched out on the bed: Stephanie very white & pained. The new baby on its way a month early. All of a sudden with her father away on business Emily had to take charge keep calm ring for the doctor & the ambulance. The time for looking back had gone. The Blue Bedroom is just one of Rosamunde Pilcher's magical collection of stories. Stories that will enchant everyone who has read & loved The Shell Seekers. ...

They're Young Fabulous & Fanged... And they rule Manhattan from the trendy uptown clubs to the downtown boutiques. Fifteen-year-old Schuyler Van Alen has never quite fit in at her exclusive prep school
- she's more of a vintage than a Versace girl
- but all that's about to change... Because Schuyler has just found out she's a Blue Blood. The Blue Bloods are the city's glamorous
- & secret
- vampire elite. They're young beautiful & powerful. But now they're being murdered. & Schuyler must find out who
- or what
- is behind it before she's next.





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