January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain`s history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I & now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings & hold Charles I to account for the appalling suffering & slaughter endured by his people. A tribunal of 135 men was hastily gathered in London, & although Charles refused to acknowledge the power of his subjects to try him, the death sentence was unanimously passed. On an icy winter`s day on a scaffold outside Whitehall, in an event unique in English history, the King of England was executed. When the dead king`s son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a deadly wave of retribution against all those
- the lawyers, the judges, the officers on the scaffold
- responsible for his father`s death. Some of the `regicides`
- the killers of the king
- pleaded for mercy, while others stoically awaited their sentence. Many went into hiding in Engl&, or fled to Europe or America. Those who were caught & condemned suffered agonising & degrading ends, while others saw out their days in hellish captivity. Bestselling historian Charles Spencer explores this violent clash of ideals through the individuals whose fates were determined by that one, momentous decision. A powerful tale of revenge from the dark heart of royal history & a fascinating insight into the dangers of political & religious allegiance in Stuart Engl&, these are the shocking stories of the men who dared to kill a king.



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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Orthodox Jew Yigal Amir, twenty years ago this November, remains the most consequential event in the country`s recent history. Killing a King relates parallel stories over the two years leading up to the assassination, as Rabin plotted political deals he hoped would lead to peace & Amir plotted murder. Dan Ephron covered both the rally where Rabin was assassinated & the subsequent murder trial. This deeply researched narrative is based on a trove of documents from the era & interviews with the key players, including members of Amir`s family. Only through the prism of the murder is it possible to understand Israel today, from the paralysis in peace-making to the relationship between Netanyahu & Obama. ...

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed & best-selling author of 1Q84. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife & finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, & an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.A tour de force of love & loneliness, war & art – as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby – Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. ...

“ Killing Dragons” is the most hair-raising, hilarious account of the birth of mountaineering ever written. Above the pastures of Switzerl&, it was long believed, dragons & ghosts inhabited the realms of ice & snow. No-one in their right mind considered climbing into these inhospitable regions
- & certainly not for pleasure. In the late enlightenment period, however, certain scientific gentlemen began to turn their minds to the highest places. What would they tell us about our atmosphere, about weather, about glaciers? & so they set off, armed with gallons of good wine, roast fowl, theodolites & barometers, walking in their ordinary clothes up the glaciers of Switzerland into the unknown. But then the British came on the scene, & mountain-climbing as an obsession, an art form & a sport was born. Public schoolboys, scientists, showmen, the daftly amateurish & the fiendishly competitive were all entranced by the majesty & challenge of the great mountains, which they vanquished peak by peak. By the end of the century only the suicidally dangerous north faces of the Eiger & Matterhorn remained to be climbed by protegés of Hitler & Mussolini.
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After breaking up with the man she thought she`d marry & losing her job as a magazine editor, Camas Davis felt totally lost. Out of love with her life & the world, she knew one thing: that she wanted to make a change. Camas had spent much of her career writing about food, but she had never forced herself to grapple with how it actually got to her plate. & so she set off for France. There, in the rolling countryside of Gascony, she was welcomed in by the Chapolard brothers, a family of pig-farmers & butchers. They would teach her the art of butchery, & with it the art of eating & drinking the Gascon way. Surrounded by farmers, producers, cooks & food-lovers, eating some of the world`s least processed & most lovingly made food, Camas discovered the very authenticity she`d longed for in her old life. She just needed to return to America, & bring what she`d learnt back with her... Killing It is a book about a woman doing something simultaneously extreme & unexpected, yet incredibly simple
- a return to a relationship with food we only lost a few decades ago. Funny, irreverent, & totally inspiring, this is a story about turning your life upside down & starting again, it is about falling in & out of love, & it is about understanding what it means to be human & what it means to be animal too.
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Over then past fifty years the British countryside has changed out of all recognition. A wide range of wildlife species are disappearing
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The Number One bestselling, award-winning Queen of crime fiction Val Mc Dermid delivers a searing psychological suspense thriller. A serial killer is on the loose. His victims? Crime writers...A murderer is at large, hunting with a bloodlust that shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate. Professor Fiona Cameron is a psychologist who uses computer technology to track serial offenders. She vowed never to work for the Met again after they went against her advice & screwed up an investigation as a result. But when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered, Fiona can`t help taking an interest. With the killer striking again, Fiona is caught in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal & professional. ...

For 6, 557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock 'n' roll & death across a continent. 21 days later, after three relationships, an encounter with various cottonmouth snakes, & a night spent snorting cocaine in a graveyard, Klosterman started to order his thoughts on American culture & the meaning of celebrity. Uproariously funny, smart & hip, Killing Yourself To Live is a philosophical meditation on life, death, celebrity, rock 'n' roll, why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing...and what that means for the rest of us. ...

Killingworth West Moor in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the West Moor area of Killingworth, stretching from Forest Hall station northward to Killingworth station on the East Coast main line. Further west, part of Gosforth racecourse is shown, plus much of Gosforth Lake. Other features include the disused West Moor Pit, Long Row, Cross Row, Crank Row, High Row, Quality Row, Killingworth Wagonway. Forest Hall station is in the bottom right corner. On the reverse is a directory of Killingworth, plus the race cards for Gosforth Park in 1893. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Killingworth West Moor in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the West Moor area of Killingworth, stretching from Forest Hall station northward to Killingworth station on the East Coast main line. Further west, part of Gosforth racecourse is shown, plus much of Gosforth Lake. Other features include the disused West Moor Pit, Long Row, Cross Row, Crank Row, High Row, Quality Row, Killingworth Wagonway, etc. Forest Hall station is in the bottom right corner. On the reverse is a directory of Killingworth, plus the race cards for Gosforth Park in 1893. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...