For Billy Hayes 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport tried & sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish jail. For five years he suffered the filth brutality & degradation of imprisonment in an environment of hellish squalor while his family fought in vain to secure his release. Finally in desperation he made a daring escape bid & incredibly the bid succeeded. This is the astounding true story told in Billy Hayes's own words of those five years of living hell & of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run. Vivid & realistic without being morbid it is a classic story of survival & human endurance told with humour intelligence & total honesty. ...

They called him Bane the Bastard
- though none said it to his face. Born of treachery his name a curse he grew up among the warriors
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This is the first available unabridged audio book adaptation of a classic of childrens literature & the first of two adventures featuring Kay Harker. Life is very dull for orphan Kay under the discipline of his governess Miss Sylvia Daisy. But one night woken by Nibbins the cat he begins a magical quest to recover the long-lost Harker family treasure. But this treasure is also sought by the villainous Abner Brown using magic to pursue his evil ends. If Kay is to reach it first he will need all the help that he can get from...the midnight folk. Full of memorable characters & enjoyable twists & turns The Midnight Folk" has been called one of the greatest childrens books ever written." ...

Since his father died Charlie Bone has lived with his mother & her mother in the house of his other grandmother Grandma Bone. Looking at a picture of a couple with a baby & a cat he suddenly discovers he can hear their voices. Although he tries to hide his new gift Grandma Bone & her scary sisters soon find out & send him to Bloors Academy. Charlie quickly finds life at Bloors pretty tough with its strict rules & the malevolent head boy Manfred set against him. When Charlie discovers that the child in the photograph is being held hypnotised against her will he & his new friends with gifts try to awaken her. But can they overcome Manfreds sinister hypnotic gifts? ...

Tom would do anything not to have to stay on Aunt Millie's farm while his parents are away
- he likes the city & hates climbing
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From the prestigious dormitories of Westfield to the irresistible socialite scene of present-day London: everywhere Allegra Mc Corquodale goes scandal follows her. & in Allegra's shadow are her closest friends since school the Midnight Girls. Romily de Lisle: super rich brilliant & bored. She's as blessed as Allegra when it comes to looks but she's a force to be reckoned with. & Imogen Heath: pretty timid & hopelessly drawn to Allegra's reckless charm. She longs to be a part of the glitzy high-society world where her friends move with such ease. Once free of the cloistered worlds of school & university the Midnight Girls face new & different challenges but they are for ever bonded by a terrible secret they've sworn never to break. Bitter rivalries arise as their professional lives soon cross paths. Greed tragedy & sinister passions threaten their allegiance & each of them stand to lose what they love most... ...

This is the new edition of the exciting adventure stories set in Sandy Lane Stables perfect for pony lovers. Riding at the Hawthorn House Trials is all that Kate has dreamed of & this year shes in with a real chance of winning. As she works hard to prepare for the day it seems nothing will distract her from her goal. But then on Christmas Eve the mysterious midnight horse rides into Kates life & then suddenly everything changes. Unluckily for Kate his owner Izzy has entered the trials too
- & Izzy needs to win. This is just one title in the perfect pony tales adored by horse-lovers everywhere.
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Charlotte Kinder is in need of true escape when she heads from Ohio to Pembrook Park a Jane Austen-themed retreat in the British countryside. But as it turns out this vacation is no time to relax. Hearts are racing & stomachs fluttering in a tangle of intrigues
- real & pretend sinister & romantic
- increasingly tough to sort out. Its midnight in Austenland & Charlotte is about to prove herself a heroine worthy of Austen herself.

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Revenge courage & murky pasts collide in these two exclusive J. D. Robb short stories Midnight in Death Eve's name has made a Christmas list but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars. Now he's escaped & has her in his sights. With her husband Roarke at her side Eve must stop this madman from exacting his bloody revenge
- or die trying.. . Interlude in Death When respected Commander Skinner offers Lieutenant Eve Dallas a promotion if she'll give her husband Roarke up to custody she reacts badly. Roarke's Irish past is murky but he's a changed man
- so what is the Commander after? With Eve & Skinner at one of Roarke's holiday resorts for a police convention Skinner's thwarted vengeance soon brings death to their luxury surroundings.. .

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A father hunts for his daughters killer in the gripping true story Midnight in Peking" by Paul French -which finally solves the case. On a frozen morning in January 1937 in the dying days of colonial Peking a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner the teenage daughter of the citys former British consul ETC Werner. Her heart had been removed. A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamelas killer with a Chinese-British detective team pursuing suspects including a blood-soaked rickshaw puller the Triads & a lascivious grammar school headmaster. But the case was soon forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion...by all but ETC Werner. With a network of private investigators & informers he followed the trail deep into Pekings notorious Badlands & back to the gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter. Some 75 years later deep in the Scotland Yard archives British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by ETC Werner. Unveiling an undercover sex cult heroin addicts & disappearing brothels the truth behind the crime can now be told
- & is more disturbing than anyone could imagine. Not just the unputdownable story of a savage murder Midnight in Peking is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era. " An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last". (David Peace author of " Red Riding" & " The Damned United"). " Fascinating & irresistible. I couldnt put it down". (John Berendt author of " Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil"). Written in the style of a gripping murder mystery but all the facts are true". (Kirsty Lang BBC Radio 4 (" Book of the Week")). " Engrossing true crime whodunnit...A terrific read". (Andrew Holgate " Sunday Times"). " Not only does Mr French succeed in solving the crime he resurrects a period that was filled with glitter as well as evil". (" The Economist"). " French has an easygoing prose style...well chosen"es bring a new vigour & crispness... He succeeds in giving voice to a tragic quest for justice". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " It is the storytelling flair that marks " Midnight in Peking" so highly above the run-of-the-mill true crime stories: with its false leads & twists it sucks the reader in like the best fiction". (" The Scotsman"). " The shocking true tale combined with prose you cant drag yourself away from makes " Midnight in Peking" a work of non fiction as compulsive as any bestselling crime novel. It also brings justice at last for a young woman whose murder nearly went unsolved". (" Sunday Express"). Born in London Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 years. He is a widely published analyst & commentator on China; his books include a history of North Korea a biography of Shanghai adman & adventurer Carl Crow & a history of foreign correspondents in China."
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