When Janie Ryan is born shes just the latest in a long line of Ryan women Aberdeen fishwives to the marrow always ready to fight. Her violet-eyed Grandma had predicted shed be sly while blowing Benson & Hedges smoke rings over her Mas swollen belly. In the hospital her family approached her suspiciously so close she could smell whether theyd had booze or food for breakfast. It was mostly booze. Tony Hogan" tells the story of a Scottish childhood of filthy council flats & B& Bs screeching women feckless men fags & booze & drugs the dole queue & bread & marge sandwiches. It is also the story of an irresistible irrepressible heroine a dysfunctional family you cant help but adore the absurdities of the eighties & the fierce bonds that tie people together no matter what. Told in an arrestingly original
- & cry-out-loud funny
- voice it launches itself headlong into the middle of one of lifes great fights between the pull of the past & the freedom of the future. & Janie Ryan born & bred for combat is ready to win."

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This is the biography of motor racing mechanic Tony Robinson who worked with some of the great names of the sport in the 1950s & 60s. Tony started as one of the mechanics for Stirling Moss in 1954: the year of Stirlings first serious assault on the world championship. After a semi-nomadic period touring Europe with privateer Bruce Halford who also raced a Maserati 250F Tony joined the British Racing Partnership
- a Formula One & Two team part-owned by (Sir) Stirlings father Alfred. Stirling was driving a BRP-entered Lotus on the day of the accident that effectively ended his racing career. At BRP Tony responded to the Lotus 25 by building what was the first monocoque F1 car following Colin Chapmans groundbreaker. He also designed a car for Indianapolis before going on to work for Cooper. During his time in motor racing Tony rubbed shoulders with such great names as Juan Manual Fangio & Mike Hawthorn; Stuart Lewis-Evans
- whose manager was Bernie Ecclestone
- was one of Tonys drivers & McLarens Ron Dennis worked for him during his time at Cooper. This is the fascinating story of one of motorsports most enduring characters.


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Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining smelly & disgusting bits about World War II! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you need to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- just how useful mashed potato is
- how the Battle of Britain was won
- what it takes to be a spy
- how D-Day was kept a surprise



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Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining smelly & disgusting bits about the Egyptians! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- Why the gods looked so strange
- Why tomb raiding is a bad idea
- Why they loved cats &
- How to make a mummy in eight easy steps



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Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining smelly & disgusting bits about the Greeks! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- Why the ancient Greeks were mad about olive oil
- Who Pythagoras was
- Why Alexander the Great named a city after his horse Bucephalus &
- How the Greeks invented the first computer vending machine & death-ray



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Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining smelly & disgusting bits about the British! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- How to avoid scurvy
- Why bright red isnt the best colour for a soldiers uniform
- Why not being able to swim was considered an advantage &
- How to cure the most gruesome tropical diseases



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This book was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize 2010. They were masters of the financial universe flying in private jets & raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees. Andrew Ross Sorkin the news-breaking New York Times" journalist delivers the first true in-the-room account of the most powerful men & women at the eye of the financial storm
- from reviled Lehman Brothers CEO Dick the gorilla Fuld to banking whiz Jamie Dimon from bullish Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to AIGs Joseph Cassano dubbed The Man Who Crashed the World. Through unprecedented access to the key players Sorkin meticulously re-creates frantic phone calls foul-mouthed rows & white-knuckle panic as Wall Street fought to save itself."
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This collection is Benjamin Zephaniahs first new book of poems in five years. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. With poems like Chant of a Homesick Nigga" & " Kill Them Before Ramadan " he shows that hes a poet who wont stay silent who doesnt pull any punches writing out of a sense of urgency & a commitment to social justice. He opens this hard-hitting & blackly funny book of poems with an outspoken comment on where hes coming from setting his poetry against the political landscape of Britain." ...

The Vanishing Triangle": A womans body is found in Irelands most notorious body dump zone an area in the Dublin mountains where a number of women disappeared in the past. " Nuns Cross": The victim is from an exclusive gated development in the suburbs
- where the prime suspect in the vanishing triangle cases Derek Carpenter now lives. It looks like the past is coming back to haunt the present. But DI Jo Birmingham doesnt believe the case is open & shut. Her husband Dan was part of the original investigation team; is she trying to protect her own fragile domestic peace? The one person who could help her crack the case Dereks wife Liz is so desperate to protect her family that she is going out of her way to thwart all efforts to establish the truth. Can both women emerge unscathed?"
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When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours the Langleys are gunned down in their house one hot August night the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless of course the killers went to the wrong house... At first the idea seems crazy
- but each of the Cutter family has a secret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that old computer teenage Derek & his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? & where is it now? What hold does a local professor & bestselling author have on Ellen Cutter? & what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that even her husband didn't? To find out who killed the Langleys & why everybody's secrets are going to have to come out. But the final secret
- the secret that could save them or destroy them
- is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking...


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