Autumn 1940 The Battle of Britain rages Southampton is home to Britain's only hope of victory the Spitfire But when the Luftwaffe drops 2300 bombs in three devastating raids the city goes up in flames & the Woolston Supermarine Spitfire factory is destroyed From the ashes a story of chaos courage & community spirit emerges Jackie is the third generation of Dimmock at her family-run laundry Polly is the first & only draughtswoman in the Spitfire design office How will each woman forge her own path in this evolving landscape? ...

The second book in Philip Pullman's classic SALLY LOCKHART quartet in a beautiful new edition to celebrate the 30 year anniversary Sally Lockhart is twenty-two & running her own financial consultancy
- a thoroughly modern woman in a world of pompous men
- but she's about to be thrown headlong into a vicious web of murder mystery & pure evil When a client's lost investment appears suspicious Sally investigates Soon she is ensnared in a whirl of high-society danger & deceit which can lead her in only one direction
- to the terrifying secret of the Shadow in the North


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' Reminded me of the very best of the Harry Potter books' Piers Torday author of The Last Wild'A thrillingly wild adventure
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The Shadow infiltrates the sanctum of The Society of United Magicians an esoteric enclave of illusionists who are hell-bent on escaping the ultimate trap death itself! Learning the secret of the so-called ‘ Last Illusion’ from the spirit of escape artist Harry Houdini himself The Shadow becomes the next target of their murderous scheme To thwart their plans he must evade twisted traps & solve spellbinding puzzles while simultaneously evading the deadly skills of Sandman the magician assassin A good (or evil) magician never reveals his secrets… but the Shadow knows! ...

A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others
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The second in Charles E Mc Garry's series of murder mysteries combining touches of the supernatural with contemporary procedural 308 pages Mc Garry Charles E ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation with Nathan Gregory the owner of a travelling fairground thought to be The Eagle When Gregory goes missing Pilot Craig Mc Coy goes looking for both him & the Eagle John Wayne Craig Mc Coy Dorothy Gulliver Jean Gregory Edward Hearn Col Nathan B Gregory Richard Tucker Maj Evans company owner Lloyd Whitlock Green a director Walter Miller Danby a director Edmund Burns Clark a director Chs 1-3 Pat O' Malley Ames a director Kenneth Harlan Ward a director ' Little Billy' Rhodes Billy Little the midget Screenplay by Ford Beebe Colbert Clark & Wyndham Gittens Directed by Ford Beebe DVD 5 PAL Black &38; White Actors John Wayne Dorothy Gulliver Directors Ford Beebe Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

' Only with the greatest of simplifications for the sake of convenience can we say Africa In reality except as a geographical term Africa doesn't exist' Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career In astudy that avoids the official routes palaces & big politics he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole & as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples & practises we call ' Africa' & an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination from the intoxications of freedom from war & from politics as theft ...

Talitha Mouldson's family have buried their secrets for decades but now it's time for the truth to come out 408 pages 20 Illustrations black & white Mc Nally Susan ...

A stunning literary thriller in the tradition of Umberto Eco The discovery of a forgotten book leads to a hunt for an elusive ...