The Burglar In The Bin Bag

Author : Arthur Goldstuck
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143527827
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burglar in the Bin Bag written by Arthur Goldstuck and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Goldstuck - South Africa's urban legends guru - returns with a definitive guide to the hoaxes and rumours that have terrified and confused South Africans over the last twenty years. Why did an estimated 10 000 South Africans go on 'holiday' to Zimbabwe in April 1994? Who, exactly, decided that needles covered in AIDS-infected blood were being left on cinema seats in Cape Town in 1999? How did it come to be reported in several reputable newspapers that the South African government was considering cancelling Christmas in August 2004? Whatever happened to the ' tornado' that was supposed to descend on Johannesburg and Pretoria to devastating effect on 8 October 2007? Did the 100 000 women and children set to be trafficked into South Africa for the 2010 World Cup actually arrive? Have you ever cleared your driveway of 'colour-coded' rubbish, held back from flashing your lights at someone for fear of becoming a victim of a gang initiation rite or forwarded an email about child abduction to your friends and family? If so, have you ever wondered about the origins of these warnings? In this new book, Arthur Goldstuck not only traces the evolution of these urban legends but also digs deep into the human psyche to explain why it is that we are drawn into believing and passing on these warnings even when incontrovertible proof exists that they are false.

Author : Arthur Goldstuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143026143
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burglar in the Bin Bag written by Arthur Goldstuck and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon Reece
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101517719
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mice written by Gordon Reece and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying psychological thriller about a mother and daughter pushed to their limits. Shelley and her mom have been menaced long enough. Excused from high school where a trio of bullies nearly killed her, and still reeling from her parents' humiliating divorce, Shelley has retreated with her mother to the quiet of Honeysuckle Cottage in the countryside. Thinking their troubles are over, they revel in their cozy, secure life of gardening and books, hot chocolate and Brahms by the fire. But on the eve of Shelley's sixteenth birthday, an unwelcome guest disturbs their peace and something inside Shelley snaps. What happens next will shatter all their certainties-about their safety, their moral convictions, the limits of what they are willing to accept, and what they're capable of. Debut novelist Gordon Reece has written a taut tale of gripping suspense, packed with action both comic and terrifying. Shelley is a spellbinding narrator, and her delectable mix of wit, irony, and innocence transforms the major current issue of bullying into an edge- of-your-seat story of fear, violence, family loyalty, and the outer reaches of right and wrong.

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes] written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina. Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.

Author : David Jackson
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1782836519
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resident written by David Jackson and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a SERIOUSLY creepy thriller. I may never venture into the loft again' - MARK BILLINGHAM 'Disturbing, blackly funny and completely compulsive' - ALEX NORTH 'A brilliantly chilling story with tension on every page' - T.M. LOGAN ________________________________________ THERE'S A SERIAL KILLER ON THE RUN AND HE'S HIDING IN YOUR HOUSE Thomas Brogan is a serial killer. With a trail of bodies in his wake and the police hot on his heels, it seems like Thomas has nowhere left to hide. That is until he breaks into an abandoned house at the end of a terrace on a quiet street. And when he climbs up into the loft, he realises that he can drop down into all the other houses through the shared attic space. That's when the real fun begins. Because the one thing that Thomas enjoys even more than killing is playing games with his victims - the lonely old woman, the bickering couple, the tempting young newlyweds. And his new neighbours have more than enough dark secrets to make this game his best one yet... Do you fear The Resident? Soon you'll be dying to meet him. ________________________________________ 'Brilliant. So twisted, clever and funny. Highly recommended' - MARK EDWARDS 'Clever, addictive and brazenly terrifying. I slept with the lights on after reading this one' - CHRIS WHITAKER 'Dark and disturbing yet so absorbing. Jackson knows how to reel you in' - MEL SHERRATT 'A brilliantly creepy, edge-of-your-seat, tense thriller' - WILL CARVER 'Superb. Creepy, pacy, and oh so witty' - CAZ FREAR 'A chilling psycho thriller with a very novel twist' - PAUL FINCH 'Utterly compelling and impossible to put down. Incredible' - LUCA VESTE 'Twisted as hell. I loved it!' - MANDASUE HELLER

Author : Paul Browning
Publisher : Paul Browning
ISBN 13 : 0955781507
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Guys Wear Blue written by Paul Browning and published by Paul Browning. This book was released on 2007 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Spike Webb
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1857829972
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad, Bad and Dangerous - The Book of Drummers' Tales written by Spike Webb and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never have so many famous drummers been gathered together in one place! Drummer and writer Spike Webb has spent more than three years meeting fellow drummers in bars, clubs and cafes, shooting the breeze for a couple of hours and extracting anecdote after anecdote for posterity. This is truly a labour of love - and somebody had to do it. In this book you'll meet drummers like Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Don Powell (Slade), Adam Facek (Babyshambles), Steve White (Paul Weller), Topper Headon (The Clash), Woody (Madness) and world-class session players like Toto's drummer Simon Phillips. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant but always entertaining, it's the ultimate insight into what it really means to be a drummer and an explanation, at last, for what really makes someone do a 20-minute solo. You'll be asking for an encore!

Author : Deric Barry
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304938832
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayhem in the Valleys written by Deric Barry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Welsh rogues, Danny, Todger and Wassname cause chaos in the valleys' town where they live. When Customs and Excise raid Todger's premises to find their illicit liquor still, the lads pour the booze down the drain. A frustrated policeman sits down to have a smoke and drops the lighted match. The explosion causes flames to leap out of the drain pipes and melt the plastic gutters. Ma Parker who is on the toilet in the house next door screams blue murder as flames leap out from her toilet pan and singe her bum. Danny flies the hang glider down the mountainside and spots the ginger piece and her boyfriend playing hide the sausage. He swoops so low that he nearly scorches the poor chap's bottom, and her screams can be heard in the town centre. From destroying the Rugby Club's lawnmower to burning down the Legion Hall, the boys, ever willing to help, always somehow end up causing devastation. But can their desire to help succeed when they try to blow up the Welsh Assembly?

Author : Patrick Gale
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150405542X
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Novels Volume Two written by Patrick Gale and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two family novels from an international bestselling British writer “with heart, soul, and a dark and a naughty wit” (The Observer). Armistead Maupin says of Patrick Gale: “Few writers have grasped the twisted dynamics of family the way Gale has. There’s really no one he can’t inhabit, understand, and forgive.” In both novels presented in this collection, Gale explores the complex dynamics of family with dead-on observation and generous compassion. A Sweet Obscurity: Dido, a nine-year-old orphan, lives with her aunt Eliza, who adopted the girl after her mother died. A depressed musicologist unable to balance her brilliant academic career with motherhood, Eliza ruined her marriage with an affair. Her estranged husband, Giles, is an opera singer whose girlfriend, Julia, uncovers a shocking secret while concealing one of her own. As Dido shuttles between Eliza’s squalid flat and Giles’s elegant townhouse, she acts as both tactful diplomat and insightful analyst to the adults who act like children. Until something happens that powerfully impacts her young life. “This is arguably Gale’s most questioning, troublesome work. It amuses, startles and occasionally bewilders. A Sweet Obscurity is worth every minute of your time.” —The Independent The Cat Sanctuary: Deborah Curtis’s husband, a diplomat in an African principality, was killed by a car bomb, and months later she is still recovering from the assassination. Her estranged sister Judith, an author who lives with her American lover, Joanna, in Cornwall, insists Deborah come to her farmhouse to grieve in peace. But unresolved wounds between the sisters bleed into the present, and a history of abuse comes to light. Forced to confront painful memories, the women’s secrets and lies collide in a shattering climax. “A dark tale of loss, sex and mistrust . . . A sensitive, thoughtful novel with a conclusion that is both unsettling and consistent.” —Time Out London

Author : Kirsten Paul
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509231412
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Detective and the Burglar written by Kirsten Paul and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former burglar on demand, Emily Atterberry has left her life of crime behind. Or so she thinks until she stumbles on a piece of her past holding clues to her biological family's identity. She feels guilty but steals it hoping it will lead her to the answers she is searching for. Detective Armand Lecavalier is investigating recent luxury car thefts and is convinced Emily knows more than she's saying. He needs to find out what she knows to prove to the big-time police precincts he's more than just a small-town officer. Thrown together, Emily and Armand find it hard to remain professional. All they want to do is have fun—with and without handcuffs. But can Armand look past his code of conduct for love or is Emily facing time behind bars?