The second book in William Nicholson's award-winning epic fantasy series Wind on Fire Gloriously cinematic & completely enthralling'
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For readers new to The Dark Tower The Wind Through the Keyhole is a st&-alone novel & a wonderful introduction to the series The Dark Tower is soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew Mc Conaughey & Idris Elba due in cinemas August 18 2017 The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller The Wind through the Keyhole is a perfect bridge between the fourth & fifth novels in Stephen King's epic masterpiece A story within a story which features both the younger & older gunslinger it is also a wonderful introduction to The Dark Tower series As Roland Deschain & his ka-tet leave the Emerald city a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam While they shelter from the starkblast Roland tells a story about his younger days when he was sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-changer At the scene of the crime he had tried to comfort a terrified young boy called Bill Streeter by reciting a story from The Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime ' The Wind through the Keyhole' 'A person's never too old for stories' he said to Bill ' Man & boy girl & woman we live for them' & stories like these they live for us JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWERTHE DARK TOWER SERIESTHE DARK TOWER I THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II THE DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV WIZARD & GLASS THE DARK TOWER V WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI SONG OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII THE DARK TOWERTHE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE A DARK TOWER NOVEL ...

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared His wife is growing more distant every day Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving As this compelling story unfolds the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague & blameless life spent cooking reading listening to jazz & opera & drinking beer at the kitchen table are turned inside out & he embarks on a bizarre journey guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters each with a tale to tell ...

Following a personal tragedy florist Persimmon ' Simmy' Brown has moved to the beautiful region of the Lake District content to lose herself in her work But the peace she has found is shattered when at the wedding of a millionaire's daughter the bride's brother is found dead in the lake As the wedding florist & one of the last people to talk to Mark Baxter alive Simmy gradually becomes involved with the grief-ridden & angry relatives & when events take another sinister turn Simmy becomes a prime witness finding herself at the heart of a murder investigation The chief suspects are all intimidating volatile & secretive
- but which one is a killer?
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A moving Yorkshire saga The Windfell Family Secrets is the much anticipated follow up to Diane Allen's The Mistress of Windfell Manor Twenty-one years have passed since Charlotte Booth fought to keep Ferndale Mill & her home at Windfell Manor following her traumatic first marriage Now highly regarded in local society & happily married to her childhood sweetheart Archie Atkinson she seeks only the best for their children Isabelle & Danny But history has a habit of repeating itself when Danny's head is turned by a local girl of ill repute despite his promise of marriage to the far more respectable Harriet Armstrong Meanwhile the beautiful & secretive Isabelle shares all the traits of her biological father the notorious Joseph Dawson & when she announces that she is to marry John Sidgwick the owner of High Mill in Skipton her mother quickly warns her against him An ex-drinking mate of her late father who faces bankruptcy Charlotte fears his interest in Isabelle is founded more upon self-preservation than any notions of love What she doesn't realize is how far he's willing to go to protect his future ...

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II which begins with THE WINDS OF WAR & continues in WAR & REMEMBRANCE stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers Like no other books about the war Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events
- the drama the romance the heroism & the tragedy of World War II
- as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the maelstrom

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Anderson Lake is a company man Agri Gen's calorie representative in Thailand Under cover as a factory manager he combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct There he meets the windup girl
- the beautiful & enigmatic Emiko
- now abandoned to the slums She is one of the New People bred to suit the whims of the rich Engineered as slaves soldiers & toys they are the new underclass in a chilling near future where oil has run out calorie companies dominate nations & bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe And as Lake becomes increasingly obsessed with Emiko conspiracies breed in the heat & political tensions threaten to spiral out of control Businessmen & ministry officials wealthy foreigners & landless refugees all have their own agendas But no one anticipates the devastating influence of the Windup Girl

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A lively course from an expert teacher The Wine Bible grounds the reader deeply in the fundamentals while layering on informative asides tips amusing anecdotes definitions glossaries photos (all new for this edition) maps labels & recommended bottles Karen Mac Neil's information comes directly through primary research; for this second edition she has tasted more than 10000 wines & visited dozens of wine regions around the world New to the book are wines of China Japan Mexico & Slovenia & through it all the reader becomes ever more informed How to taste with focus & build a wine-tasting memory Understand the subtle interplay of variety vineyard & vintner What makes a great wine great? How oak affects flavour The reason behind Champagne's bubbles & because of the author's unique voice always entertained In great years Petrus is ravishing elegant & rich
- lngrid Bergman in red satin Or describing a Riesling A laser beam A sheet of ice A great crackling bolt of lightning
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Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery This is the sixteenth book in the series At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster & delight Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea Stephen's objective is to set the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young & uncomfortably vigorous United States The shock & barbarity of h&-to-hand fighting are sharpened by O' Brian's exact sense of period his eye for landscape & his feel for a ship under sail ...

Journey to the clouds & back with The Winged Horse Race the first in a fun & fast-paced magical adventure series that will have you flying 256 pages George Kallie ...