Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...A desperate tragedy a life-long friend & the long & lonely journey to find a family. Edward Carter is a bully of a man who inspires fear in the hearts of all who meet him. Adam Carter is twelve years old an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father's reign of terror over his family has Adam's mother Peggy too cowed to protect her son so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis the school bus driver. Then one afternoon when Adam is his last drop of the day Phil makes a life-changing decision
- to accompany Adam along the darkening woodland lane to his house. But in the house at the end of the track a terrible tragedy is unfolding & it is one that will bind them together forever.
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Broken by his last case homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city & returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal & the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. Its a peaceful existence
- ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashins not so sure & as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption & prejudice he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go. The relentless story of a town with a hidden past versus a man who is trying to forget his The Broken Shore delivers powerful lean writing pumping more muscle & feeling into one paragraph than other writers can muster in a page.
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Early one morning in the seaside resort of Whitley Bay the lifeless body of a young girl Sophie Washington is found brutally murdered
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A brilliant new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder hero of the bestselling ' The Hundredth Man' & ' Her Last Scream.' Blood was everywhere like the interior had been hosed down with an artery.. . The gore-sodden horror that greets homicide detective Carson Ryder on a late-night call out is enough to make him want to quit the case. Too late. Now he & his partner Harry are up to their necks in a Southern swamp of the bizarre & disturbing. An investigation full of twists & strange clues looks like it's leading to the city's least likely suspects
- a powerful family whose philanthropy has made them famous. But behind their money & smiles is a dynasty divided by hate. Their strange & horrific past is about to engulf everyone around them in a storm of violence & depravity. & Ryder's right in the middle of it.. .
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When rebellious teenager Misty Sullivan falls pregnant to a local wannabe gangster she soon becomes a prisoner in her own home. Despite the betrayal of her best friend she eventually recovers her self-belief & plots revenge on her abusive boyfriend with spectacular consequences. This gripping tale sees the impressive debut of Karen Woods in the first of a series of novels based on characters living on a Manchester council estate. Themes of social deprivation self-empowerment lust greed & envy come to the fore in this authentic tale of modern life. ...

On holiday in Victoria British Columbia Bond becomes intrigued Lee Fu-Chu a half-Blackfoot half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as Brokenclaw" because of a deformed h&. On his return to the UK Bond is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection system. It becomes clear that Brokenclaw is behind the kidnapping & worse he has a devastating plan to cause economic meltdown through the collapse of the dollar. Bond has no choice but to enter his lair.. ." ...

To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department Store there is no Outside. No Day or Night no Sun or Rain. They're just daft old legends. Until they hear the devastating news that the Store is to be demolished.. . And so their journey begins. From the store to an abandoned quarry
- where they find the monster Jekub
- & on to a place where they must steal one of those space shuttle things all the nomes want is to get home again. They don't mean to cause any trouble.. .A magnificent trilogy of tales about about a race of little people struggling to survive in a world full of humans. From Carnegie Medal-winning author Terry Pratchett.

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I loved it.. .extremely funny. A must-read for anyone who loves football. Peter Crouch In the late 1960s in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup Dave Roberts like most teenage boys his age was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United Daves team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club
- one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division. This book is the story of Bromleys worst ever season. It is a funny & heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score. Its easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. The Bromley Boys is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin & even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch the more there is to gain on the terraces.
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Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement. He has been locked in dungeons in iron boxes concreted into the middle of cells & famously in a cage. When he is unlocked up to 12 prison officers
- sometimes in riot gear & with dogs
- are standing by. Yet this is a man of great warmth & humour who has never killed anyone & has often dealt with his gruelling life with humour
- during a siege in 1993 he demanded an inflatable doll & a cup of tea. Now his story is being turned into a Hollywood film. Now in this amazing new edition of his best selling autobiography Charlie reveals the truth about his extraordinary life behind bars.


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