The fifth action-packed Victorian military adventure featuring hero Jack Lark soldier leader imposter 416 pages Collard Paul Fraser ...

The third of Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series in which Martine & Ben must save the world's rarest leopard 224 pages St John Lauren ...

Spanning forty years two women's stories of love loss & betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by Jojo Moyes internationally bestselling author of Me Before You After You & the new bestseller Still Me 'A fabulous emotional & evocative book
- perfect for anyone who loves Mad Men' Sophie Kinsella When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest Instead she discovers a letter from 1960 written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband
- & Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair Despite or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man In 1960 Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident She can't remember anything
- her husband her friends who she used to be & then when she returns home she uncovers a hidden letter & begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for Ellie & Jennifer's stories of passion adultery & loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel
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A New Statesman Book of the Year London A city apart Inimitable Or so it once seemed Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition The vestiges of secret tunnels the ghosts of saints & King Harold's last stand buried by developments the cycling revolution & Brexit An electrifying final odyssey The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory ...

A New York Times bestseller " Splendid" -Kirkus Reviews " Vivid & compelling" -BCCB "A smart & feisty female protagonist in whom readers will delight" -Booklist " Will keep you guessing until the very last page" -Cinda Williams Chima New York Times & USA TODAY bestselling author Gangs of New York meets Six of Crows in this captivating new series about a girl who must travel back in time to find a mysterious book that could save her future Stop the Magician Steal the book Save the future In modern day New York magic is all but extinct The remaining few who have an affinity for magic-the Mageus-live in the shadows hiding who they are Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island Crossing it means losing their power-and often their lives Esta is a talented thief & she's been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink With her innate ability to manipulate time Esta can pilfer from the past collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she's there & all of Esta's training has been for one final job traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order-and the Brink-before the Magician can destroy it & doom the Mageus to a hopeless future But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs & secret societies a world where the very air crackles with magic Nothing is as it seems including the Magician himself & for Esta to save her future she may have to betray everyone in the past ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A hero can't always be good Joe Rickman head of clandestine operations in the Middle East has been kidnapped & with him top secret CIA information that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands Mitch Rapp must find Rickman at all costs But something doesn't add up & he soon suspects something even more sinister is afoot With elements inside his own government working against him Rapp will have to make to make a tough call between playing the hero & playing nice Or will he be stopped dead before he can succeed?AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ' Mitch Rapp is a great character who always leaves the bad guys either very sorry for themselves or very dead' Guardian ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley The Godolphin & Latymer School formerly of Royal Holloway University of London The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation Set in the late twenty-first century the novel unfolds a sombre & pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction Interwoven with her futuristic theme Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley & Byron yet rejects Romanticism & its faith in art & nature Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman & the radical philosopher William Godwin Her mother died ten days after her birth & the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle & her own reading She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814 In the summer of 1816 she began her first & most famous novel Frankenstein Three of her children died in early infancy & in 1822 her husband was drowned Mary returned to England with her surviving son & wrote novels short stories & accounts of her travels; she was the first editor of PBShelley's poetry & verse ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play British Survival Horror At It&s Best A group of friends journey to the woods for a weekend of camping barbecues & laughs However something is waiting for them something sinister that plans on taking no prisoners Soon the trip becomes a matter of survival as evil & carnage descends As the body count rises only one question remains Who will be The Last Man? Actors Alice Henley Albey Brookes Ryan Gaterral Kerry Bennett & Alexandra B Harris Director Alex Murray Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 25 minutes (approx) ...

The author travels across Russia from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept villages following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry In this book he tells the story of a nation famine war the frozen wastes of the Gulag the collapse of communism & now a people seeking oblivion 304 pages Bullough Oliver ...

Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting & dangerous decade of spaceflight His career spanned the entire Gemini & Apollo programs from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to commanding Apollo XVII man&s last mission to the moon Between those two historic events lay more adventures than an ordinary person could imagine as Cernan repeatedly put his life his family & everything he held dear on the altar of an obsessive desire Written with " New York Times" bestselling author Don Davis this is the astronaut story never before told
- about the fear love & sacrifice demanded of the few men who dared to reach beyond the heavens for the biggest prize of all the Moon
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