For lovers of Sherlock, Shardlake & Ripper Street. A hugely enjoyable heart-pounding Victorian thriller: murder, a celebrity chef & a great detective double-act. Long-listed for a CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger` Wonderful.. . The Devil`s Feast proves to be a sumptuous treat` The Times` Criminally good.. . I love this mystery series
- it just gets better & better` Woman & Home London, 1842. There has been a mysterious & horrible death at the Reform, London`s newest & grandest gentleman`s club. A death the club is desperate to hush up. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate, & soon discovers a web of rivalries & hatreds, both personal & political, simmering behind the club`s handsome facade
- & in particular concerning its resident genius, Alexis Soyer, `the Napoleon of food`, a chef whose culinary brilliance is matched only by his talent for self-publicity. But Avery is distracted, for where is his mentor & partner-in-crime Jeremiah Blake? & what if this first death was only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?

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Dr Forle is a scientist on a river station deep in the heart of the South American jungle: the last inhabited point before the impassable interior. He is studying the eerie forest glades that the local tribes call `devil`s gardens`. Who or what has created these cursed & poisoned places? The answer, he hopes, will change the way we think about life itself. But as The Devil`s Garden opens, work on the station is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a ruthless Colonel & a sinister Judge. They claim to be registering the indigenous peoples to vote & yet that night Forle witnesses an act of torture that he cannot ignore. From that moment on, he is drawn deeper & deeper into a world of brutality & corruption until he finds himself in the midst of a small war involving remote tribes, renegade soldiers, cocaine growers & the woman he has come to love. When one of his assistants is murdered, Forle is forced to abandon his life`s work & take sides. What kind of a man is he? ...

Three journeys. Three thousand years. One destination. The Devil`s Highway is a thrilling, epic & timely tale of love, loss, fanaticism, heroism & sacrifice. ` Brilliant.. . a powerful meditation on the damages
- & the good
- we have wrought, & will wreak, on the living world` Robert Macfarlane, Book of the Year His fingers fastened about Her stone. He brought it to the light & held it to his nose. There was lightning locked inside. He rolled the stone in his palm to give it the heat of his body. She had come to him, catching his eye where she lay among dull flints. She alone among the stones had spoken. An ancient British boy, discovering a terrorist plot, must choose between his brother & his tribe. In the twenty-first century, two men
- one damaged by war, another by divorce
- clash over their differing claims on the l&, & a young girl is caught between them. In the distant future, a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world. A Roman road, an Iron Age hill fort, a h&-carved flint, & a cycle of violence that must be broken. As gripping as it is dazzling, The Devil`s Highway is a bold & intimate novel that spans centuries & challenges our dearest assumptions about what it means to be civilised.



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Three journeys. Three thousand years. One destination. The Devil`s Highway is a thrilling, epic & timely tale of love, loss, fanaticism, heroism & sacrifice. ` Brilliant.. . a powerful meditation on the damages
- & the good
- we have wrought, & will wreak, on the living world` Robert Macfarlane, Book of the Year His fingers fastened about Her stone. He brought it to the light & held it to his nose. There was lightning locked inside. He rolled the stone in his palm to give it the heat of his body. She had come to him, catching his eye where she lay among dull flints. She alone among the stones had spoken. An ancient British boy, discovering a terrorist plot, must choose between his brother & his tribe. In the twenty-first century, two men
- one damaged by war, another by divorce
- clash over their differing claims on the l&, & a young girl is caught between them. In the distant future, a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world. A Roman road, an Iron Age hill fort, a h&-carved flint, & a cycle of violence that must be broken. As gripping as it is dazzling, The Devil`s Highway is a bold & intimate novel that spans centuries & challenges our dearest assumptions about what it means to be civilised.



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Witness the scene. In a Parisian restaurant Aleister Crowley, the notorious occultist, chances on Major-General Sir Hector Mc Donald: once one of the greatest heroes of the British Empire, now facing ruin in a shocking scandal -- & vulnerable to Crowley`s curious offer of help. Follow this unlikely pair on an extraordinary night of revelation & transgression. Be transported to the battlefields of Sudan, the backstreets of Edinburgh & the sultry tropics of Ceylon. & discover Sir Hector`s tragic secret. In this enthralling tale of imperialism, sexuality & the nature of belief, Jake Arnott probes beneath the surface of Victorian conformity & captures a world trembling on the brink of a brutal new era. ...

The Devil`s Workshop is the third historical thriller in Alex Grecian`s acclaimed Scotland Yard Murder Squad series. April, 1890. London wakes to the shocking news of a mass prison escape. Walter Day & the Scotland Yard Murder Squad now face a desperate race against time: if they don`t re-capture the four convicted murderers before night settles, they`ll vanish into the dark alleys of the London`s criminal underworld for ever. & in the midst of this mayhem & fear, the city`s worst nightmare is realised: Jack the Ripper haunts the streets of London once more... From The Yard & The Black Country author, Alex Grecian, comes The Devil`s Workshop
- & the return of Jack the Ripper. Expect another gruesome foray into the underbelly of Victorian Britain & early crime forensics. This is historical thriller heaven for fans of Sherlock & Ripper Street. Praise for Alex Grecian: ” Will keep you riveted from page one”. (Jeffery Deaver). ”CSI: Victorian London”. (Daily Express). ” Throw in deranged prostitutes, poisonings & throat slittings galore, amidst lashings of London fog. Gory, lurid & tons of guilty fun”. (Guardian). ” Outstanding. If Charles Dickens isn`t somewhere clapping his hands for this, Wilkie Collins surely is”. (The New York Times Book Review). Alex Grecian has worked for an ad agency on accounts for Harley-Davidson, Cub Foods & The Great American Smokeout, before returning to writing fiction full time & raising his son. Alex is the author of the long-running & critically acclaimed comic-book series Proof, & he lives in Topeka, Kansas, with his wife & son. The Yard is his first novel, followed by The Black Country.
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Waterproof cycling map of the Devon Coast to Coast route from Sustrans at 1:100, 000, produced using the Ordnance Survey database, covering Ilfracombe to Plymouth. The local road network is shown with distances marked in miles along the routes, & steep gradients highlighted; railway lines & stations are indicated. The cycle routes themselves are prominently marked with remarks giving directions & alternative routes. Topography is shown through contour lines & colour gradients; points of interest are clearly marked along the route, such as hotels, campsites, youth hostels, cafes & pubs, grocery shops & more. Small insets of street plans are included for easier navigation in built-up areas. There is also a route profile showing the elevation of the terrain & the type of the riding surface (main or minor road, traffic free). There are no geographical coordinates for those using GPS. ...

The official route map for the 99-mile (158km) Devon Coast to Coast cycle route between Ilfracombe & Plymouth. The Devon Coast to Coast is revered as one of the finest long distance routes of the National Cycle Network. Running from Ilfracombe to Plymouth the route combines the beaches & superb estuaries of North Devon, the verdant valleys of the Torridge, the Tavy & Walkham rivers, & spectacular vistas of Dartmoor & the lower lying lands of Cornwall from its western flanks. Three fantastic traffic-free converted railway paths form much of the Devon Coast to Coast. The famous Tarka Trail begins at Braunton alongside the River Taw before crossing the tributary River Yeo at Barnstaple. It then follows the Torridge Estuary on to Bideford & eventually Meeth. The Coast to Coast branches off before Meeth on-road to Petrockstowe. The Granite Way follows the former Southern Region railway line from Okehampton at the north western edge of Dartmoor to Lydford. The route takes riders over the lofty Meldon Viaduct & offers spectacular views of the dramatic rugged Dartmoor landscape before reaching Lake Viaduct. The final stretch to Lydford follows undulating quiet lanes before rejoining the railway path where superb views of Fernworthy Down can be enjoyed. The Drake`s Trail is the final stretch of the Devon Coast to Coast route & is almost entirely traffic-free from Tavistock to Plymouth. A highlight of this route is Gem Bridge, the longest bridge on the National Cycle Network, which guides riders over the dramatic Walkham Valley between Tavistock & Horrabridge. The route finishes on a tranquil railway path, held aloft in places by breathtaking viaducts, which winds down to Plymouth. The Devon Coast to Coast route has been developed by Devon County Council & Plymouth City Council with Sustrans & the support of other local authorities & major landowners. ...

The story of the Devonshires is the story of Britain. William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in Engl&. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England & their grandson, Lord General of the North, fought to save the crown for Charles I. Fifty years later, the First Duke of Devonshire conspired to depose James II, & make William of Orange king. For the next two centuries the Devonshires were at the heart of fashionable society & the centre of political power. The Fourth Duke became prime minister & Georgiana, wife of the Fifth, scandalised even the Regency. Spencer Compton, the last of the great Devonshires, was three times offered the preimership, & three times refused it. Even the Devonshire servants made history. Joseph Paxton was their gardner & Thomas Hobbes was the family tutor. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives, The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made & lost fortunes, fought & fornicated, built great houses, patronised the arts & pioneered the railways, made great scientific discoveries, &, in the end, came to terms with changing times. It is popular history at its very best. ...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in Engl&. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England & their grandson, Lord General of the North, fought to save the crown for Charles I. Fifty years later, the First Duke of Devonshire conspired to depose James II, & make William of Orange king. For the next two centuries the Devonshires were at the heart of fashionable society & the centre of political power. The Fourth Duke became prime minister & Georgiana, wife of the Fifth, scandalised even the Regency. Spencer Compton, the last of the great Devonshires, was three times offered the preimership, & three times refused it. Even the Devonshire servants made history. Joseph Paxton was their gardner & Thomas Hobbes was the family tutor. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives, The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made & lost fortunes, fought & fornicated, built great houses, patronised the arts & pioneered the railways, made great scientific discoveries, &, in the end, came to terms with changing times. It is popular history at its very best. ...