Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of a GBP300 million hedge fund fraud & the wild-goose chase through Europe by its drug-fuelled manager for a lucrative secret market" beneath the financial market we all know. Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all. Born into one of the worlds richest families he founded his own hedge fund promising his investors guaranteed profits. But after suffering devastating losses & faking tax returns Israel knew his real performance would soon be discovered. So when a former CIA-operative turned conman told him about a "secret market" run by the Federal Reserve Israel bet his last $150 million of other peoples money on a chance to make it all back. So began his crazy year-long adventure in a world populated by clandestine bankers conspiracy theories & gun-toting spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known only as the Octopus." ...

Pull the tabs & lift the flaps
- who will be your favourite octopus? Will it be the Cuckoo Clocktopus the Scary Shocktopus or maybe
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' This was going to be bad news dirty work. This was to be murder' Octopussy"; " The Property of a Lady"; " The Living Daylights"; "007" in New York Four classic moments in the life of a spy. From avenging the wartime murder of a friend to sniper duty on the East-West Berlin border James Bond's body mind & spirit are tested to their limits." ...

Odds luck has been bad so far. He lost his father on a Viking expedition his foot was crushed beneath a tree & the winter seems to be going on for ever. But when Odd flees to the woods & releases a trapped bear his luck begins to change. The eagle bear & fox he encounters reveal theyre actually Norse gods trapped in animal form by the evil frost giants who have conquered Asgard the city of the gods... Can a twelve-year-old boy reclaim Thors hammer outwit the frost giants & release the gods? With Neil Gaimans wit & style this story transcends the everyday & becomes a humorous rich & layered tale of a life lived courageously. ...

The fifth Odd Thomas thriller from the master storyteller. Odd finds refuge at a rundown mansion but soon discovers a frightening presence. Odd Thomas has seen danger & he has seen death. He lives between two worlds communicating with the lingering dead. He stands between us & our darkest fears never failing the tests that confront him whatever the cost. Now he has found refuge in a crumbling mansion in Santa Barbara along with his closest friends both living & dead. But the house is a place of terrible secrets haunted by lingering spirits. & there is a stranger more frightening presence still... ...

Kingsley Amis & Philip Larkin altered the landscape of post-war British fi ction & poetry & were among the most popular serious literary writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Respectively their fiction & poetry
- particularly works such as Lucky Jim & The Whitsun Weddings
- have captured the imagination of the reading public & speak to us of something innately English & timeless. Published works only touch the surface of the bizarre & magnetic relationship between these two controversial & eccentric writers. The true complex story is told here for the fi rst time. Thoroughly researched & brilliantly composed by Richard Bradford
- author of critically acclaimed separate biographies of both writers & of Martin Amis
- The Odd Couple shows us these two literary giants as we have never seen them before. It also shows us how much of their most important work is an index to their relationship. Had they not met they would not have become the writers they were.



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From the mind of Dean Koontz the 400 million copy worldwide bestseller comes this supernatural tale of good & evil & life & death. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storytellers most talked about creation. Strange times need strange heroes. Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead & knows that even in chaos there is order purpose & strange meaning that invites our understanding but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn there he finds work as a cook & assistant to a once-famous film actor who at eighty has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywoods golden days. Odd is having dreams of a red tide vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before! ...

From the mind of Dean Koontz the 400 million copy worldwide bestseller comes this supernatural tale of good & evil & life & death. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller's most talked about creation. Strange times need strange heroes. Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead & knows that even in chaos there is order purpose & strange meaning that invites our understanding but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn there he finds work as a cook & assistant to a once-famous film actor who at eighty has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days. Odd is having dreams of a red tide vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before... ...

Small-town guy meets big-time evil...A spine-tingling Odd Thomas novella. THERE'S ROOM AT THE INN BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT... Odd Thomas & Annamaria need a break from the road. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific Coast the warm lights of Harmony Corner welcome them in. The quaint roadside outpost offers everything a weary traveller desires
- a cosy diner a handy service station a cluster of motel rooms.. .and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But Odd has a bad feeling about this place. There's more to the secluded haven than meets the eye
- & between life & death there is something more frightening than either. Odd has faced evil many times & he will face it again before the night is over...

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The 400 million copy worldwide bestseller Dean Koontz is at his very best in this critically-acclaimed page-turner -- soon to be a major motion picture. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storytellers most-loved creation. Odd by name a hero by nature. Hes Odd. Odd Thomas to be precise. Genius fry-cook at the Pico Mundo grill; boyfriend to the gorgeous Stormy Llewellyn -- & possibly the only person with a chance of stopping one of the worst crimes in the bloody history of murder! Something evil has come to the desert town that Odd & Stormy call home. It comes in the form of a mysterious man with a macabre appetite a filing cabinet full of information on the worlds worst killers & strange hyena-like shadows following him wherever he goes. Odd is worried. He knows things sees things -- about the living the dead & the soon to be dead. Things that he has to act on. Now hes terrified for Stormy himself & Pico Mundo. Because he knows that on Wednesday August 15 a savage blood-soaked whirlwind of violence & murder will devastate the town. Today is August 14. & Odd is far from sure he can stop the coming storm! ...