
361 pages of excellent text, with many great photos. This is the true story of a gang known for its meticulous planning, lighting-quick speed, and politeness to victims. Even the FBI admitted they were the best at what they did. First Edition.
Reign of error : the inside story of John Turner's troubled leadership / Greg In his political career, Turner held several prominent Cabinet posts, including minister of justice and minister of finance, under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau from 1968 to 1975. Amid a world recession and the prospect of having to implement the unpopular wage and price controls, Turner surprisingly resigned his position in 1975. After a hiatus from politics from 1975 to 1984, Turner returned and successfully contested the Liberal leadership. Turner held the office of Prime Minister for 79 days (the second shortest tenure in Canadian history after Sir Charles Tupper), as he dissolved Parliament immediately after being sworn in as Prime Minister, and went on to lose the 1984 election in a landslide. Turner stayed on as Liberal leader and headed the Official Opposition for the next six years, leading his party to a modest recovery in the 1988 campaign; he resigned as Liberal leader in 1990 and stepped down as an M.P. at the 1993 election. Turner was Canada's first Prime Minister born in the United Kingdom since Mackenzie Bowell in 1896.
“Emily sat bolt upright in bed. She looked at her curtains. It was still dark outside. As she turned something caught her eye. In the centre of one side of her room was a fireplace. On the mantel stood her clock, which was in the shape of a pink pig. The pink pig said that it was half past midnight. But what caught her attention was a tiny sliver of light, which she could see down the edge of the fireplace, between the black fireplace and the white wood surround. “What was that?” she wondered. She walked up to it and pressed her hand against the fireplace. At the touch of her hand it swung back, the sliver of light grew wide, and a passageway opened up.” Life is boring in Ocean View Terrace, or so Emily thinks, as the school holidays draw to a close and a new school term looms ever closer. But in this sleepy little town on the East Anglian coast strange things are happening … and Emily could never imagine in her wildest dreams the whole new world she is about to discover.
by Greg Weston
There was a time when Emily and many of her friends would wake up at midnight and explore the secret passageways, which ran under their street, Ocean View Terrace… but not anymore. Those days are gone, and the passageways closed… or so Emily thinks. But when her dad receives a strange painting for his birthday, they discover that this is the key to get back in. What they don’t realise is that they are being called back for a very special and very dangerous mission. They are about to face the pirates… they are under the evil eye of their suspicious teacher, Miss Robinson… the police are even after them! They are about to discover the secret of just why the passageways are there. And there are some very strange things appearing in Dad’s back garden.
by Greg Weston
DannyMac, Armstrong and Tef are an unlikely trio. DannyMac lives in a children's home whilst Armstrong lives on the rich and vast estate of his father. And yet the three of them have one thing in common. They spend every minute of their spare time building rockets, in the Shack at the corner of the huge Armstrong Mansion gardens. It is an escape for the trio from each of their problems... it is the place of new ideas and new inventions... it is a place of dreams. But soon they are to make an amazing discovery. In one strange moment they discover the Sphere. It is a discovery that will cause them more than a few problems. But if they can just hold on maybe this could be the answer to all their dreams.
by Greg Weston
What if time travel existed? What if you could walk through a window into another time and place? What if you had the power of God to travel back in time and change people’s lives for better or worse?... Would you want that sort of responsibility or would you run from it? What would you do? And how would you cope? Enter the world of the Historymakers. A world where not even the past is certain. A world where the Nazis won the Second World War and where the Titanic never actually sank. But it could all change in the blink of an eye. When Charlie Cornwall is forced to move house, he moves to The Oaks, a house on the edge of a graveyard, and a house with a mysterious history... a house that will take him places he really doesn't want to go. Beware, and brace yourself, historymaking is not for the faint of heart!
by Greg Weston
Have you ever looked up at the stars at night and wondered just what's out there, far beyond space?... Or perhaps wondered what waits for you beyond this life?... Have you ever had a glimpse or just a hint in a moment when you daydream of what heaven might be like?... Or wondered exactly who is responsible for creating this shambles of a world? No?... Well, neither had Monty. But when he receives a surprise Christmas present, he doesn't realise that it's going to be the start of the most unusual adventure. And the places he goes and the people he meets are not at all what he expected. Welcome to the world of the man upstairs. This is a book for older children and young people... but could be read by anyone!
by Greg Weston