The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, holds the fate of the world in his hands. The bestselling first novel in the Witcher series that

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In 54BC, Julius Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of Britain. His was the first detailed account of the Celtic tribes that inhabited the Isles. But where had they come from & how long had they been there? This work takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain & Irel&, to reveal how our tribal history colours the country. ...

Driven by the ghosts of the legendary Darakyon, the moth-kinder Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh town of Jerez
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Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer.

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One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by & Elisa's family could find only false leads. 2002, & Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year, his neighbour is found murdered, with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. It's not until 2010, when Elisa's decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are linked & Restivo is finally dealt with. Blood on the Altar combines a gripping true crime case with Jones's deep understanding of Italian culture
- the impunity it offers to the powerful
- he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: The Dark Heart of Italy.

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Will Hopkirk was all set to live the rest of his life with Diaglito's White Mountain Apaches, along with Sonseray, the Apache woman he married. But Diaglito was devastated when Tobias Hatch cold-bloodedly killed his twelve-year-old son, Choate. Nevertheless, Hophirk persuaded the war chief to use the white man's court to give him justice. ...

Like the death of wealthy merchant Matthew Webb, whose blood is spilled on the Strand one night, & the killing of an apparent vagrant during a royal procession. Intelligence agent Thomas Chaloner soon realises that both murders point in one direction: upwards, towards the great & supposedly good whose wily ploys seep from the sewers of Spitalfields to the palace of White Hall. Blood on the Strand weaves a delightful, chilling, labyrinthine and always intriguing web around Restoration London, breathing life
- both high & low
- into the past.

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Newspaper editor Nick Condon (James Cagney) is based in Tokyo, & puts his life & those of others at risk when he runs a story revealing Japan's plans to conquer China. When the reporter who wrote the story (Wallace Ford) & his wife (Rosemary de Camp) are both murdered, Condon teams up with a beautiful secret agent (Sylvia Sidney) to expose corruption in the Japanese government. ...

Blood on the Thistle is the tale of how a once proud Scottish family was devastated by war, & how the effects continued to ripple through time & generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account & a moving tribute to a generation. ...

Alison really does have it all...

A loving family & a career on the rise
- she's just been given her first murder case

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