The elite police officers secretly launching Scotlands biggest ever offensive against organised crime had only one target. His name was Jamie Stevenson but he was known as The Iceman the biggest drugs trafficker the country has ever seen. Suspected of a string of murders
- including the gangland assassination of his best friend
- Stevensons decade-long rise was built on ruthless ambition strategic cunning & calculated brutal violence. It left him at the head of one of Europes biggest smuggling operations pouring tons of drugs & guns onto the streets of Scotl&. The Iceman" tells the astonishing story of Stevensons rise & fall offering a unique & explosive insight into Operation Folklore the unprecedented four-year investigation that ended in his arrest. It lays bare the blood-soaked business of Scotlands most powerful crime lord & for the first time exposes how he made
- & laundered
- his dirty millions."



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Top Mafia hit man. Doting father. For 30 years Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Kuklinski was Sammy 'the Bull' Gravano's partner in the killing of Paul Castellano John Gotti hired him to kill his neighbour & he was also intimately involved in the killing of Jimmy Hoffa. He conducted this sadistic business with cold-hearted intensity never disappointing his customers. For an additional price he would make his victims suffer. By his own estimate he killed over 200 men taking enormous pride in his cunning & the ferocity of his technique. The Iceman is a blood-chilling insight into the mind of one of the world's most prolific contract killers. ...

Join Max & Olivia for more magical thrills spills & spells in their third hilarious adventure. Max & Olivia are loving life in Camelot
- not only is Max having magic lessons with the great wizard Merlin Olivia is finally in training for the Squires Challenge. But disaster strikes when Camelot is frozen inside a magical mountain of ice & its all Maxs fault! Can he & Olivia rescue Arthur & Merlin from their icy prison before evil Lady Morgana gets to Camelot & seals their doom?
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The fifth action-packed quest in an exciting new six book character-led series for 7+ girls who love fantasy adventure & high-kicking heroines! Very few people ever enter the Shadow Woods for these woods are like no others. Hidden deep within them is the Gateway to the Shadow Realm -- a dark & chaotic world where all kinds of gruesome creatures live! On her tenth birthday tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of the magical gateway & that her destiny is to protect the human world from the goblins trolls & evil sprites that inhabit the Shadow Woods. Each book sees Sophie having to outwit weird & terrifying creatures from the Shadow Woods & in this fifth action-packed adventure it's the turn of the nasty Icicle Imps! This Shadow Creature may look like a fluffy snowball on legs but Sophie quickly learns that appearances can be deceptive Stand between them & a Shadow gem & watch the Imps turn into mini-monsters with razor sharp fangs & teardrops that turn into daggers of ice! When the Imps run amok at Sophie's town's summer fete Sophie has to think on her feet & stretch her Guardian powers to the limit. ...

Welcome to the world of baking & decorating! Whether you've never picked up a cookie cutter or a piping nozzle before or you're an experienced baker this book will show you how easy it is to transform a humble cake cupcake biscuit cake pop macaron or other baked treat into a stunning creation. Juliet Stallwood runs a bakery specialising in decorated goodies & is renowned for her unique & imaginative designs. For the first time she is sharing her secrets in a book. In Chapter One of The Icing on the Cake ' Decorate to Indulge' you'll find recipes for sweet comforts such as Chocolate Swirl Cupcakes & Raspberry Dust Macarons. Chapter Two ' Decorate for Love' revels in the art of romance including wonderful wedding favours like Kissing Birds Biscuits & a Heart Chocolate Box Cake for your Valentine. Chapter Three ' Decorate to Celebrate' gives you recipes for birthday parties baby showers & festive occasions including teddy bear & rabbit cupcakes & a Gingerbread House. The book finishes with a flourish in Chapter Four ' Decorate to Impress' which is full of extravagant show-off pieces like the Ivory Corsage Wedding Cake & Magnificent Mini Cakes. There are over 50 gorgeous recipes that are completely do-able all with practical information & clear instructions. Plus in Chapter Five you'll find all of Juliet's ' Best-Kept Secrets' from tools & equipment to techniques & downloadable templates making this a must-have book. ...

One day Mr Rabbit finds a smooth speckly perfect thing in the woods & takes it back to his neat tidy burrow. But this perfect thing is not quite what he thinks... Suddenly CRACK! out hatches an icky sticky duckling! Mr Rabbit does not want something icky & sticky in his lovely burrow but the little duckling has other ideas... ...

It is 1999 & Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social & moral order has collapsed & what small semblance of control there is is being imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent the political analysts are less sanguine
- Russian meltdown will make the disintegration of the Balkans look like the collapse of a cup-cake. Out of the chaos however a single charismatic voice is starting to be heard
- that of Igor Komarov a visionary patriot who claims he can restore Russia's greatness & bring prosperity to the masses. He even woos Western political leaders with a rather more realistic analysis of the way forward for Russia. Komarov is set to win the next election when a document is smuggled into the British Embassy in Moscow. It's called The Black Manifesto & it appears to show Komarov's secret agenda
- his political blueprint is really Mein Kampf the rebirth of Russia will be as a New Third Reich with Komarov as Fuhrer. But can the document be authenticated? & what can the Western Alliance's most secret Trilateral Commission do about it if it is? They need to find another voice the masses will listen to & obey rather than Komarov
- an icon they can cleave to & trust. Once not that long ago he was called the Tsar. & so develops a thrilling & increasingly frightening adventure
- Jason Monk ex-CIA who used to run agents into the Soviet Union is recruited & slips back into Russia into the desperate Moscow world of poverty luxury gangsters & prostitutes & underneath it all the titanic power struggle to ensure the outcome of the forthcoming elections.




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This ring binder style photo album is perfect for keeping all your holiday & travel photos in or just because you love the imagery of Cuba. With 40 slip in leaves there are plenty of spaces for your snaps. Each page holds 10 6x 4 photos 6 landscape & 4 portrait. The front image on this teal album features brightly coloured image of classic cars on a black & white background Approximate size 33x 34.5x 6cm ...

This ring binder style photo album is perfect for keeping all your holiday & travel photos in or just because you love the imagery of Cuba. With 40 slip in leaves there are plenty of spaces for your snaps. Each page holds 4 photos with a space beside each photo for your memo&8217;s. The front image on this teal album features brightly coloured image of classic cars on a black & white background Approximate size 22x 22x 4.5cm ...

The Iconic House" features one hundred of the most important & influential architect-designed houses from around the world. With seminal works from such icons as Le Corbusier Frank Lloyd Wright & Mies van der Rohe as well as modern-day greats including Tadao Ando Rem Koolhaas & Herzog & de Meuron this book presents a stunning array of buildings of the past centurys architectural masterpieces. Whether Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau Modernist or Minimalist High-Tech or vernacular these iconic buildings from around the world & across the decades will delight architects design aficionados & anyone who dreams of building a house of their own some day." ...