In the fifth journal found by us the lucky & smug publisher we learn that Charlie Small has become embroiled in an underworld from his nightmares.. . Previously Charlie had bumped into the infamous Jakeman
- but when the mad professor was dragged down into the Underworld Charlie had to follow
- otherwise how would he discover how to get back to his mum & dad? This latest adventure takes him into an unreal darkened world where anything is possible. But will Charlie Small ever find a way out or will he be trapped underground forever?

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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.
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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!
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Something happened to Charlie when he was just eight years old. He went on a journey
- & he's been trying to get back for over
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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.

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