Charlie has taken his 30 years of prison dwelling & condensed it into one handy & comprehensive volume. Moved around the prisons of the British Isles regularly he has sampled all that prison life has to offer taking in both the historic & the pre-historic buildings that comprise Britains prison system. Its all in here
- from the correct way to brew vintage prison hooch & how to keep the screws from finding it; to prison food & its many alternative uses. Read about Charlies special taming techniques for prison wildlife such as spiders rats & cockroaches; creatures that may be your only friends on long streches in solitary. With over 70 000 people (and rising) currently residing at her Majestys Pleasure Charlie Bronsons Good Prison Guide is essential for young offenders & old lags alike. Dont go away without it!
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This handsome boxed set contains the following unabridged novels: Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"; " Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre"; & Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights". This elegant boxed set of the three most popular novels by the Bronte sisters
- Anne Charlotte & Emily
- makes a perfect gift or addition to a home library. Beautifully designed with a real cloth padded top & matt laminated printed sides over 3mm boards it will be as much at home in the living room as on the bedside table or bureau. With 1 680 pages of text as well as a free box the price represents a saving on the purchase of individual volumes. Each book is produced to the highest standards bound in real cloth with gilt edges head & tail bands ribbon marker illustrated matt laminated jackets that bring to the books a period feel unequalled in any other edition. It

Features: padded real cloth tops; 3mm boards; red ribbon pull-out; four colour matt laminated sides; liner on 120gm wood-free paper; shrink-wrapped; top edge gilt; real cloth binding; section-sewn; ribbon marker; head & tail bands; & matt laminated jacket with period front cover picture."



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The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad repressive father the drunken drug-addicted wastrel of a brother wild romantic Emily unrequited Anne & 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that
- imaginary
- created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists & were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes. It demolishes myths yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling
- but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass & among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers this book is both scholarly & compulsively readable. THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family. ' As a work of scholarship it is briliant.. . For those with a passion for the Brontes or for Victoriana or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae it is a stupendous read' INDPENDENT ON SUNDAY


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The three Bronte sisters
- Anne Charlotte & Emily
- moved to Haworth Parsonage as children in 1820. It was there on the edge

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This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies. Dan Howard describes the development of weapons armour & chariots how they were made & their tactical use in battle. Spanning from the introduction of massed infantry by the Sumerians (c. 26th century BC) through to the collapse of the chariot civilizations (c. 12th century BC) this is the period of the epic struggles described in the Old Testament & Homers Iliad the clashes of mighty empires like those of the Babylonians Egyptians & Hittites. rn The author draws on the latest research & archaeology as well as his own experiences of using & making replica weapons & armour to challenge established views & bring fresh insights to this fascinating period of military history. The main regions of discussion are the Aegean the Near East & the Middle East but some reference is also made to other relevant cultures such as the Aryan Indians & the Shang Chinese. ...

A magnificent epic of love war & Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY & ROAD TO PARADISE Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces & avenues speak of a different age when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters Tatiana & Dasha share the same bed living in one room with their brother & parents. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family for Leningrad & particularly for Tatiana life will never be the same again. On that fateful day Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler's army advances on Leningrad & the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling & the city under siege Tatiana & Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart & at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by Hitler's vast war machine & on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit Tatiana & Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history at a turning point in the century that made the modern world. ...

Every child who grew up in the Fifties & Sixties remembers the Brooke Bond collecting cards that came with every packet of tea. Some were lucky enough to have the specially-produced albums in which to collect the cards that had either come with the latest packet of tea or been traded in the school playground. This beautifully printed nostalgic book presents the best 12 original albums reproduced slightly larger than they were forty years ago to bring out the best in the wonderfully detailed illustrations. Collecting original Brooke Bond tea cards is a hobby that has a huge following with serious collectors never daring actually to glue the cards into the albums as was originally intended
- that would mean losing the information on the back & devaluing the card. In this book however you can see how each album was intended to look with every card printed in its correct position making every page an enormously colourful feast for the eyes. The albums that have been included are: Out Into Space" " British Wild Life" " Wild Flowers series 2" " Freshwater Fish" " African Wild Life" " Asian Wild Life" " British Butterflies" " Wild Birds In Britain" " Transport Through The Ages" " Trees in Britain" " Flags & Emblems of the World" & " History of the Motor Car"."
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Kirsty & Rachel are excited to be entering a charity fashion show where children get to show off their own designs. Unfortunately Jack Frost thinks everyone in the world should dress like him & steals the Fashion Fairies' seven magical items to put his naughty plan into action! Kirsty & Rachel must find Brooke the Photographer Fairy's magic camera or every picture taken at tomorrow's charity fashion show will be an ugly blur! ...

It is Ireland in the early 1950s & for Eilis Lacey as for so many young Irish girls opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York Eilis knows she must go leaving behind her family & her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home
- & homesick. & just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship & perhaps something more Eilis receives news which sends her back to Irel&. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma
- a devastating choice between duty & one great love.

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I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn & so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain.. . So begins Paul Austers remarkable novel The Brooklyn Follies". Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000 it tells the story of Nathan & Tom an uncle & nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer divorced & estranged from his only daughter the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career & indeed from life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood they discover a community teeming with life & passion. When Lucy a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption." ...