Ronnie Howard was a drug dealer a hit man a hustler a bouncer & a thief. He was very nearly a pimp. Ronnie was also a copper whose undercover work led to some of the biggest drug hauls the UK has ever seen. His infiltration of a paedophile network helped avert kidnap & murder while his work on the beat earned him a reputation as one of the UKs toughest policemen. No one was safe when Ronnie was around. Criminals feared him & so did his fellow officers. Ronnies Looking for Trouble tells the true story of one mans battle against crime & an increasingly corrupt law-enforcement service. It reveals a police officer who was afraid of nothing & no one. For where there was trouble there was glory. & Ronnie found plenty of both. ...

If you have never fixed a roof tile or slate before but have wondered how to go about repairing or replacing them then this is the book for you. Many of the technical books about roof tiling & slating are rather vague & conveniently ignore some of the trickier problems & how they can be resolved. However this practical volume written by an expert with a vast experience of teaching roof tiling & slating to both apprentices & experienced roofers rejects this cautious approach. ...

Keeping a house weatherproof & in good condition is an ongoing task. Under constant attack from a combination of heat cold wind & rain it is vital that the right protection is in place to keep the elements at bay. This book offers guidance using step-by-step photographs & line drawings on a wide range of roofing & weatherproofing jobs as well as home insulation
- all important in keeping problems & bills to a minimum. Topics covered include: roofing jobs
- replacing tiles slates & repairing flashings; repairing chimney stacks woodwork gutters & downpipes; weatherproofing jobs
- replacing putty sealing window frames & repairing brickwork; insulating jobs
- roof loft & wall insulation draughtproofing & double glazing & soundproofing.



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Creating a terrace or rooftop paradise This city-dwellers guide to gardening shows how less is actually more especially when it comes to creating one's own terrace & rooftop paradise. With ten sample gardens to choose from including the plans for each this practical guide describes every aspect of urban gardening-from design for roofs screening & framing gardening without soil to containers furniture & decorations & special effects. Full of overall & close-up photos of each garden this magazine-style guide will show any apartment dweller how to create their very own Eden-with a garden of ferns & bamboos & vegetables & herbs only footsteps away. ...

My mother is still alive & she is going to come for me one day. Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive but that means still possible. You should never ignore a possible. So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage she takes matters into her own hands & flees to Paris to look for her mother starting with the only clue she has
- the address of the cello maker. Evading the French authorities she meets Matteo & his network of rooftoppers
- urchins who live in the sky. Together they scour the city for Sophie's mother before she is caught & sent back to London & most importantly before she loses hope.

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The body you are wearing used to be mine. So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity & track down the agents who want to destroy her. She soon learns that she is a Rook a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Checquy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare & deadly supernatural ability of her own. Filled with characters both fascinating & fantastical The Rook is a richly inventive suspenseful fantasy. An astonishing debut from a brilliant new voice. ...

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single locked room. They don't have the key. Jack & Ma are prisoners. ' This book will break your heart.. . It is the most vivid radiant & beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read'
- Irish Times". ' Startlingly original & moving.. . Endearing & as utterly compelling as " The Lovely Bones"'
- " Scotsman". 'I've never read a more heart-burstingly gut wrenchingly compassionate novel.. . As for sweet bright funny Jack I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel & never let him go'
- " Daily Mail". ' This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love all the while giving us a fresh expansive eye on the world in which we live'
- " New York Times Book Review"."



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Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single locked room. They dont have the key. Jack & Ma are prisoners. This book will break your heart.. . It is the most vivid radiant & beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read
- Irish Times". Startlingly original & moving.. . Endearing & as utterly compelling as " The Lovely Bones"
- " Scotsman". Ive never read a more heart-burstingly gut wrenchingly compassionate novel.. . As for sweet bright funny Jack I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel & never let him go
- " Daily Mail". This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love all the while giving us a fresh expansive eye on the world in which we live
- " New York Times Book Review". See Judys Review See Richards Review See Emma Donoghue talk about her book Reading Group Questions Read our exclusive Q&A with Emma Donoghue Write a Review for Room Judys Review This extraordinary book is very hard to sum up. To read it you have to slide into a place that frees you of normal expectation to help yourself understand the most appalling of situations & yet allow for hope love & redemption. Room is told through the eyes of a five year old boy Jack. He & his mother are held captive by a monster a man who kidnapped a nineteen year old girl & held her in a one-room shed locked & sound-proofed. For seven years he has systematically raped her & Jack is a result. So far so horrible & reminiscent of the recent tragedy in Austria where Josef Fritzl repeatedly raped his own daughter after imprisoning her in a cellar fathering many children by her. But Room is not quite like that. It is a story of hope & great love. Jack is adored by his young Ma who tries desperately to bring him up in as normal & loving way possible in their terrifying circumstances. & she succeeds. Jack is a sweet loveable remarkably normal boy. Before their eventual escape she manages to give him an enormous sense of security. Hugely heart-warming is the spirit of Ma: a strong young woman who has somehow transcended her appalling situation & degrading imprisonment to become as warm & protective a mother as any woman in a more stable & conventional environment could hope to be. Richards Review How would any of us react in a moment of mortal danger? In a plane crash? In the heat & smoke of the battlefield? Would we "



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Somebody was in there. Somebody
- or some thing... There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel where Fliss & her
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ROOM 13 Somebody was in there. Somebody
- or some thing. There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel where Fliss
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