When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It



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In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of the ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken & remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock & horror until her black father acquires an assault rifle & takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses & the crack of sniper fire spreads through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound while young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life.... & then his own. ...

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.



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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It



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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the monsters who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It



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Detective Inspector Jack Frost, offically on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory
- & then, when Frost attempts to join the revels later on, the nubile daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing.

Sleepy Denton has never known anything like the crime wave which now threatens to submerge it. A robbery occurs at the town's notorious strip joint, the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a hit-&-run offence &, to top it all, a multiple rapist is on the loose. Frost is reeling under the strain, his paperwork is still in arrears & now, more than ever, his self-righteous colleagues would love to see him sacked. But the manic Frost manages to assure his superior that all is under control. Now he has only to convince himself...


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Detective Inspector Jack Frost, offically on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory
- & then, when Frost attempts to join the revels later on, the nubile daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing.

Sleepy Denton has never known anything like the crime wave which now threatens to submerge it. A robbery occurs at the town's notorious strip joint, the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a hit-&-run offence &, to top it all, a multiple rapist is on the loose. Frost is reeling under the strain, his paperwork is still in arrears & now, more than ever, his self-righteous colleagues would love to see him sacked. But the manic Frost manages to assure his superior that all is under control. Now he has only to convince himself...


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Not only an artistic & breathtaking view of Lancre but also an interesting & informative guide to one of the Discworld's more, er, picturesque kingdoms.

Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg & Magrat Garlick live there. Lancre could hardly be somwhere ordinary, could it?

Magic glues the Discworld together & a lot of it ends up in Lancre, principal Kingdom of the Ramtop Mountains. Between Uberwald & Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country & the Windersins Ocean lies the most exciting & dangerous terrain in all Discworld. The Ramtops supply Discworld with most of its witches & wizards. The leaves on the trees move even when there is no breeze. Rocks go for a stroll in the evening. Even the l&, at times, seems alive.

The mapp may be only two-dimensional, but watch it very carefully & you might just see it jostle about a bit.





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' When I awoke the tongue of the tide was lapping at my feet & the sea had claimed my belongings. The sand on which I lay was so stiff there was no trace of my footprints across it. An observer viewing me from above might have imagined I had been washed upon the shore from a shipwreck. Another would perhaps have construed that I had been cast away by choice. If I had encountered my inert body I would have made the former assumption although the latter is much closer to the truth... '

With these words, the narrator of A Town by the Sea sets off towards a coastal town which lies some distance to the east of him. But he also embarks on a journey into his past. Along the way he encounters ghosts, he climbs a tall tower & is marooned in the clouds, he meets a ruffian & a dandy, he is attacked & tied to a cart, &, in the garden of a derelict house, he glimpses a scene from his childhood. Slowly, the mystery of how he arrived on the shoreline is solved, but is this the end of his journey, or just another stop along the way?

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERIC LOMAX

Jean Paget is just twenty years old & working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

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