... adverbs, attesting that this book is the “sensation of the vear™ . . Belinda's blurb was a send-up, a satire on the effusive garbage that publishers traditionally use to summarize the most alluring features of a book and to explain why its author is supremely ...

... can — from a tap four blocks away. Fascinated with machinery and an obsessive collector, he crammed the house with objects picked up on his night excursions. After thieves tried to break in to steal their alleged fortune he built elaborate booby traps ...

... morning pint of milk tipped all over her doorstep. She has also had to put up with her rubbish bags being ripped open and garbage strewn all over the pavement outside her ground floor flat in Nottingham Avenue, causing neighbours to complain to the council ...