The Burning Bridge is the second thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
- over eight million sold worldwide
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France 1562 As the Wars of Religion begin to take hold a courageous Catholic woman & a passionate Huguenot believer find themselves united in possession of a priceless relic & set upon a quest to uncover a long-buried secret hidden in the haunting Chateau de Puivert in the foothills of the Pyrenees 608 pages Mosse Kate ...

A masterful debut short story collection from the award-winning critically-acclaimed poet Adam O' Riordan In these eight stories an English writer focuses his gaze on America's West Coast moving from fractured lives in remote sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach A man visits his long-distance lover in Los Angeles; the foreman of a desert building project embarks on a journey into California's underworld; an artist finds peace in exile after the disintegration of an affair; & itinerant Brits discuss love & acting in downtown LA Written with an outsider's keen eye this collection paints an intimate portrait of diverse lives in a work of remarkable beauty & poignancy ...

The fifth novel in Bernard Cornwell's epic & bestselling series on the making of England & the fate of his great hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series To King Alfred he is the lord of battles' He has gained riches loyal men & a beloved wife But Uhtred is dogged by betrayal & tragedy The ailing Alfred presses Uhtred to swear loyalty to his son & heir Edward preventing the warrior lord from taking vengeance on those who stole his home at Bebbanburg Now Uthred will once again defend the Christian kingdom
- in a battle which could smash the growing power of the deadly Danes In so doing he meets a woman more dangerous than any warlord A killer a schemer with a dark power over men's hearts Skade Uhtred of Bebbanburg's mind is as sharp as his sword A thorn in the side of the priests & nobles who shape his fate this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves & those he has sworn to serve
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In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary At first some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby hill from where she would emerge riding a white horse But then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave Her husband father aunt & four cousins were arrested & charged while newspapers in nearby Clonmel & then in Dublin Cork London & further afield attempted to make sense of what had happened In this lurid & fascinating episode set in the last decade of the nineteenth century we witness the collision of town & country of storytelling & science of old & new The torture & burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in 1895 which continues to reverberate more than a hundred years later Winner of the Irish Times Prize for Non-Fiction ...

' If an Outsider wields the blade the House of Koronos burns'A boy on the run A deadly prophecy A race against time Hylas the Outsider is captured by slavers Set to work in the terrible underground mines of Thalakrea he learns to his horror that he's now closer than ever to his murderous enemies the Crows He has to escape before they find out he's here Pirra the daughter of the High Priestess is also on the run When Fate reunites her with Hylas their survival depends on ancient magic & an orphaned lion cub
- unless the Gods have other plans' Electrifying'
- Independent on Sunday' The reader's attention is caught from the first linespellbinding'
- Telegraph' Set to become another children's classic'
- Books for Keeps Michelle Paver was born in Malawi in 1960 & moved to England when she was three After gaining a degree in biochemistry from Oxford she became a partner in a City law firm but gave that up to write full-time To research her stories about animals & the distant past she has travelled in the Arctic the Mediterranean & Egypt swum with dolphins & killer whales & encountered bears boars & wolves She is the author of the internationally bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness the final book of which won the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize



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Smithfield settled on the fringes of Roman London was once a place of revelry Jesters & crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations tournaments were plentiful & it became the location of London's most famous meat market Yet in Tudor England Smithfield had another more sinister use the public execution of heretics Spanning the reigns of British history's most remarkable dynasty The Burning Time is a vivid insight into an era in which what was orthodoxy one year might be dangerous heresy the next The first martyrs were Catholics who cleaved to Rome in defiance of Henry VIII's break with the papacy But with the accession of Henry's daughter Mary
- soon to be nicknamed ' Bloody Mary'
- the charge of heresy was levelled against devout Protestants who chose to burn rather than recant At the centre of Virginia Rounding's vivid account of this extraordinary period are two very different characters The first is Richard Rich Thomas Cromwell's protege who almost uniquely remained in a position of great power influence & wealth under three Tudor monarchs & who helped send many devout men & women to their deaths The second is John Deane Rector of St Bartholomew's who was able somehow to navigate the treacherous waters of changing dogma & help others to survive The Burning Time is their story but it is also the story of the hundreds of men & women who were put to the fire for their faith It is a gripping insight into a time when people were willing to die & to kill in the name of religion

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R is recovering from death He's learning how to read how to speak maybe even how to love He can almost imagine a future with Julie this girl who restarted his heart
- building a new world from the ashes of the old one & then helicopters appear on the horizon A mysterious army is coming to restore order to bring back the good old days of stability & control & the strong eating the weak These grinning strangers are more than they seem The plague has many hosts & some are far more terrifying than the Dead With their home in the grip of madmen R & Julie plunge into the wastelands of America in search of answers But there are some answers R doesn't want to find A past life an old shadow crawling up from the basement In this long-anticipated new chapter of the Warm Bodies series Isaac Marion expands the scope of a powerfully simple story a dead man's search for life in all its bloody rawness Talk to Isaac on Twitter Instagram Facebook Tumblr Snapchat & isaacmarioncom
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Casey is a true craftswoman a writer who beguiles one through the most twisted of plots with a confident & seductive hand' Alex Marwood bestselling author of Wicked Girls & The Killer Next Door Jane Casey is one of the brightest stars in the modern crime firmament' John Connolly'I love Maeve Kerrigan
- what a terrific series Jane Casey has created' Sarah Hilary bestselling of author Someone Else's Skin Maeve is such a hugely warm character with just the right mix of vulnerable & feisty Will definitely be looking out more in the series' Tammy Cohen author of When She Was Bad A serial killer who wants to watch you burn The media call him The Burning Man a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks & now the fifth victim has been found Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable keen to make her mark on the murder task force Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy makes her weak but the more she learns about the latest victim Rebecca Haworth from her grieving friends & family the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice But how do you catch a killer no one has seen? & when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke?
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With discovery comes certain death When Australian Jillian Parker's scorched remains are discovered in her burnt-out car Ruud Pujasumarta & his team are brought in to investigate what appears at first to be a routine homicide But when Canadian citizen Anita Dalloway's charred body is found a few days later Ruud finds a banner unfurled by the corpse's feet A verse from the Quran is scribbled across it calling for unbelievers to be burned The killer is targeting Christians & the team's suspicions are confirmed when a third body that of English backpacker Emily Grealish turns up with the same MOBut who is responsible? Is it the senior Australian diplomat from the embassy who was obsessed by the first victim? The Imam who preaches Sharia law? The Indonesian three-star military general taking backhanders & living a life of luxury in Jakarta? Or the local drug dealer with a score to settle? But Ruud is suspicious that the killer may be someone much closer to home someone Ruud has trusted for many years What unravels is a terrifying chain of events for Ruud & what he discovers puts his & those around him lives in danger ...