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At fifty the guarantee runs out...
About to hit the big five-oh, obsessed with sex, cocaine-fuelled and gripped by a crippling fear of death, Professor Michael Cole is finding life a bit of a struggle.
It's finding the time to squeeze everything in, really.

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Aaron and Hugh have been friends for as long as they can remember. A woman moves into the area, and drives an emotional wedge between the two. They turn against their world and vent their frustration, anger and despair in the only way they know.

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The King is dead. A nation mourns... Having clawed his way up from C-list obscurity to the pinnacle of A-list super stardom, media personality and self-proclaimed King of Saturday Night Television, Simon Peters is found dead in 'suspicious circumstances'. Deluded, self-obsessed and with an ego the size of Coventry, Simon trod on so many toes.

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Why is catalogue shopping responsible for Jonathan Ross's inimitable sense of style

Why might wearing cape and mask be a fast track to heaven

Why does Jonathan wince every time he sees a Hoover

And why did he fall in love with a deep-sea diver

Why

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Why do testicles hang the way they do Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm What does it feel like to want to kill yourself Does 'free will' really exist And why is the penis shaped like that anyway This title deals with these questions.

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A remote fishing village in Scotland seems the perfect place for Betsy Gillander to abscond for a few days with her fianc. The enforced intimacy opens Betsy's eyes to the indolent cruelty of the man she's agreed to marry, while in the hotel bar the locals gather, increasingly anxious for news of a boat still out at sea.

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Everybody in the unlicensed fight game knows that only one man has the honour of being titled 'Guv'nor' - and that man is Lew 'Wild Thing' Yates.

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When an A-list film set descends on the quiet village of Churchminster, so begins the village's most scandalous year... Meet the glamorous cast of Wild Things! Sophia - the leading lady who gets what she wants. And she wants... Jed - the village's gorgeous gardener, living with devoted girlfriend...

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And did the Kaiser's decision to cease unrestricted U-boat warfare in response to international outrage expressed after the sinking effectively change the outcome of the First World War

Highly readable, highly researched Wilful Murder casts dramatic new light on one of the world's most famous maritime disasters.

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The liner was the Lusitania and it was torpedoed by a German U-boat.

Wilful Murder is the hugely compelling story of the sinking of the Lusitania.

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The first of the English family was Adam - born to a red-haired witch and one of Cromwell's conquering soldiers.

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Perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson, a moving and emotional saga of fierce passions set in the Lancashire cotton mills from the Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Hamilton.

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American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in four cities - Paris, Venice, London and Oxford - when she realized she had entered a new phase of life.

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Drawn together from hundreds of hours of first-hand interviews, Working Lives is a unique collection of oral testimonies from workers whose stories might not otherwise have been told: mill girls who risked life and limb in dusty, noisy weaving sheds;

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The seemingly endless war was at last coming to a conclusion. Flying bombs - the deadly V1 buzzbombs - appeared over London, causing dreadful destruction, and the struggle continued to overcome the most powerful war machine the world had ever known.

But amongst the Cockney community there were lighter moments, too.

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Each September, thousands of students walk through the doors of University College and Trinity College, Dublin. This year, Olive and Tom will be among them. Eighteen-year-old Olive is fresh from the country, and her eyes are opened wide by the big-city goings on of her new friends.

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By the author of "Surrender My Love". Alexandra Rubliov defied her father's wish for her to wed, until he recalled an agreement that she should marry Count Petroff. Petroff is forced to take her as his unwilling bride, but the passion that flared between them could not be denied.

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Until her sister Celia points out that if Neve wants William to think she's an experienced love-goddess and not the fumbling, awkward girl he left behind, then she'd better get some, well, experience.

What Neve needs is someone to show her the ropes, someone like Celia's colleague Max.

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Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to serve a twelve-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, this previously nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika tattooed on his neck and a serious set of issues.

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Annie Howarth is living a restless life in a restless town. It's 1984 and for a mining community in South Yorkshire, the strikes mean tensions are running high. Then a murdered girl is found on the moors and the anxiety levels are pushed to a dangerous breaking point.

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Best friends fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, Devera and BiDi, were recently voted 'Least Changed' at their twentieth high school reunion - a label neither one finds very appealing.

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This is a book about freedom - the freedom to love, to play, to work, to sing, to create and to be happy. It's about freedom to change, to try new endeavours and to feel a lightness of spirit within.

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Now he and his family - his embarrassingly devout missionary parents and his sisters, the tyrannical 18 year-old Janet and the angelic Rachael - are on their modest annual skiing holiday in Switzerland.