From Bernard Cornwell, the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. In the Dark Ages, a legendary warrior arises to unite a divided land.. . Uther, the High King of Britain, is dead. His only heir is the infant Mordred. Yet each of the country`s lesser kings seek to claim the crown for themselves. While they squabble & spoil for war, a host of Saxon armies gather, preparing for invasion. But no one has counted on the fearsome warlord Arthur. Handed power by Merlin & pursuing a doomed romance with the beautiful Guinevere, Arthur knows he will struggle to unite the country
- let alone hold back the Saxon enemy at the gates. Yet destiny awaits him.. . The first of Bernard Cornwell`s Warlord Chronicles, The Winter King is a brilliant retelling of the Arthurian legend, combining myth, history & thrilling battlefield action. ` Of all the books I have written these are my favourites` Bernard Cornwell ` Spellbinding realism` The Times
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` Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel` Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason`s The Winter Soldier, a story of love & medicine through the devastation of the First World War. Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, & only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon`s scalpel. & as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient & nurse forever. From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war & medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, &, finally, of the mistakes we make, & the precious opportunities to atone. ...

For more than 100 years, winter sports have been an integral part of the image of mountainous regions. Skiing in particular became the in activity for the rich & beautiful during the roaring twenties. The sport was as much about competition as it was about an exclusive lifestyle. Since that time, winter sports destinations have advertised their assets through artistically designed posters. Renowned Artists have used pencils & water colors to express the ideals of winter vacations in top Alpine locations such as St. Moritz, Chamonix & Groden, as well as dream places like Vail & Whistler in the Rocky Mountains. The collection in this book documents the stylistic development while presenting in different chapters the most beautiful & exceptional posters of the era. ...

Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled & resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened: villages will be deluged, thousands will be exiled from their homes, & graves will be moved. & when Avery & Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own, they begin their separate journeys through the landscape of grief. Weaving historical moments with the quiet intimacy of human lives, ” The Winter Vault” is the story of a husband & a wife trying to find their way back to each other; of people & nations displaced; & of the myriad means by which we all seek out a place to call home. ...

Finalist for the Herralde Novel Prize Two sisters return to the small parish of Tierra de Cha in Galicia after a long absence, to the former home of their grandfather, from which they fled when they were just children. At Tierra de Cha, nothing & everything has changed: the people, the distant little house in the rain, the acrid smell of gorse, the flowers, the crops, the customs. Yet the return of the sisters disrupts the placid existence of the villagers, stirring up memories best left alone. When news arrives that the famous American actress Ava Gardner will be shooting a movie in Spain & that lookalikes are wanted, the sisters have a chance to make their dreams come true. But the past is catching up with the present, & the family secrets that led to the Winterlings` return won`t stay buried for long. ...

The Wipers Times: The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper is a 377-page volume with facsimile reproductions of an extraordinary magazine that was written, printed & read by British soldiers serving in the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War. Produced on an abandoned printing press salvaged from the ruins of Ypres ...

An extraordinary mix of black humor, fake entertainment programs, & pastiche articles, the ” Wipers Times, ” the famed trench newspaper of World War One, constitutes a unique record of life on the front line. This complete facsimile edition of the paper, produced to accompany a BBC dramatization, is a historical masterpiece that enables us to sample the real spirit of the trenches--from the safety of our armchairs. ...

Val Mc Dermid`s Number One bestselling crime series, featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill & Jacko Vance
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The Wirral in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Bebington, Birkenhead, Heswall, Hoylake, central Liverpool, Wallasayand West Kirby. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey

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When Andy Merrifield made his first trip to America aged ten, he vowed that one day he would leave his native Liverpool & live in New York. He eventually got there, but his dream quickly turned sour. In 2003, weary of city life & fed up with university teaching, he moved to central France & embarked upon a journey of the soul, walking amid the ruins & spectacular vistas of the Auvergne. This book is the story of that slow pilgrimage, on which his only companion is Gribouille, a tender & intelligent donkey with soft, thick fur on his brow & calm, dark eyes. Shadowed by Robert Louis Stevenson, who 130 years earlier trekked through another part of the region with the donkey Modestine, Merrifield gradually settles into the purposeful pace of his journey, allowing him to confront himself, as well as the larger mysteries of existence. He marvels at his tranquil surroundings & revels in the oddities of French rural life, musing all the while on the subtle wisdom of his companion, & the humble virtues of donkeys throughout history. The Wisdom of Donkeys reminds us that observing, being mindful, & being present in the moment are essential to a fulfilled life. It teaches us that enlightenment is all around us if we only take the time to seek it. ...