A mindless sectarian psychopath or a loyalist folk hero who took the war to the IRA's front door? The name Johnny ' Mad Dog' Adair is synonymous with a killing spree by loyalist terrorists that took Northern Ireland to the brink of civil war. From humble beginnings as a rioter & glue-sniffer on Belfast's Shankill Road Adair rose through the ranks of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters to head its merciless killing machine 'C Company'. Surrounded by a group of trusted friends his reign of terror in the early 1990s claimed the lives of up to 40 Catholics picked out at random as Adair's hitmen roamed Belfast. Determined to lead from the front his men even fired a rocket at Sinn Fein's headquarters writing themselves into loyalist mythology & embarrassing the IRA in its republican heartl&. Its desperate attempts to kill Adair culminated in October 1993 when a bomb on the Shankill Road intended for the loyalist godfather claimed the lives of nine Protestant civilians. Mad Dog: The Rise & Fall of Johnny Adair & 'C Company' describes in graphic detail Adair's criminal empire & an egomaniac's bloody war against Catholics & anybody else who got in his way. Adair's friends & enemies talk for the first time about the murders he ordered his sordid personal life & his attempts
- ultimately disastrous
- to become Northern Ireland's supreme loyalist figurehead.

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The British underworld is controlled by gangs. When two of them start a turf war violence explodes on to the streets. The police need information fast & James Adams has the contacts to infiltrate the most dangerous gang of all. He works for CHERUB. Cherubs are trained professionals aged between ten & seventeen. They exist because criminals never suspect that kids are spying on them. For official purposes these children do not exist. ...

Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fienness personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through the twists & turns of history. From Charlemagne
- himself a direct ancestor of the author
- to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings many members of this unique clan have lived close to the nerve centre of the ruler of their day. They number in their ranks a murderer a wife poisoner a poacher Englands greatest female traveller of the 17th century & an extortionist Lord High Treasurer teen cousins who eloped a noble lord hanged for manslaughter another hanged for adultery with the Kings wife & many who as admirals or major-generals won famous battles. The Fiennes behind Cromwell provided the castle in which the Parliamentarians made their first secret moves the same building in which twenty-one successive generations of the family have lived for 600 unbroken years. One Fiennes had his head cut off by the London mob & stuck on Tower Bridge another led the First Crusade that captured Jerusalem.. . And that is just a taster. Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional exceptional family & reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as the worlds greatest living explorer.

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Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fienness personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne
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MAD FRANK
- Frankie Fraser's own extraordinary story
- the truth about the legendary villain who for fifty years was a key figure

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Sites of gruesome murders stories of killings frauds jewel thefts & treachery are all part of Mad Frankie Fraser's grand tour of Britain's criminal underworld. As one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th Century he is perfectly placed to give us the lowdown on crimes from up & down the country plus his take on crimes he was personally involved in & cases as yet unsolved. Written with crime author James Morton this is the definitive guide to Britain's many lives of crime. ...

On 25 February 1956 twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party & immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter
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Private Investigator Tommy Storm is hired by a top Hollywood film producer to find his missing daughter & her leading man lothario. As Storm & his goody two-shoes doppelganger investigate the case sinister forces conspire to commit the ultimate murder. The question is: who is on the side of the angels & can either Storm tell the difference? As the truth unravels Storm must contend with divine double dealings saving his genitalia the end of the world the Second Coming extremely violent debt collection sexy dames the meaning of it all & where the hell he can get a drink! So join Tommy on the case of a lifetime as he saves the world his balls & maybe even gets the girl...unless it all goes hideously wrong. Which of course it will... ...

The crazy follow-up to Mad Iris available for the first time as a 4u 2read edition. It's the Cup Final & Pudding Lane are set to win. They have Mad Iris as their mascot! But what will they do when
- Mad Iris goes Missing? A new adventure with the maddest ostrich on the planet.
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Alone in his isolated windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor who could blame the young priest Mark for seeking affection from the local millers daughter Mary? But when Marys body is found brutally stabbed Mark is the obvious suspect & the discovery that she was pregnant seems to confirm his guilt. Called in to investigate Baldwin Furnshill & Bailiff Simon Puttock soon begin to have their doubts. Could it not have been one of Marys many admirers who murdered her in a fit of jealousy? Or her father the miller who is acting in an increasingly disturbed manner? & what exactly is the local Baron trying to hide? Will they be able to find the murderer before he strikes again? ...