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Paperback. Condition: Good. The life of the Queen Mother was intensely secret. The most senior and best respected member of any royal family in history, she did not give one media interview in her 101 years. This affectionate and often hilarious glimpse into her world by her former equerry reveals what life was really like living with the most private of all the royals. From dancing with Fred Astaire to living through the Blitz; from the time Princess Margaret caught fire at a dinner party to when Prince Charles sought solace from his grandmother as his marriage collapsed, each anecdote and observation provides an historic insight into one of our longest surviving institutions. Constantly fascinating and packed from start to finish with previously untold stories that lift the lid on the idiosyncrasies of royal protocol, this is also a celebration of a life gone--and a way of life fast disappearing.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Follow Princess Diana on an intimate journey into the very heart of her life in the city she loved. Despite her public profile, she led a surprisingly secret life away from the press. This practical guide allows you to follow her footsteps and is packed with hundreds of photographs showing a London you never knew existed. The school she worked in as a kindergarden teacher. Her favourite shops. The pub in which she played on the fruit machine. The lake where she dramatically saved a man's life.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. In this action-packed, revealing, funny and sometimes heart-breaking memoir, Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan recounts her life in and out of the limelight.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Kim Chown was just 11 when her father Bernard Beaumont took her from her mother to Kenya. There, he tormented Kim with extreme sexual and emotional abuse, safe in the knowledge that as a pillar of the expat community his word would be believed over hers. Aged 20, Kim returned to England permanently, where she built a new life and a new family. However, she could not escape her father's influence, and eventually descended into alcoholism. But, after almost losing her life, Kim fought back. With the support of her husband and adult children, she finally faced her father in court and won justice for his shocking crimes. This is one woman's inspiring true story of overcoming horrific abuse to build a happy life - against the odds.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. It remains one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in music history. The nervous and dishevelled figure who played his punk-blues song 'Dog House Boogie' before Jools Holland and his dumbstruck Hootenanny audience that New Year's Eve 2006 seemed to have emerged from nowhere. Apparently a sixty-five-year-old former hobo, Steve played his trademark threestring guitar (aka The Three-String Trance Wonder) and stomped on a wooden box with a Mississippi motorcycle plate stuck on (aka The Mississippi Drum Machine). His Norwegian studio had recently failed, he'd had a heart attack, and he was only known among a tiny community of hardcore blues fans, yet by the next morning he was famous. His album Dog House Music, recorded in his kitchen, sold out overnight. 2007 brought a MOJO, Reading and Glastonbury, and 2008 worldwide success and his major label debut. The rest, they say, is history. Or perhaps not. Everyone loved the grit and authenticity of Steve's songs about life on the road. His roots in the Deep South were celebrated across the media, and BBC Four took Steve round Mississippi for a documentary. But look a little closer, and a very different musical - and personal - journey rears its head. In this groundbreaking new biography, Matthew Wright draws on new information and some musical collaborators to create a startling life story, teasing out crucial details to turn the regular story of a hobo's wanderings in the wilderness on its head and bring Seasick Steve's life in from the cold. The real Steve was not a blue-collar amateur who got lucky, but a committed professional, steeped in a variety of ever-changing, era-defining musical traditions throughout his life, from the moment his dad played him boogie-woogie piano as a baby. This is a career that's touched an astonishing range of lives, from Albert King and Lighnin' Hopkins to Jimi Hendrix, from Janis Joplin to Kurt Cobain and Slash of Guns N' Roses. Ramblin' Man tells the tale of the extraordinary life of this musical polymath, as he wound a course through some of the most epochal moments in music history of the twentieth century. The myth was astonishing; the real story is even better.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Jurgan Klinsmann: deadly goal-poacher, Tottenham Hotspur hero, world champion. After helping to beat England in the 1990 World Cup, the German striker came to play for Tottenham Hotspur - but it took a long time for Spurs fans to grow to love him. Yet with his competitive spirit, humour and his amazing talent for conjuring a goal from thin air, he quickly became a North London legend. This is his exciting story.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. TV's top fugitive hunter investigates the UK's worst unsolved murders Roughly ten per cent of all murders in the UK go unsolved. Here, Britain's top ex-undercover cop shines new light on cases up and down the country in search of answers. Peter Bleksley's life has been devoted to investigating. As an undercover detective for the Metropolitan Police and in his ability to get to the bottom of a case was legendary as he dealt with some of the world's most feared criminals. His success rate in solving murders as a serving officer was one hundred per cent. Using the investigative skills gained from decades of experience and access to archives and contacts in the force, Bleksley shines new light on investigations that ran aground, often despite extensive media coverage and police resources. Often he discovers glaring errors made by investigators and forensic teams that will shock many of the general public. Now a renowned policing and crime expert seen on the BBC and as the Chief on Channel 4's Hunted, Bleksley's knowledge and experience is peerless. On the Run is a comprehensive and fascinating investigation into murders of the most callous kind, finding the human story behind the headlines as he hunts down the killers on the run from justice.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS THIS CHRISTMAS Who wrote Only Fools and Horses? What is Rodney Trotter's middle name.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Roy Pretty Boy Shaw is reported to be the most vicious man in England. But the heavy electric gates that protect the grounds of his Essex home cannot hide his chequered past - Roy has been in every secure institution in the country. This book presents his life story.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Do you want to get your life back on track? Are you treading water in your career? Does your relationship need a lift? Are you more fat than fit? Well, Get a Grip then! This is the self-help manual for people who hate self-help.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A victim of violent abuse at the hands of his stepfather, Lenny spent much of his teenage life in borstal as he began to follow a life of crime. However, it was his ability as a fighter that was to turn his life around. Lenny McLean inspired fear in many, but respect from all, as he became a bare-knuckle fighting legend. His fame became even greater in later life, appearing in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels just as his autobiography was reaching the top of the bestsellers chart. Lenny's untimely death from cancer in 1998 marked the beginning of the end of the old Cockney way of life and interest in his story has only increased since his passing, inspiring documentaries as well as a feature film, My Name is Lenny. In these unedited conversations between Lenny and his 'book man' Peter Gerrard, featuring many anecdotes that did not appear in The Guv'nor, we get to see the man behind the public image. As he looks back on his life, these transcripts reveal Lenny's humour and charm as well as the volatility that made him one of the most notorious figures ever to emerge from the East End.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. He arrived to rally the troops, the main man in the Inter City Firm and his greeting passed into football fan history. Afternoon, gentlemen, the name's Bill Gardner. That introduction alone was often enough to provoke sheer terror in his opponents. He is a genuine legend to anyone who's ever stood proud on a football terrace. No serious book on the culture would be complete without at least one mention of him. And now at last, he's telling his own, long-awaited story. For the first time, Gardner himself reveals what made him the top man, including his innermost thoughts and his memories of the classic years for football fans. And many familiar faces have queued up to add their comments in this book which shows just what it is that makes Bill Gardner unique among the toughest and the greatest of them all.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Pete Doherty is the man who put the sex and drugs back into rock and roll. Drawing on the memories of Pete, those of his girlfriends, managers and drug-taking companions, this work tells the story of Pete's life, from the depths of his heroin and crack addictions to the heights of his musical successes and his relationship with Kate Moss.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. England manager Gareth Southgate's decision to appoint Kane, still just twenty-three years old, as the team captain in 2017 could have been seen as premature, bringing with it pressure that could damage a young player's career. However, he knew that Kane, a modest, humble and inspiring figure was up to the task.Having lost faith in the national team, English fans weren't sure the players would even make it out of their group. No one could have predicted that this young and relatively inexperienced side would achieve their best result since 1990, or that their captain would win the tournament's Golden Boot with six goals. Perhaps most importantly for the team and their manager, they brought the country together to make for an unforgettable summer.While their eventual semi-final loss to Croatia came as a stinging disappointment, this is just the start for the team and their skipper, one of our most exciting players for a generation and a truly world-class English star.In this in-depth biography, bestselling sports writer Frank Worrall traces Kane's journey from an ordinary childhood in north London, growing up just a few miles from White Hart Lane, to the most remarkable tournament of his career.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. He arrived to rally the troops, the main man in the Inter City Firm and his greeting passed into football fan history. Afternoon, gentlemen, the name's Bill Gardner. That introduction alone was often enough to provoke sheer terror in his opponents. He is a genuine legend to anyone who's ever stood proud on a football terrace. No serious book on the culture would be complete without at least one mention of him. And now at last, he's telling his own, long-awaited story. For the first time, Gardner himself reveals what made him the top man, including his innermost thoughts and his memories of the classic years for football fans. And many familiar faces have queued up to add their comments in this book which shows just what it is that makes Bill Gardner unique among the toughest and the greatest of them all.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. You might think you know Brigitte Nielsen: Big Brother star, supermodel, ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone - but prepare to be surprised. Brigitte was once a shy recluse, shunned by school friends because of her impossible height and her unbelievably skinny looks. And in this book she charts her journey from troubled childhood in Denmark all the way to Hollywood. For the first time she reveals her fling with Arnold Schwarzenegger, her blacklisting from Hollywood and her attempt at suicide. She made her film debut in Red Sonja and for a while it seemed as if Brigitte Nielsen had everything. But in fact she had to struggle to overcome addicition, weight gain, abusive relationships and countless professional setbacks. Now a contented wife, mother and television star she describes her inspirational story. As someone who has experienced the highs of life as Hollywood royalty and the depths of despair, Brigitte has first-hand knowledge of how to retain your sanity and self-respect in the face of toxic relationship with toxic men.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Over the Easter weekend in 2015, an audacious gang of criminals robbed a safe depository in London's Hatton Garden, the centre of the UK's diamond trade. The question was, were they the same gang that had made a similar daring raid in Hatton Garden safe netting GBP1.5 million over the Christmas holiday in 2004.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. This insightful and often hilarious romp charts the dramatic ups and downs of Tottenham Hotspur, as seen through the eyes of one of its most unlikely heroes: Roy Reyland, the local kit man who served the club for almost thirty years. From inside the dressing room and on the bench, Roy has witnessed the agony and the ecstasy of three decades of seasons at Tottenham Hotspur. He looked after Spurs' famous lilywhite shirts for an incredible 1,397 matches, home and away, including 12 dramatic cup finals. Working under 17 managers - from Keith Burkinshaw to Martin Jol - he visited Wembley more times than many of the brightest stars of the Premiership. And, of course, he worked closely with some of White Hart Lane's greatest ever players - from Ardiles and Gazza to Klinsmann and Ginola. As the club's unofficial agony aunt, Roy has seen the tears and the triumphs, the dressing-room pranks, and has a unique insight into the inner workings of the legendary Premiership side. He has seen it all, and his story is one of total devotion to the club.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Quick tikkas and tandooris, instant baltis, special meat, fish and veggie curries in minutes! Curry is the nation's favourite food, yet with today's hectic and demanding lifestyles most of us feel we don't have time to prepare the delicious meals we so enjoy. Instead, we often opt for the local restaurant, the takeaway or the microwave meal when in our hearts we'd like to be able to cook for ourselves. Yet, as Pat Chapman shows us in this wonderful collection, things need not be like this.Pat has created a superb range of easy dishes that will take no longer than 30 minutes to make. He provides us with a quick method to give us the satisfaction of creating our favourite curries and ensures that the quality of meal is not compromised.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. This is a fascinating and fun volume providing concise answers to hundreds of the questions we all ponder from time to time and also sets us straight about many things that most of us assume to be true, giving us the often surprising low down on an astonishing variety of topics. It is essential reading for any lover of learned knowledge combined with memorable trivia.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Mark Brandon Read - Chopper to his friends and enemies - has become a cult figure across the world. Since the success of the movie of his life, and the accompanying book, his exploits have shocked and amused readers in several countries. An underworld executioner and notorious criminal, when Chopper was first released from prison he vowed never to return. He became a bizarre celebrity as his autobiography became a bestseller. Six months later he was back in jail writing the second astonishing instalment of his brilliant memoir: How to Shoot Friends and Influence People. "'I enjoyed reading the first book. I just wish I wasn't in it.' DETECTIVE INSPECTOR ROD PORTER 'Mark Brandon Read has done for literature what Hannibal Lecter did for vegetarianism.' DETECTIVE SERGEANT ROD WILSON".…

Hardback. Condition: Good. This is a fascinating and fun volume providing concise answers to hundreds of the questions we all ponder from time to time and also sets us straight about many things that most of us assume to be true, giving us the often surprising low down on an astonishing variety of topics. It is essential reading for any lover of learned knowledge combined with memorable trivia.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Do you want to get your life back on track? Are you treading water in your career? Does your relationship need a lift? Are you more fat than fit? Well, Get a Grip then! This is the self-help manual for people who hate self-help.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Kenny Ball is arguably the most successful jazz trumpet player this side of the Atlantic. His autobiography is told with all the style, wit and passion that you would expect of this well loved star. It includes wonderful stories of his life on the road with such giants of the music world as Louis Armstrong.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. On 2 June, 2003, Stephenie Meyer had a dream that would change her life forever. She dreamt of a young girl and her sparkling vampire lover lying in a field, and that dream became Twilight. Now, her vampire romance novels have become a publishing phenomenon, selling over 70 million books worldwide, and have been translated into 37 difference languages.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. After two years of mixed fortunes at Sunderland, McCoist returned to Scotland and signed for his boyhood heroes Glasgow Rangers. An authoritative and affectionate portrait of this much-loved sportsman, Ally McCoist - Portrait of a Hero charts the highs and lows of a fascinating career, culminating in McCoist reaching legendary status.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Were you aware that cigarettes contain honey? Or that a ferret will die if it cannot find a mate? Would you like to know what Madonna did before she was famous, or how many toothpick accidents there are every year? This work addresses these and other questions.