The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick a depraved drug-taking womanising 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence. In this bestselling analysis of his diary investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured & reveals startling new information about Maybricks shadowy background. All this combined with a chilling confession scratched into a watch I am Jack. J Maybrick provide powerful justification that Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. The diary itself is reproduced in full so that you too can judge whether these are the deeply disturbing words of Jack the Ripper himself reaching out from across the abyss of more than a century. ...

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history & for the main events
- the Restoration the Dutch War the Great Plague the
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Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady" Britain's oldest women's weekly in her hilarious diary "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year & a Half as Editor". ' The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty tatty disorganized & impossibly old-fashioned set in an age of doilies & flag-waving patriotism & jam still for tea some sunny day.' Appointed editor of " The Lady"
- the oldest women's weekly in the world
- Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start how do you become an editor when you've never well edited? How do you turn a venerable title full of ads for walk-in baths during the worst recession ever? & forget doubling the circulation in a year
- what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants? Will Rachel save " The Lady"
- or sink it? " Action-packed entertaining marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist & has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing". (" Sunday Times"). " She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis". (Mrs Julia Budworth co-owner " The Lady"). "A total romp wonderfully readable unflinchingly described". (" Guardian"). " Hysterical. For the first time everyone is talking about " The Lady" for reasons other than nannies". (Piers Morgan). Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels & two volumes of diaries. " The Mummy Diaries" " Notting Hell" " Shire Hell" & "A Diary of The Lady" are all available now from Penguin."



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The cult classic that can still change your life! Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -- & in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice anything can happen. Entertaining humorous scary shocking subversive The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time. ...

As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature. In Dice World acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe uncovering the truths & lies behind probability & statistics explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business & demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers & undergoing teleportation. He explores how the 'clockwork universe' imagined by Newton in which everything could be predicted given enough data was disproved bit by bit to be supplanted by chaos theory & quantum physics. Clegg reveals a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things. Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World a unique portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos from the bizarre microscopic world of the quantum to the unfathomable mechanics of planetary movements where very little is as it seems... ...

Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton
- Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radios greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly
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Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton
- Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radios greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly
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Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton
- Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radios greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly
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This is a full cast dramatisation of a classic Dick Barton mystery recorded in 1946 rediscovered in the National Film & Sound Archive of Australia. Dick Barton" rose to popularity in the 1940s in the first long running radio serial. Originally broadcast in 1946 it went out each weekday evening for the next 5 years. At its peak it had an audience of 15 million. This vintage recording with nostalgic appeal is guaranteed to have " Dick Barton" Fans old & new on the edge of their seats." ...

This is a new title in the fantastic First Reading" series aimed at children who are beginning to read. When young Dick Whittington hears that the streets of London are paved with gold he travels to the big city to seek his fortune. Things dont quite turn out as hed hoped but can a kind man & a cat solve all Dicks problems? It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. It is a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership." ...