Patrick O` Brian`s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master & Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the tenth book in the series. It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O` Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey & his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea & as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack`s own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters
- men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder & criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey`s acquaintance can take leave to doubt.
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If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son... Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother`s birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother...she`s not well, his father tells him. She`s been imagining things
- terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I`m not mad...I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Daniel is immediately caught between his parents
- whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother`s unwilling judge & jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence & decide for himself: who is telling the truth? & he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

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From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace & Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre`s A Perfect Spy. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother`s birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother...she`s not well, his father tells him. She`s been imagining things
- terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I`m not mad...I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence & decide: who is telling the truth, his mother or his father? & he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...
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As farm shops continue to emerge all over Britain at an ever-increasing rate, Christine Mc Fadden`s timely book reflects the celebration of all things British. In a simple A-Z format Christine provides recipes, cook`s notes, tips & much more for all & everything that might be found in a fully stocked farm shop in the rural heart of any of Britain`s counties. Fruit, dairy produce, vegetables, herbs, meat, poultry, game, offal & wild foraged food are all given pages in a book whose time has truly come. As more & more of us choose to buy local & fresh, The Farm Shop Cookbook serves to acknowledge a movement where people are shopping responsibly & enjoying the absolute best that British producers have to offer. ...

It is 1937, & Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homel&. The Republic, under the iron rule of the Generalissimo, treats the Haitians as second-class citizens, & although Amabelle feels a strong sense of loyalty to her employers, especially since her own parents drowned crossing the river from Haiti, racial tensions are heightened when Amabelle`s boss accidentally kills a Haitian in a car accident. The accident is a catalyst for a systematic round-up of Haitians, ostensibly for repatriation but in fact a prelude to slaughter. Amabelle, caught up in the chaos & confusion, returns to Haiti after much hardship to make a new life, but is for years uncertain of the fate of her lover, Sebastian, & haunted by a nagging sense of guilt. A powerful, fiercely economical & deceptively moving work, blending historical accuracy with lyrical brilliance. ...

In the 1970s, John Seymour`s book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to ”down-shift” to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since. But years earlier, Seymour had written & published The Fat of the L&, telling of how he & his family settled in Suffolk & began a life entirely separate from the modern world. This was a seminal book, published the year before Silent Spring, & offers a personal, practical & optimistic vision of a less-mechanized & less polluting world, one that works in harmony with nature, rather than against it. He goes on to document their life & struggles on the land in chapters on cows, pigs, vegetables & wild food in charming prose. More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important & inspiring book, one which retains its power to make us think carefully about our own lives. This new edition comes complete with Sally Seymour`s original illustrations, a foreword by Anne Seymour & a new introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. ...

Truth is not an option... Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, & no one can care less. Except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness & amnesia that has possessed the Chinese nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official & force him to reveal all, what they learn
- not only about their leaders, but also about their own people
- stuns them to the core. It is a message that will rock the world... Terrifying methods of cunning, deception & terror are unveiled by the truth-seekers in this thriller-expose of the Communist Party`s stranglehold on China today.

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Joe Wicks is back with another instalment of 100 br&-new delicious recipes & speedy, effective workouts. The Fat-Loss Plan shows how to adopt a lean lifestyle in a way that suits you. Inside the book is a combination of reduced carb, post workout & snacks & sweet treat recipes
- all incredibly tasty & easy to make in 15 minutes flat. Thanks to sample weekly plans & ingredients lists, Joe makes it simple for you to prep like a boss & eat well every day of the week. Joe has more than 4 million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a leaner, fitter lifestyle. The Lean in 15 titles won platinum & gold awards at the Specsavers Nielsen book awards. Joe`s first book Lean in 15: The Shift Plan has become the bestselling diet book of all time & all his books have been non-fiction number one bestsellers. Start your journey to better health & fitness now with The Body Coach.
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The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia. In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. The Fatal Shore is an epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women & children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag & was the origin of Australia. ...

London, the 1720s. Welcome to ` Romeville`, the underworld of that great city. The financial crash caused by the South Sea Bubble sees the rise of Jonathan Wild, self-styled ` Thief-taker General` who purports to keep the peace while brutally controlling organised crime. Only two people truly defy him: Jack Sheppard, apprentice turned house-breaker, & his lover, the notorious whore & pickpocket Edgworth Bess. From the condemned cell at Newgate, Bess gives her account of how she & Jack formed the most famous criminal partnership of their age: a tale of lost innocence & harsh survival, passion & danger, bold exploits & spectacular gaol-breaks
- & of the price they paid for rousing the mob of Romeville against its corrupt master. Bess dictates her narrative to Billy Archer, a Grub Street hack & aspiring poet who has rubbed shoulders with Defoe & Swift. But he also inhabits that other underworld of `molly-houses` & `unnameable sin`, & has his own story of subterfuge, treachery & doomed romance to deliver. As the gallows casts its grim shadow, who will live to escape the Fatal Tree? By the acclaimed author of THE LONG FIRM, this is a tour de force; inventive, atmospheric & rich in the street slang of the era. Drawing on real figures & a true history of crime, punishment & rough justice, it tells a heartbreaking story of love & betrayal.
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