The authentic voice of British gangster fiction returns with a tour de force in this long-awaited sequel to Layer Cake, the bestselling debut by J.J. Connolly that ‘jump-started British crime fiction into the present’ (Uncut). More authentic in its language and scene-setting, smarter in its characterisation and plotting than anything that had previously gone by the name of gangster fiction, Layer Cake attracted a big cult following and became a Crime bestseller (it also became the most shop-lifted book in Britain). The Get Carter of the noughties, Layer Cake has also been made into a highly-praised film by Matthew Vaughn, starring Daniel Craig, Michael Gambon and Sienna Miller. Now J. J. Connolly is back with a sequel that sees him on the same stunning form, with his trademark razor-sharp dialogue and quick-fire violence, but also finding dark humour and pathos in the lives of violent men. From the many levels of the London underworld portrayed in Layer Cake, Viva la Madness moves to international crime with trans-Atlantic drug deals, money laundering and high-tech electronic fraud, portrayed with the same uncanny believability.The anonymous hero of Layer Cake is pulled back into the drug game before he can escape to a sunny retirement: in an authentic but dazzling combination of London low-life, Caribbean high-life and Venezuelan drug cartels toting machine-guns in Mayfair. The brilliance and the madness is back:’Viva la madness!’

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George Hall doesn’t understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. ‘The secret of contentment George felt lay in ignoring many things completely.’ Some things in life however cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven George is settling down to a comfortable retirement building a shed in his garden reading historical novels listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie his tempestuous daughter announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her family is not pleased – as her brother Jamie observes Ray has ‘strangler’s hands’. Katie can’t decide if she loves Ray or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband’s former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover Tony to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip and quietly begins to lose his mind.The way these damaged people fall apart – and come together – as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddon’s disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.

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Valentine’s Day All The Luck In World Sterling Silver Charm Box WOW – this is such a lovely idea, we just had to have because we thought you would Love it too. You can spread a little happiness, Love and luck to someone you care about. It’s such a lovely gift that it can be given anytime of the year and anytime in someones life, from a babies Christening, to them starting school, taking exams, taking a driving test, going to university, graduating, starting a new job, getting engaged, getting married, starting a new phase in your life all the way through to retirement, or just because you care. About the All The Luck In World Sterling Silver Charm Box It speaks volumes to the person you care about when you give them All the Luck and Love in the World. The beautiful Silver charm box set consists of a real sixpence which has been considered lucky since the 1800’s. It also contains a sterling silver cupid to bring Love to someones life, both items are contained in a lovely sterling silver charm box with the words “all the luck and love in the world” engraved on the lid. The set is presented in a silver satin pouch with it’s own small story card plus, of course, the lucky sixpence. Dimensions of this luck and Love charm box are 2cms in diameter. All The Luck In World Sterling Silver Charm Box

Price : £ 49.90

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