Borley Rectory in Essex built in 1862 should have been an ordinary Victorian clergymans house. However just a year after its construction unexplained footsteps were heard within the house & from 1900 until it burned down in 1939 numerous paranormal phenomena including phantom coaches & shattering windows were observed. In 1929 the house was investigated by the Daily Mail" & paranormal researcher Harry Price & it was he who called it the most haunted house in England. Price also took out a lease of the rectory from 1937 to 1938 recruiting forty-eight official observers to monitor occurences. After his death in 1948 the water was muddied by claims that Prices findings were not genuine paranormal activity & ever since there has been a debate over what really went on at Borley Rectory. Paul Adams Eddie Brazil & Peter Underwood here present a comprehensive guide to the history of the house & the ghostly (or not) goings-on there." ...

Kylie Galen has had a lot of crap tossed in her lap. Her parents are getting a divorce. Her boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn't put out. Her grandmother died & now Kylie's acquired a stalker. Unfortunately she's the only one who seems to be able to see the stalker. & that gets her sent to a psychologist's sofa. The kooky psychologist gets Kylie sent to Shadow Falls Camp. Kylie & her parents think it's a camp for troubled teens. They thought wrong. It's a camp of supernaturals: vampires werewolves fairies witches & shape shifters. & if she believes the camp leader Kylie is one of them too. ...

The powerful bestseller from the nations favourite storyteller & author of The Loner & The Journey Harry always knew he would go back one day! Eighteen years ago he made a hard decision that drove him from the place he loved. Since then he carved out a life for himself & found a semblance of peace yet he is still haunted by the warm carefree girl with the laughing eyes. For Judy Saunders the pain of her past has left her deeply scarred. Cut off from her family & trapped in a loveless marriage the distant memories of her first love are her only source of comfort in a dark & dangerous world. Years later Harry is heading back. Excited afraid & racked with guilt he has little choice. He must confront the past & seek forgiveness. ...

June Dawson has come a long way from the rough East End background where she met got pregnant by & eventually married charming reckless Johnny Fuller. Now she lives in leafy Rainham in a nice little cul-de-sac with her ultra-respectable second husband & a lovely social life. Then her world collapses when daughter Debbie announces that she is pregnant by her low-life drug addict boyfriend Billy Mc Daid. June feels as though she is being physically sucked back into the world of villains & thugs she thought she had escaped for ever. But worse is to come. Much much worse. The baby
- doted on by his violent feckless dad
- grows into the child from hell: mean sadistic & out of control. Suddenly the family is not just in crisis. It is in meltdown.

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' Hard eyes stare out of massive beards their faces marked by the scars of battle. With these guys their webbing looks like it belongs to them rather than it's been hung on a pair of reluctant shoulders. There's not a word been said to us but the ante has clearly been upped. There's a dark & sinister feeling in the air. It doesn't take a genius to figure it's about to kick off.' Former SAS soldier Big Phil Campion tells it like is in this brutally honest account of his insanely dangerous life as a private military operator. From playing chicken with a suicide bomber in backstreet Kabul to taking on pirates with his bare hands this is true-life action-packed drama at its best. ...

Meet Dave Hazard; world class martial artist. A 7th dan black belt in Shotokan karate he's as respected in the tough streets bars & clubs of the East End of London as he is in the best karate dojo in Japan. His reputation is legendary. He's faced down many tough challenges as a street fighter but also as a mentor & teacher. As a member of the Great British karate team Dave fought for his country facing some of the world's leading martial artists in both competition & the highly dangerous & demanding sparring of the dojo where no rules apply... Born into a harsh world which demanded that you learn how to look after yourself & those around you Dave Hazrd grew into a complex & extraordinary man. The ups & downs of his remarkable life & the challenges he's overcome throughout it prove he is truly a force to be reckoned with
- a living embodiment of the power of the mind as well as the fist.
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Reg Kray is one of Britains most notorious criminals. Together with his brother Ron he rose through the ranks of Londons East End gangland to run an evil empire of vice & villainy. But after half a lifetime behind bars Reg wants to set the record straight. Here in his own words is the true story of his life as one half of a criminal double act with his brother Ron the chilling career of two street-wise kids who became standard-bearers of violence
- from fire-bombings to shootings & cold-blooded murder. But here too is the inner voice of a one-time mobster who learned compassion through his own struggle to come to terms with a life sentence.
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Fifty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub & raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself. Since the first publication of Born Free" & its sequels " Living Free" & " Forever Free" generations of readers have been enchanted inspired & moved by these books' uplifting charm & the remarkable interaction between Joy & Elsa. Millions have also come to know & love " Born Free" through the immortal film starring Virginia Mc Kenna & Bill Travers. But here is the chance to rediscover the original story in this 50th anniversary edition in the words of the woman who reared Elsa & walked with the lions." ...

Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers
- both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm
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Eve wasn't sure what it said about her that she was more comfortable in the morgue than a baby boutique. & she didn't care. The scent of death was the familiar. Rushing to the murder scenes of a tortured young woman Eve is far more at home than when organising best friend Mavis's baby shower. & then one of Mavis's guests
- the young pregnant Tandy
- disappears into thin air. Eve steps in but when the facts begin to blur with the earlier murders she unearths a chilling trail of deception & cold-blooded greed leading to a terrifying hunt to find Tandy before time runs out. ' Fast-paced superbly crafted' Library Journal

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