REG HARRIS whose statue overlooks the Manchester Velodrome is the legend who all track cyclists want to emulate. He was a poor working-class boy born in the Depression who escaped the Lancashire mills to utterly dominate his sport. He triumphed as world champion an incredible five times between 1947 & 1954 & performed medal-winning heroics at the London Olympics. At his peak he was the most adored sportsman in the country attracting huge crowds sponsorship & the company of the rich & famous. But fiercely driven & ruthlessly single-minded Harris had a dark side. His was a sensational life fuelled by an insatiable need for money celebrity fast cars & beautiful women that constantly threatened to destroy him. Following an exhaustive investigation Robert Dineen has uncovered an epic sporting rise & fall
- a story more astounding than anyone had known.
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1807: the Napoleonic Wars continue & their violence reverberates in the lives of the Morland family. Lucy trying to rebuild her life after the death of her lover Captain Weston is thrown into doubt & confusion by an unexpected proposal of marriage. At Morland Place the hard-won happiness of James & Heloise is threatened by his rebellious daughter Fanny. As heiress to the Morland estate Fanny is determined to claim more than her inheritance but for those dependent on her generosity Fanny's decision to marry the unscrupulous Lieutenant Hawker brings only anxiety. These troubled times hold many surprises & in their darkest hour the Morlands make an astonishing discovery which enables them to face the uncertain future with new strength. ...

It is in regrettable circumstances that beautiful Judith Taverner & her brother Peregrine first encounter Julian St. John Audley. The man they both agree is an insufferably arrogant dandy. But unfortunately for them he is also the Fifth Earl of Worth a friend of the Regent & quite by chance their legal guardian.. . Delightfully witty & romantic Regency Buck shows all the skills which made Georgette Heyer the most widely read & loved author of historical romances in the world & which have made another generation fall in love with her all over again. ...

To all appearances Jack Swann is a typical gentleman of the Regency period; educated cultured & affl uent. In his early thirties he is an attractive & eligible bachelor with all the resources needed to live a privileged life. Haunted by the murder of his father twenty years earlier
- the perpetrators of which have never been caught
- Swann has however turned his back on this world & chosen instead to fi ght crime as ' The Regency Detective' an unoffi cial consulting detective to the Bow Street Runners in London. Arriving in Bath for a family funeral Swann finds several reasons for staying in the city: to protect Mary his sister from the mysterious Lockhart; to fi nd the ' Scarred Man' who might lead him to his father's killer; & to end the reign of terror by Wicks the local underworld boss who in turn sets out to have Swann assassinated.

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Regeneration is Pat Barker's classic Booker-nominated novel of World War I & trauma. Craiglockhart War Hospital Scotland 1917 & army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen as well as mute Billy Prior who is only able to communicate by means of pencil & paper. Rivers' job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. A brilliant novel. Intense & subtle". (Peter Kemp Sunday Times). "A vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War & a multi-layered exploration of all wars. A fine anthem for doomed youth". (Time Out). "A novel of tremendous power". (Margaret Forster). " Unforgettable". (Sunday Telegraph). " One of the strongest & most interesting novelists of her generation". (Guardian). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy comprising Regeneration which has been filmed The Eye in the Door which won the Guardian Fiction Prize & The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class & Toby's Room. She lives in Durham." ...

Welcome to the second instalment from the annals of Liverpools Walton Jail. Here we bring the next twenty cases resulting in murder & subsequently death by hanging to the perpetrators of some of the most gruesome crimes on record. Each case has been carefully researched to bring you as comprehensive a description of the circumstances prior during & after a murder as is possible. What we cannot describe is the torment distress & anxiety the victims any witnesses & the investigating police officers must have suffered. This era covered by the second instalment saw the end of a number of noted executioners tenure such as John Ellis & the beginning of the most famous of all Albert Pierrepoint. Also at this time the winds of abolition began to blow. I hope you enjoy this second instalment of recorded hangings at Liverpools Walton Jail as I have done in presenting it to you. Hopefully this book will prepare you for the third & final instalment of cases which many readers will still remember to this day. ...

Poplar Street is just an ordinary street in an ordinary town except theres something strange about Audrey Wylers nephew. When the strange-looking vans arrive a surreal nightmare begins which threatens to turn the familiar street into a wasteland of devastation & desperation. ...

Behind an unassuming door in the leafy Hampstead suburb of London far far away from the flashing light-bulbs is The Place
- planet
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In Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie & discover how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance. You will meet a husband who values a televised Hibs v Hearts game more than his wife's life & see two guys fighting over a beautiful girl agree
- after a few pills & pints of lager
- that their friendship is actually more important. & you will be delighted to welcome back ' Juice' Terry Lawson & to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub.

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Within days of the D-Day lanings the ' Das Reich' 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest fighting of the Russion Front 15 000 men with their tanks & artillery they were hounded for every mile of their march by saboteurs of the Resistance & agents of the Allied Special Forces. Along their route they took reporisals so savage they will live for ever in the chronicles of the most appalling atrocities of war. Max Hasting's powerful account of their progress is a true military classic. ...