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Spike Milligan recalls the traumas of his childhood, his highly- strung mother, his largely absent father, the cruelties of a colonial upbringing, the break-up of his first marriage, the mortar bomb which blew him up in Italy and the overwork which gave him a mental breakdown during the "Goon Show".

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But rather than agreeing to pay the terrorists' ransom -- which they fear will be pumped into funding terrorist operations across the world -- HMG decides to send in a team of hardened ex-Special Forces, led by ex-SAS hero Mick Kilbride and his sidekick 'East End' Eddie.

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'James Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world' TLS

'All Ellroy's preoccupations are present: corruption, sex, violence, unsolved murders and excess by the dozen.

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In this book the author uses his experience to set in context the changes that have overtaken Britain during forty years. He debates the issues that he believes should concern us all. He challenges our changing social and moral values and questions the direction society is taking.

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The Mercedes driven by Henri Paul in which Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and Trevor Rees-Jones were travelling crashes into a pillar in the Alma tunnel in the centre of Paris, killing Paul, Dodi and Diana and seriously injuring Rees Jones.

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Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.

This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to power and settle into running the country.

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Dick Contino, a 50s accordion player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

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In a recent series of ground-breaking psychological experiments, volunteers were shown a 30-second film of some people playing basketball and told to count the number of passes made with the ball.

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Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He had affairs with the most famous Parisian actresses, courtesans and can-can dancers. He spoke French more elegantly than English. This is a biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle.

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The Dirty Girls Social Club was formed by six very different Latina women who met at college in Boston and swore they'd be friends for the rest of their lives. Bold, funny, moving and smart, The Dirty Girls Social Club is a life-affirming read with all the glamour, gusto, humour and candour you'd expect from your best girlfriends.

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Jamie and Izzy have a dream. They want to get married in las Vegas. There's only one thing they're lacking - couple of prospective husbands. But at twenty-seven, they figure it's time to make the dream a reality. They've had enough crap boyfriends, and they're ready for crap husbands. And where better to find them Las Vegas!

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Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone into reverse - taking our lead from America and the legacy of the 1960s, our culture increasingly privileges the oral over the written, spurning the art of elaborated, 'written'-style language in favour of returning to the state of a spoken culture.

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Andrea Heller has been married for seven years, but still likes to pretend she's single. And each step that Homicide Detective Jack Paris takes to find their killer draws him closer to the heart of his own forbidden impulses. To enter the minds of Saila and Pharaoh is to enter a world from which no one ever fully returns...

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Surrounded by forest and reached only by a treacherous road, the sleepy South American town of Valle de la Virgen is almost unknown to the outside world.

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Twenty fighters unleash hell until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers drunk and high on whatevers on offer bet on the outcome.

Jarhead is a desperate man whod do just about anything to feed his children.

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Jess Monroe is thirty-four and perfectly happy being single. But her friends think otherwise and, as a birthday present, buy her an ad for an online dating site. Furious at first, she eventually agrees to try it out - and ventures into a world where the description on the tin rarely matches the contents.

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When Ed Strachan's parents were killed in a car crash 18 years ago, they left their son a miserly inheritance: the memory of a mangled nursery rhyme, and a cufflink inscribed with a single set of coordinates. But 18 years later, when a girl tries to poison Ed and steal the cufflink, he guesses it may have greater significance than he had imagined.

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Summer 1940 - Dunkirk has been evacuated. Dover is inundated with young soldiers, who wearily wander its streets, wondering what the future holds in store for them. This book chronicles the lives and loves of ordinary people in besieged Britain during these tense, but curiously elated days.

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Pretty, brave and 18 years old, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husband of another.

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Kathy Kelling is coming home to Daisy Street from her first day at the High School, longing to tell her friend, Jane, all about it.

Then War comes and Alec and Kathy meet, but it's blonde and bubbly Jane to whom Alec is attracted...

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Travelling partly on foot and bicycle, but chiefly in a plywood fifteen foot punt, Fort journeyed through the unsung heart of Middle England, showing him the unseen face of his own country.

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An account of one man's painful journey from slob to superman, and a fascinating and eye-opening examination of what it really means to be healthy. It reveals the ugly truth about the assumptions and obsessions we have about our bodies.

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One night, British Sea Harriers reduced Abdul Habib's headquarters to rubble. But, he still had money and hate to construct a plan which would destroy the British Aircraft carrier which had committed the fatal strike. All he needed was luck ... enough luck to avocado the man whose hate is even greater than his, Captain Peter Broderick.

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The first book in a compelling series set in County Durham just before the First World War. Perfect for fans of Longbourn and Downton Abbey.

When Evie Forbes starts as an assistant cook at Easterleigh Hall, she goes against her familys wishes.