Having left the Faroes as a child, Jan Reyna is now a British police detective, & the islands are foreign to him. But he is drawn back when his estranged father is found unconscious with a shotgun by his side & someone else`s blood at the scene. Then a man`s body is washed up on an isolated beach. Is Reyna`s father responsible? Looking for answers, Reyna falls in with local detective Hjalti Hentze. But as the stakes get higher & Reyna learns more about his family & the truth behind his mother`s flight from the Faroes, he must decide whether to stay, or to forsake the strange, windswept islands for good. ...

New York Times Book of the Year The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon & Kissinger supported Pakistan`s military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free election. The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people & sending ten million refugees fleeing to India
- one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik but by a bitter personal dislike of India & its leader Indira Gandhi, they silenced American officials who dared to speak up, secretly encouraged China to mass troops on the Indian border, & illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military
- an overlooked scandal that presages Watergate. Drawing on previously unheard White House tapes, recently declassified documents, & extensive interviews with White House staffers & Indian military leaders, The Blood Telegram tells this thrilling story for the first time. Bass makes clear how the United States` embrace of the military dictatorship in Islamabad would mould Asia`s destiny for decades, & confronts for the first time Nixon & Kissinger`s hidden role in a tragedy that was far bloodier than Bosnia. This is a revelatory, compulsively readable work of politics, personalities, military confrontation, & Cold War brinksmanship.

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` Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London & brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this!` Rebecca Griffiths, author of The Primrose Path A world of secrets, murder & betrayal lie behind the London waterfront... Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart & Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen`s floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice, ambition & murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability. On shore, a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison & fear. The events are linked
- but how? Courting danger in the opium dens & brothels of the waterfront, certain that the Blood lies at the heart of the puzzle, Jem & Will embark on a quest to uncover the truth. In a hunt that takes them from the dissecting tables of a private anatomy school to the squalor of the dock-side mortuary, they find themselves involved in a dark & terrible mystery. x x x Praise for E.S. Thomson` Meticulously researched & masterfully plotted, E.S. Thomson has written a complex, harrowing & highly enjoyable tale` Daily Express` Here`s a tale of Victorian London to freeze your blood on a cold winter`s night` Evening Telegraph` Jem Flockhart`s London is vivid, pungent & perilous. The Blood takes you to places you will love to picture but be grateful you can`t smell` Chris Brookmyre`E. S. Thompson`s Jem Flockhart books are the best I`ve read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart, complex, & unapologetically queer` Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers` It`s rare that a book is Gothic enough for me, but Beloved Poison is killing it. The blood, the bones, the crumbling hospital... ` Laura Purcell, author of The Silent Companions` Jem Flockhart is a marvel... This vivid journey into the dark side of the human soul is a thoroughly engrossing tale` Mary Paulson Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker` Deliciously dark & vividly atmospheric, menace oozes from every page. Terrific for lovers of historical noir` Saga`A first class piece of historical crime writing` Big Issue A marvellous, vivid book.. . immaculately researched & breathtakingly dark` Janet Ellis, author of The Butcher`s Hook
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Korolev nodded, thinking of the dead girl, & wondering whether, these days, it was such a good thing to be Commissar Ezhov's friend.. . Russia, 1937. In Moscow, Stalin's purges are reaching their darkest hour. Meanwhile Korolev, a police investigator, must travel to the bleak, battle-scarred Ukraine -- scene of some of Stalin's bloodiest crimes -- to look into the mysterious death of a young woman. The victim, a beautiful film production assistant, had made both powerful friends & terrible enemies.. .' The Holy Thief, set in Stalin's Russia, was one of last year's most impressive crime fiction debuts. The Bloody Meadow, William Ryan's follow-up, does not disappoint.. . Ryan has obviously done much research into that sinister period of Russian history & manages to convey its claustrophobic atmosphere brilliantly' Marcel Berlins, The Times ' Every bit as darkly compelling as its predecessor' Daily Express ' An outstanding thriller' Independent Ireland ...

Here the Bloomsbury story is told in seven broadly chronological chapters, beginning in the 1890s & finishing in the very recent past. The Bloomsbury Group fostered a fresh, creative & vital way of living that encouraged debate & communication (only connect), as often as not across the dining table. Gathered at these tables were many of the great figures in art, literature & economics in the early twentieth century: E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey & Virginia Woolf, among many others. Each chapter comprises a series of narratives, many of which are enhanced with an appropriate recipe, along with sketches, paintings, photographs, letters & handwritten notes, & featuring original"ations throughout. Part cookbook, part social & cultural history, this book will appeal to lovers of food & lovers of literature alike. ...

Drawing on extensive knowledge & celebrating London`s diverse riches, this quiz book invites you to come on a wide-ranging exploration of the megacity the author calls ` The Big Onion`. Peel away its many layers in the company of one of London`s top Blue Badge tourist guides. These 22 tours will inspire you, your family, colleagues & friends to leap from page to pavement in the entertaining company of a local expert. Have fun! This is the first in a series of regional quiz books written exclusively by Blue Badge guides
- ` Britain`s best guides`
- local, professional guides rigorously examined by the Institute of Tourist Guiding, the industry`s standard-setting body. World-renowned for their knowledge, interpretation skills & enthusiasm for their area!

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It is 1947, & Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering & strange outbursts, while her brother Mamdouh tends to the village bees. Their younger sister, Mariam, with her striking mismatched eyes, spends her days talking to imaginary friends & writing. When Israeli forces gather outside the town`s borders, nobody suspects the terror that is about to descend. Soon the village is burning &, amidst smoke & ash, the family must take the long road to Gaza, in a walk that will test them to their limits. Sixty years later, Mamdouh`s granddaughter Nur is living in America. She falls in love with a married man, a doctor who works in Palestine, & follows him to Gaza. There she meets Alwan, the mother of Khaled
- a boy trapped in his own body, unable to wake up from a deep blue dream. It is through her that Nur will at last discover the ties of kinship that transcend distance
- & even death. The Blue Between Sky & Water is a story of powerful, flawed women; of relocation, separation & heartache; of renewal, family, endurance, & love. Susan Abulhawa brings a raw humanity & delicate authority to the story of Palestine in this devastatingly beautiful tale.

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It is 1947, & Beit Daras, a rural Palestinian village, is home to the Baraka family
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You are crossing the Atlantic on a liner with your boyfriend who may or may not be planning to propose. You are fleeing the past
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'1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing...' On the island of Java, the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe & the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away from Norwegian-born Lise & her siblings. Then one day, her friends & neighbours start to disappear, & she begins to realise that they are not safe after all. Through ten-year-old eyes, Lise tells of her family's two-year imprisonment in POW camps & the brutal treatment received at the hands of their Japanese captors. For respite from the rat-infested floor of their shelter they adopt a blue door, which sits on concrete posts in the ground. They live on it during the day as young Lise plots ways to protect her family from disease, starvation & the desperate behaviour of fellow prisoners. This is a little girl's heartbreaking tale of survival. 'A devastating portrayal of a child's loss of innocence to humiliating cruelty' Observer ...