MAD FRANK
- Frankie Fraser's own extraordinary story
- the truth about the legendary villain who for fifty years was a key figure

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Mad Frankie Fraser has become a household name known to millions as one of London's most notorious gangsters. In Mad Frank's London
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Sites of gruesome murders stories of killings frauds jewel thefts & treachery are all part of Mad Frankie Fraser's grand tour of Britain's criminal underworld. As one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th Century he is perfectly placed to give us the lowdown on crimes from up & down the country plus his take on crimes he was personally involved in & cases as yet unsolved. Written with crime author James Morton this is the definitive guide to Britain's many lives of crime. ...

On 25 February 1956 twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party & immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter
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Private Investigator Tommy Storm is hired by a top Hollywood film producer to find his missing daughter & her leading man lothario. As Storm & his goody two-shoes doppelganger investigate the case sinister forces conspire to commit the ultimate murder. The question is: who is on the side of the angels & can either Storm tell the difference? As the truth unravels Storm must contend with divine double dealings saving his genitalia the end of the world the Second Coming extremely violent debt collection sexy dames the meaning of it all & where the hell he can get a drink! So join Tommy on the case of a lifetime as he saves the world his balls & maybe even gets the girl...unless it all goes hideously wrong. Which of course it will... ...

Alone in his isolated windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor who could blame the young priest Mark for seeking affection from the local millers daughter Mary? But when Marys body is found brutally stabbed Mark is the obvious suspect & the discovery that she was pregnant seems to confirm his guilt. Called in to investigate Baldwin Furnshill & Bailiff Simon Puttock soon begin to have their doubts. Could it not have been one of Marys many admirers who murdered her in a fit of jealousy? Or her father the miller who is acting in an increasingly disturbed manner? & what exactly is the local Baron trying to hide? Will they be able to find the murderer before he strikes again? ...

Bonnie & Clyde they thought. & whats-his-name the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives & chips on their shoulders & guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then hell why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota some of it captured on the killers cell phones & sent to a local television station Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them down. But even he doesnt realize whats about to happen next. ...

The second volume in this superb trilogy from the author of The Farseer trilogy continues the dramatic tale of piracy serpents ...

Did people really have sex in the office? Did they actually drink martinis at 11am? & what was it really like for women working on Madison Avenue in the 1960s? Jane Maas a successful copywriter for a New York ad agency in the 60s & 70s answers all these questions & more in this tell-all account of life with the real Mad Men. Based on her own experiences she tells of the junior account man whose wife nearly left him when she found the copy of Screw" magazine hed used to find entertainment for a client. Then there is the Ogilvy & Mather agencys legendary annual sex-&-booze filled Boat Ride from which it was said no virgin ever returned intact. & the advertising agency that banned doors on offices
- all because of what went on behind them. Wickedly funny & full of fascinating inside information " Mad Women" also deals with the tougher issues of the era such as equal pay jaw-dropping sexism & the difficult choices women had to make between motherhood & a career. This immensely entertaining memoir is a must-read for fans of the show & for anyone who enjoys a scintillating tale."
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A terrifically engaging & original biography about one of Englands greatest novelists & the glamorous eccentric debauched & ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life & inspired his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited. Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war the novel was he admitted of no immediate propaganda value. Instead it was the story of a household a family & a journey of religious faith
- an elegy in many ways for a vanishing world & a testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous eccentric & compelling as their counterparts in Brideshead Revisited. In this engrossing biography Paula Byrne takes an innovative approach to her subject setting out to capture Waugh through those friendships that mattered most to him. Far from the snobbish misanthropist of popular caricature she uncovers a man as loving & complex as the family that inspired him
- a family deeply traumatised when their father was revealed as a homosexual & forced to flee the country. This brilliantly original biography unlocks for the first time the extent to which Waughs great novel encoded & transformed his own experiences. In so doing it illuminates the loves & obsessions that shaped his life & brings us inevitably to a secret that dared not speak its name.

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