When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys & backstreets of his mind he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case
- dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs young girls on the game. & a killer on the loose. In addition to the brand new novella that fills in the gaps in Bankss life before Yorkshire Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant & eclectic stories that have never before been published in the UK. The Eastvale Ladies Poker Circle finds that murder may be just another game of risk. Is a suitcase of cash worth a mans head on a plate? & tragedy leads a young boy to learn the price of love.. .
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The Price of Passion" is the eagerly awaited sequel to Carla van Raays international bestselling memoir " Gods Callgirl". A former nun & prostitute Carla van Raay thought she had come to terms with her traumatic past. But then she received a phone call that threatened to upset the balance once again. Carla had first met Aaron at a tumultuous time in her life. She had left a convent after 13 years of bitter cruelty lost her virginity in a brutal fashion to a man she barely knew & then hastily got married before giving birth to a beautiful daughter. Now Aaron was back. & whats more he wanted to resume a relationship that had been intense yet short-lived. But so much had happened since then. Carla had left her husband & after years of repression in the convent had turned to prostitution. " The Price of Passion" is a very personal story written with honesty & raw emotion. It is the story of two people who have tried to overcome abusive pasts embarking on a new yet equally challenging journey; but neither could have foreseen what lay ahead." ...

This is an autobiography of former Morton & Celtic footballer & all round fans favourite Andy Ritchie. Retired by the age of 28 Ritchie still managed to make his mark on Scottish football not only for his amazing ball skills but also for his larger than life personality & colourful personal life. AT 22 Andy Ritchie had the footballing world at his feet. Scotlands disastrous World Cup campaign in Argentina left the nation crying out for an entertainer & Mortons Idle Idol filled the void. A former Celtic prospect his spectacular goals close control dead ball genius & dazzling skills made him Scotlands player of the year & the nations top goalscorer three years running. But by the age of 28 Ritchie dumped his boots in a bin & quit football for good. Plagued by depression panic attacks & attitude problems one of the Scottish games biggest ever characters tells with brutal honesty of the match-day drinking the gambling the indiscipline & the casual drug abuse which cut short his playing days & drove the late Jock Stein to despair. Celtics chief scout under Tommy Burns he expresses his regrets at the failure to patch up a rift with his lifelong friend before he died & of the spell of homelessness he survived following a breakdown & the break-up of his marriage. ...

A riveting heart-rending tale of betrayal & revenge.? Erica andsimon Dunmore have been happily married for fifteen years.? The only thing that?casts a shadow over Rica's happiness?is?her failure to have a baby & Simon realises he would do anything to provide her with the child she so desperately craves.? Then?unexpectedly he?brings home?a beautiful baby boy whose mother has given him up for adoption & Rica cannot believe her luck?-?they can be a proper family at last.? Little doesshe realise the horror that lies ahead?when her husband & son go?missing... ...

In 2002 three English bankers became involved in the Enron fall-out when they heard on television that the US government would seek their extradition under laws designed for terrorists. The US government only needed to identify them but not provide evidence of the crime committed. In a very public battle supported by The Times Daily Telegraph & Daily Mail
- with incidental support from Tony Blair then Prime Minister
- they fought their extradition. They lost in 2006 & were put on trial in a court in Texas for actions that are legal in the UK. In this book David Bermingham tells for the first time since their release in August 2010 the full story from the summons in 2002 to his return to Britain.

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Pride & Passion in Bury" tells the story of the author's life growing up in a time when things seems simpler & how being approached as a fifteen year old by Manchester City almost changed the course of his life. Beginning with life as one of a family of ten living on a large council estate the friendships formed & the many comical events that occurred that still tickle me. Being approached by Manchester City FC as a fifteen year old school boy. Eventually having to accept failure but also going on to enjoy playing the beautiful game in semi-pro & amateur form. Reaching an age when life's dilemmas were asking questions that the answers to proved elusive to me
- religion marriage & health among them. The shared events that go hand in hand with family life. The book for the most part portrays a lad enjoying life to the full at a time when life seemed simpler. Like any life portrayed at length it

Includes:: some sad times which if anything makes the good times even better. There will be many situations you will immediately relate to leaving you to wonder if you would have taken the same course."


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Meet Tilly Redbrow who doesn't just love horses
- she lives breathes & dreams them too! When Tilly sees Angela the owner of Silver
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Pride & Pleasure
- the classic erotic romance
- by Sylvia Day
- author of the sensational international bestselling Bared


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Pride & Prejudice which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous & empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim
- that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical & indolent husb&. With its wit its social precision & above all its irresistible heroine Pride & Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.
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The Penguin Classics edition of Pride & Prejudice is the definitive version of Jane Austen's timeless novel of love's triumph over adversity celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2013. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy she thinks him arrogant & conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks & lively mind. When she later discovers that Mr Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Mr Bingley & her beloved sister Jane she is determined to dislike him more than ever. Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice is a sparkling comedy of manners which explores the folly of judging by first impressions & superbly evokes the friendships gossip & snobberies of provincial middle-class life in early nineteenth-century Engl&. Edited with notes & an introduction by Vivien Jones this edition also

Includes:: a new chronology additional suggestions for further reading & the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age embarking on what is possibly her best-known work Pride & Prejudice at the age of 22. She was the author of Sense & Sensibility Pride & Prejudice Emma Persuasion Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey. If you liked Pride & Prejudice you may enjoy Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre also available in Penguin Classics. The most perfect artist among women the writer whose books are immortal". (Virginia Woolf). " As nearly flawless as any fiction could be". (Eudora Welty). " Pride & Prejudice has always been the most popular of Jane Austen's books.. .with its good humoured comedy its sunny heroine its dream denouement". (Claire Tomalin)."

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