Bøger af Mickey Mayhew

Dive headfirst into the grisly and gruesome events during the long reign of the House of Tudor.

A West End girl who lusted after East End barrow boys, the debutante nicknamed 'Minty Hardcore' is - long after being forced into a rather rigorous local convent - now just another East End legend, alongside the Krays and Jack the Ripper.Meanwhile, Jack Woodfield, Barking barrow boy turned bourgeois beefcake, is desperate to ditch West Ham United, the Lintons estate, and especially his belligerent baby brother Jamie. It's time for Jack to take his savvy to the City; no more legends about being baptised in a 'testosterone spring'; of past uncles and their paranormal romances; of 'entities from Essex' and 'doomed debutantes'; pure rot, as far as Jack is concerned. He wants to make himself into the modern, metrosexual man his mum would be so proud of. In fact, you might say that Jack Woodfield has it sorted; he's got brains, brawn, and sightly bulges. He's a modern man with a lad's legacy that's best left behind, and that also includes his carousing cousin, Hayden 'the lad' Woodfield. But over Jack's shoulder lurks the frisky phantom who has Hayden in her clutches, and whose paranormal passion for burly barrow boys might well screw up Jack's prospects for promotion and a cosmopolitan, carefree existence rather royally...

Jack Woodfield had it all; brains, brawn, and sightly bulges. But this modern, vaguely metrosexual man hails from a long line of hunky barrow boys who pawned their principles in exchange for the perfect six-pack, selling their souls to the family's mysterious familiar in the process. Despite this Jack had ditched West Ham United, Barking market, and especially his belligerent brother Jamie; any gossip about ancient uncles and their paranormal paramours was cobblers as far as Jack was concerned.But over Jack's shoulder lurked his hell-raising cousin, Hayden 'the lad' Woodfield, the willing slave of that mysterious familiar, Minty Hardcore; her predilection for rough trade seems set to screw up Jack's prospects for promotion and a cosmopolitan, politically correct life rather royally... And now the worst has happened. Back in Barking something has taken posh totty Tiffany Grieve, Jamie's girlfriend, and taken her in the worst possible way, flinging her headlong into Jack's arms. Jamie has fled, betrayed by brother and girlfriend both. Even their Aunt Amanda, former tarot reader to Ronnie Kray, has been removed from the board, her Bethnal Green home abandoned and empty. So too have Jack's friends from the LSE fled, knowing perhaps more about matters than they ought. 'Taking Tiffany' continues the story started in 'Jack and the Lad', spanning the sordid underbelly of high society's debutante culture in the 18th century, the tyranny of the Kray Twins in swinging 60s Bethnal Green, before slamming on the brakes to explode in present-day Barking and the City of London's Square Mile.

The definitive bible on all things Anne Boleyn.

This exciting new dual biography is the first book to focus solely on how Rasputin and Alexandra's unique relationship played out alongside the build up to the Russian Revolution and First World War.

Did you know that Henry VIII was too fat to walk down the stairs? That Mary Queen of Scots was almost killed by an earthquake at Sheffield Castle? Or that Elizabeth I wore poisonous makeup? This book, containing 400 fantastic facts about the Tudor era and more than 100 illustrations, will delight Tudor fans everywhere!