Colette Mc Veigh: widow...mother...terrorist. A woman who has lived the Republican cause for all of her thirty-three years. A woman whose brothers are both heavily involved at a senior level in the IRA, whose husband was killed by the British security forces. A woman who is now an informer for MI5.

Apprehended by the police in an aborted bombing raid in London, Colette is given a simple choice: talk & see her children again, or stay silent & spend the rest of her life watching them grow up from behind the bars of a prison cell.

Gradually & unwillingly she is led to betray her past by her young MI5 handler, David Ryan, who has never doubted where his loyalties lie. But when he follows Colette across the Irish Sea to Belfast, the very tenets of his existence
- trust, loyalty & honesty
- are quickly sacrificed on the pyre of the province





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Colette Mc Veigh: widow...mother...terrorist. A woman who has lived the Republican cause for all of her thirty-three years. A woman whose brothers are both heavily involved at a senior level in the IRA, whose husband was killed by the British security forces. A woman who is now an informer for MI5.

Apprehended by the police in an aborted bombing raid in London, Colette is given a simple choice: talk & see her children again, or stay silent & spend the rest of her life watching them grow up from behind the bars of a prison cell.

Gradually & unwillingly she is led to betray her past by her young MI5 handler, David Ryan, who has never doubted where his loyalties lie. But when he follows Colette across the Irish Sea to Belfast, the very tenets of his existence
- trust, loyalty & honesty
- are quickly sacrificed on the pyre of the province





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Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he & his sister Martha are in the back of his parents car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky & change his life forever. He doesn't know that he & Martha will be forced to move to Norway & eat their Aunt Eda's smelly brown cheese. He hasn't the slightest clue Martha will disappear into Shadow Forest. A forest full of one-eyed trolls, the sinister huldre-folk, deadly Truth Pixies & a witch who steals shadows. A forest ruled by the evil Changemaker. A forest so dangerous that people who enter never return.

No. Samuel Blink doesn't know any of this. So don't tell him. It might ruin the book...

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Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he & his sister Martha are in the back of his parents car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky & change his life forever. He doesn't know that he & Martha will be forced to move to Norway & eat their Aunt Eda's smelly brown cheese. He hasn't the slightest clue Martha will disappear into Shadow Forest. A forest full of one-eyed trolls, the sinister huldre-folk, deadly Truth Pixies & a witch who steals shadows. A forest ruled by the evil Changemaker. A forest so dangerous that people who enter never return.

No. Samuel Blink doesn't know any of this. So don't tell him. It might ruin the book...

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On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps & camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan & the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts extraordinary adventures ...

' Time to get up!' calls Motherhog. The moon is out & the garden is filled with all kinds of yummy suppery things for hedgepigs. But Pippin is not so sure. He thinks the garden is filled with spiky scary shadows that follow him wherever he goes. When his growly tummy wakes him up the next morning, Pippin decides he'd better find a snack in the safe, sunny garden. But he's in for a surprise when he comes face to face with a hungry fox. Luckily he remembers how to show his spikes & manages to scamper off home before mum gets too worried. But it still takes an encounter with a rather awesome shadow & some gentle coaxing for Pippin to conquer his fear of moonshadows for good. ...

Photographer Christabel is drawn to psychic phenomena & dark liasons. When she is persuaded by her husband to take a holiday at a mysterious mansion house in the country, she foresees only long days of pastoral boredom. But Nicholas, her deviously sensual husb&, has a hand in the unexpected events that begin to unravel. He is keen to ensure that Christabel's holiday is eventful & erotic & she is soon drawn into a web of transgressive eroticism with Nicholas's young male PA. Within this unusual & kinky threesome, Christabel learns some lessons the jaded city could never teach her. ...

Photographer Christabel is drawn to psychic phenomena & dark liasons. When she is persuaded by her husband to take a holiday at a mysterious mansion house in the country, she foresees only long days of pastoral boredom. But Nicholas, her deviously sensual husb&, has a hand in the unexpected events that begin to unravel. He is keen to ensure that Christabel's holiday is eventful & erotic & she is soon drawn into a web of transgressive eroticism with Nicholas's young male PA. Within this unusual & kinky threesome, Christabel learns some lessons the jaded city could never teach her. ...