Dead bodies are piling up for Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel. Usually when a serial killer is on the loose, the pressure would be building to find the perpetrator, but the victims are all hardened criminals themselves. The national media can't believe their luck with an apparent vigilante on the streets, while Jessica's new boss seems grateful someone else is doing their job for them. But things aren't so straightforward when forensics matches blood from the apparent killer to a man already behind bars. Read by Becky Hindley ...

Admired by Darwin & Einstein, developer of the Royal Mile & the Outlook Tower in Edinburgh, Sir Patrick Geddes is a figure worth remembering. This book provides a look at the projects & ideas that Geddes began, from the sustainable living movement to planning policies in devolved Scotl&. ...

A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains & landscapes that the Vikings fashioned & walked: their rune-stones & ship burials, settlements & battlefields.

To many, the word ‘ Viking’ brings to mind red scenes of rape & pillage, of marauders from beyond the sea rampaging around the British coastline in the last gloomy centuries before the Norman Conquest.

It is true that Britain in the Viking Age was a turbulent, violent place. The kings & warlords who have impressed their memories on the period revel in names that fire the blood & stir the imagination: Svein Forkbeard & Edmund Ironside, Ivar the Boneless & Alfred the Great, Erik Bloodaxe & Edgar the Pacifier amongst many others.

Evidence for their brutality, their dominance, their avarice & their pride is still unearthed from British soil with stunning regularity.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780008171957
• Author: Thomas Williams
• Publisher: William Collins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 410
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm













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In 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty years his adventures lead him over mountains, down the length of Russia & ultimately to Constantinople & the Holy City of Jerusalem.

Drawn into political intrigue he will be the lover of Empresses, the murderer of an emperor; he will hold the balance of power in the Byzantine Empire in his hands, & then give it all up for a Russian princess & the chance to return home & lead his own people, where he must fight the demons of his past, his family & his countrymen in a long & bitter war for revenge & power.

Told in his own voice, this is the astonishing true story of the most famous warrior in all Christendom: Harald Hardrada, the last Viking.

This paperback book has 400 pages & measures 12.7 x 2.5 x 19.7cm





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Introduces readers a range of source materials, stretching from an eighteenth century shopping note, to a photograph of an event that never happened, to a family grave with a missing body. This title features unexpected discoveries in the branches of family trees & encourages genealogists to delve into the hidden corners of their family history. ...

Examines viking culture & civilisation with artwork, maps & diagrams which cover various aspects from building warships to what Vikings cooked for their dinner. This title dispels the myths & presents what is known about the Viking world together with illustrations. ...

The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both symbolically & in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded & fascinating picture of a people who, in modern eyes, would seem to embody striking contradictions. ...

Provides an account of the early medieval period that became known as the Viking Age. Drawing on literary & archaeological source material, this title illustrates the two faces of the Vikings: on the one h&, savage, greedy, & implacable; on the other, adventurous, innovative, & artistic. ...

The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, & farmers, with a complex artistic & linguistic culture. Using archaeological evidence, this book attempts to reveal the whole Viking world: their hi ...

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution & prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their extraordinary story. For over two hundred years between the end of the eighth century & the middle of the eleventh, these Scandinavian tribes became the greatest adventurers the world had yet seen. Perhaps the greatest there will ever be. Their restless voyaging in elegant timber long ships would grant them a territory stretching from Iceland in the north to the Mediterranean Sea in the south, from Newfoundland in the west to Constantinople & the Caspian Sea in the east. They were warriors & mercenaries of international renown, even the bodyguards of choice of the Byzantine emperors; they were colonisers, builders & engineers who helped shape the destinies of almost every land they touched. The way modern Europe looks & sounds today is due in no small part to Scandinavian men & women who turned their backs on their homelands & set sail for distant horizons. Drawing on the latest archaeological & scientific discoveries, Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did this mysterious people emerge from? How did they really live? & just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over a thousand years ago? Vikings reveals the surprising answers to these questions, in the epic story of one of history's greatest empires of conquest. ...