FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PERFUMED PIRATES OF PERFIDY No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least not yet. His original battered journal was found washed up on a remote windswept shore in the north of Engl&. This second volume was found encased in ice high on a glacial plateau in the Himalayas. It details even more remarkable deeds & thrilling acts aboard the Betty Rae with the dastardly lady-pirates of perfidy
- & a lot more besides.
...

FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PUPPET MASTER No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least not yet. His original battered journal was found washed up on a remote windswept shore in the north of Engl&. Now a third instalment has been tracked down & salvaged from beneath the seat of a bus shelter in Pimlico. Having finally escaped from the perfidious pirates Charlie travels through icy waters & hair-raising mountains & encounters man-eating bats a wolf whose bark is worse than his bite & ultimately finds himself ensnared by the evil Puppet Master a figure of pure unadulterated evil. Will Charlie manage to escape his clutches or will he remain a puppet for ever never to adventure again? ...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS: THE DAREDEVIL DESPERADOS OF DESTINY This fourth volume of Charlie Small's journal was found by one of our editors propped behind a bottle at the back of a dusty bar in the valley where Charlie was last seen & it's full of more adventures than ever! Having escaped the clutches of the evil Puppet Master Charlie joins The Daredevil Desperados of Destiny whose sole aim is to get rid of the outrageous outlaw Horatio Ham. Charlie aka The Lariat Kid brings down Ham's posse of gunslingers takes part in a daring bank raid is caught up in a ferocious gunfight lands up in jail & is about to be sacrificed to The Great Bird of Death. Can Charlie possibly escape? ...

No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote windswept shore. & at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no eight-year-old could have had so many wild adventures witnessed so many extraordinary things lived such an incredible life
- & still only be eight. & yet.. .there was something so vivid in the telling that we were persuaded to send the journal for analysis. The results were absolutely astonishing. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true. He really has wrestled a deadly river croc ridden a steam-powered rhino & been tribal chief in a city of gorillas. & countless other things besides. &.. .not only that.. .even though Charlie Small is only eight he must have lived for over four hundred years!
...

Whisked away by his old adversaries the Perfumed Pirates of Perfidy Charlie is put to work aboard their new galleon. Held captive & forced to raid an unsuspecting ship with the bloodthirsty crew Charlie is sure things can't get much worse... Until the pirates spot an enormous blunt-headed sharp-toothed whale. A terrible battle ensues as the pirates try to harpoon the beast & Charlie tries his best to stop them. Will Charlie & the whale escape from the evil pirate crew's clutches? & more importantly will Charlie Small EVER find his way home? ...

In the last decade two events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union & the rise of militant Islam. This is the first book to explain the link between these two occurrences. George Crile spent nearly a decade researching & writing this original account of the biggest most expensive secret war in history: the arming of the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation. Moving from the secret chambers in CIA headquarters to st&-offs in the Khyber Pass Charlie Wilson's War" is one of the most thorough & vivid descriptions of CIA operations ever written. It is the missing chapter in the geopolitics of our time." ...

Charlie Evans is a highly experienced artist. His exuberant personality & unique gift for explaining his techniques in clear & simple terms make him a highly popular & well-liked tutor & demonstrator & he spends his life travelling thoughout the UK running art classes & appearing in his long-running TV series. In this book he passes on his knowledge & expertise in his own accessible style giving the reader the confidence & know-how to produce beautiful evocative watercolour paintings of their own. It

Includes:: tips on everything from choosing which colours & brushes to buy to how to paint skies water texture & buildings. The tips are clearly explained & illustrated using both step-by-step demonstrations & finished paintings. They will help unravel the mysteries of the watercolour medium for those new to painting & also for more experienced watercolourists on the lookout for tips from a master.

...

On a wild & windy day all the washing blows away. Socks & vests a woolly hat & far worse than all of that
- Charlie's Superhero
...

It is Charlottes first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. & the new building outside her window seems to have metamorphosed into a huge dark cedar tree! Somehow Charlotte has slipped back forty years. ...

It all starts with a girl.. . (because yes there's always a girl...) Jason Priestley (not that one) has just seen her. They shared an incredible brief fleeting moment of deep possibility somewhere halfway down Charlotte Street. & then just like that she was gone
- accidentally leaving him holding her old-fashioned disposable camera chock full of undeveloped photos... And now Jason
- ex-teacher ex-boyfriend part-time writer & reluctant hero
- faces a dilemma. Should he try & track The Girl down? What if she's The One? But that would mean using the only clues he has which lie untouched in this tatty disposable... It's funny how things can develop...


...