A darkly humorous & brilliantly observed teen drama about the intensity of teenage friendships & disaffected youth. When Dean first appears at school, Jack knows right away that there`s something different about him. The two form a fast bond & dream of starting a band together, but underneath all the usual teenage posturing of drinking, drugs & rebellion against authority, there`s a darker side to Dean that needs more
- more wildness, more violence. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant & dyslexic readers aged 12+
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DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one`s country In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist & former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp, & then for William Randolph Hearst`s San Francisco Examiner. Bierce was launched on a journalistic career that would see him liked & loathed in equal measure
- & earn him the title of `the wickedest man in San Francisco`. In his column, Bierce, a contemporary of Mark Twain, brought his biting black humour to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words, writing deliberate mistranslations of the vocabulary of the establishment, the Church & the politics of his day, & shining a sardonic light on hypocrisy & deception. These columns formed the beginnings of a dictionary, first published in 1906 as The Cynic`s Word Book. Over 100 years later, Bierce`s redefinitions still give us pause for thought
- REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth & dispels it with a tempest of words; UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish; POLITICS, n. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage
- making for a timely new edition of this irreverent & provocative satire.


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` Prosecutor Tsuchida, I am being held here as a murderer. But the truth is that I am probably not that murderer. That`s right. Probably.` While Shimaura Eizo sits in jail awaiting trial for the murder of a beautiful young woman, his erstwhile lover & initiator into a sinister, restless existence has risen in the ranks of the legal profession & is now the prosecutor on the case. Spinning a complex web of events & influences in this chilling murder mystery, Hamao probes the notion of guilt
- both psychological & legal. The Devil`s Disciple is here published alongside ` Did He Kill Them?`, a haunting tale of a love affair turned sour.
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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
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- 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. ...

In Jo Nesbo’s The Devil’s Star, a young woman is murdered. One finger has been severed from her left hand & behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star – a pentagram, the devil’s star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to work on the case with long time adversary Tom Waaler. Harry is initially reluctant to get involved, but as he is already on notice to quit the force he is left with no choice but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor & get to work. With a wave of similar murders appearing across the city, it soon becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands… ...

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. ...