Dirty Bertie
- the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits
- is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he

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Penny Simms is pony mad & is more than a little upset when a flock of foul-smelling pony vampires are found at the equestrian boarding school that she attends. They have been sent by the wicked Devlipeds to disrupt an official health & safety inspection which the school must pass or risk being closed down. With the help of her intrepid friends Penny does her best to rid the school of the unwelcome guests with hilarious & unexpected results. ...

For more than a decade two East End families have been locked in a bitter war. On one side are the Mitchells a notorious underworld mob from East London's Canning Town. They have an iron in every fire & will resort to intimidation & violence to get what they want. When Stanley Smith's lovely young daughter Jessica announces that she is to marry Eddie the son of mob boss Harry Mitchell Stanley is horrified but too afraid to stand in their way. On the other side are the O' Haras. The Mitchells' biggest rivals are a travelling family who live in nearby Stratford. They compete with the Mitchells for pub protection & the two families hate each other. Caught between these two families at war are two innocent children who will grow up to love the wrong people & spark the last terrible act in the long-running feud. 1988 was a happy year in many people's lives. Some called it The Rave Year others The Second Summer of Love. For Eddie Mitchell & his family it is neither. 1988 is the year in which his whole dangerous violent world explodes around him. ...

For 17-year-old Rhine Ellery a daring escape from a suffocating polygamous marriage is only the beginning... Running away brings Rhine & Gabriel right into a trap in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago
- surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear & hopelessness. The two are determined to get to Manhattan to relative safety with Rhine's twin brother Rowan. But the road there is long & perilous
- & in a world where young women only live to age twenty & young men die at twenty-five time is precious. Worse still they can't seem to elude Rhine's father-in-law Vaughn who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means necessary. In the sequel to Lauren De Stefano's harrowing Wither Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price
- now that she has more to lose than ever.


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In THE AWAKENING a beautiful naturalist's dream of a life among the feral jungle creatures comes true. But an untamed irresistible beast of another sort inspires her to explore her own wild side. WILD RAIN's Rachael Lospostos has escaped from a faceless assassin & found sanctuary thousands of miles from home under the towering jungle canopy. In this world teeming with unusual creatures she encounters Rio a native of the forest imbued with a fierce prowess & possessed of secrets of his own. & when Rio unleashes the secret animal instincts that course through his blood Rachael must decide if he is something to be feared
- or desired.
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Two tales following the remarkable life of a girl in London in the tumultuous years of the Great Plague & the Great Fire. Hannah is excited as she is about to embark upon her first ever trip to London to help her sister in her shop The Sugared Plum making sweetmeats for the gentry. She does not however get the reception she expected from her sister Sarah. Instead of giving Hannah a hearty welcome Sarah is horrified that Hannah did not get her message to stay away
- the Plague is taking hold of London. In the second of these stories Hannah returns to her beloved London to re-open the sweetmeats shop with younger sister Anne. Londoners are reeling from the plague epidemic of the previous year but Hannah & Anne are keen to start enjoying everything the bustling city has to offer. But this is 1666 & it has been prophesised that terrible things will happen & on Pudding Lane flames are raging through the bakery.. . Based on meticulous research Mary Hooper evokes with complete mastery the sights sounds & terror of a London gripped firstly by the shocking & gruesome plague & then by the ferocious & terrible fire.
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Fever Crumb" is a stunning st&-alone prequel to Philip Reeve's brilliant science fantasy quartet. It is set many generations ...

FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is visiting the old family home in Louisiana. Surrounded by ghosts of the past he cant help but think of Helen
- his wife who tragically died twelve years ago. But whilst examining her possessions he makes a startling discovery
- one that leads him to believe Helens death was not accidental... With the help of his trusted friend Lieutenant Vincent DAgosta Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wifes final days. Its a journey that takes him deep into the dark heart of her past to a hidden obsession & secrets that some people would do anything to protect. But as the hunt for Helens murderer ventures into the Bayou Pendergast find himself faced with a killer question: just who was the woman he married?

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You should have been a detective. If theres one thing the last year has proved its how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn peoples lives inside out once theyre exposed. Meet Tony Hills most twisted adversary
- a killer with a shopping list of victims a killer unmoved by youth & innocence a killer driven by the most perverted of desires. The murder & mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But its not long before Tony realises its just the start of a brutal & ruthless campaign thats targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Struggling with the newly-awakened ghosts of his own past & desperate for distraction in his work Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal & professional satisfaction in his most testing investigation yet.
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This is the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. As a young boy growing up in London & watching his parents' marriage fall apart Nick Hornby
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