There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell. She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell. Peter`s dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell. Whether it`s finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path, her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work. But Nell has other talents too. Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read. So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school`s books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There`s only one dog for the job... & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie, The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books, reading, libraries, & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog. ...

There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell. She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell. Peter`s dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell. Whether it`s finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path, her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work. But Nell has other talents too. Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read. So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school`s books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There`s only one dog for the job... & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie, The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books, reading, libraries, & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog. ...

Join Detective Dog Nell, her owner Peter & all his friends in this must-have sticker book based on the bestselling picture book The Detective Dog by Julia Donaldson & Sara Oglivie. Who`s been stealing all the children`s books? Help solve the mystery as you join in with colouring pencils & stickers! Packed with games, activities & over four hundred stickers, The Detective Dog Sticker Book is perfect for journeys, rainy days & school holidays
- a great gift for any child.
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This is the winner of the Independent foreign fiction prize. ”A wonderful novel. Wise & generous to a fault of all our human failings & frailties”. (Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip). A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She has left her husb&, having confessed to an affair. In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to help him trace her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve. Back on the farm, a young man out walking with his dog injures himself & stays the night, then ends up staying longer. Yet something is deeply wrong. Does he know what he is getting himself into? & what will happen when her husband & the detective arrive? ...

Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can`t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his `prayer log`. Carl & Sandy Henderson, a husb&-&-wife team of serial killers, trawl America`s highways searching for suitable models to photograph & exterminate. The spider-handling preacher Roy & his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick are running from the law. & caught in the middle of all this is Arvin, Willard & Charlotte`s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. ...

As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy & a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields & on river banks. When she receives letters from her husb&, they burn them together. Intoxicated by passion, they cannot bear to end their affair, even when it causes a scandal among their friends & neighbours. Instead, they hurtle towards tragedy. Written in spare, haunting prose when Raymond Radiguet was still a teenager, this semi-autobiographical novel became an instant bestseller & its author was hailed as a genius before his tragic death at the age of twenty. Expressing all the anguish & joy of adolescence, it is a work of startling imagery & subtle beauty. This Penguin Modern Classics edition

Includes:: an introduction by Fay Weldon.

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Raymond Radiguet wrote the highly scandalous Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen & eighteen, following his own love affair with a married woman. At the time, in post WWI France, the book created a stir comparable to that of Lady Chatterley`s Lover Francois, the adolescent narrator, meets Marthe in Paris at the start of the First World War when her husband is away at the Front. They fall in love with each other. Their passion leads to a tragic climax four years later when Marthe passes off their love child as her husband`s legitimate child even though everyone knows the truth. The themes of freedom, family & passion against a background of war & honour in The Devil in the Flesh created a scandal at the time of publication, which was also the year of the author`s death. ...

WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014. Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014. London, 1727
- & Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels & coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors` prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor & disease. & those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol`s rutheless governor & his cronies. The trouble is, Tom Hawkins has never been good at following rules
- even simple ones. & the recent grisly murder of a debtor, Captain Roberts, has brought further terror to the gaol. While the Captain`s beautiful widow cries for justice, the finger of suspicion points only one way: to the sly, enigmatic figure of Samuel Fleet. Some call Fleet a devil, a man to avoid at all costs. But Tom Hawkins is sharing his cell. Soon, Tom`s choice is clear: get to the truth of the murder
- or be the next to die.A twisting mystery, a dazzling evocation of early 18th Century London, THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA is a thrilling debut novel full of intrigue & suspense.


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How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers & scientists, going back as far as the ancient Greeks. Devil in the Mountain is the story of one scientist, author Simon Lamb, & his quest for the key to this great geological mystery. Lamb & a small team of geologists have spent much of the last decade exploring the rugged Bolivian Andes, the second highest mountain range on Earth
- a region rocked by earthquakes & violent volcanic eruptions. The author's account is both travelogue & detective story, describing how he & his colleagues have pursued a trail of clues in the mountains, hidden beneath the rocky landscape. Here, the local silver miners strive to appease the spirit they call Tio
- the devil in the mountain. Traveling through Bolivia's back roads, the team has to cope with the extremes of the environment, & survive in a country on the verge of civil war. But the backdrop to all these adventures is the bigger story of the Earth & how geologists have gone about uncovering its secrets. We follow the tracks of the dinosaurs, who never saw the Andes but left their mark on the shores of a vast inland sea that covered this part of South America more than sixty-five million years ago, long before the mountains existed. & we learn how to find long lost rivers that once flowed through the landscape, how continents are twisted & torn apart, & where volcanoes come from. By the end of their journey, Lamb & his team turn up extraordinary evidence pointing not only to the fundamental instability of the Earth's surface, but also to unexpected & profound links in the workings of our planet.

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The Chicago World`s Fair of 1893 & its amazing ` White City` was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, & of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals & gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair
- & his own devilish charms
- to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes & Chicago`s infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earther, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World`s Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men toegther with a remarkable supporting cast of colourful characters, including as Buffalo Bill, George Ferris, Thomas Edison & some of the 27 million others who converged on the dazzling spectacle of the White City, are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America & set it on course for the twentieth century.

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