A thrilling collection of myths, legends & ghost stories from War Horse author & former Children`s Laureate Michael Morpurgo. Since the beginning of time, strange & mysterious things have happened here... At the furthest edge of Britain, where the sea gently washes over the land & myths brush against reality, lies Zennor. Set in a church town where men become beats & ghosts roam freely, these are haunting & unforgettable tales where magic lies around every corner. Morpurgo is the master storyteller of such modern classic children`s books as An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Private Peaceful, & An Elephant in the Garden. He has written more than one hundred books for children & won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children`s Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. ...

The extraordinary history of the Mediterranean`s capital of hedonism
- Ibiza Received wisdom has it that Ibiza is an island of
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At once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn & a fine piece of social anthropology, White Masai is a compulsive read. Whilst on holiday Corinne Hoffman fell in love with a Masai warrior. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles she moved into a tiny shack with him & his mother & spent four years in Kenya. Slowly but surely, the dream began to crumble. She eventually fled back home with her baby daughter. From wild animals through starvation to ritual mutilation, this is a book steeped in humanity & one that tells a fascinating tale. ...

It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, New York, in 1961
- Two Princeton graduates
- John Hopkins & Joe

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From the author of The Three, coming soon to your screen as a major BBC adaptation by Golden Globe winner Peter Straughan Adrenaline-junky Simon Newman sneaks onto private land to explore a dangerous cave in Wales with a strange man he`s met online. But Simon gets more than he bargained for when the expedition goes horribly wrong. Simon emerges, the only survivor, after a rainstorm trap the two in the cave. Simon thinks he`s had a lucky escape. But his video of his near-death experience has just gone viral. Suddenly Simon finds himself more famous than he could ever have imagined. Now he`s faced with an impossible task: he`s got to defy death once again, & film the entire thing. The whole world will be watching. There`s only on place on earth for him to pit himself against the elements: Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. But Everest is also one of the deadliest spots on the planet. Two hundred & eighty people have died trying to reach its peak. And Simon`s luck is about to run out.` An incredibly creepy & effective standalone novel that I read through in one sitting... A chillingly effective & haunting tale`
- Sci-Fi Bulletin` The White Road is a roller-coaster ride with intriguing psychological depth`
- Crime Fiction Lover` Lotz knows how to develop suspense & horror... Dark & unsettling, Lotz`s latest taps into, & exploits, our deepest fears`
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The White Rock describes Hugh Thomson’s quest for the lost cities of the Amazonian Inca heartl&, following in the footsteps of previous explorers & making new discoveries about the ancient Inca Empire. While working in London Hugh Thomson hears an extraordinary story about an Inca ruin which had been discovered, only to be unbelievably lost again. Gripped, he sets off into the cloud-forest on foot to find the forgotten site. This is the starting point of a remarkable journey into the Eastern Andes of Peru, bringing to life the culture of the Incas & their strange & often hostile world. On the way we hear tales of some of the men who preceded him
- Hiram Bingham, Robert Nichols & Gene Savoy
- as Thomson weaves a history of South American exploration into a narrative that sheds new light upon a mysterious, alien culture.

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From the author of Midnight in St Petersburg, a novel of love, art, music & family secrets set amongst the Russian emigre community of Paris in 1937. Evie, a rebellious young American leaves New York in search of art & adventure in jazz-age Paris, where her grandmother lives. But on arrival, her grandmother`s sudden death leaves Evie compelled to carry out her dying wish: to find a man from her past called Zhenya. The quest leads Evie deep into the heart of the Russian emigre community of Paris. With the world on the brink of war, she becomes embroiled in murder plots, conspiracies & illicit love affairs as White faces Red Russian & nothing is as it seems. With Jean, a liberal Russian writer by her side, Evie finally seems to have found the passion & excitement she`s yearned for. But is she any nearer to discovering the identity of the mysterious Zhenya, or the heartbreak of her grandmother`s past? ...

St Petersburg 1917. The capital of the glittering Empire of the Tsars & a city on the brink of revolution where the jackals of the Secret Police intrigue for their own survival as their aristocratic masters indulge in one last, desperate round of hedonism. For Sandro Ruzsky, Chief Investigator of the city police, even this decaying world provides the opportunity for a new beginning. Banished to Siberia for four years for pursuing a case his superiors would rather he`d quietly buried, Ruzsky finds himself investigating the murders of a young couple out on the ice of the frozen river Neva. The dead girl was a nanny at the Imperial Palace, the man an American from Chicago &, if the brutality of their deaths seems an allegory for the times, Ruzsky finds that, at every turn, the investigation leads dangerously close to home. At the heart of the case, lies Maria, the beautiful ballerina Ruzsky once loved & lost. But is she a willing participant in what appears to be a dangerous conspiracy or likely to be it`s next, perhaps last, victim? In a city at war with itself, & pitted against a ruthless murderer who relishes taunting him, Ruzsky finds himself at last face to face with his own past as he fights to save everything he cares for, before the world into which he was born goes up in flames. ...

' Look after your sister, Tinashe'. Tinashe is a young Shona boy living in a small village in rural Rhodesia. The guerilla war of the late 1960s haunts the bushlands, but it only infrequently affects his quiet life; school, swimming in the river, playing with the other kids on the kopje. When his younger sister, Hazvinei, is born, Tinashe knows at once that there is something special about her. Their life in the village, once disturbed only by the occasional visits of his successful uncle & city cousin, Abel, now becomes entangled with the dual forces of the Shona spirit world & the political turmoil of the nation. As Tinashe, Hazvinei & Abel grow older, their destinies entangle in ways they never expected. Tinashe is prepared to follow his sister anywhere
- but how far can he go to keep her safe when the forces threatening her are so much darker & more sinister than he suspected? Andrea Eames weaves together folklore & suspense in this compelling tale of a boy struggling to do the right thing in an unpredictable world.
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