Costas Haritos, a CID chief in central Athens, is uncomfortably married, aggressive & pessimistic, & only manages to relax when he is at home reading his English dictionaries. A veteran of the force, he is only now coming to terms with the pervasive corruption in public & private life since the fall of the military dictatorship & the advent of democratic government.

When an Albanian couple is found brutally slaughtered, it looks like an open & shut crime of passion. But when Yanna, a TV journalist investigating the same case, is murdered in a broadcasting studio just before going on air, Haritos begins to think he

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Having escaped the horrors of the Russian civil war, Maxim Arturovitch Pyat discovers that the hazards of Europe are as nothing to the perils that await him in America. He is almost immediately involved in further scandals, touring the country as a speaker for the Ku Klux Klan. In this second of Michael Moorcock ...

Quentin Blake chooses fifty of his favourite books from the world of children's literature. Each book is accompanied by comments from the Laureate himself, a short extract & illustrations wherever they appear. His favourites include Ted Hughes, EB White, Anne Fine, Nicola Bayley, Roald Dahl, Susan Cooper, Charles Dickens, Charles Causely & many, many more. ...

Do you look back on your school days, & remember magical times, powerful & enduring friendships, & secret adventures? Well, snap out of it. You're deluding yourself. Based on the popular website playgroundlaw.com The Law of the Playground is a dictionary of the insults, games, torture, legendary anecdotes & pure creative insanity that we all
- as pre-moral children -inflicted on each other. Whilst the emphasis is always on humour, the book acknowledges that children can be bastards, & begrudgingly accepts that it's, actually, very amusing. Written with dark nostalgia, & more wit & substance than average, everyone can find something they will identify with in The Law of the Playground. A timely antidote to the rose-tinted view of childhood offered by Friends Reunited.co.uk & School Disco.com.
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In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country & its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas & Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed & the priests driven out or shot. The experiences were the inspiration for The Power & the Glory (' Graham Greene's masterpiece'
- John Updike).
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In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country & its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas & Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed & the priests driven out or shot. The experiences were the inspiration for The Power & the Glory (' Graham Greene's masterpiece'
- John Updike).
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Get
- & keep
- the lawn of your dreams. The lawn is an important part of a well-planned garden, one which is 'on show' at all

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