On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in Engl&, he breaks up with his wife & goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous. Marian fails to show.

Searching desperately for her, he stumbles on a Dorset churchyard full of the gravestones of dead Esguards. He also meets a psychotherapist, Daphne Sanger. She too is looking for someone: a former patient who has come to believe she is the reincarnation of Marion Esguard, who lived in Regency times &, it emerges, may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot. But if so, why is she unknown to history? & where is the woman he met in Vienna?

Ian sets out to solve a mystery that may be 170 years old. At the end of his search a trap awaits him. There is a twist at the end of Caught in the Light that is Robert Goddard



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New Year's Eve finds Scarpetta at a scuba diver's murder scene thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. The victim is Ted Eddings, an investigate reporter known to Scarpetta. When a morgue assistant driving Scarpetta's car is brutally murdered & radioactive material is discovered on the passenger seat, the case envelops Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, & police captain Pete Marino in a world where both cutting-edge technology & old-fashioned detective work are critically offensive weapons. ...

These classic tales of Awful Warnings about the consequences of Bad Behaviour are among the best of comic verse ever written for children. ' Designed for the Admonition of children between the ages of eight & fourteen years', they were first published in 1907; though such eccentricity as Henry King's chewing string may no longer be a common misdemeanour, the humour is perennial & continues to entertained generations of children & their parents. This edition

Includes:: New Cautionary Tales, first published in 1930, & illustrated by Nicholas Bentley, who replaced as collaborator the poet's friend Lord Basil Blackwood (B. T. B. ) after his death in World War I.

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This omnibus of Belloc's stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme
- all with a dramatic moral twist in the tail. Are
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This omnibus of Belloc's stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme
- all with a dramatic moral twist in the tail. Are
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It was Charles I's love for his Queen Henrietta Maria which plummeted England into the darkness of the Civil Wars, but it was the love & loyalty of another man that sustained her through days of betrayal, destitution & death.

Tall & brave, Harry Jermyn is captivated by the witty French princess, just fourteen years old when she sails with him to Dover, queen of a land she has never seen, of a people whose language she cannot speak, who despise her for her faith
- & wife of a king she has never met.

Charles grows to love her but rebellion & the threat of execution force her into exile & into the arms of Harry, who risks his life for her sake. Together they work for the royalist cause, pawning the crown jewels, securing men & arms & returning to England to lead an army south.

As England is torn apart, Henrietta's heart is torn between the two men she loves, between duty & illicit passion. The subject of dangerous gossip & public scandal, she is powerless to calm the storm which will lead to tragedy.






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Set seventy years before The Various, the second book in the trilogy follows the adventures of young Celandine at the onset of the First World War. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is sent back. As she seeks shelter in the Wild Wood near her home, little does she think she will encounter in a world where loyalty & independence is fiercely guarded, & where danger lurks in the most unlikely places. Celandine's troubled character finds both refuge & purpose among the secret tribes of little people that she alone believes in. These novels are full of mystery, beauty & adventure; this second novel is both page-turning & life-affirming. This is a truly remarkable trilogy. ...

Set seventy years before The Various, the second book in the trilogy follows the adventures of young Celandine at the onset of the First World War. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is sent back. As she seeks shelter in the Wild Wood near her home, little does she think she will encounter in a world where loyalty & independence is fiercely guarded, & where danger lurks in the most unlikely places. Celandine's troubled character finds both refuge & purpose among the secret tribes of little people that she alone believes in. These novels are full of mystery, beauty & adventure; this second novel is both page-turning & life-affirming. This is a truly remarkable trilogy. ...

Set seventy years before The Various, the second book in the trilogy follows the adventures of young Celandine at the onset of the First World War. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is sent back. As she seeks shelter in the Wild Wood near her home, little does she think she will encounter in a world where loyalty & independence is fiercely guarded, & where danger lurks in the most unlikely places. Celandine's troubled character finds both refuge & purpose among the secret tribes of little people that she alone believes in. These novels are full of mystery, beauty & adventure; this second novel is both page-turning & life-affirming. This is a truly remarkable trilogy. ...