Greedy vain & ambitious personalities dominate English football. From the author of devastating exposes of Mohamed Fayed Richard Branson & most recently Geoffrey Robinson BROKEN DREAMS is a superbly incisive account of how self-interested individuals adopting questionable & predatory business methods are exploiting the sport of football to earn billions of pounds & huge glory. Focusing on key figures including Terry Venables Ken Bates David Dein Harry Redknapp Rio Ferdinand & other famous agents chairmen & managers Tom Bower exposes the money the politics & the vicious battles behind the beautiful game. For the first time a non-sports writer reveals the vanity & greed which endanger the national sport. ...

The world's most famous travelling reporter must call on a feathered friend to track down a famous artifact.. .and solve a murder in the process. The Arumbaya fetish has been stolen! But with the help of a talking parrot Tintin is soon on the hunt for the famous artefact which can be distinguished by its broken ear. He must solve a murder & discover the true value of the fetish & quick
- because he is not the only one on the trail! Join the most iconic character in comics as he embark on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100 000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th.
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A gritty tale of family & a love that holds no bounds from the best-selling author of Nobodys Girl & A Fathers Revenge. Celia Frost has always thought herself a cut above the other residents of Lark Rise in Battersea. When her beloved son Thomas starts seeing Amy Miller a girl from the bottom of the Rise Celia disapproves thinking her common. When Celias husband leaves her & Thomas announces he is to marry Amy she is more determined than ever to split them up. Celia needs an ally so she writes to her elder son Jeremy asking him to come home. Jeremys arrival unleashes a tide of jealously & hate. He wants everything that belongs to Thomas
- especially Amy. As Jeremys dangerous obsession for his brothers wife grows Amy must fight for her marriage & her baby. The heartbreaking new novel from the bestselling author of A Fathers Revenge & Nobodys Girl.
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She was too grown-up for childish games but too young to become a woman. Living with her parents & brother in her Grandmother Emmas enormous mansion Jordan March tries to be a good girl & follow her grandmothers strict rules. But one day without warning Jordans body begins to change & everyone notices her in a way that seems dark dangerous & threatening. Suddenly the March family secrets are unleashed & Jordan is ashamed & afraid that her soft curves are somehow unwelcome. Now Grandmother Emma sets out to make Jordan pay for her familys past mistakes sending her world spinning wildly out of control. ...

We hadnt always lived on an island.. .why would anyone dream of such a thing if they had a house with its own path & a gate at the end of it?" When Suresh & Sandeep run away from home to escape their abusive & bullying father they do so with the hope that they are going to find something better. However soon Sandeep & Suresh find themselves working to collect rubbish (broken glass) in the big city
- & their new home is a traffic island in the middle of a busy road. Is this their future forever or can the brothers change their fates to something much more hopeful?"
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Chrissie Reid a young battered wife living on a small Orkney island in 1906 finally turns on her husband Jack. After a particularly brutal attack she is driven to offering him poison. With no memory of that night she believes she has killed him especially when she finds evidence of a body buried in the byre. In spite of her guilt at having taken another life Chrissie eventually finds love again. Her strength determination & love for her fellow islanders carry her through fourteen years of hardship intercepted & exacerbated by the Great War. But the past wont stay hidden & fourteen years after that fateful night Chrissie is forced to confront the nightmare which has overshadowed her life. With the arrival of a letter she discovers that nothing is as it seems. A series of events over which she has no control are set in motion. Lies & secrets are uncovered leading to a dramatic & tragic climax. ...

Its Mardi Gras but for sixteen-year-old Trinity this is no time for celebration. Another girl has gone missing. & Trinity is seeing things
- terrible things. Tormented by visions she cant explain Trinity embarks on a dark journey to understand her abilities convinced this is the only way to prevent the things she sees from coming true. But as the line between reality & illusion becomes blurred everyone who loves Trinity begins to fear for her sanity & ultimately for her life...
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In the city of Shadow beneath the World Tree alleyways shimmer with magic & godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth a blind artist takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. However this act of kindness is to engulf Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone somehow is murdering godlings leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree's peculiar guest is at the heart of it his presence putting her in mortal danger
- but is it him the killers want or Oree? & is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?
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Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...A desperate tragedy a life-long friend & the long & lonely journey to find a family. Edward Carter is a bully of a man who inspires fear in the hearts of all who meet him. Adam Carter is twelve years old an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father's reign of terror over his family has Adam's mother Peggy too cowed to protect her son so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis the school bus driver. Then one afternoon when Adam is his last drop of the day Phil makes a life-changing decision
- to accompany Adam along the darkening woodland lane to his house. But in the house at the end of the track a terrible tragedy is unfolding & it is one that will bind them together forever.
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Broken by his last case homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city & returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal & the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. Its a peaceful existence
- ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashins not so sure & as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption & prejudice he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go. The relentless story of a town with a hidden past versus a man who is trying to forget his The Broken Shore delivers powerful lean writing pumping more muscle & feeling into one paragraph than other writers can muster in a page.
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