When Alex Higgins' first manager, John Mc Laughlin, bestowed the nickname ' Hurricane Higgins' on the young, feisty snooker

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This trio of books from Alex Kava feature her popular protagonist, FBI criminal profiler Maggie O' Dell, as she races against time to solve horrific murder cases before the perpetrators can strike again. Now an established star of the thriller genre, Kava is a powerful writer who has been compared to the likes of Jeffery Deaver, Patricia Cornwell & James Patterson. Novels packed with suspense, twists & turns in all the right places, these three books are sure to appeal to fans of contemporary crime fiction! ...

In this must-have guide Alex Polizzi, presenter of Channel 5's The Hotel Inspector, takes the hassle out of hotel selection, revealing the very best places to stay in Great Britain. & you can rest assured that all 52 of the outstanding destinations featured
- one for every weekend of the year -live up to Alex's famously exacting standards.
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as smooth & trouble-free as possible. With its winning combination of expert advice, insider tips & sumptuous photography, Alex Polizzi's Little Black Book of Hotels makes compulsive reading for the armchair traveller, as well as essential reference when planning any trip away. ...

Alex Prager is one of the truly original image makers of our time. Working fluidly between photography & film, she creates large-scale projects that combine elaborately built sets, highly staged, complex performances & a ` Hollywood' aesthetic to produce still & moving images that are familiar yet strange, utterly compelling & unerringly memorable. In her career she has won both popular acclaim & the recognition of the art establishment
- her work can be found in the collections of Mo MA & the Whitney Museum in New York as well as institutions worldwide. This book is the first career retrospective of this rising star. In 120 carefully curated photographs, it summarizes Prager's creative trajectory & offers an ideal introduction for the popular `breakout' audience who may have only recently encountered her work. Structured around her project-orientated approach, Silver Lake Drive presents the very best images from her career to date: from the early Film Stills through her collaborations with the actor Bryce Dallas Howard on Week-end & Despair to the tour de force of Face in the Crowd
- shot on a Hollywood sound stage with over 150 performers
- & her 2015 commission for the Paris opera La Grande Sortie. Supported by an international exhibition schedule, & including an in-depth interview with Alex Prager by Nathalie Herschdorfer & supplementary essays by the curators of renowned museums & galleries, this book will be an essential addition to the collection of anyone who has followed Prager's career & all with an interest in & appreciation of contemporary art.


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Anthony Horowitz launched a phenomenal action-packed adventure series with Stormbreaker, the first book starring teenage superspy, Alex Rider. His teenage hero is cool, contemporary & brave
- just the right sort of hero to entice reluctant readers aged 9 & over to get reading. As the book begins, Alex discovers that his uncle
- who has looked after him since he was a baby
- has been killed in a car crash. What's more... he was a spy not a banker
- & now Alex is being recruited to help on a MI6 mission. Told at breakneck pace & with tons of suspense, this is an irresistible read.



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A guide to the exciting missions of teenage spy Alex Rider, featuring blueprints, data files, foldout posters & more. Resembling an MI6 secret dossier, it contains documents that reveal the inside story of British Intelligence's secret weapon: 14-year-old Alex Rider. ...

This is an essential guide to the exciting missions of teenage spy Alex Rider, featuring blueprints, data files, foldout posters & more. Resembling an MI6 secret dossier, these classified documents reveal the inside story of British Intelligence's secret weapon: 14-year-old Alex Rider. Packed with information about every aspect of his missions to date, The Mission Files is an unbeatable guide to the teen super-spy's adventures. It

Includes:: five full-size, double-sided posters & two booklets containing everything you need to know about codes & spycraft.

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Catching the school's runaway guinea pigs is not giving Alex job satisfaction, but how can he find a bigger test for his & Jess's awkward superpowers? Jess is more worried about the bullied new boy, whose Mum runs the animal sanctuary. She volunteers at the sanctuary, but soon realises that something is very wrong; the animals are terrified. People report strange events: things missing, property destroyed, & the local squirrels have turned mean. The police have no suspects. It looks more & more like a job for Agent Alex... ...

Alex Sparrow is a super-agent in training. He is also a human lie-detector. Working with Jess
- who can communicate with animals
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