Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain but with a twist people still worship the Viking gods One evening stuck with her dad on his night shift at the British Museum she is drawn to the Lewis Chessmen & Heimdall's Horn Unable to resist she blows the horn waking three chess pieces from their enchantment 240 pages 10-15 Simon Francesca ...

Falsely accused victim? Or cold-blooded killer? Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiance fifteen years ago But Casey claims
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Falsely accused victim? Or cold-blooded killer? Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiance fifteen years ago But Casey claims
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Jessica Alba speaks the language of seduction in this tantalizing story of a forbidden love set against the backdrop of the steamy jungles of 1930&s Sarawak A beautiful tribeswoman (Alba) becomes both concubine & language tutor to a young English colonial (Hugh Dancy) & in the heat of the jungle their passion grows into a forbidden love affair But the lovers are forced to separate after they are threatened for defying duty & tradition When the young man returns a year later with his new bride the heat of the passion reignites & intensifies as secrets surface that are as deep & dark as the jungles that those keep them inhabit Also starring Brenda Blethyn Emily Mortimer Noah Taylor & Bob Hoskins The Sleeping Dictionary awakens the passion for true love that extends beyond the boundaries of tradition ...

Return to the darkly beautiful world of The Sin Eater's Daughter with a sequel that will leave you awed terrified & desperate for more Ever since her brother Lief disappeared Errin's life has gone from bad to worse Not only must she care for her sick mother she has to scrape together rent money by selling illegal herbal cures But none of that compares to the threat of the vengeful Sleeping Prince whom the Queen just awoke from his enchanted sleep When her village is evacuated as part of the war against the Sleeping Prince Errin is left desperate & homeless The only person she can turn to is the mysterious Silas a young man who buys deadly poisons from Errin but won't reveal why he needs them Silas promises to help Errin but when he vanishes Errin must journey across a kingdom on the brink of war to seek another way to save her mother & herself But what she finds splits the world as she knows it apart & with the Sleeping Prince drawing nearer Errin must make a heartbreaking choice that could affect the whole kingdom ...

Dulce Chacon's book has had an immense success in Spain no doubt because the novelist speaks with a just & powerful voice & because she has allowed women
- the most anonymous the most suppressed the most silenced
- to speak out Le Monde It is 1939 In the Ventas prison in Madrid a group of women have been incarcerated Their crime is to have supported or fought on the Republican side in Spain's cruel & devastating Civil War Chief among them are Hortensia who fought with the militia & is pregnant by her husband Felipe
- a man still at large & fighting against Franco's dictatorship
- & who lives with the knowledge that she will be shot after she gives birth; sixteen-year-old Elvira who tried to leave Spain with her mother but was arrested by the Falangists while she was boarding their ship; Tomasa whose husband four sons & daughter-in-law were thrown off a bridge; & Pepita Hortensia's sister who from outside the prison acts as messenger between her & her husband Dulce Chacon's deeply moving novel is based on the actual testimonies of a number of women who survived the Spanish Civil War & suffered imprisonment under the France regime as well as on accounts of others who died fighting for freedom A bestseller in Spain where it was voted ' Book of the year' The Sleeping Voice is remarkable for its combination of dramatic intensity & historical authenticity



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The pacy sensitive & formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War from acclaimed historian & author Christopher Clark FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014SUNDAY TIMES & INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 Winner of the Los Angeles Times History Book Prize 2014 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car & shoot dead Franz Ferdinand & his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency it fulfilled its every aim it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule & it created a powerful new Serbia but it also brought down four great empires killed millions of men & destroyed a civilization What made a seemingly prosperous & complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination? In The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of the First World War & its causes Above all it shows how the failure to understand the seriousness of the chaotic near genocidal fighting in the Balkans would drag Europe into catastrophe Reviews' Formidable one of the most impressive & stimulating studies of the period ever published' Max Hastings Sunday Times' Easily the best book ever written on the subject A work of rare beauty that combines meticulous research with sensitive analysis & elegant prose The enormous weight of its quality inspires amazement & awe Academics should take note Good history can still be a good story' Washington Post'A lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship It is hard to believe we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps the biggest collective blunder in the history of international relations' Niall Ferguson' Reading The Sleepwalkers it is as if a light had been turned on a half-darkened stage of shadowy characters cursing among themselves without reason Clark demolishes the standard view The brilliance of Clark's far-reaching history is that we are able to discern how the past was genuinely prologue In conception steely scholarship & piercing insights his book is a masterpiece' Harold Evans New York Times Book Review' Impeccably researched provocatively argued & elegantly written a model of scholarship' Sunday Times Books of the Year' Superb effectively consigns the old historical consensus to the bin It's not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world history' Mail Online'A monumental new volume Revelatory even revolutionary Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable' Boston Globe' Superb One of the great mysteries of history is how Europe's great powers could have stumbled into World War I This is the single best book I have read on this important topic' Fareed Zakaria'A meticulously researched superbly organized & handsomely written account Military History Clark is a masterly historian His account vividly reconstructs key decision points while deftly sketching the context driving them A magisterial work' Wall Street Journal' This compelling examination of the causes of World War I deserves to become the new standard one-volume account of that contentious subject' Foreign Affairs'A brilliant contribution' Times Higher Education' Clark is fully alive to the challenges of the subject He provides vivid portraits of leading figures He also gives a rich sense of what contemporaries believed was at stake in the crises leading up to the war' Irish Times' In recent decades many analysts had tended to put most blame for the disaster of the First World War on Germany Clark strongly renews an older interpretation which sees the statesmen of many countries as blundering blindly together into war' Stephen Howe Independent Books of the Year About the author Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge & a Fellow of St Catharine's College He is the author of The Politics of Conversion Kaiser Wilhelm II & Iron Kingdom Widely praised around the world Iron Kingdom became a major bestseller He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ...

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this masterly synthesis Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' & 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton He shows how the tragic split between science & religion arose & how in particular the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century He also provides vivid & judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists & makes clear the role that political bias & unconscious prejudice played in their creativity ...

The year was 1893 & the night before Christmas Eve On the country estate of Lord & Lady Harrington tradition dictated it was also the night of the annual Christmas Ball given in thanks to the considerable workforce it took to run such a large estate This story is about one of those workers Drummond No-one ever knew his full name He was only ever referred to as Drummond He stood six foot six with hands the size of tractor seats which belied his profession as a master-crafstman of such skill & expertise that any Carriage Buggy or Sleigh that carried his mark would have been one of the finest in England & much sought after But now a broken fence a faulty drive belt on a threshing machine or a cracked chimney stack were the new employers of his skills But Drummond was content in his new role & the solitude it afforded him He avoided socialising within the community of the estate & was quite happy to be left alone & get on with the work assigned to him by Stephan the Estate manager As his oldest friend Stephan was one of the few people to know of Drummonds daily struggle coping with a sad & tragic past It was during spring the following year that Stephan introduced Drummond to a young stable lad called William who'd been employed at the request of Lady Harrington William was someone Stephan thought would be the perfect assistant to help ease Drummonds considerable workload for the forthcoming winter months William was a young orphan boy a stray but who seemed to possess a rare & magical gift Animals became calm in his presence & people felt at ease & happy whenever he was around Even Drummond had to concede there was something special about this scrawny little lad & so agreed to take him on as his apprentice regardless of his previous dictum of always working alone The other workers on the estate felt this to be an odd partnership & one sure to fail given Drummonds morose disposition & reticence to social participation But this happy little boy was about to prove them all wrong & have a very dramatic effect on his new teacher & mentor in the most surprising way ...

The number one bestselling picture book now available in paperback… What’s big blue bossy & turns up uninvited? A slightly annoying elephant of course! Introducing a magnificently warm & funny picture book from two remarkable talents ...