After ten years away, ex-boxer Floyd Carter comes back for his brother's funeral, and to decide what's to be done with his other brother, the lumbering Ludo whose mental age is barely twelve. But if Ludo knows anything it is that Albie's death was not an accident. And if Floyd knows anything it is that he will have to sort things out. In case he thought he had a choice, he is quickly confronted by local hoods who claim that Albie owes ten thousand pounds. And 'Snake' Carmichael, upscale nightclub owner and drug supplier to the recently renovated Isle of Dogs, wants Floyd Carter in his team. But was Carmichael behind Albie's death? Or were the Richardsons involved?Floyd's old friend Jamie is hooked on drugs. And Suzie Peters, Floyd's one-time teenage flame, has an eighteen-year-old mixed-race daughter who sings in Carmichael's club. Floyd thought his fighting days were over. They aren't yet.

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Cité aux multiples facettes, Barcelone déborde de dynamisme. Ses deux mille ans d'histoire combinés à sa joie de vivre méditerranéenne offrent à chaque visiteur une expérience inoubliable. Boutiques, restaurants, Cool Barcelona vous fait découvrir des derniers lieux à la mode, et plus encore. La top mode) Eva Padberg et le photographe de mode Russell James vous livrent quelques conseils exclusifs pour évoluer dans les lieux les plus en vue. Cool Barcelona propose également un chapitre de renseignements pratiques et administratifs des plus complets, comportant une liste d'adresses utiles et une carte de la ville. Cool Barcelona sera votre meilleur compagnon dans cette ville branchée.

Cool Barcelona

From one of Britain's masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented here in bargain-price format. The first, A Piece of Cake, has been anthologised several times already, and tells of the night Terri waited at home for her current lover, the no-good Jeg, to return from his latest robbery. The job had gone wrong, and Jeg is not in a good mood. In the second story, No Debts Unpaid, Terri has moved on. Working as a hostess in a south London bar, she is pressured into picking up and duping a more likeable young criminal, Billy Nolan. Terri is a girl with a conscience - but it will be a violent night, and unhappy for some.

Terri's Tales

Coming of age in Victorian England. In 1887, twelve-year-old orphan Lucy Richards is taken secretly into the care of a half-pay captain in an isolated farmhouse several miles from the small town of Croome. Lucy's mother founded hospitals in India and Natal, and when news of her death arrives in Britain the press tries to find the child. But they can't find her hidden away with Captain Hart - nor when she stays at Beauchamp Manor with the local squire, where she befriends the squire's horse-mad daughter. Maud has two older brothers, the Oxford student Clive and his raffish brother Riordan who has an eye for a pretty girl. But Lucy remains besotted with Captain Hart. In the next four years she grows into a wilful, hot-blooded girl, determined to defy the constraints of the Victorian world. The Captain's Ward is both a stand-alone novel and the prequel to 'After She Drowned'.

The Captain's Ward

In late Victorian England, two fathers must choose between daughters and sons. Man's Estate, the third in the Croome saga, takes place in 1893 when the story splits between lives in the growing town of Croome and the quite different life in the nearby Manor. Squire Lawrence's four children are headed by the tall, proud, good-looking Riordan - but does he deserve to take over the Beauchamp estate? Is he a villain or merely a cad and bounder?His sister Maud is still unmarried, while his brother Clive, the budding poet, has invited the sparky Frances Vernon and her brother down from London. "If he invites that girl down here again, " thinks Riordan, "She'll have to bring her parents. What a prospect: having to entertain the middle classes, marry into the middle classes." Is Frances a suitable match for the unworldly Clive - and can she be more than a match for the raffish Riordan? And at a time of crisis, why does everyone ignore Maud?In nearby Croome meanwhile Nathan Brook, works foreman on a nearby speculative housing development, has welcomed home his eldest son Mervyn. He has been away at sea, he says, for several years - but what is his true story? Can he supplant his younger sister Megan in Nathan's eyes? When Nathan finds Mervyn a job at the Manor, can he keep it? Can he hold down any job?In the space of less than three weeks both families, the Brooks and the Lawrences, find themselves confronted by different crises. Who among then will rise to the challenge? Who will fail?Man's Estate is both a stand-alone novel and the third in the Croome saga - praised by the Historical Novel Society as "vividly described, historically accurate ... well written and impeccably researched."

Man's Estate

South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end life as a security van driver. When his van disappears with a two million pound payload Jet doesn't know whether Scott was victim or thief. But Scott's old gang knows - and they reckon Jet knows where he is. They are an evil crew - Gottfleisch, a gargantuan and sinister fence; Ray Lyons, a vicious thug out for revenge; and little Ticky, a paedophile with his own malevolent aims. When Jet decides to take his eight year old daughter with him on the road the travelling fair provides no hiding place. Hounded by press, police and intrusive social workers - and by his brother's determined gang - Jet has to fight outside the ring. This is a dark yet moving thriller from 'one of Britain's most stylish and uncompromising writers', moving from the hard streets of south east London to the last fairground boxing booth in Britain. Some reviews of this book:'His best in ages. Relish the darkness.' - Time Out'Two of the most memorably drawn villains I've come across for quite some time ... A vivid evocation of life on the road with the travelling boxing booth ... An ending that will chill you to the bone.' - Bob Cornwell in CADS.'One of Britain's best Noir writers, producing dark, powerful novels with a distinctive South London setting. In his novels, humour and humanity flourish in strange places, accentuating - and occasionally redeeming - the bleakness of the setting. ... The combination of an honourable loner, a powerful narrative and an interesting specialist background suggests an unexpected parallel: the novels of Dick Francis.' - Andrew Taylor in Tangled Web magazine'James has created an entirely loathsome and creepy pair of criminals (bringing to mind Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in their roles in the Maltese Falcon) who balance the plucky and admirable father-and-daughter team of Jet and Stella.' - Publishers Weekly'Deftly combines chilling suspense and insightful characterization, leaving us both breathless and satisfied after a heart-stopping finale.' - Peter Handel in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Count Me Out

Angleterre, 1997, quelques semaines avant l'élection de Tony Blair à la tête du gouvernement travailliste. Gottfleish, un marchand d'art peu scrupuleux, est convaincu que Sidonie Keene, une délicate lady anglaise de quatre-vingt-cinq ans, possède encore, soigneusement dissimulées, des toiles originales de sa soeur Naomi, disparue cinquante ans plus tôt dans la pauvreté, la solitude et la honte. Sa cote atteint des sommets.
Alors que Sidonie assiste aux funérailles d'un de ses plus proches amis, Gottfleish envoie Ticky, son âme damnée, évaluer la fortune qui repose derrière les rideaux du cottage. Ticky ne se doute pas qu'en fouillant les tiroirs de la dame il va réveiller de lourds secrets, nés de l'intimité de Naomi et de Sidonie avec les caciques du IIIe Reich...

A travers le regard d'une ancienne mondaine des années trente, Russell James rouvre un chapitre ténébreux de l'histoire du xxe siècle. Par la chronique d'une jeunesse brillante aussi fascinée que dépassée par le monstre nazi, et par le récit croisé de la menace spéculative qui pèse peu à peu sur les biens, les souvenirs et la personne de cette vieille lady, il nous offre un roman noir d'une exceptionnelle tenue, un portrait dense et documenté de la figure du Mal dans toutes ses ambiguïtés.

Peindre au noir

The entire story is narrated into an iPhone. Why? Crosby Ravensworth is so busy he can't make time to scatter his father's ashes, nor to sort out the dysfunctional family he hoped he'd left behind, nor to decide which of the four women in his life he should connect to. His father has committed suicide and the funeral will be the first time Crosby meets any of his uneasy family for five years - his stepmother (who never accepted him), his stepbrother (a priest), his half-sister (a businesswoman, ever on the phone like Crosby) and his youngest half-brother (out of work). Crosby leaves with a sealed box of his father's papers, a last letter and the task of scattering his father's ashes at a quiet location in the Lake District. When he has time. He's a 24/7 guy whose work takes him to some great places - Venice, California, Munich - even if he doesn't get to spend much time in them (hardly any, to tell the truth). And he gets to travel all over Britain to, well, Hartlepool, Carlisle, Birmingham .

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