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. ...

This is a guide to creating your own personalised headwear. The author shows in step-by-step detail how to block classic shapes such as cloche or trilby & then transform them into numerous hat designs by adapting the brim & crown giving them different trimmings & so on. There are detailed instructions for making gorgeous hats & headpieces in felt fabric & straw. This is followed by a chapter on making specialised trimmings including dyeing shaping arranging & attaching feathers making fabric flowers & using beaded & stitched embellishments to finish of the hat. The book

Includes:: a number of projects & over 120 templates to help in designing the hats. The book is highly illustrated with both step-by-step sequences & inspirational photographs.

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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. ...

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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Derek Landy Philip Reeve Joseph Delaney Susan Cooper Eleanor Updale Jamila Gavin Mal Peet Matt Haig Berlie Doherty Robin Jarvis & Sam Llewellyn have come together to bring you eleven ghost stories: from a ghost walk around York; to a drowned boy whos determined to find someone to play with; to a lost child trapped in a mirror ready to pull you in; to devilish creatures waiting with bated breath for their next young victim; to an ancient woodland reawakened. Some will make you scream some will make you shiver but all will haunt you gently long after youve put the book down. ...

For the first time the UK's number one TV psychic shares some of his most personal stories & terrifying encounters with the spirit world & what it's really like to be 'possessed'. The star of LIVINGtv's ' Most Haunted' & ' Ghost Towns' goes on a new journey that will chill you to the bone. Derek takes us with him into the darkest places of the spirit world where he confronts people taken over by demonic entities the spirits of ancient Egyptians whose malevolent presence reaches beyond the tomb those evil ghosts with unfinished business who are terrorising the living & the dead who are determined to come back from the other side & take Derek with them if they can! If you thought you'd already seen Derek's most terrifying battles with the dark side -- think again. ...