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Bill Fitzhughturns his satirical eye to Big Pharma, a sociopathic billionaire and genetically engineered primates coming up against a determined but incompetent environmentalist and eco-terrorists on the loose with hilarious and outrageous results!

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The passionate and elegantly dark tale of desire, obsession and deceit by a talented new author

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Smiler flees to the farm of the 'The Duchess' in North Devon, where he stays and tends to circus animals housed there for the winter. All is going well until a peregrine falcon, Fria, escapes.

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There is chalk in his fingernails and paper darts fill the air asA. J. Wentworth, mathematics master at Burgrove Preparatory School, unwittingly opens the doors that lead not to knowledge but to chaos and confusion. This gentle comedy trilogy was a runaway bestseller on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal today.

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With a huge reward on the line, the Stockwell Park Orchestra will need to play on a whole new scale to win big.

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On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures - a 15-year-old boy, Smiler, and a cheetah, Yarra - escape from captivity. Their lives become inextricably bound up as they fight for survival on the edge of Salisbury Plain.

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The story of one woman, one baby, a slipped disc and rather too many wrinkles,The Secret Diary of a New Mum (Aged 43 1/4)follows a midlife mum as she makes the transition from experienced TV producer to utterly inexperienced parent.

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It is to be A.J. Wentworth's final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown - or, to be more precise, Rawlinson's cap and gown - and returns to Burgrove for just one more time.

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A life-affirming story of family and personal self-discovery

When George, the eldest son of Matthew Silverman, announces he won't follow his father's footsteps as editor of the family-owned local newspaper, the family finds itself on a course for change. Can Matthew do what's best for them all

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Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most lovable and most unlikely of international spies.

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Flying to Britain in his self-designed amphibious aircraft,ex-fighter pilot Bart Bandy makes a forced landing in Reykjavik, is rescued by a beautiful blonde, and finally sinks his precious plane while saving the life of a novice pilot.

With black comedy and seat-of-the pants escapades, Donald Jack's series is uniquely funny and compelling.

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Donald Jack's blackly humorous Bandy memoirs are classics of their kind. Against an unshrinkingly depicted backdrop of war and its horrors, his anti-hero's adventures are both gripping and shockingly funny.

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The fearless tale of the original 'Party Girl', in her own frankly scurrilous words: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for its 125th anniversary

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The drinks are on local historian/spree killer Serge Storms, who's decided it's high time he got married. But for Serge, "getting hitched" doesn't necessarily mean "settling down" - not when South Florida is crawling with slimeballs, swindlers, unrepentant jerks, and annoying bystanders whose ranks need some serious thinning.

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Connecting with long lost relatives has made Serge understand the importance of family buthis newfound friendship in the mysterious swamps of Florida may lead to deadly results...

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Rita, a small, tough Scottish make-up artist, is on Madeira trying to find out who killed Kim-Jim. She isn't one for quitting, even when she learns she's caught up in an international drug-smuggling ring. Fortunately, Johnson Johnson and his trusty yacht, Dolly, are there to help solve the case.

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Happy with each other, Reginald and Sylvia think they just want the quiet life. But when success overtakes them, and the draw of the city, they find parts of themselves they never knew. Where does their happiness really lie

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Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen, home to retired art teacherMiss Emily Seeton. Their attempt at a midnight ambush goes wrong, and a man is found dead.

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A revealing and tremendously entertaining look at how the world of luck really works

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In Mumblesbury, the local solicitor has suddenly died.

Natural causes it seems, butDI Purbrightand Miss Lucy Teatimeare taken aback by the quality of his art collection. All were acquired locally and the question of blackmail arises.

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson offers a mordantly entertaining cast and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

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More outrageous than Santa Claus in a Speedo,When Elves Attackserves up a Yuletide feast of the "pure gonzo humor" theNew York Times Book Reviewenthusiastically attributes to this fearlessly funny writer.

Welcome to Tim Dorsey's slice of America - where nobody gets out unscathed and un-Santa-Claused!

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Scandal, conspiracy, and the trial of the century.

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The fresh, revealing and entertaining account of Oscar Wilde, the most influential writer of his age, and the women who inspired him.

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The bickering but loving Rooks run a small family business - ghost hunting. They claim that there's no supernatural problem too small or too big for them... which unfortunately includes the apocalypse.