Asylums" is an analysis of life in total institutions
- closed worlds like prisons army camps boarding schools nursing homes
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A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form -- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design. ...

An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out... When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London she finds what shes looking for at Bertrams Hotel: traditional decor impeccable service & an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day... ...

Miss Marple Agatha Christie s deceptively mild spinster sleuth is being treated to a few days holiday by her niece staying at Bertram s Hotel a dignified unostentatious establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. Here is a place where sedate upper class ladies retired military gentlemen & the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer. Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate eminently respectable people staying there? June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of a classic brain-teaser from the Queen of Crime. ...

Since 1875 Hibernian Football Club has been an integral part of sporting life in the City of Edinburgh & Port of Leith; its early history up to 1946 has been brilliantly documented in The Making of Hibernian trilogy by Alan Lugton. John Campbells At Easter Road they Play is the first part of a new trilogy that brings the history up to date picking up the story from 1946 & covering what was the most successful part of the clubs history when Hibernian won three Championship titles & became the first British club to play in the European Cup reaching the semi-final. Packed with anecdotal tales of the times it gives a fascinating insight into life at the club when the Famous Five were in their heyday right through to the mid-sixties when a young lad by the name of Joe Baker burst onto the scene. A game-bygame goal-by-goal account of the many highs & numerous lows At Easter Road they Play takes the reader on a fantastic journey back to the days when massive crowds flocked to Easter Road to see Hibernian play. For any Hibs fan that lived through those heady days this book will bring back to life a host of happy memories whilst at the same time allowing those fans who were perhaps too young or not even born at the time to see just how different football was back then when compared to the modern day game. ...

How far can you run from your past? Jeremy Marsh once vowed he would never do three things: leave New York City give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage & most of all become a parent. Now Jeremy is living in the small town of Boone Creek North Carolina married to Lexie the woman he loves & anticipating the birth of their daughter. Life seems to be settling down
- until a disturbing & mysterious message appears from the past. Wounds he thought had healed are re-opened & Jeremy realises his old life is closer to him than he thinks.
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It should be the best time of half-vampire Cat Crawfields life. With her undead lover Bones at her side shes successfully protected mortals from the rogue undead. But though Cats worn disguise after disguise to keep her true identity a secret from the brazen bloodsuckers her cover has finally been blown placing her in terrible danger. & if that wasnt enough a woman from Bones past is determined to bury him once & for all. Caught in the crosshairs of a vengeful vamp yet determined to help Bones stop a lethal magic from being unleashed Cats about to learn the true meaning of bad blood. & the tricks shes learnt as a special agent wont help her here. Shes going to have to fully embrace her vampire instincts if shes going to save herself
- & Bones
- from a fate worse than the grave.

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In his final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties & into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer & at the end of his career as an electricity chargehand driving around the Yorkshire Dales. He tells us of his prison experiences with anecdotes about many of the most famous criminals in British history
- the Krays the Richardsons the Great Train Robbers Soviet spies & many more. Told in the same endearing & fascinating voice that readers of LAST SONG OF THE NIGHT TRAM & SOMEWHERE TO LAY MY HEAD first fell in love with this volume continues the story of Robert's remarkable journey of self-education introducing us to larger-than-life characters on both sides of the bars & evoking a strong sense of social change as Britain emerged from the post-War gloom into the bright lights of the Beatles years.
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Modern-day Cinderellas get their grooms! Housekeeper Wanted Ellie Bonds heart has ached ever since she lost her husband & little girl. Now shes taken a first small step forward: answering supercool big-shot music executive Mark Wilders advert. Housekeeper Bride Falling for the boss wasnt part of feisty redhead Sylvie Brownings job description. But tycoon Mark Hannafords sad eyes & smile make her melt. This housekeepers falling fast! Temporary Housekeeper Being crime writer Cameron Travers helper should be pretty simple & safe
- just what once-burned Lally Douglas wants. But Cameron is too attractive intelligent fun & very charming!
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Wealth. Power. Pure Passion... Hot Nights Cameron Black is everything that quirky artist Didi OFlanagan loathes in a man
- his
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