Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he's ever worked in the new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Connelly 464 pages Connelly Michael ...

' 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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'A compact & compelling novel by an iconic Norwegian writerand thanks to Don Bartlett & Don Shaw's crisp translation we see it obliquely'
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A guide to some of the best walking routes in the region with lucid descriptions & additional information to enhance the walkers' enjoyment & appreciation of the place Each route prefaced with a quick-reference summary is illustrated with a clear sketch map ...

A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening & visionary short fiction Strange beasts night ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Supernatural horror set in the Wild West A band of brave pioneers sets out to find & recover a family of settlers that appears to have been abducted following an attack on a frontier homestead Expecting the offenders to be the usual posse of hostile natives the group prepares for routine battle But as men start to vanish mysteriously & hideous evidence begins to accumulate the men realise that their enemy may not be merely human after all ...

A lively rhyming picture book about transport from former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt A lively rhyming picture book about transport by poet & former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt Small children take great delight in things that go
- whether by bicycle car boat or plane & best of all is taking the bus because the bus is for everyone! Complemented by beautiful artwork from Gillian Tyler this playful book will captivate little listeners & is perfect for reading aloud
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