Starting life as a Roman fort where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene, Durobrivae developed into an important Roman town just outside present-day Peterborough. It acted as a market place for the salt trade from the Fens in the east & for the ironworks & potteries in the uplands to the west. ...

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- novels, stories, radio-plays, stage-plays, essays, lectures, speeches & artworks. This
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65 million years ago: the last dinosaurs are dying out, the mammals are beginning to take over the earth & the very first bats are learning how to fly. Dusk, a chiropter
- a small arboreal glider
- discovers an unusual ability. The only member of his colony capable of powered flight, Dusk becomes an outcast.

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When teenage guitar prodigy Keith Gear shares a stage with Jimi Hendrix in mid 60s Soho he forms a bond with his hero & embarks on a journey that will take him a long way from his South London roots. Reluctantly thrust into the spotlight with his band Dominion, he plays the fame game briefly & finds it wanting. ...

This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, & in the second, a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe. ...

This vibrant series of pocket guides covers over 170 destinations worldwide & are compact, practical guides for sun seekers & city breakers. The Thomas Cook pocket guides series is also home to the most comprehensive list of UK city guides currently available. ...

An epic Western that spans centuries, countries & lifetimes. When she is disturbed by a burglar & gets the better of him, an old woman tells him the story of her family's past. At the turn of the Twentieth century in the American West, two brothers fall in love with the same woman, Lilith (Anne Brochet), who chooses the younger brother, Elijah (Joseph Fiennes). The embittered Luke (David Wenham) travels alone to Europe & finds himself settling in Macedonia where he becomes a ruthless mercenary fighting with the local resistance against the Turks. However, the revolution takes on a personal face when he discovers that his brother Elijah has been hired as a gun by the enemy. ...