Birkenhead 1973. The eighteen-year-old Paul O' Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out on the town. New white T-shirt freshly ironed jeans looking good. As he bids farewell to his mum who's on the phone to his auntie & wanders off down the street in a cloud of aftershave he hears her familiar cry: ' Oh the devil rides out tonight Annie. The devil rides out!' The further adventures of Paul O' Grady
- following on from the million-copy-selling At My Mother's Knee"
- are if anything even more hilarious & outrageous than what has come before. To say that " The Devil Rides Out" is action-packed is an understatement. Its extraordinary cast of characters

Includes:: lords & ladies the legendary Vera a serial killer more prostitutes than you can shake a stick at & drag queens of every shape & size. Wickedly funny often moving & searingly honest Paul's tales of the unexpected will make your jaw drop & your hair stand on end. & you'll laugh like a drain. " The Devil Rides Out" is one hell of a read!"



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Birkenhead 1973. The eighteen-year-old Paul O' Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out on the town. New white T-shirt freshly ironed jeans looking good. As he bids farewell to his mum who's on the phone to his auntie & wanders off down the street in a cloud of aftershave he hears her familiar cry: ' Oh the devil rides out tonight Annie. The Devil rides out!' The further adventures of Paul O' Grady
- following on from the million-copy-selling At My Mother's Knee
- are if anything even more hilarious & outrageous than what has come before. As Paul struggles to get to grips with unexpected fatherhood & bereavement he searches high & low for a job that lasts & somehow finds himself getting married in the process. Work takes him from an abattoir to a children's home from a hospital to a nightclub & from penthouse to pavement. Along the way he takes his first-Savage steps on stage tastes the exotic delights of Manila & invades Poland.. . To say that The Devil Rides" Out is action-packed is an understatement. Its extraordinary cast of characters

Includes:: lords & ladies the legendary Vera a serial killer more prostitutes than you can shake a stick at & drag queens of every shape & size. Wickedly funny often moving & searingly honest Paul's tales of the unexpected will make your jaw drop & your hair stand on end. & you'll laugh like a drain. " The Devil Rides Out"
- one hell of a read!"




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Meet Micky Gluckstad. You'll like him. Bare-knuckle boxer East End face playboy & underworld 'corner merchant' Micky's conned money off the best of them
- & he's got the scars to prove it. A happy-go-lucky conman who fleeced hundreds of thousands of pounds from the rich the stupid the crooked & the shameless Micky's one of the nicest men you'll ever meet
- unless you cross him. Then beware. There are properly hard men & there is Micky Gluckstad. Whether on the cobbles or in the ring Micky beat them all. Roy ' Pretty Boy' Shaw Donny ' The Bull' Adams & even Lenny Mc Lean The Guv'nor himself fell before Micky's onslaught. He never started a fight but he never walked away from one either & he hated bullies & braggarts. Reggie Kray said Micky could have been one of the boxing greats but he never trained & fought for kicks & cash. Despite his incredible story you won't catch him boasting about his exploits or cashing in as a rent-a-villain. Repeatedly accused of murder but never charged shot stabbed & glassed beaten by the police & locked up in juvenile detention borstal & prison he came back laughing from everything the world threw at him.

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In the quiet English countryside far from the intrigues of London Lizzie Carlisle slowly mends her broken heart devoting herself to her new position as lady's companion to the Dowager Viscountess Strathmore
- until her peaceful life is turned upside-down by a visit from ' Devil' Strathmore the old woman's untamed nephew
- a dangerously handsome man whose wicked reputation hides a tortured soul. Devlin Kimball (Lord Strathmore) has spent years adventuring on the high seas struggling to make his peace with the tragedy that claimed the lives of his family. But now he has uncovered the dark truth about the so-called accident & swears retribution. Then to his astonishment his eccentric aunt's will forces him & Lizzie together & Devlin finds his path to vengeance blocked by the stubborn but oh-so-tempting Miss Carlisle. Her passionate nature rivals his own but disillusioned once by love Lizzie will accept nothing less than his true devotion...

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Nick Kane is a man with nothing to lose & everything to prove. A model soldier fighting for queen & country it seemed nothing could stop him becoming one of the very top officers. But that was then. & this is now. Injured in a bomb blast on reconnaissance in Iraq hes forced out of the army & into the quiet life. But after a year in civvies rebuilding his life & his relationship with his family things for Nick are looking up. That is until he finds out that his old army buddy Ben is dead. Word is that he took his own life but Nick knows that Ben had everything to live for & when he starts to question the circumstances of his friends death he discovers that there are people who will stop at nothing to cover up the terrifying truth. Explosive & gripping Devil to pay is the electrifying new action thriller from bestselling author Ross Kemp. ...

The classic bestseller
- over a million copies sold worldwide High fashion low cunning
- & the boss from hell When Andrea first

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In the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries the era of the Reformation thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms
- violent convulsions displays of preternatural strength vomiting of foreign objects displaying contempt for sacred objects & others
- exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims' bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession & exorcism in the Reformation period but also reaches back to the fifteenth century & forward to our own times. Entire convents of nuns in French & Spanish towns 30 boys in an Amsterdam orphange a small group of young girls in Salem Massachusetts
- these are among the instances of demon possession in the United States & throughout Europe that Brian Lavack closely examines taking into account the diverse interpretations of generations of theologians biblical scholars pastors physicians anthropologists psychiatrists & historians. Challenging the commonly held belief that possession signals physical or mental illness the author argues that demoniacs & exorcists
- consciously or not
- are following scripts encoded in their various religious cultures & their performances can only be understood in those contexts.




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Unputdownable Bagshawe (Cosmopolitan). Another fantastic blockbuster from the author of GLAMOUR & PASSION. Three heads are better than one... What do a feisty New Yorker an LA rock chick & a dreamy English public school girl have in common? On paper not a lot. But even though they live thousands of miles apart & have never met Rose Fiorello Poppy Allen & Daisy Markham have the strongest of bonds. They just dont know it yet. A sinister secret is buried deep at the heart of all their pasts & sooner or later it has to come out. When that happens one things for certain: the three girls lives will never be the same again. But will it finally bring them together? After all when there are old scores to settle theres definitely strength in numbers... ...

Sonny Farehams lover
- & also her boss
- is the charismatic Tony Bridgeman a successful & ruthless man who usually gets what

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Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist & London is his stamping ground. At a time when the supernatural world is in upheaval & spilling over into the mundane reality of the living his skills have never been more in dem&. A good exorcist can charge what he likes
- & enjoy a hell of a life-style
- but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him. After a year spent in 'retirement' Castor is reluctantly drawn back to the life he rejected & accepts a seemingly simple exorcism case
- just to pay the bills you underst&. Trouble is the more he discovers about the ghost haunting the archive the more things don't add up. What should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show with demons were-beings & ghosts all keen to claim the big prize. But that's OK; Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It's the living who piss him off...


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