The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, re-fitting in Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist Chinese, is suddenly ordered to the desolate island group of Payenhau. For Captain Mark Gunnar
- driven by the memory of his torture at the hands of Viet Cong guerrillas
- the new command is a chance to even the score against a ruthless, unrelenting enemy. But Payenhau is very different from his expectations, & as the weather worsens a crisis develops that Gunnar must face alone.

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In this groundbreaking & helpful book, influential teacher & physician. Deepak Chopra, explores how our hearts have lost their centre & why love so often falls short of filling a deep, aching need within us. He also explains how we can rediscover the love we long for, one which is rich & meaningful, satisfying & lasting
- by restoring to love is missing element: spirituality. In presenting the long-forgotten, timeless laws of love, together with practical suggestions for bringing them into our lives, Deepak Chopra shows us how to transform our lives for rever
- & the lives of those whom we love.

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In this groundbreaking & helpful book, influential teacher & physician. Deepak Chopra, explores how our hearts have lost their centre & why love so often falls short of filling a deep, aching need within us. He also explains how we can rediscover the love we long for, one which is rich & meaningful, satisfying & lasting
- by restoring to love is missing element: spirituality. In presenting the long-forgotten, timeless laws of love, together with practical suggestions for bringing them into our lives, Deepak Chopra shows us how to transform our lives for rever
- & the lives of those whom we love.

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From the processional routes of ancient Britain to Victorian promenades along the sea-front, Britain's pathways are inextricably woven into our landscape & history. In this magical book, David Stewart & Nicholas Rudd-Jones set out to explore some of the most evocative & beautiful tracks & ways that criss-cross the nation, explaining how they came about & what they tell us about the people who made them. As they do so, they give both the keen & the casual walker a very real sense of what it is like to walk in our ancestors' footsteps. ...

Balloons? Sausages on sticks? An entertainer? Oh NO! It must be a party...

Patrick loves making models & creating his own

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This collection of speeches by the Australian Nobel prize-winning author have provoked extreme reactions in Australia. While members of the establishment & parts of the media have dismissed him as a bitter old man, the young & needy have responded to him with something close to adulation. ...

When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. A manhunt begins. The letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene & is soon followed, around town, by the other letters of the alphabet, each immaculately painted in red. What do the letters mean? Is Sligo playing games with the police? Or putting a spell on the town?

Perry Scholes is mixed up in all this from the start: a man haunted by cars & death

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When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. Sligo is missing, & a manhunt begins, but the letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene. When the other letters of the alphabet start appearing in sequence all over town, each immaculately painted in red, a seemingly random act of violence appears to be part of a bigger & more terrifying picture. For the town's inhabitants, it feels like the beginning of a new age of terror, with Adam Sligo still on the loose. What do the letters mean? Is he playing games with the police? Or putting a spell on the town?

One man, Perry Scholes, is mixed up in all this from the start: a man haunted by cars & death
- & photographic images of both. He trawls the motorways & edgelands listening to police radio so that he can get to the car-crash or the crime scene before the police. Like his hero Weegee
- the original ambulance-chaser photographer
- he makes a living selling these shots to the papers. He always gets there first
- he was the one to find the old BMW with its young corpses; he is the one who spots the painted letters, & begins to document their appearances.

As the town is paralysed by fear & paranoia
- its inhabitants polarising into a new-age group that gather around a shrine to the murdered couple & a vigilante cult that arm themselves for the battle against evil
- Perry finds himself trapped in a nightmare. A killer is at large, & the alphabetical messages he leaves seem to be personal messages for Perry. Who is leaving them, & why, is the centre of this dark, disturbing parable of urban anxiety & primitive fear.









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When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. A manhunt begins. The letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene & is soon followed, around town, by the other letters of the alphabet, each immaculately painted in red. What do the letters mean? Is Sligo playing games with the police? Or putting a spell on the town?

Perry Scholes is mixed up in all this from the start: a man haunted by cars & death

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