Identical twins, Charlie & Cass have taken sides & quarrelled when their parents split up. Charlie is staying with Gran for the summer holidays. She explores the area, & in trespassing in the grounds of the local stately home, Cleremont Park, she starts to see ghosts. The apparitions always do the same thing when she sees them
- & as she learns more about the history of the place, it becomes clear that they are re-enacting events leading to a hidden murder. She finds that she must work with her twin, & make friends with the boy currently living in the house, in order to battle with the curse on the Cleremont family.
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Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking & farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy.

*SECRECY*: anonymous bureaucrats, clandestine courts, men in tights & the true cost of

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Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking & farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy.

*SECRECY*: anonymous bureaucrats, clandestine courts, men in tights & the true cost of

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The way we are governed is changing. Government has less & less power to influence how we live our lives, while the private sector has more power than ever to control what we do & what we think. Yet the business pages of the newspapers still come as a supplement, while the activities of governments dominate the front pages & the headlines. To understand the new world in which we are living, we need to learn to challenge long-held assumptions about the nature of power in society; The Silent Takeover isl be an essential guide to that new understanding as we enter the 21st century: a time in which we can no longer rely on politicians
- of whatever stripe
- to meet our needs; a time in which business, rather than political parties, offers the way forward; a time in which we can make more of an impact through our pockets than we have ever done through the ballot box.

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Iris & Alfie have been driven apart by the strongest forces in the werewolf world
- the powerful thrall of the Divine Wolf
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Iris & Alfie have been driven apart by the strongest forces in the werewolf world
- the powerful thrall of the Divine Wolf
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Udolphus Beck
- an otter
- is an unraveller of mysteries. Summoned to the magnificent city of Vequince by the enigmatic Silver

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Eleven years ago a powerful ancient werewolf ripped Iris's life apart. One full moon night it attacked the two people she loved most in the world, killing her twin brother Matthew & leaving her boyfriend Alfie changed forever. Iris & Alfie vowed revenge on the Beast, but when Alfie began to show a twisted loyalty to the creature who had made him, Iris lost him too.
Now, Alfie is back in Oxford where Iris
- still haunted by her dead brother
- is heading up the Vix, a shadowy organisation dedicated to killing his kind. But Alfie needs Iris's help or what the Beast did to him that night may yet prove fatal. His body is fragmenting


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Eleven years ago a powerful ancient werewolf ripped Iris's life apart. One full moon night it attacked the two people she loved most in the world, killing her twin brother Matthew & leaving her boyfriend Alfie changed forever. Iris & Alfie vowed revenge on the Beast, but when Alfie began to show a twisted loyalty to the creature who had made him, Iris lost him too.
Now, Alfie is back in Oxford where Iris
- still haunted by her dead brother
- is heading up the Vix, a shadowy organisation dedicated to killing his kind. But Alfie needs Iris's help or what the Beast did to him that night may yet prove fatal. His body is fragmenting


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