A hilarious & moving story of old age adventure stolen jewels & swimming the Thames from from David Walliams number one bestseller & fastest growing children's author in the country. I absolutely love David Walliams's books. In a few more years they will become classics."
- Sue Townsend author of Adrian Mole Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble & eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels & now she needs Ben's help..."
...

Another hilarious & moving novel from bestselling critically acclaimed author David Walliams the natural successor to Roald Dahl. A story of prejudice & acceptance funny lists & silly words this new book has all the hallmarks of Davids previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandmas house. Shes the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble & eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesnt know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life she has been plotting to steal the crown jewels & now she needs Bens help! ...

READ BY DAVID WALLIAMS!! Another hilarious & moving novel from David Walliams number one bestseller & fastest growing children's author in the country. READ BY DAVID WALLIAMS!! A story of prejudice & acceptance funny lists & silly words this new book has all the hallmarks of David's previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble & eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels & now she needs Ben's help... ...

Another hilarious & moving novel from David Walliams number one bestseller & fastest growing childrens author in the country. A story of prejudice & acceptance funny lists & silly words this new book has all the hallmarks of Davids previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandmas house. Shes the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble & eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesnt know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels & now she needs Bens help... ...

Ray has given up school. He sees no point in education & despises authority. & then he has no choice about school as he is excluded. But Ray also has troubles at home which means he has nowhere to stay & ends up sleeping in the local record shop owned by his friend Marga Man. Ray & his friends attend a Social Exclusion Project which means they can develop their music skills. Marga Man gets a record deal for them & they become local heroes. But another rap band takes a dislike to Ray's music & gang warfare is the result... Based on Benjamin's own troubled experience of school & the music business his passionate immediate voice will appeal to all his fans. ...

Daisy Sullivans father was one of Londons most infamous gangsters. Haunted by his violent death she vows to live a respectable life. That is until the day her mum who abandoned her when she was young & who she barely remembers barges back into her life. Daisy discovers her mum is the queenpin of a prostitution ring & the head of one of Londons most feared underworld families
- the Kings. She is drawn into their next criminal act
- a bank job that turns out to be no ordinary robbery. Soon she is running for her life & the only person she can trust is up-&-coming gangland bad boy Ricky Smart. Shell have to use every dirty trick her dad ever taught her to stay alive.. .

...

The shadowy Gangster Squad was formed in 1946 with eight men operating out of two rusted old Fords. They had no office & made no arrests -- the idea was to remain invisible. By the time I met Sgt. Jack OMara most of the early members were dead so I set out to find the survivors. Based on the hugely popular Los Angeles Times column LA Noir: Tales from the Gangster Squad this is the dark-hearted true story of a group of men cleaning up the mean streets of post-War America. From hundreds of interviews with the original members of the team Paul Lieberman stitches together the story of Jack OMara his dangerous colleague Jerry Wooters (the killer cop thats what they called me) & their anything-goes war with arch-criminal Mickey Cohen & his budding rival Jack The Enforcer Whalen. A tale of stake-outs shoot-outs & even the famous Black Dahlia murder case this is ice-cool narrative non-fiction at its best -- & the basis for a huge Warner Brothers film of the same name starring Ryan Gosling Sean Penn Josh Brolin & Emma Stone. ...

Gerard Gallacher served as a police officer in Glasgow from the 1980s & three decades onwards. It was the time when drugs seized hold of the city & a new set of ruthless criminals were threatening to take control. There was still the usual violence of the city to deal with including domestic violence gang warfare & robbery but it was the huge increase in drug use that defined the times & led to many of the most notorious incidents in the citys criminal past. & Gerard Gallacher was in the thick of the action. As a detective Gallacher knew & dealt with all the major criminals of the times; including Arthur Thompson & his son Arthur Jnr Tam Mc Graw Paul Ferris Joe Hanlon & Bobby Glover. He gave evidence at Ferris murder trial he discovered that Arthur Thomson was a Security Services asset & was the first detective on the scene when Hanlon & Glover were murdered. He delivered the police warning to infamous criminal Frank Mc Phie to tell him that his life was in danger a warning that went unheeded. Gallacher was also involved in countless other high profile investigations including the notorious drugs feud between former friends Tony Mc Govern & James Stevenson which ended in assassination. This is a compelling account of a police career at the sharp end of the action by a detective who wouldnt toe the line. & as well as giving his forthright views on the less than exemplary conduct of some senior officers Gallacher now reveals what really happened behind the scenes in some of the countrys most high profile cases. ...

In 1980 my life as a ' Goodfella' came to an end...I traded my Brioni & Armani suits for T-shirts & jeans. I became a normal citizen. I became Joe Schmoe ' says Henry Hill author of GANGSTERS & GOODFELLAS & subject of WISEGUY which was the inspiration for the blockbuster film GOODFELLAS. After a quarter of a century of silence Hill can finally tell us the rest of the story Gangsters & Goodfellas picks up where Wiseguy left off taking readers on the crazy ride of Henry's life
- hiding out in the Witness Protection Programme doing prison time for drug charges testifying in high-profile heavily guarded mafia trials leaving his wife & children & eventually ending up in the entertainment business. Including an exclusive selection of photographs from Henry's personal collection Gangsters & Goodfellas also reveals Henry's lifelong struggle with addiction his 'business' relationships that have ranged from mob bosses to movie producers & how through everything he survived: ' Its been a hell of a journey & if I hadn't lived it myself I would never believe it. I survived the mob. I survived the government now I'm trying to survive Hollywood.
...

This humour-tinged romantic adventure follows the experiences of a young Scottish veterinary student called Doogie OMara who takes a year off his studies to get his head together following the death of his parents but also to escape the claustrophobic influence of the daughter of his elderly home-town vet who assumes that Doogie will not only become his partner but his daughters as well! Doogie sets out to start a job as a tour rep in Africa with hopes of finding time to study the wildlife too. Instead he finds himself on the Spanish island of Mallorca thust in at the deep end of the madcap package tour business
- a hapless fish out of water for whom the nearest thing to wildlife appears to be the hordes of rowdy holidaymakers pouring off the gannets (charter planes) from the UK. He is taken under the wing of Angie a world-weary rep whos taken all the knocks & has a fatherless toddler to prove it & is befriended by Catalina a pretty young Mallorcan girl working for the same tour company but from a country background similar to Doogies own. The outlook gets better still when Angie is posted to Ibiza & leaves Doogie her flat & her little car. Unfortunately she also leaves her toddler in the care of her dotty old neighbour to whom Doogie is now living next door. Problems are bound to arise & they do with Doogie right in the middle of them! Despite everything however his relationship with Catalina develops & when the time finally comes for him to leave the island Doogie must decide if there may be more to life than a secure though potentially claustrophobic career as a vet back in Scotl&.
...