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The Bloody Chamber(9781447913153)

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Frankenstein (9781447913214)

The Great Gatsby(9781447913207)

Macbeth(9781447913146)

Othello(9781447913191)

WutheringHeights(9781447913184)

York Notes AS/A2: The Kite Runner (Kindle) - for 2026, 2027 exams

Diana Hamilton is a strong, successful, wealthy woman. She owns the most discreet, exclusive and expensive private members club in Mayfair. But when she decides to expand beyond London she encounters two truly terrible brothers.They have made millions over the years, importing heroin, cocaine, ketamine and illegal immigrants. But they want more. And her business looks like a soft target.“What terrified him the most was the dentist chair and the straps - until he saw the metal rings attached to the ceiling and the rings in the floor below.”

Motorway Service Stations are places where people pass through on their way to somewhere else: somewhere better, somewhere brighter. But every traveller has a tale to tell, a story of their own, and sometimes they're not what you'd expect. Braking Distance is a glimpse beneath the surface. It brings you love, death, lust, loss, betrayal, belonging, murder, aliens and a time-travelling adventuress being chased by a dastardly foe!This collection is made up of loosely connected stories, all occurring in the same place at the same time, sprawling out across different genres, styles, perspectives and emotions. The camera swings from place to place, and over the course of eighteen short stories, builds up a picture which is surprising, exciting and strange.

A Russian drug baron is planning to flood the UK with Fentanyl, an opioid that is fifty times more potent than heroin and incredibly addictive and easy to manufacture.The DEA and the NCA need to stop the man in his tracks. But the only person who can help them is dead.

Life is good. Drugs, booze, sex, and plenty of money. When blank passports are found in an important client's wealth management office, these baby boomer professionals find themselves in terrible trouble. HMRC are after them as well. But worse, so are those working for Jorge Perez - the chief money launderer for the infamous Los Zetas drug cartel.

Life is good. Drugs, booze, sex, and plenty of money. But, when blank passports are found in an important client's wealth management office, these baby boomer professionals find themselves in terrible trouble. They can't trust their colleagues or their bosses and HMRC are after them as well. But much worse, so are the people working for Jorge Perez - the chief money launderer for the infamous Los Zetas drug cartel."... He had only met Jorge once; on that occasion he was invited to dinner during which he had to watch a man killing someone's wife. It became apparent that a video of the killing was going to be sent to her husband because he had displeased Jorge in some way."

Chief Superintendent Jackie Starling is a ruthless, ambitious, senior officer in the UK National Crime Agency. Tasked with closing down the "County Lines" drug dealers she is determined to get a result; whatever it takes. Catching and convicting the dealers is easy enough; most of them are children. But these results are temporary and the young criminals are replaced within days. Starling needs a different strategy and so faces a choice: Stay within the rules and chip away at the foot soldiers or kill the bosses? She decides to go for the bosses. She knows someone capable of carrying out the tasks ahead and she has the power to persuade him to deliver. But Starling has no idea what they will be up against or the prospect of a horrifying death that she will be facing."County Lines" is the UK distribution model that involves urban gangs expanding their markets for crack cocaine and heroin into smaller towns by setting up phone lines through which they sell the Class A drugs.

Diana Hamilton is a strong, successful, wealthy woman. She owns the most discreet, exclusive and expensive private members club in Mayfair. But when she decides to expand beyond London she encounters two truly terrible brothers.They have made millions over the years, importing heroin, cocaine, ketamine and illegal immigrants. But they want more. And her business looks like a soft target.“What terrified him the most was the dentist chair and the straps - until he saw the metal rings attached to the ceiling and the rings in the floor below.”