Just before dawn one summer morning Bruno is summoned by the wail of the siren in the little town of St Denis in the Perigord. A fire is raging in a local barn & spreading to the surrounding fields. When Bruno arrives at the scene, the smell of petrol leaves no doubt
- it was arson. Meanwhile, a Californian producer wants to set up a wine-making business in the valley. Despite the money & jobs this would bring, many fear it would destroy their town. When a violent death follows the crop burning, it looks as though someone is prepared to do anything to stop the scheme. Bruno will have to draw on all his local knowledge to reach the truth.
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From the master of the wartime espionage novel; a thrilling story of subterfuge at sea May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus river to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, flies the flag of neutral Spain, & is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines & drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter under the command of Captain Eric De Haan. She sails for the intelligence division of the British Royal Navy & is involved in a secret mission. On board are a Polish engineer & British spy, Spaniards who fought for Franco & Germans who fought against Hitler. For them, this is a last desperate flight to freedom. ...

Dark Wind is the true story of Gordon Chaplin & his partner Susan Aitkinson. Both coming from broken first marriages, they rediscover passion & share a desire for adventure. But what started as an idyllic escapade through the Marshall Islands ends in tragedy when their yacht gets trapped in the path of a furious tropical storm ...

From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world`s greatest leaders
- & provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait of his leadership. May, 1940. Britain is at war, European democracies are falling rapidly & the public are unaware of this dangerous new world. Just days after his unlikely succession to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, faces this horror
- & a sceptical King & a party plotting against him. He wonders how he can capture the public mood & does so, magnificently, before leading the country to victory. It is this fascinating period that Anthony Mc Carten captures in this deeply researched, gripping day-by-day (and often hour-by-hour) narrative. In doing so he revises the familiar view of Churchill
- he made himself into the iconic figure we remember & changed the course of history, but through those turbulent & dangerous weeks he was plagued by doubt, & even explored a peace treaty with Nazi Germany. It`s a scarier, & more human story, than has ever been told.


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A monstrously funny debut from the new star of middle-grade adventure. THEY`RE COMING! Legends (also known as terrifying, human-eating monsters) have invaded the town of Darkmouth & aim to conquer the world. But don`t panic! The last remaining Legend Hunter
- Finn
- will protect us. Finn: twelve-years-old, loves animals, not a natural fighter, but tries really, really hard, & we all know good intentions are the best weapons against a hungry Minotaur, right? On second thoughts, panic. PANIC NOW!

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Darkness is the friend & enemy of those who hunt by night. Ellie & her friends have found safety after months of fighting. But the New Zealand Defence Force needs their help to infiltrate occupied Australian territory. & so the friends must fight on. ...

In this powerful book, a pioneering young woman, Amy Buller, recounts the hopes & fears of Germans engulfed in the rise of fascism during the 1930s. During the years leading up to the outbreak of war, Buller defied her critics & social norms by leading delegations of British intelligentsia to Germany to learn about & confront the appeal of the Nazis. The book speaks of how Hitler & the Nazis stripped the German people of their freedoms & oppressed them, & how young people were swept along with the tide of hate. It tells the stories of the Germans whom Buller met, including their positivity about the forces uniting the country, & their terror that Hitler was the man at the helm. Darkness Over Germany is Amy Buller`s recollection of these unlikely encounters & her analysis of how National Socialism took hold. It tells a remarkable & largely forgotten story of British-German relations in the 1930s. The book speaks resonantly of the need to stay vigilant & maintain dialogue in times of change & discord. ...

This title comes with an introduction by Philip Hensher. Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school & at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence; Sophy, in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, his book reveals both the inner & outer darkness of our world. ” An intensity of vision without parallel”. (TLS). ”A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes... Magic”. (New York Times Book Review). ...

It is freezing mid-winter on Exmoor, & in a close-knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed, a local woman has been found murdered in her bed. This is local policeman Jonas Holly`s first murder investigation. But he is distracted by anonymous letters, accusing him of failing to do his job. Taunted by the killer & sidelined by his abrasive senior detective, Jonas has no choice but to strike out alone on a terrifying hunt.. .but who is hunting who? ...

Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black & white. On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on the other, Darktown, the African-American area guarded by the city`s first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near-powerless by the authorities: they can`t arrest white suspects; they can`t drive a squad car; they must operate out of a dingy basement. When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in a car with a rich white man, no one seems to care except for Boggs & Smith, two black cops from vastly different backgrounds. Pressured from all sides, they will risk their jobs, the trust of their community & even their own lives to investigate her death. Their efforts bring them up against a brutal old-school cop, Dunlow, who has long run Darktown as his own turf
- but Dunlow`s idealistic young partner, Rakestraw, is a young progressive who may be willing to make allies across colour lines.. . Soon to be a major TV series from Jamie Foxx & Sony Pictures Television.
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