In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's through a twist of fate & fortune a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother & her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens' parents & Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops prosecutors & a community for decades to come... When police found Sylvia's emaciated body with a chilling message carved into her flesh they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death. Soon they would learn how many others-including some of Baniszewski's own children-participated in Sylvia's murder & just how much torture had been inflicted in one House Of Evil"." ...

House of Fun is a bumper collection of Simon Hoggart's finest & funniest sketches written since he took up the poisoned quill twenty years ago. It is instant history with added jokes. Read about how John Major learned the English language from his time in Nigeria. There is Tony Blair with his verb-free sentences which imply everything & promise nothing. Gordon Brown the grumpiest prime minister of recent years both Stalin & Mr Bean. & now David Cameron
- who really really hates being drawn with a condom on his head. Let's not forget John Prescott who can wrestle the English language to the mat & win by two falls to a submission Michael Fabricant with his hairpiece stolen from the tail of a " My Little Pony" Sir Peter Tapsell a grandee so grand that when he rises to speak Hansard writers are replaced by a crack team of monks to write up his words in illuminated lettering. Nick Clegg with his default expression of a man's whose chldren's puppy is still missing. & of course the famous 2010 press conference in the garden of Downing Street a love-in that would have been illegal in 44 American states. This book will have you laughing chuckling roaring sniggering & sometimes despairing."
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Madness are a British institution. Formed at the height of Punk London in 1976 the Nutty Boys mixed old Ska & Reggae rhythms astute social comment & music hall humour to make them the most successful UK singles band of the Eighties
- as popular with the grannies as with post-punk teenagers hungry for an alternative to the glossy pop of the age. In Thatchers Britain Madness seemed like an anachronism: resolutely working class down-to-earth & facing adversity with a glint in the eye. & yet in terms of pop music they helped define the age via hits like My Girl" " One Step Beyond" " House of Fun" & " Baggy Trousers". From their roots in North London through their emergence as part of 2-Tone & onto their fall in the late 80s & subsequent rise via the Madstock festivals " House of Fun" celebrates this very English musical phenomenon. John Reed offers an affectionate yet insightful version of events helped by candid interviews with those whove worked with Madness over the years. From the trials & tribulations of inter-band disputes accusations of racism & their eventful split to the highs of their violet patch from 1979 to 1986 when they justified their nickname of The Magnificent Seven via an unmatched succession of classic hit singles " House of Fun"
- for the first time
- tells the story of Madness."


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This is a revised edition of one of NHB's consistently best-selling theatre books
- a treasure trove of drama games & exercises.
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As in all hospitals the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid
- a lot at the bottom & one at the top. Put another
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Johnny Truant wild & troubled sometime employee in a LA tattoo parlour finds a notebook kept by Zampano a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Report. Will Navidson a photojournalist & his family move into a new house. What happens next is recorded on videotapes & in interviews. Now the Navidsons are household names. Zampano writing on loose sheets stained napkins crammed notebooks has compiled what must be the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane. But Johnny Truant has never heard of the Navidson Record. Nor has anyone else he knows. & the more he reads about Will Navidson's house the more frightened he becomes. Paranoia besets him. The worst part is that he can't just dismiss the notebook as the ramblings of a crazy old man. He's starting to notice things changing around him.. . Immensely imaginative. Impossible to put down. Impossible to forget. House of Leaves is thrilling terrifying & unlike anything you have ever read before. ...

The Fischer House was the scene of a vicious crime in the 1920s
- a crime which still resonates as the century turns. At its heart
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The Marvel event of the decade is here! The Avengers & the X-Men are faced with a common foe that becomes their greatest threat: Wanda Maximoff! The Scarlet Witch is out of control & the fate of the entire world is in her hands. Will Magneto help his daughter or use her powers to his own benefit? This work stars the Astonishing X-Men & the New Avengers! You know how sometimes you hear the phrase: & nothing will ever be the same again! Well this time believe it buster! Nothing will ever be the same again! This work collects House of M 1-8" & " Pulse House of M" Special Edition Newspaper." ...

A chaotically magical sequel to Howl's Moving Castle. Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy but Great Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland an his house bends space & time. Its single door leads to any number of places
- the bedrooms the kitchen the caves under the mountains the past to name but a few. By opening that door Charmain is now also looking after an extremely magical stray dog a muddled young apprentice wizard & a box of the king's most treasured documents as well as irritating a clan of small blue creatures. Caught up in an intense royal search she encounters an intimidating sorceress named Sophie. & where Sophie is can the Wizard Howl & fire demon Calcifer be far behind?
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When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the Northumberland fells she had no idea that the household was composed only of men. Her employer Maurice Rossiter an embittered victim of polio was subject to alternative fits of temper & depression. Even so Kate found it difficult to understand his peculiar hatred of his elder brother Logan on whose charity Maurice was obliged to depend. But when she accidentally stumbled upon Maurice with Logan's fiancee she became aware of some of the secrets of Tor-Fret & realised she was getting too deeply involved with Logan Rossiter & the other inhabitants of the mysterious household. ...