At the end of a harrowing campaign, centurions Marco & Cato are sailing for Rome. Their journey is interrupted off the coast of Crete when an Earthquake strikes. The transport ship is severely damaged, & they are forced to limp ashore. The province is in chaos. Worse still the slave population has taken the opportunity to revolt. Against a strong legion, the renegades would have little chance, but the garrison troops are of poor quality. As Roman men & weaponry fall to the enemy, the balance of power is in danger of switching. Marco & Cato face a rebellion that could ignite an uprising across the Empire. Against them stands a powerful leader: Ajax. A gladiator who has fearlessly faced death daily, Ajax i driven by a desire for vengeance both political & personal. & he may represent a force to great fro Rome to overcome. ...

While centurions Macro & Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians, their transport ship is

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Think like Britain's greatest living Olympian: Ten steps to push your limits & achieve the impossible from the one of the world's

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1930s Scotl&.

Growing up in a convent in Glasgow, Ferelith Gallagher dreams of bigger & better things. With no money

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Jeanette Walls enjoyed a life living on Park Avenue, covering the Academy Awards & attending black-tie parties at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while her parents squatted in an abandoned building on the Lower East side. Rex Walls, her father, was an ingenious adventurer but a hopeless alcoholic. Her mother was an artist who abhorred the chores of motherhood & domestic routine. Funny, sad, quirky & loving, The Glass Castle is an almost incredible story of a nomadic, impoverished childhood. This book has 341 pages & is 19.7cm x 12.6cm x 2.3cm ...

Definitive '40's Ladd/ Lake noir, based on Dashiell Hammett book of the same name. Fairly formulaic detective/political drama for the times, said to be the inspiration behind not only Kurosawa's ' Yojimbo' (1961) but also for the Cohen Brothers' ' Miller's C ...

Kit Mc Mahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up & become sweethearts & marry, people gossip & grumble & dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen Mc Mahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, & then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husb&, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable & will leave not one of their lives unchanged. 17.7cm x 11.1cm x 3.4cm, pages 561 ...

In a tiny stained-glass shop hidden in the backstreets of Westminster lies the cracked, sparkling image of an angel. The owners of Minster Glass have also been broken: Fran Morrison's mother died when she was a baby; a painful event never mentioned by her difficult, secretive father Edward. Fran left home to pursue a career in foreign cities, as a classical musician. But now Edward is dangerously ill & it's time to return. Taking her father's place in the shop, she & his craftsman Zac accept a beguiling commission
- to restore a shattered glass picture of an exquisite angel belonging to a local church. As they reassemble the dazzling shards of coloured glass, they uncover an extraordinary love story from the Victorian past, sparked by the window's creation. Slowly, Fran begins to see her own reflection in its themes of passion, tragedy & redemption. Fran's journey will lead her on a search for the truth about her mother, through mysteries of past times & the anguish of unrequited love, to reconciliation & renewal.
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CAN THEY SCARE OFF ALL THE BADDIES? Nothing very exciting EVER happens in the town of Hobbleton. Then Red, Snow & Goldie are trained up as fairytale ninjas, & find that anything is possible… When Madame Hart is accused of taking Prince Inigo, the fairytale ninjas are sure that she isn’t behind the kidnapping. Can they use their new-found skills to catch the real villain? Or will their ballet teacher stay banished forever?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:†9780008582944 •†Author: Paula Harrison •†Publisher: Harper Collins Children’s Books •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:†128 •†Dimensions: 12.9 x 0.8 x 19.8cm ...

James Stewart stars in this biopic of American bandleader Glenn Miller. A talented young trombonist, Miller (Stewart) falls for Helen Burger (June Allyson) while studying at the University of Colorado. He gets his first big break after leaving college per ...