Can Lincoln Rhyme catch a diabolical killer in a world of truth & lies? ' Deaver is the master puzzler'
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' Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre but ten times darker & you have The Vanishing as dark & eerie & gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on One to curl up by the fire with on a windy night' Stylist On top of the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot carved out of a barren landscape lies White Windows a house of shadows & secrets Here lives Marcus Twentyman a hard-drinking but sensitive man & his sister the brisk widow Hester When runaway Annaleigh first meets the Twentymans their offer of employment & lodgings seems a blessing Only later does she discover the truth But by then she is already in the middle of a web of darkness & intrigue where murder seems the only possible means of escape Already a Sunday Times bestselling author with her first novel The Vanishing confirms Sophia Tobin as a rising star stunning twisting historical fiction for fans of Jessie Burton & Tracy Chevalier Undeniably page-turning' Mail on Sunday Entertaining' Times Vivid absorbing & wonderfully gothic with shades of Sarah Waters & Emily & Charlotte Bronte' Kate Riordan Brilliantly Bronte-esque Perfect reading for a stormy night' Anna Mazzola A vivid sense of the period which stays with the reader long after the final page' the i The plotting is skilful with a network of lies being woven so that no one characters or readers can be sure of the truth' Daily Express Atmosphere aplenty & some real surprises' Daily Mail Echoes Wuthering Heights with its setting & sense of intrigue' Red An atmospheric tale of betrayal & revenge' woman&home A thrilling atmospheric page-turner' Metro ...

From the Costa Award winning bestselling author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE & I AM I AM I AM comes an intense breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen & reclaimed ' Unputdownable' Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter Esme is outspoken unconventional & repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society Something will have to be done Years later a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox & the one person who should know more her grandmother Kitty seems unable to answer Iris's questions What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? & how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Originally based on & The Golden Egg& by Tim Krabbe this dark thriller follows Jeff Harriman&s (Keifer Sutherland) obsession with finding his girlfriend Diane Shaver (Sandra Bullock) who was abducted three years before whilst waiting at a road stop Presented with a series of clues to the disappearance by the abductor himself a psychotic scientist (Jeff Bridges) Jeff retraces his girlfriend&s sinister journey George Sluizer directs this Hollywood remake of his 1988 feature & Spoorloos& ...

When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914 she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic inventor Nikita Slavkin deepens she's inspired by his belief in a future free of bourgeois clutter alight with creativity & sleek as a machine In 1917 revolution sweeps away the Moscow Gerty knew The middle classes
- & their governesses
- are fleeing the country but she stays throwing herself into an experiment in communal living led by Slavkin In the white-washed modernist rooms of the commune the members may be cold & hungry but their overwhelming feeling is of exhilaration They abolish private property & hand over everything even their clothes to the collective; they swear celibacy for the cause Yet the chaos & violence of the outside world cannot be withstood for ever Nikita Slavkin's sudden disappearance inspires the Soviet cult of the Vanishing Futurist the scientist who sacrificed himself for the Communist ideal Gerty alone & vulnerable must now discover where that ideal will ultimately lead

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Why is the Brazilian rainforest vanishing so fast? & why is it essential not only to the people & animals within it but to the whole world? Can anything be done to save it? This story seen through the eyes of a child called Remaema describes how the Yanomami tribe are battling against potential developers Can a solution be found that will protect the forest & allow the tribe to continue living as they always have done while benefiting from limited development? This picture book offers an exciting perspective on a controversial & topical subject ...

'A breathtaking magisterial panorama telling the epic story of post-war anarchy dying empires & rising nation states It makes us rethink our understanding of Europe's twentieth century' David Motadel The Times Literary Supplement For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date
- the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation & also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of their principal enemies the German Empire Austria-Hungary & the Ottoman Empire But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning as a continuing nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country In this highly original gripping book Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War ' Lucid incisive & packed with fascinating details' Financial Times Books of the Year ' Important & timely obliges us to reconsider a period & a battlefront that has too often been neglected' Margaret Mac Millan The New York Times Review of Books' This narrative of continent-wide chaos performs a valuable service by chronicling the postwar turmoil of Europe helps us understand why few wars reach tidy conclusions' Max Hastings Sunday Times ' Reminds us in vivid & often shocking detail that only some countries saw killing end on the 11th day of the 11th month leaves a sense of foreboding for our own time' Robert Tombs The Times
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' By their fruits ye shall know them not by their roots' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal & often its most heterodox aspects Asking questions such as how we define evil to ourselves the difference between a healthy & a divided mind the value of saintly behaviour & what animates & characterizes the mental landscape of sudden conversion James's masterpiece stands at a unique moment in the relationship between belief & culture Faith in institutional religion & dogmatic theology was fading away & the search for an authentic religion rooted in personality & subjectivity was a project conducted as an urgent necessity With psychological insight philosophical rigour & a determination not to jump to the conclusion that in tracing religion's mental causes we necessarily diminish its truth or value in the Varieties James wrote a truly foundational text for modern belief Matthew Bradley's wide-ranging new edition examines the ideas that continue to fuel modern debates on atheism & faith ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Our planet is full of life! Did you know there are 400000 species of beetle
- but only eight species of bear? This stunning
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