Mark Brandon Read known to his friends & enemies alike as Chopper" has spent more than 17 years in prison & has a reputation for violence earned in a blood-spattered career as a streetfighter standover man gunman & underworld executioner. He has been shot stabbed hit with a claw hammer & nearly kicked to death. In " Chopper 3" Read reveals more stories from the underworld bringing his humour & sharp eye to bear on prison life brutality corruption & the warped code of the values of the criminal fraternity." ...

If you dont know Chopper by now then where on earth have you been hiding? Since the movie of his life & the eight bestselling books that followed hes been shocking & amusing his fans in all corners of the globe. Now hes back with another of his intriguing blends of fact & fiction
- Pulp Faction as he calls it
- in this his ninth book. Based on his extensive experience in the underworld these hilarious tales of violence allow Chopper to draw from some of the tales hes never before shared in a series of stories thatll make you laugh & wince in equal measure. A motley crew of characters lies in these pages ready to shock you with the kind of extreme & hysterical criminal antics that only Chopper has the nerve & verve to put down on paper. Guaranteed to storm the charts & upset the public at large all over again this latest volume is a must-read for any self-respecting Chopper fan.

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Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy recently widowed is a cook & food journalist; Joanna a successful business woman never married; Rebecca is a divorced interior decorator. Each of the women is at a crossroads & they quickly form a bond. The trio decide to combine their talents to restore a crumbling pile in Cornwall & turn it into a cookery school & spa. The project brings its own conflicts both professional & personal. The novels themes touch on the sustaining power of female friendship & how a woman copes with mid life & onwards. Prues narrative voice is warm witty wise very accessible. Her characters are sympathetic & engaging: very different women but each with demons to face as she gets older & confronts a future without
- perhaps
- a man in it. Her knowledge of food & business adds detail & zest enriching an already compelling tale.

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I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. & she hadn't tried to bite me which was a plus. Of course the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly disturbing.. ." Zoey's best friend Stevie Rae is undead
- in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She's struggling to retain her humanity & Zoey doesn't have a clue how to help. But she does know that anything they discover must be kept secret. Trust has become a rare commodity. Sinister forces are at work at the House of Night where the line between friend & enemy is becoming dangerously blurred.
- Not suitable for younger readers -"

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I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. & she hadn't tried to bite me which was a plus. Of course the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly disturbing.. ." Zoey's best friend Stevie Rae is undead
- in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She's struggling to retain her humanity & Zoey doesn't have a clue how to help. But she does know that anything they discover must be kept secret. Trust has become a rare commodity. Sinister forces are at work at the House of Night where the line between friend & enemy is becoming dangerously blurred.
- Not suitable for younger readers -"

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Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates.. . An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge she little suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend's thirteen year old daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis. But as Jenny pieces together the dead man's last days she's drawn into a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents & back through decades. In an investigation which will take her into the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition & corrupt scientific endeavour Jenny is soon forced to risk the love & lives of those closest to her as a deadly race to uncover the truth begins.. . ...

Number One bestseller Sam Bourne author of The Righteous Men delivers this page-turning political conspiracy thriller that goes right to the heart of the US establishment. Bruised by years of disappointments political advisor Maggie Costello is finally working for a leader she can believe in. She along with the rest of America has put her trust in President Stephen Baker believing he can make the world a better place. But suddenly an enemy surfaces: a man called Vic Forbes reveals first one scandal about the new president & then another. He threatens a third revelation
- one that will destroy Baker entirely. When Forbes is found dead Maggie is thrown into turmoil. Could the leader she idolizes have been behind Forbes's murder? Has she been duped by his message of change & hope? Who is the real Stephen Baker? On the trail of the truth Maggie is led into the roots of a massive conspiracy that reaches back into history
- & goes right to the heart of the US establishment...

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Detectives Regan Pescoli & Selena Alvarez have been searching for the Star Crossed Killer for months never imagining Regan will be captured by the madman she's been hunting. Regan knows exactly what he's capable of
- & avoiding the same fate will take every drop of her courage & cunning. As Selena joins forces with Regan's lover Nate to dig deeper into the case & the body count rises the truth about Regan's disappearance becomes chillingly clear. Something evil is lurking in the snow-covered mountains. With time running out the only way they can save Regan will be to get inside a killer's twisted mind & unravel a shocking message that he is revealing.
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Welcome to the Shahjahan one of Calcuttas oldest & most venerable hotels. In Chowringhee" the Shahjahans new receptionist regales his audience with stories of the people who spend their days & nights within the Shahjahans grand facade. Like Bengal itself this is a place where greed seduction & death live alongside love luxury & pride. With wit warmth & ferocious energy " Chowringhee" reveals to us an entire universe. One of the great novels of contemporary Indian literature it presents a glittering vision of a lost metropolis & an homage to an old Bengal of myth & memory." ...

One of the most remarkable
- & controversial
- sporting figures in British history Chris Brasher piled unique achievement on

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