Geralt is a witcher a man whose magic powers enhanced by long training & a mysterious elixir have made him a brilliant fighter & a merciless assassin Yet he is no ordinary murderer his targets are the multifarious monsters & vile fiends that ravage the land & attack the innocent He roams the country seeking assignments but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are unremittingly vile vicious grotesques others are the victims of sin evil or simple naivety One reviewer said ' This book is a sheer delight It is beautifully written full of vitality & endlessly inventive its format with half a dozen episodes & intervening rest periods for both the hero & the reader allows for a huge range of characters scenarios & action It's thought-provoking without being in the least dogmatic witty without descending to farce & packed with sword fights without being derivative The dialogue sparkles; characters morph almost imperceptibly from semi-cliche to completely original; nothing is as it first seems Sapkowski succeeds in seamlessly welding familiar ideas unique settings & delicious twists of originality his Beauty wants to rip the throat out of a sensitive Beast; his Snow White seeks vengeance on all & sundry his elves are embittered & vindictive It's easily one of the best things I've read in ages' ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Kaulder (Vin Diesel) is the only one of his kind remaining & has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones However unbeknownst to him the Witch Queen has been resurrected & seeks revenge on Kaulder causing an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Kaulder (Vin Diesel) is the only one of his kind remaining & has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones However unbeknownst to him the Witch Queen has been resurrected & seeks revenge on Kaulder causing an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race ...

In The Last Wolf Jim Crumley explores the place of the wolf in Scotland
- past present & future
- & challenges many of the myths

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In The Last Wolf a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura a barren stretch of Spain His miserable experience is narrated in a single rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar In Herman a master trapper is asked to clear a forest's last 'noxious beasts' Herman begins with great zeal although in time he switches sides deciding to track entirely new game In Herman II the same events are related from the perspective of strange visitors to the region a group of hyper-sexualised aristocrats who interrupt their orgies to pitch in with the manhunt of poor Herman These intense perfect novellas full of Krasznhorkai's signature sense of foreboding & dark irony are perfect examples of his craft ...

Michael Morpurgo has created a sweeping & dramatic story in the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie This spellbinding tale is complemented perfectly by Michael Foreman's illustrations Robbie Mc Leod & a wolf cub both orphaned venture far from their birthplace a land of rebellious fighters & vicious redcoats There is little constancy in Robbie's adventurous life save for the companionship of his wolf But when at last Robbie finds a place where he can peacefully make his home he knows in his heart that the wolf must find his own natural home too ...

What sort of a place is England? & who are the English? As the United Kingdom turns away from its European neighbours & begins to look increasingly disunited at home it is becoming necessary to ask what England has that is singular & its own 480 pages 25 integrated black & white pictures Winder Robert ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Sheila Hancock Rhys Ifans & Bob Hoskins star in three very different takes on & insights into life & death
- each one poignant & compelling tinged with sadness & humour A dying woman (Sheila Hancock) waits to receive drugs to take her own life A farmer (Rhys Ifans) tries to find a way to free himself from the yoke of a dominating mother An assassin (Bob Hoskins) waits in a public lavatory for his next target These three people don&t know each other but they have one thing in common they are all about to kill or be killed
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Pia lives in a zoo in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with her parents (both ghosts) several old & cranky genies a devil & two young angels She spends her days trimming genie-beards trying to avoid being tricked into selling her soul & waiting for the angels to make a miracle big enough to save the world 320 pages Gayton Sam ...

CRIME NEVER SLEEPS'CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST MYSTERYTHRILLERS OF THE YEAR Detective Renee Ballard works ' The Late Show' the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD It's thankless work for a once-promising detective keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime Some nights are worse than others & tonight is the worst yet Two shocking cases hours apart a brutal assault & a multiple murder with no suspects Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn But what she doesn't know
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- is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city the police department & her own past The Late Show will keep you up all night it's time to meet Detective Renee Ballard ' The new novel from America's greatest living crime writer is a gripping thrill ride that will entrance you & keep you reading until the small hours' Daily Express' It has been more than ten years since Connelly one of the world's greatest crime writers last launched a major new character superb storytelling
- this cements Connelly's place at the very top of the crime-writing tree' Daily Mail' Classy & clever with a tenacious heroine' Sunday Mirror' Connelly achieves an enormous amount in these pages he creates a new character who immediately leaps into life; & controls a complex fast-paced plot full of surprises' Evening Standard' The Late Show introduces a terrific female character Detective Renee Ballard The pacing is breathless Ballard has astonishing resourcefulness & bravery
- she is complicated & driven' New York Times' Although the usual Connelly fingerprints are in evidence here
- the real achievement is the creation of his tenacious heroine Ballard' Guardian' Ballard is significantly more than a Bosch replacement or clone
- an absorbing character on her own terms Connelly has created yet another potentially iconic tarnished knight of those perennially mean streets' Irish Times'A characteristically complex tale of murder & police corruption' Mail on Sunday (Thriller of the Week)' First there was Detective Harry Bosch then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller & now comes Renee Ballard ace thriller writer Michael Connelly's first new protagonist in 10 years A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists' Irish Independent





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