No city can lay claim to a more dramatic history than London. Engulfed in calamities that seemed to mark its end
- fire plague
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Create your own picture book as you learn about Europe's largest capital city London. The Ultimate Sticker Guide: London" is ideal for decorating your own books or for project work at school. This activity book makes learning about London fun. Create your very own picture book as you learn all about the who what where & when of London from the amazing museums & parks to where the Royal family live. Read the captions in the booklet & using the labels beside each sticker choose the image that best fits in the space available. Don't forget that your stickers can be stuck down & peeled off again." ...

Years have passed since 7/7. Alarmingly however even under Cameron Britain still continues to fan the radicalisation of its society. Britains pretending to be tough on terrorism as it continues to look the other way. This refusal to act goes back two decades when a hub for terror throughout Europe & elsewhere was allowed access to British soil
- Londonistan. In Londonistan" Melanie Phillips interviews key politicians moderate Muslims academics & intelligence experts. She uncovers a persistent state of denial by the establishment entrusted with our security both on the left & right. Hers is an acclaimed & gripping account of the failure of the way in which Britain is handling terrorism & its own social crises."
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Londonstani Gautam Malkanis electrifying debut reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians & white boys (desis & goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parents generation. Set close to the Heathrow feed roads of Hounslow Malkani shows us the lives of a gang of four young men: Hardjit the ring leader a Sikh violent determined his caste stay pure; Ravi determinedly tactless a sheep following the herd; Amit whose brother Arun is struggling to win the approval of his mother for the Hindu girl he has chosen to marry; & Jas who tells us of his journey with these three desperate to win their approval desperate too for Samira a Muslim girl which in this story can only have bad consequences. Together they cruise the streets in Amits enhanced Beemer making a little money changing the electronic fingerprints on stolen mobile phones a scam that leads them into more dangerous waters. Funny crude disturbing written in the vibrant language of its protagonists
- a mix of slang Bollywood texting Hindu & bastardised gangsta rap
- Londonstani is about many things: tribalism aggressive masculinity integration cross-cultural chirpsing techniques the urban scene seeping into the mainstream bling bling economics complicated family-related shit. It is one of the most surprising British novels of recent years.

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The Lone Brit on 13 is a gripping true story of violence degradation & adventure penned in the confines of a grim Malaga prison cell. Imprisoned for drug-smuggling the lone Brit on Wing 13 Chance reveals the horrors he experienced among cut-throat villains & screws in the netherworld of the Spanish prison system. Chance takes to writing in his dank prison cell in an attempt to escape his surroundings & recalls various episodes in his life: his time serving as a soldier in Thailand & Malaysia; his involvement with the 3 Para snatch-squad in the 1970s Belfast; & his subsequent descent into drug dealing & trafficking which culminated in a high-speed boat chase & his imprisonment in a top-security Spanish prison. While inside Chance fought his way to the surface of a cesspool of iniquitous scumbags using his fists: the only effective means of being understood in an environment of desecrated morality & non-existent integrity. With predators lurking everywhere Chance had to be constantly on guard & in order to survive he had to be mentally prepared to inflict the necessary violent retribution on any would-be attacker or racist thug. As the sole British inmate Chance was a prime target for the intimidating Spanish hardmen who thrived on cruelty & treachery. But his martial arts skills & Samurai philosophy proved to be more than a match for the aggressors. Once a respected & successful businessman admired by his peers
- he had operated his own martial arts business in Spain before being jailed
- Chance took one wrong turn in life & lost everything except the love & support of his loyal wife.

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You dont have to be twenty male & an ace mechanic to set out on a great journey. Ive cycled round the world twice now. Im not young Im not sporty I never train & I still cant tell a sprocket from a chainring or mend a puncture. So speaks Anne Mustoe in the opening to this fascinating record of her second epic journey cycling around the globe from East to West. Using historical routes as her inspiration Anne followed the ancient Roman roads to Lisbon travelled across South America with the Conquistadors pursued Captain Cook over the Pacific to Australia & Indonesia & followed the caravans along the fabled Silk Road from Xian to Rome. ...

When Luke Warren is involved in a car accident which leaves him in a coma his family are gathered together against the odds; they face an impossible dilemma. His daughter Cara is praying for a miracle: she will fight everything & everyone to save her fathers life. His son Edward cant imagine that a man who once ran with wolves could ever be happy with a different life. But Edward hasnt spoken to Luke for six years. How can he dare to speak on his fathers behalf? Somehow they must choose: Do they keep Luke alive? Or do they let him go? ...

Luke Warren would sleep in the dirt if it meant he could be under the stars. He lives by the laws of nature & would surely want to die that way. But Luke is in a coma & his family must make an unbearable decision. As tensions & secrets rise to the surface the tragic accident which brought them back together against the odds could well tear Luke's family apart forever. They know Luke would not want to live like this. But how can they choose to let him die? ...

Reissue of a groundbreaking work of fiction from one of our best loved authors. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith a defiant young rebel inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting frost-bitten earth he wonders why for whom & for what he is running. A groundbreaking work ' The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoe's depiction of petty crime & deep-seated anger in industrial & desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago. ...

Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh her rejected boyfriend is the obvious prime suspect & he's just been picked off the Aberdeen train & put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused & throttled to death. & suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer
- two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. & it's up to Resnick to put the record straight
- & put the bastard where he belongs.

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