Below Forsaken Mountain a revolution stirs with the aim to overthrow the tyrant king of Trollus & Marc is the right hand of its leader It's a secret more than one troll would kill to possess which is why he must keep it from everyone even the girl he loves Since a tragic accident revealed her affliction & ruined her sister's chance at the throne Penelope is an anathema to her father the Duke d' Angouleme Deeming her life worthless he gives her one chance to survive find proof that the boy she loves is a leader in the sympathizer revolution Marc & Penelope must navigate the complex politics of Trollus where powers on all sides are intent on using them as pawns forcing them to risk everything for a chance at a life together Except being together might be the greatest risk of all File Under Fantasy ...

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor A Time of Gifts & Between the Woods & the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople ' When are you going to finish Vol III?' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could the words refused to come The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk but that it predated the other two It remains unfinished but The Broken Road
- edited & introduced by Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper
- completes an extraordinary journey

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In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison It's a controversial move but what no one else knows is that the presidential pardon comes as a result of enormous pressure from the CIA They claim that Backman may have obtained secrets that would compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane; he is given a new name a new identity & a new home in Italy Eventually once he has settled into his new life the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis the Russians the Chinese & the Saudis Then the CIA will do what it does best sit back & watch The question is not whether Backman will survive
- there's no chance of that The question the CIA needs answered is who will kill him?
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To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department Store there is no Outside No Day or Night no Sun or Rain They're just daft old legends Until they hear the devastating news that the Store is to be demolished & so their journey begins From the store to an abandoned quarry
- where they find the monster Jekub
- & on to a place where they must steal one of those space shuttle things all the nomes want is to get home again They don't mean to cause any trouble A magnificent trilogy of tales about about a race of little people struggling to survive in a world full of humans From Carnegie Medal-winning author Terry Pratchett

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The Bronte sisters are among the most beloved writers of all time best known for their classic nineteenth-century novels Jane Eyre Charlotte Wuthering Heights Emily & Agnes Grey Anne In this sometimes heart breaking young adult biography Catherine Reef explores the turbulent lives of these literary siblings & the oppressive times in which they lived Bronte fans will also revel in the insights into their favourite novels the plethora of poetry & the outstanding collection of more than sixty black-&-white archival images A powerful testimony to the life of the mind Endnotes bibliography index ...

An insightful biography exploring the lives of the three Bronte sisters trailblazing female writers of the nineteenth century 248 pages 12 illustrations Rayner Catherine ...

The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone we all know about the half-mad repressive father the drunken drug-addicted wastrel of a brother wild romantic Emily unrequited Anne & 'poor Charlotte' Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that
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- created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists & were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes It demolishes myths yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling
- but true Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass & among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers this book is both scholarly & compulsively readable THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family' As a work of scholarship it is briliant For those with a passion for the Brontes or for Victoriana or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae it is a stupendous read' INDPENDENT ON SUNDAY


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Produced to coincide with 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Bronte this book introduces the three extraordinary Bronte sisters Charlotte Emily & Anne We also meet their brother Branwell With a mix of strong story-telling & wonderful illustration Mick Manning & Brita Granstroem relate the sister&s tragically short lives in the remote village of Haworth in the Yorkshire Dales They explore how the girls were inspired to become writers & the sensation their books caused when people realised they had been written by women Each of the sister&s greatest novels Jane Eyre (Charlotte) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne) & Wuthering Heights (Emily) are simply retold in engaging comic-strip form The illustrations & text of this book really capture the life of the children of the moors & how the magic & wildness of their surroundings inspired their work It is perhaps not surprising as Mick Manning was born & brought up in Haworth & as a child even played a shepherd boy in a BBC adapation of Wuthering Heights ...

For all who have longed for Mr Rochester with Jane Eyre or imagined themselves out on the moors with Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights here are each of the novels of Charlotte Emily & Anne Bronte packed into one pocket-sized tome Enjoy them in small bites or devour its contents in a single sitting Featuring synopses character profiles & illustrations the list of novels include Jane Eyre Shirley Villette The Professor Wuthering Heights Agnes Grey & The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In their isolated world on the Yorkshire Moors the Bronte sisters found an escape in the childhood fantasies that would help mould the novels now regarded as classics of world literature; the grey-stone parsonage at Haworth in which they spent much of their short lives has become a place of literary pilgrimage In this acclaimed mini-series distinguished playwright author & critic Christopher Fry tells the extraordinary story of a troubled family of genius Vickery Turner Rosemary Mc Hale & Ann Penfold portray the shy precociously talented Bronte sisters; Michael Kitchen plays Branwell the brother whose life ravaged by drink & drugs ended at the age of 31 & Alfred Burke stars as the Reverend Patrick Bronte the widowed father who would outlive all his children Tracing significant events & key periods each member of the Bronte family is brought vividly to life in this meticulously researched series Actors Alfred Burke Vickery Turner & Rosemary Mc Hale Certificate 12 years & over Year 1973 Screen 1331 Languages English Subtitles None listed Duration 5 hours & 45 minutes (approx) ...