A collectors' box set including the first four titles in the popular Mr. Gum" series all read by the wonderful Kate Winslet & including music & sound effects: " You're a Bad Man Mr. Gum" Mr. Gum is a complete horror who hates children animals fun & corn on the cob. This book's all about him. & an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub; & Jake the dog (who must be saved from terrible terrible evil); & a little girl called Polly; & an evil stinky butcher who's all covered in guts. & there's heroes & sweets & adventures & a massive fat bloke called Jonathan Ripples & EVERYTHING... " Mr. Gum & the Biscuit Billionaire" OK this book's a bit hard to describe. There's this gingerbread man with electric muscles see? & he's as rich as a mushroom right? & Mr. Gum & Billy William are planning to get the cash yeah? & it's up to Polly to save the day. & there's a funfair & hot dogs & Friday O' Leary shouts out some crazy stuff &... hey that wasn't so hard to describe after all. Mr. Gum is back & as nasty as ever in this second hilarious story. " Mr. Gum & the Power Crystals" Shabba me whiskers! Can it really be true that there's an ancient curse on the town of Lamonic Bibber? & you guessed it that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum & his trusty sidekick Billy William the Third have something to do with it. But...our favorite heroes Polly & Friday & the gingerbread biscuit Alan Taylor are determined to save the town (sigh of relief). Hang onto your heads & prepare to chuckle like a chipmunk as you are whisked to the land of talking dogs silly songs Old Granny & the best chase scene you've ever seen. You may even learn to say " The truth is a lemon meringue" in Spanish! This is barking bonkers... " Mr. Gum & the Goblins" Well that old roo-de-lally Mr. Gum & the hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things up for everyone. They're a-schemin' & a-hatchin' & making their bad plans up on Goblin Mountain. Can the wise old man Friday O' Leary & the small girl Polly make it past the Three Impossible Challenges of Goblin Mountain & save the town from a fate worse than something very bad indeed? In an epic tale of courage valor & plain idiocy only one thing is sure: The truth is a lemon meringue!" ...

Step once more into Lamonic Bibber my friends
- if you dare. In the dead of night when all the stars are sleeping & the moons nipped
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Description Step once more into Lamonic Bibber my friends
- if you dare. In the dead of night when all the stars are sleeping &
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One day Mr Gumpy decides to take a trip along the river in his boat
- the only thing is that everyone else wants to come to! Soon
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It's a lovely day & Mr Gumpy decides to go for a ride in his motor car. But everyone else wants to come too! As the motor car & its passengers makes its way across the field the rain begins... Mr Gumpy asks for volunteers to push the car but everyone has an excuse until it gets so bad that they all have to get out & help. Eventually the sun shines once more as they drive across the bridge
- & there's time for a swim on the way home.
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Mrs Large isnt feeling well so Mr Large sends her back to bed. Ill take charge he says. So while he & the children get busy hovering dusting & tidying Mrs Large settles down for a nice rest. But Mrs Larges restful day is not as restful as shed hoped. ...

As a rule magic carpets dont turn up in schools but this is exactly what happens when Class Threes new teacher flies in through the classroom window & lands on the floor with a bump. Mr Majeika can behave just like any ordinary teacher if he wants to but something has to be done about Hamish Bigmore the class nuisance & so he uses a little magic to turn him into a frog. & to everyones delight it looks as if Hamish will have to remain a frog because Mr Majeika cant remember the spell to turn him back again! With Mr Majeika in charge suddenly life at school become much more exciting
- theres even a magic-carpet ride to Buckingham Palace!
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Killer man Vincent Majestyk had his belly-full of killing in Asia. It was his job & he was one of the best but when he stripped off his uniform he never wanted to go back to it. Now he works under the open skies of the American Southwest growing melons on his farm where nobody knows about his past. & that was why a cheap crook named Kopas a hard-named cop named Mc Allen & a big-time high-priced hit man named Renda all figured Majestyk was another local yokel to be pushed around. Majestyk was about to go to war again... ...

Kyle's imaginary friend from childhood is back...with a vengeance. Kyle hasn't seen Mr Mumbles in years. & there's a good reason for that: Mr Mumbles doesn't exist. But now Kyle's imaginary friend is back & Kyle doesn't have time to worry about why. Only one thing matters: staying alive...A major series from a fresh new talent brought to you by the publisher that put horror on the map. ...

During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases eighty nine phone lines & owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuanna & had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA & the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency he was busted & sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. Told with humour charm & candour Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story. ...