With the Great War still raw in the memory & life in the 1920s mining village of Whitton Grange hard & dangerous Louie Kirkup dreams of a better future But with a sick mother & a large family of pitman brothers & father the daily burdens fall heavily on her young shoulders She fears becoming a spinster drudge until she sets eyes on ' Red' Sam Ritson
- hard muscled & a natural leader
- climb into the boxing ring at the Durham Miners' Gala & determines to marry him But Sam wedded to his battle for his fellow miners against the ruthless mine owner Seward-Scott is no ideal husband As tensions increase & the General Strike looms Louie's brother Eb begins an affair with Eleanor the mine owner's wife With the miners locked out of work Louie fears for the fate of her village & her unborn child As the strain takes its tragic toll loving & loyal Louie must stay strong for them all Written with compassion humour & a vivid immediacy The Hungry Hills is an unforgettable saga of two very different families living through the dramas of 1920s Britain The Hungry Hills was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award & is the first in the Durham Mining Trilogy

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Never mind essays & exams
- one of the biggest challenges you'll face at university is fending for yourself in the kitchen The
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A student cookbook with a difference The Hungry Student not only gives more than 200 quick cheap & tasty recipes that will impress all your mates but there are also indispensable tips on everything the new student needs to know from barbecuing tips & drinking games to how to tackle those tricky household chores With chapters dedicated to Ph D in One Pot Outdoor Grub Mates for Tea Strapped for Cash Eat Healthy Bachelor of Budget Bakes & Puds Back to Basics & The Bar there are opportunities for impromptu parties end of the month budget creations & comfort foods for one Each recipe has a cost breakdown to help with budgeting & detailed instructions to make them accessible to even the most novice cook While Eat Healthy contains full nutritional information to prep your body & brain for intensive studying (and partying!) Forget the textbooks this is the only book you'll ever need to get through your first year! ...

A student cookbook with a difference The Hungry Student Vegetarian not only gives more than 200 quick & cheap meat-free recipes that are so tasty even hardened carnivores will keep turning up for dinner There are also indispensable tips on budgeting lunchbox ideas healthy eating & how to get creative with leftovers With chapters dedicated to Bring on Brekky Comfort Food Roasted & Baked Made in a Flash & All the Carbs there are opportunities for impromptu parties end of the month budget creations & comfort foods for one All the recipes in this book are balanced for a healthy vegetarian diet & they each have an affordability stamp to help with budgeting as well as detailed instructions to make them accessible to even the most novice cook Forget the textbooks this is the only book you'll ever need to get through your first year! ...

Fom the author of The Glass Palace the widely-acclaimed bestseller The Hungry Tide is a rich exotic saga set in Calcutta & in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself & separates into thousands of wandering strands The result is the Sundarbans an immense stretch of mangrove forest a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghosh's new novel In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland & every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later Dense as the mangrove forests are from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert There is a terrible vengeful beauty here a place teeming with crocodiles snakes sharks & man-eating tigers This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator & it is into this terrain that an eccentric wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society of all races & religions & conquer the might of the Sundarbans In January 2001 a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment & the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society ...

The third book in the Devil's Isle series following on from The Veil & The Sight From the New York Times bestselling author of the Chicagoland Vampires Novels-the hunter becomes the hunted in a New Orleans devastated by a Paranormal war When bounty hunter Liam Quinn discovered that Claire Connolly was a Sensitive & infected with magic he should have turned her in to be locked up in the prison district known as Devil's Isle Instead he helped her learn to control her power & introduced her to an underground group of Paranormals & humans who know the truth about the war & those who fought it Now the weight of Liam's own secrets has forced him into hiding When a government agent is killed & Claire discovers that Liam is the prime suspect she races to find him before the government can But she'll discover proving his innocence is no simple matter Their enemies are drawing closer & time is running out To find out more visitwwwchloeneillcom Facebook authorchloeneill Twitter chloeneill ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Hunt the new landmark BBC series captures the dramatic encounters of predator & prey in an entirely new light Featuring the extraordinary strategies of a huge range of predators from cheetahs & African wild dogs to killer whales & polar bears these images & stories will revolutionise what you thought you knew about life in the wild Whether through speed stamina or complex subterfuge each creature’s strategy is honed to its environment – & remarkable adaptations mean that the hunted often can & do outwit their hunters It’s a life-or-death duel where each animal’s skills are stretched to the very limit From the producers of Frozen Planet & Planet Earth ¬ The Hunt reveals in astonishing detail the most surprising & significant events in the natural world ‘ The duels between hunters & hunted are as dramatic as any event in the natural world’ David Attenborough ...

Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler & Matthew Reilly Andy Mc Dermott takes us a roller-coaster ride in search of the legendary Atlantis Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she hasfound the location of the lost city of Atlantis andnow she wants the opportunityto prove her theory Someone else though wants her dead! With the help of ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase & beautiful heiress Kari Frost Nina faces a breakneck race against time around the world pursued at every step by agents of the mysterious & murderous Brotherhood of Selasphoros From the jungles of Brazil to the mountains of Tibet from the streets of Manhattan to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean the hunt for Atlantis leads to a secret hidden for 11000 years which in the wrong hands could destroy civilization as we know it ...

Tick's journey continues in The Hunt for Dark Infinity! A suspicious set of messages set Tick & Mistress Jane on a race to find the deadly Dark Infinity weapon But who will destroy it
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' Jed Walker is right there in Reacher's rear-view mirror' Lee Child When the hunters become the hunted ex-CIA agent Jed Walker is the man you need In 2011 Seal Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden Now four years later someone is eliminating Team Six
- one by one they are turning up dead Jed Walker ex-CIA is an outsider back in the game He's been chasing down a sinister group code-named Zodiac that the big guns
- MI5 CIA the Pentagon
- have failed to eradicate But as Walker follows the trail of bodies uncovering secrets & making connections he's not supposed to make he finds the answers are closer to home than he ever imagined Revenge is the obvious motive but nothing is ever that simple in love or in war Can Walker find who's responsible before the body count grows higher? Can he stop another terror attack before more innocent bystanders suffer? When the line between the good & the bad become blurred when the hunters become the hunted only one man can save us all Praise for James Phelan' James Phelan has produced a big juicy rollicking tale in the spirit of Robert Ludlum We haven't seen an international thriller like this for a long time' Jeffery Deaver'A fast & furious ride through a complicated maze of timely political intrigue James Phelan has earned a new avid fan' Steve Berry'A corker Phelan writes in swift gritty prose never wasting a word An espionage novel with grunt' Sydney Morning Herald


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