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At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world. Then disaster. In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour - and all public life - as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down. Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne's descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career - including his turbulent marriage to wife Sharon, his regrets over Black Sabbath's reunion, his friendships with Slash and Zakk Wylde, and the harrowing final moments he spent with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister. Unflinching but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Rites demonstrates once again why Ozzy has transcended his status as 'The Godfather of Metal' and 'The Prince of Darkness' to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.

Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa's talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa joined Hole just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Hole's prior bassist, Kristen Pfaff, with the just-widowed Courtney Love at the centre of it all.<br/><br/>That was only the beginning of Melissa's journey through alternative rock, a trip she undertook alongside 90s luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe and her former boyfriend, Dave Grohl. <i>Even the Good Girls Will Cry</i> is a vivid dispatch from the last analogue decade, capturing that bygone era in all its messy, angsty glory.

<b>Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder.</b><br/><br/>She's edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pund, and both times she's come close to being killed. Now she's back in England and she's been persuaded to work on a third.<br/><br/>The new 'continuation' novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children's author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.<br/><br/>Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam's killer inside his book, Susan knows she's in trouble once again.<br/><br/>As Susan works on <i>Pund's Last Case</i>, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she finds more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world - until suddenly she finds that she has become a target.<br/><br/><b>Someone in Eliot's family doesn't want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.</b><br/>______________<br/><br/><i><b>Praise for the Magpie Murders series . . .</b></i><br/><br/>'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley<br/>'Ingenious' <i>Sunday Times</i><br/>'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' <i>Daily Mail</i>

<b>Chilling, mind-bending supernatural scares from cult horror sensation, Courtney Gould, in her UK debut. Perfect for YA fans of <i>I Saw the TV Glow</i> and <i>Backrooms</i>, with the dark, multi-generational mystery of </b><i><b>Yellowjackets.</b><br/><br/>Flickering neon lights and hot Miami nights turn deadly . . .</i><br/><br/>Twenty-five years ago, the Ripley Memorial High School senior class entered the luxurious Kaleidoscope Key resort. Most of them never left. The five survivors of the massacre have never revealed what happened.<br/><br/>Paige, daughter of one of the survivors, has grown up determined to steer her life away from the unsolved mystery her ex-best friend, KJ, can't leave alone. But when she's called home on the anniversary of the massacre, she finds KJ missing. There's only one place she could be: the now-abandoned resort.<br/><br/>When Paige and the remaining survivors' kids follow KJ there, they're forced to confront a horrifying truth: Kaleidoscope Key has been waiting . . .<br/><br/><b>Netgalley reviewers are loving <i>Until the Last Light Goes Out:</i></b><br/><br/>'I absolutely DEVOURED this book on just one day. All the thrills, chills, twists, turns, and deviousness I'd want out of a horror novel'<br/>'an absolute banger of a book! . . . one of those books that are just so good that I was covering the bottom of the page so my eyes didn't jump ahead'<br/>'eerie, mysterious and so atmospheric . . . the type of book to keep you reading until the early hours of the morning'

<b>'A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page' - Anthony Burgess</b><br/><br/>Joyce's final work, <i>Finnegans Wake </i>is his masterpiece of the night as <i>Ulysses </i>is of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - that he saw at the heart of Irish history. Dazzlingly inventive, with passages of great lyrical beauty and humour, <i>Finnegans Wake</i> remains one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century. With a new introduction by Brian Fox.

At Botswana's No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi are intrigued by the troubling dismissal of an employee at a thriving local business. The ladies proceed with investigations as they are inclined to do - with Mma Makutsi's customary vigour, and Mma Ramotswe's rather more subtle caution. Soon enough, interesting discoveries are made... marital subterfuge, undue influence and commercial chicanery! Clearly, there is more to this dismissal than at first imagined.<br/><br/>While Mma Makutsi's focus, as self-appointed Principal Investigating Officer, is firmly on the case, Mma Ramotswe's attention is diverted by personal matters. Not only has her disgraced ex-husband reappeared in town, but she has stumbled on an unsettling family secret of her own - one that might threaten what she holds closest to her heart.<br/><br/>As Precious contemplates this painful possibility, she must draw on her strength and compassion and confront The House of Unexpected Sisters. And for both Mma Makutsi and Mma Ramotswe, the wise words of their mentor Clovis Andersen - 'the needle swings in confusing ways' - have never been more prescient . . .

<b>Keep the doom, gloom and darkness away with this glow-in-the-dark colouring book based on the hit TV series </b><i><b>Wednesday</b></i><b>!</b><br/><br/>Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Featuring highly detailed and hauntingly beautiful black-and-white illustrations with 24 special pages that glow in the dark, this colouring book is the perfect way for fans of Wednesday to bring a little light and colour into the dark world of the <i>Wednesday </i>TV series.<br/><br/>Suitable for children.