Having saved the city cats from a fate worse than death Varjak Paw finds himself the elected & popular leader of a new gang
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Ged Moby & Ratter are blaggers old-fashioned highwaymen. But crime is out of control in Liverpool as violent gangs fight it out for control of the drug trade. Blaggers are a dying breed... Ged is planning a big job that will last them through the winter & all they have to do is stay out of trouble until then
- but Moby manages to get a contract on his head & Ged is going to need all his killer instinct just to survive.
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On their return home from their pilgrimage Baldwin & Simons ship is attacked off the coast of the Scilly Isles by pirates & storms & Simon looks on in horror as Baldwin is swept overboard. Washed ashore on the tiny island of Ennor Simon is distraught to think that his closest friend is dead but he has to put aside his grief when the master of the castle Ranulph de Blancminster orders him to investigate the murder of the islands tax gatherer. Ranulph is convinced that one of the the lawless inhabitants of the neighbouring island of St Nicholas is the culprit & prepares to attack. Meanwhile Baldwin himself has been washed up on St Nicholas & is nursed back to health by the beautiful Tedia. He uncovers a different picture of the island as he too begins to investigate the murder. Although there are plenty of suspects Baldwin finds it impossible to penetrate the tight network of secrets & loyalties that bind the villagers in this isolated community. As Balwin & Simons parallel investigations bring them closer to the truth they become embroiled in the bitter rivalry between the two island communities. Can they uncover the truth in time to prevent a massacre? ...

An outlaw motorcycle club is a band of brothers like no other. Hidden away from mainstream society behind multiple layers of secrecy mythology & a sophisticated campaign of misinformation that portrays them as nothing more than loveable rogues the brutal truth about the biker world has long escaped public scrutiny. In reality todays outlaw bikers are at the epicentre of a violent underworld subculture enforced by a ruthless code of silence & control a global criminal empire worth millions. Spanning the UK Europe America Canada & Australia OUTLAWS is a compelling shocking & chilling story of how bikers are born & made & how & why they die. ...

From the bestselling author of Blink & The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative & inspiring book Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes software billionaires to scientific geniuses to show that the story of success is far more surprising & far more fascinating than we could ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from & what we do as who we are
- & that no one not even a genius ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story & about what makes us all unique. Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us the lessons they contain". (Guardian). " Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon.. .he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure." (Observer). " He is the best kind of writer
- the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius rather than he's a genius". (The Times). Author journalist cultural commentator & intellectual adventurer Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His first book The Tipping Point captured the world's attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects. His other international bestselling books are Outliers which looks at the stories of exceptional individuals & reveals the secrets of their success Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking & What The Dog Saw a collection of his most provocative & entertaining New Yorker pieces."

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First-ever revised edition of Wainwright's selection of 56 Lakeland 'foothills' not included in his main Pictorial Guides all but one (Humphrey Head) within the boundaries of the National Park. Vintage Wainwright full of eloquence & humour brilliantly updated by Chris Jesty. ...

They took the job to escape the world They didn't expect the world to end. Kasker Rampart: a derelict refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean. A skeleton crew of fifteen fight boredom & despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home. But the world beyond their frozen wasteland has gone to hell. Cities lie ravaged by a global pandemic. One by one TV channels die replaced by silent wavebands. The Rampart crew are marooned. They must survive the long Arctic winter then make their way home alone. They battle starvation & hypothermia unaware that the deadly contagion that has devastated the world is heading their way... ...

Reykjavik Saturday night. He offered her another margarita & as he returned from the bar he carefully slid the pill into her glass. They were getting along fine & he was sure she would give him no trouble...48 hours later a young man is found dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in at his flat. The victim is found wearing a womans t-shirt while a bottle of Rohypnol lies on the table nearby. Detective Elinborg already struggling to juggle family life & the relentless demands of her job is assigned the case. But with no immediate leads to the killer can she piece together details of the victims secret life & solve a brutal murder? ...

A dazzling novel from Sunday Times Number One bestseller Penny Vincenzi: ' Mesmerising from start to finish' Evening Standard A mysterious tragic accident in the 1950s; an inexplicable suicide twenty years later. What was the strange link between the two
- & Caroline Hunterton's long-buried past? A secret which could not be kept for ever especially from her two daughters Chloe & Fleur. Fate had separated the sisters in time & distance
- but bound them in mutual hatred
- until journalist Magnus Phillips decided to tell the story that would tear their lives apart. Moving from wartime Suffolk to fifties Hollywood from glitzy Madison Avenue to London's theatrical aristocracy & the machinations of cheque-book publishing An Outrageous Affair explores the extraordinary sometimes fatal consequences of truth.


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A MARRIAGE MOST INCONVENIENT! Agreeing to a fake betrothal should suit both society dressmaker Belle Marchmain & landowner Adam Davenant fittingly
- clearing Belles debts & keeping Adams husb&-hunters at bay. Even if blue-blooded Belle with her extravagant clothes & razor-sharp tongue despises the very air that nouveau riche Adam breathes! If Adam wants a wife whos agreeable he has his work cut out. Yet when his demanding mouth caresses Belles for the first time ever shes lost for words. Maybe Adams found the one way to tame the only woman whos ever stood up to him & make her say I do...
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