All the animals are busy lending a hand in the garden in this lively numbers book! The parrots are pulling up carrots the bears are picking pears & a swarm of bees are pruning the trees with their miniature shears. Julia Donaldsons whimsical rhymes & Nick Sharratts hilarious illustrations make this book a delight to share out loud. With plenty to giggle at on every page counting -- or gardening -- has never been so much fun! ...

All the animals are busy lending a hand in the garden in this lively numbers book! The parrots are pulling up carrots the bears are picking pears & a swarm of bees are pruning the trees with their miniature shears. Julia Donaldsons whimsical rhymes & Nick Sharratts hilarious illustrations make this book a delight to share out loud. With plenty to giggle at on every page counting -- or gardening -- has never been so much fun! ...

The Brighton to London line. The 07:44 train. Carriages packed with commuters. A woman applies her make-up. Another occupies her time observing the people around her. A husband & wife share an affectionate gesture. Further along a woman flicks through a glossy magazine. Then abruptly everything changes: a man has a heart attack & cant be resuscitated; the train is stopped an ambulance called. For at least three passengers on the 07:44 on that particular morning life will never be the same again. Lou witnesses the mans final moments. Anna & Lou share a cab when they realise the train is going nowhere fast. Anna is Karens best friend. & Karen? Karens husband is the man who dies. Telling the story of the week following that fateful train journey One Moment One Morning is a stunning novel about love & loss about family & -- above all -- friendship. A stark reminder that sometimes one moment is all it takes it also reminds us that somehow & despite everything life can & does go on. ...

His hands weren't quite so gentle now.. . Amelia Ashton has made it. The singer-songwriter is one of the biggest recording stars of her time
- but the success she has longed for has taken its toll & her life is no longer her own. When things get too much during her sell-out tour of the US Amelia heads back to London in search of some quality time. Meeting up with Karis her former girlfriend-in-crime Amelia is soon in the midst of some sensual adventures such as consummating a childhood crush at her friend's wedding. & furthering her career in a most unexpected way.. . Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will consume this intensely romantic & sensual story of adventure & true love. Previously published as Blue Notes.
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A wonderful counting book from Judith Kerr the best-selling author of the Mog series & The Tiger Who Came to Tea One moonlit magical night in the zoo An elephant jumped in the air & flew. But nobody knew." Its only once all the visitors have gone home that the real fun starts in the Zoo! Learn to count in a fun & wonderfully imaginative way as you follow all the animals through the night in this gorgeous picture book & find out what mischief they get into." ...

Lord Alec Knight the most daring & handsome rogue in all of London is a smooth-talking aristocrat who has left a trail of broken-hearted ladies in his wake. With his irresistible wit lucky hand at the gaming tables & enticing charisma he can have any woman he wants. But when the only girl he would have considered marrying ties the knot with someone else Alec realises he doesn't want to be with just any lady
- he wants to find the love of his life. The beautiful & boldly spirited Miss Becky Ward takes his life by storm after he rescues her from peril. Alec soon learns that Becky is on the run having uncovered a menacing secret about her cousin the murderous Prince Mikhail Kurkov. In the midst of danger Alec & Becky find themselves deeply drawn to each other. After the two spend an all-consuming night of sin Becky's knight in shining armor vows on his honor to protect her until the end. But can this once notorious rake truly be tamed?
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It is a time of unrest in the Book World. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the Real World or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego & quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very Book World itself. ...

John Pearsons The Profession of Violence" created the myth of the Kray twins & remains a classic of " True Crime" the best book ever written on East London villians & a book that started a mini publishing industry. Pearson knows the London crime scene as well as anyone which is why he was surprised while attending Ronnie Krays funeral to see a man to whom all the other villians deferred but whom he didnt recognise. Investigation revealed that this man the Englishman never mentioned in any of the previous books on villiany because everyone was scared to mention his name was as legendary a figure on the streets of New York as on the streets of London. When the Englishman learned that someone was asking about him he introduced himself to Pearson who persuaded him to write his story
- a story even more extraordinary than that of the Krays. Because the Englishman is the only man of non-Italian blood to be admitted to the heart of the Mafia. He became the adopted son of Joey Pagano the head of one of the major New York families & his adventure included gun battles fighting shoulder to shoulder with John Gotti capo du tutti capi. Here the Englishman tells the story that no-one else dared to tell."
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Infamous I have become disowned but I am one of your own
- Myra Hindley from her unpublished autobiography. On 15 November 2002
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101 chance meetings juxtaposing the famous & the infamous the artistic & the philistine the pompous & the comical the snobbish & the vulgar told by Britains funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They speak or dont speak. They get on or fall out. They laugh they cry are excited are indifferent. One on One is a chain of 101 extraordinary but true encounters from Tolstoy rumbling Tchaikovsky in 1876 to George Galloway baiting Michael Barrymore in 2006. The Royal Family giggle at T.S. Eliot Walter Sickert draws the curtains on the carol-singing Edward Heath Youssoupoff assassinates Rasputin Marilyn Monroe commissions Frank Lloyd Wright. Circular in its construction panoramic in its breadth One on One is a book like no other. Browns glorious book is an original & a complete delight Miranda Seymour Sunday Times Books of the Year ...