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Examines the bedroom antics of the some of the most powerful men in history. The book ranges from Hitler and the lethal effects he had on his lovers, to the rapacity of Mussolini and Mao Tse Tung, who believed that bathing with young girls would keep him young.

This series of miniature gift books provides amusing Shakespearian quotations on different, themed subjects. Each book also includes Shakespearian fact boxes and a general introduction that provides insight into the world of Shakespeare.

If you want more than your allotted 15 minutes of fame, then it might be worth dipping into this reference for the stars of tomorrow. Find out all about the Machiavellian machinations behind the surface glamour of fame, and how you can play dirty along with the best of them.

Tells the story of three intriguing and interwoven relationships between Charles Paget-Brown, debonair English adventurer, Vincent Perotti, seasoned Mafia operative and Sam Baker, successful entrepreneur and Charles closest ally. By the author of "Clash of Honour" and "The Red Pagoda".

In this book, the author writes of the nature of the English village in general, and takes the reader on a nostalgic journey around the world of the village, the school, the farm, and village trades and games.

This is a novel of two cultures and two generations. When Anna Pritchard travels to Japan to find, and seduce, the son of the man she believes killed her father, the scene is set for a deadly drama of shame and revenge. But the truth, she discovers, is not always as one believes.

The Autobiography of a Cad" is a spoof memoir of the life and times of one Edward Fox-Ingleby. Born in 1889, it runs from his earliest memories of his father's Midlands estate through to Eton, Oxford, the Great War and his defining moment: installation as a Tory minister in the 1930s.

A bawdy parody of a late 18th-century gentleman's diary. Amos Haggard is a gargantuan, warty toad of a character. Along with Roderick, his idiot sidekick son, he carouses with prostitutes, imbibes copious amounts of wine, evicts the poor and fires his pistols at poachers, dissenters and foreigners.

Eddie plays to forget. Haunted by his past, he hides from life playing nightly in a skid row drinking joint - a world of hookers, lowlifes and petty crooks. A hopeless ghost of a man who has ceased caring about himself, he saves his loyalty for others which eventually drags him down.

Older and wiser after five years inside, Carlito Brigante, Puerto Rican heavy hitter and drug dealer is looking to slow down, maybe get out of the whole scene. But as a name with a rep to uphold it's tough, and Carlito needs to pull in some money somehow.

A novelisation of a screenplay in which a mad scientist brings about a nuclear holocaust, resulting in frantic telephone calls being made between the White House and the Kremlin. From the author of RED ALERT.

First published in 1957, Highet recalls some of the greatest Latin poets by describing the places where they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work. A travel companion that invokes the soul of Italy this is for lovers of poetry and of the country itself.

As America slowly relaxed its moral codes in the post war era, the pulp novels of the paperback racks offered an initiation of the previously hidden demi-mondes of sex and hedonistic excess. Pulp Postcards gathers together the most daring of these original jackets.