Who was Just seventeen" & made Pauls heart go " Boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Wheres Penny Lane? In "A Hard Days Write" Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths & adds a new dimension to the Fab Fours rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles music & now occupying a special niche in popular cultures collective imagination. This title is updated for 2012 to include new information on many songs plus br&-new stories." ...

A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap suffocated & with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted then found naked by the roadside. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife's body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy accompanied by one of the child's fingers... Jack Frost scruffy & insubordinate foul-mouthed & fearless staggers from crisis to crisis his bumbling modus operandi disguising his extraordinary powers of detection. ...

An utterly compelling gripping & disturbing thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author Martina Cole that will have you hooked until the very last page. HARD LIVES. HARD LESSONS. ITS MURDER ON THE STREETS. When a prostitutes body is found lifeless mutilated & brutally raped DCI Annie Carr has never seen anything like it & never wants to again. Kate Burrows retired DCI now consultant has plenty of experience when it comes to murder
- after all she caught the Grantley Ripper & broke the biggest paedophile ring in the South East. She is determined to help put the killer behind bars. But whoever it is wont be easily caught. & when another girls body is found even more horrifically disfigured than the last its clear the killer is just warming up... In a ruthless world where everyones out for themselves Annie & Kate must dig deep if they hope to catch a callous serial killer who knows no limits & makes no mistakes. For some prostitution is seriously big business. But how many people will pay the ultimate price?
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I am proud of who I am & what I am. I teach my children to be proud too. Because being a traveller means everything to me. It's not just a label it goes much deeper. It's an identity that is burned into my heart.' Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school he was bullied. & beyond the gates of the camp he found nothing but hostility. Slowly Paddy's hurt turned into anger & by the age of 11 he had started out on an illustrious career as a bare-knuckle boxer. This earned him a position as one of the most well-respected (and feared) men in the travelling community. Yet while he won countless brutal fights in the ring the real battles he faced were very much outside. In this deeply honest autobiography he tells of how he has loved & lost five children; plummeted to seven stone while battling depression drink & drugs. He describes how it feels to be shot point-blank in the head & the lengths he'll go to to protect his people. Told with all the warmth & humour he is famed for Paddy's rich & colourful story is one that will stay with you for a long time to come. ...

'I fight hard & love strong. I'm a traveller.' Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school he was bullied for being a gypsy boy. & beyond the gates of the camp he found nothing but hostility. Slowly Paddy's hurt turned into anger & by the age of 11 he had started out on an illustrious career in bare-knuckle fighting. This earned him a position as one of the most well-respected (and feared) men in the travelling community. Yet while he won countless contests in the ring the real battles he faced were very much outside. In this deeply honest autobiography he tells of how he has loved & lost five children; plummeted to seven stone while battling depression drink & drugs. He describes how it feels to be shot point-blank in the head & the lengths he'll go to to protect his people as well as life since My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" & " Big Brother". Told with all the warmth & humour he is famed for Paddy's rich & colourful story is one that will stay with you for a long time to come." ...

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- was one of the toughest most uncompromising players in his heyday. His strength & battle-hardened

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I can assure you that notorious criminals were not the goody-goody types some writers make them out to be. Forget the Robin Hood syndrome face up to reality
- they were evil bastards." Don Smith was a regular soldier & later a prison officer for twenty-five years. Both occupations were good to him. He travelled the world & ended his career as a senior prison officer at HM Prison Parkhurst. He met both the Hard Men & the Jelly Babies."
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Scranton the strangest city on earth has an uneasy live & let unlive relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling victim or some witch casts the wrong kind of spell thats when they call me. My names Markowski a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PDs Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit. I carry a badge. Also a crucifix some wooden stakes a big vial of holy water & a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets. This title takes you on a magical mystery tour of a murder case rife with supernatural suspects. Sit down for an enchanted evening of otherworldly entertainment
- Laura Resnick author of Unsympathetic" & " Vamparazzi"."
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Using a golf pencil sharpened on a cell wall Shaun Attwood wrote one of the first prison blogs Jons Jail Journal excerpts of which were published in The Guardian & attracted international media attention. Brought up in England Shaun took his business degree to Phoenix Arizona where he became an award winning stockbroker & then a millionaire day trader during the dot-com bubble. But Shaun also led a double life. An early fan of the rave scene in Manchester he formed an organisation that threw raves & distributed Ecstacy. Before being convicted of money laundering & drug dealing he served 26 months in the infamous jail system run by the notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Hard Time is the harrowing yet often darkly humorous account of the time Shaun spent submerged in a nightmarish world of gang violence insect infested cells & food unfit for animals. His remarkable story provides a revealing glimpse into the tragedy brutality comedy & eccentricity of prison life. ...

A damning indictment of Utilitarianism & the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution Charles Dickenss Hard Times" is edited with an introduction & notes by Kate Flint in " Penguin Classics". In " Hard Times" the Northern mill-town of Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind school headmaster & model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils & family with facts he bans fancy & wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman & bully of humanity Mr Bounderby & his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling & robbery. & as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe & victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism & machinery. This edition of " Hard Times" is based on the text of the first volume publication of 1854. Kate Flints introduction sheds light on the frequently overlooked character interplay in Dickenss great critique of Victorian industrial society. Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books including " Oliver Twist" " Great Expectations" "A Tale of Two Cities" " David Copperfield" & " The Pickwick Papers" have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions. If you enjoyed " Hard Times" you might like Dickens " Bleak House" also available in " Penguin Classics". "A masterpiece...a completely serious work of art". (F.R. Leavis)." ...