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Подзаглавие: The True Story of Yorkshire's Notorious Criminal Family
Издателство: Harper Element
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 200
Дебелина (мм): 15
Корици: Меки

Fighter, conman, gangster - step onto the Canterbury Estate in the ‘40s and ‘50s and you know there’s one person you don’t want to cross: Charlie Hudson, the most infamous of the Canterbury Warriors.

Apprentice to notorious thug Mr Cappovanni, by the time Charlie’s in his 20s he’s running cons, illegal books and a band of prostitutes. He’s the top dog who wins with his fists when he needs to - and his brains when he doesn’t.

But when a tragic accident threatens to destroy all he’s built, it’s his heart rather than his hands that will prove to be his cataclysmic undoing...

Gritty and engrossing, My Uncle Charlie packs an emotional punch as it delves deeper into history of the infamous Hudson family; the true story of one man’s journey to power, and the tragedy that brought it all crashing down.

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About the Author

Pen name for author Lynne Barrett-Lee:

Born in London and now based in Wales, Ghostwriter Lynne Barrett-Lee has been a full time author since the mid nineties. Having enjoyed several years of success as a short story writer, with her fiction appearing in almost all of the UK’s leading women’s magazines, she had her first novel, the acclaimed Julia Gets a Life, published by Bantam in 2000. She has since written seven further novels, including her 2006 work, Barefoot in the Dark, which was shortlisted for the inaugural Melissa Nathan Award. Lynne was also approached to write one of the first titles in the Quick Reads series for emergent readers, and went on to ghost a further title for TV presenter Fiona Phillips.

Lynne began ghostwriting full length non-fiction in 2007, when approached to co-author paraplegic Melanie Davies' incredible story, Never Say Die, and since that successful collaboration has been ghostwriting full time. Her 2010 title, for Faith Scott, I Won’t Forgive What You Did, enjoyed seven weeks in the UK Sunday Times Bestseller list, as did the 2012 memoir The Baby Laundry. She also ghosted the acclaimed memoir Giant George: life with the World’s Tallest Dog a bestselling title in both the UK and US.

More recently, Lynne ghosted two bestselling titles which were published in the spring of this year. The first, Mum’s Way, is the story of mum of eight, Angie Millthorpe, who died of breast cancer, aged 48, in 2010. The second, The Girl With No Name, was published in May 13, and relates the story of a young girl abandoned in the jungles of Colombia, and has already been sold in eighteen countries, with film rights being negotiated and a National Geographic documentary being shown in December 13.

Lynne also co-writes a major non-fiction series for one of the world's leading publishers, under a pseudonym. The first seven titles have also all been Sunday Times bestsellers, with three more being published in 2013/14. The series was launched in the USA in 2013, and the first ebook in the series was a NY Times bestseller.

Lynne also writes about writing, as she teaches the craft weekly, at Cardiff University - her ebook NOVEL being the written distillation of her popular novel writing course.