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Updated version of the 2004 cult classic that shone a light into the darkest corners of London's criminal underworld. Judas Pig 2023 (rebooted and suited) carries on in the same tradition and, like its predecessor, pulls no punches. It's a tough but darkly funny read from start to finish and not for the faint-hearted.

The long-awaited prequel to Judas Pig. Set in the early Eighties, Soho Swag finds Billy Abrahams scratching a living committing petty crimes on the streets of South London. Billy is offered the chance to leave behind his hand-to-mouth existence to go to work for Soho godfather Bernie Silver, determined to re-establish his authority in London's West End after spending time in prison for murder and the biggest police corruption case in British history.

This collection of unvarnished random recollections fills in yet more missing pieces of Billy Abraham's background story, outlining his crazy, unconventional life, from an innocent primary schoolboy and original pre-teenage '69 skinhead, on through the heady days of Glam rock and Punk, and also his escapades as a professional criminal on the streets of London's Soho.

During the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny of the media, corporate sponsors and obsessive fans, the competing couples are put through a series of gruelling and humiliating feats of endurance, until they begin to fight among themselves and betray each other. As days and weeks go by, the tension reaches boiling point, and this pitch-black tale of desire and desp...

What if your family's throne depended on breaking a prophecy-before the castle walls break you?First published in 1764, The Castle of Otranto combines medieval romance with eerie apparitions to forge the blueprint of gothic fiction. When Prince Manfred schemes to wed the betrothed of his slain son, he sets off a chain of spectral visitations, hidden identities, and deadly pursuits through moonlit cloisters.What You'll Discover in This Modern Tran...

An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, f****or readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz**.**Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times Bestseller - over 60,000 copies sold.Even in the most horrifying places on earth, hope still lingers in the darkness, waiting for the opp...

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century, with authors such as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier. The Castle of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabel...

The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet's friends, deals with the problem of achieving contentment amid the complexities of urban life, while Epistles II and the Ars Poetica discuss Latin poetry - its history and social functions, and the craft required for its success. Both works have had a ...

'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. Alongside famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the coun...

Ancient Rome had no shortage of great writers and poets, including Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Tacitus, and countless others. One of the great Roman poets who is usually part of the conversation is Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known simply as Horace (65-8 B.C.). In fact, Horace was the preeminent Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. Horace may have had his greatest influence on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. While people today still echo his Carpe Diem, its clear that his poe...

What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentmentWhat are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome’s greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65–8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live a good life—above all else, a life of contentment in a world of materialistic excess and personal pressures. In...

Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty. Offering allusive and exquisitely crafted insights into the brief joys of the present and the uncertain nature of the future, his Odes and Epodes explore such diverse themes as the virtues of pastoral life, the joys of wine, friendship and love, ...