Wednesday May 7th Two of them came today dragged me out of my cage & put me in some kind of improvised maze made out of books & old toilet tubes. A labyrinth with no escape. They were treating it like some kind of game laughing & squealing as I desperately scrabbled from blind alley to blind alley but I knew it was no game. Theyre trying to crush my will to grind me down. They can take my freedom but they will never take my soul. My name is Edward & I AM A HAMSTER. Published in memory of Poet Thinker & noted rodent Edward the Hamster (1990-1990) this delightfully gothic hardback edition of his personal journals constitutes a celebration of his (very) short life. Its also very funny (Eight months old today. Oh the things Ive seen. The Wheel. The Tray. The Ball. The Whe- no I forget.). Complete with illustrations of our hard-smoking existential hero this is both a book for anyone who has loved & lost a beloved pet -- & a moving essay on the nature of suffering & the hamster condition. ...

The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick a depraved drug-taking womanising 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence. In this bestselling analysis of his diary investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured & reveals startling new information about Maybricks shadowy background. All this combined with a chilling confession scratched into a watch I am Jack. J Maybrick provide powerful justification that Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. The diary itself is reproduced in full so that you too can judge whether these are the deeply disturbing words of Jack the Ripper himself reaching out from across the abyss of more than a century. ...

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history & for the main events
- the Restoration the Dutch War the Great Plague the
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Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady" Britain's oldest women's weekly in her hilarious diary "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year & a Half as Editor". ' The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty tatty disorganized & impossibly old-fashioned set in an age of doilies & flag-waving patriotism & jam still for tea some sunny day.' Appointed editor of " The Lady"
- the oldest women's weekly in the world
- Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start how do you become an editor when you've never well edited? How do you turn a venerable title full of ads for walk-in baths during the worst recession ever? & forget doubling the circulation in a year
- what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants? Will Rachel save " The Lady"
- or sink it? " Action-packed entertaining marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist & has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing". (" Sunday Times"). " She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis". (Mrs Julia Budworth co-owner " The Lady"). "A total romp wonderfully readable unflinchingly described". (" Guardian"). " Hysterical. For the first time everyone is talking about " The Lady" for reasons other than nannies". (Piers Morgan). Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels & two volumes of diaries. " The Mummy Diaries" " Notting Hell" " Shire Hell" & "A Diary of The Lady" are all available now from Penguin."



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The cult classic that can still change your life! Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -- & in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice anything can happen. Entertaining humorous scary shocking subversive The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time. ...

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Venetia Fox is Londons most sought-after actress darling of the demi-monde & every noblemans desire. But shes about to face her toughest role yet
- seducing a confession from the devilishly handsome & very dangerous Lord Linwood to bring her fathers murderer to justice! She might have the whole of London fooled but Linwood can see through Venetias ardent attempts to persuade him to open up. His past is murky but hes no criminal. Her interest in him has Linwood intrigued
- he might just have to play Miss Fox at her own seductive game... Gentlemen of Disrepute Rebellious rule-breakers ready to wed!

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Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton
- Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radios greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly
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Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton
- Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radios greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly
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Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton
- Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radios greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly
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This is a full cast dramatisation of a classic Dick Barton mystery recorded in 1946 rediscovered in the National Film & Sound Archive of Australia. Dick Barton" rose to popularity in the 1940s in the first long running radio serial. Originally broadcast in 1946 it went out each weekday evening for the next 5 years. At its peak it had an audience of 15 million. This vintage recording with nostalgic appeal is guaranteed to have " Dick Barton" Fans old & new on the edge of their seats." ...