There was a wild crashing sound a ripping of metal & the plane blew through the trees out over the water & down down to slam into the lake.. . Brian is a city boy. Not used to living rough. Until his plane crash-lands in the Canadian wilderness. All he has is a hatchet
- & a desperate will to survive. Now Brian must learn to live the hard way
- or die.

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What do you do when everything you know & believe in crashes around you in a hail of fists & boots flying chairs & broken glass? & not just once but seemingly every time you leave the house? When it seemed that no one was listening that Matthew Collins was just another white face from a council estate & that there was nowhere else to go & nothing else to do the violence & racism of the far-right offered him an alluring escape from the mediocrity of school work & boredom. In 1980s Britain the belligerent sentiments of a few hundred lonely white men went almost unnoticed but this tiny minority had grand designs. Ignored & marginalised & fuelled by alcohol & violence they built a party that would go on to hold seats in council chambers across England & in the European Parliament. Hidden behind those large Union Jack flags were individuals
- Collins included
- seemingly prepared to bomb & kill to make their violent dreams a reality. But what do you do when you realise that the burning hatred vehement patriotism & thirst for confrontation that haunts you
- from the playground to the pub to the ballot box
- stems from your own insecurities & isolation? The answer? You switch sides.



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5 months ago Valerie Leftman's boyfriend opened fire on their school cafeteria killing five students & one teacher before turning the gun on himself. Valerie who was shot trying to stop him is initially implicated in the shootings because of the hate list she helped create. The hate list her boyfriend used to pick his targets. As Valerie integrates back into school more of an outsider than she ever thought she was before she is forced to confront her feelings of guilt & loneliness. Exploring the gray area between hero & villain she navigates the rocky relationships with her family her former friends with the memory of the boyfriend she still loves & with the girl whose life she saved five months ago. As she moves toward graduation & the year anniversary of the shooting Valerie must come to grips with the tragedy that took place & her role in it all in order to make amends & move on with her life. ...

Gorgeous & funny! Like a labrador doing st&-up". (Noel Fielding). For fans of " The Bunny Suicides" " Simons Cat" & "101 Uses of a Dead Cat" comes the hilariously offensive " Hate Mail" by Mr Bingo. Mr Bingo loves post. In April 2011 he launched a service on his website where for a small payment he would send his customer a vintage postcard with one of his iconic drawings & an offensive message on the back. So the purchaser gets a much sought-after original signed drawing the postman gets a laugh & the world gets a little bit happier. Six days after launch it had become so popular that he had to temporarily close the service. But fear not! Mr Bingo is teaming up with Penguin to create " Hate Mail" a book that will showcase 100 of his favourite comic cards. Mr Bingo didnt learn a lot at school but he did discover one valuable thing: he was good at making people laugh. Now an enormously successful illustrator based in Shoreditch he is "drawing stuff" for the likes of " The Mighty Boosh" "QI" " The Guardian" "MTV" & " The New York Times". As well as making pictures Mr Bingo regularly speaks at events on his favourite topics such as religion the internet dating animals art & terrorism." ...

In these stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past as her characters discover is made up not only of what is remembered but also what isnt. The past is there just out of the picture but if memories havent been savoured recalled in the mind & boxed away its as if they have never been until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves at first marriages made when they were naive & trusting at husbands & their difficult demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been for a fork in the road not taken a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope there are second changes her are people who reinvent themselves seize life by the throat who have moved on & can dare to conjure up the hidden memories daring to go beyond what is remembered. ...

The hardback of this first & authorised biography received very good reviews & immediately reprinted. It tells the story of one of the heroines of post-war British comedy on radio film & TV. Hattie Jacques is known as the billowing imposing Matron in the Carry On films as the star of such BBC radio classics as ITMA Educating Archie & Hancocks Half Hour & as the fictional sister of Eric Sykes in his long-running TV sitcom. But the formidable frumpy galleon-in-full-sail screen persona could not have been more at odds with the real-life woman as this biography reveals for the first time. She had a tempestuous wartime affair with an American officer & then a strange marriage to the actor John le Mesurier (Corporal Wilson in Dads Army) whose dissatisfactions she circumnavigated by moving her lover a flashy Cockney car dealer into the matrimonial home. But as well as being warm & sexy & generous she was also owing to her lifelong struggle with her weight needy & melancholic & rueful that her size persistently typecast her & excluded her from many roles. This biography has been written with full co-operation from Hatties son & show business friends like Barbara Windsor Clive Dunn Galton & Simpson & Ian Carmichael. ...

Hattie Weatheralls heart leapt when she first saw Abbots Mill & with her dog & an assortment of wild fowl for company she sets about renovating the mill. Sarah Farley feels a pang of envy for Hatties freedom. For over twenty years Sarah has tolerated her husbands infidelities
- & her love for him is about to be tested again... As Hattie settles into life at the mill she befriends two young boatmen. Toby is recovering from a broken marriage & when he has a another chance at happiness Hattie is glad welcome his new family into the fold. Josss problems are not so easily solved but when he turns to Hattie for help the motherly love that blossoms in her heart enables them both to heal old wounds...
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An hilarious & often wise collection of Scots saying straight from the mouths of the Grannies of Glasgow. With each snippet accompanied by a straightforward English translation this is your introduction to the unique wisdom of the Glesca Granny. ...

Eve Levine
- half-demon black witch & devoted mother
- has been dead for three years. She has a great house an interesting love

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Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook
- three nights in which David Ash there to investigate a haunting will be victim
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