One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate battles like Marston Moor & Naseby. The fighting was also to rage through Scotland & Irel&, notably at the siege of Drogheda & the decisive battle of Dunbar. Few periods in English history are more significant than that to which acclaimed author Trevor Royle turns his attention in CIVIL WAR. From his shrewd analyses of the characters who played their parts in the wars to his brilliantly concise descriptions of battles, Trevor Royle has produced a vivid & dramatic narrative of those turbulent years. His book also reveals how the new ideas & dispensations that followed from the wars
- Cromwell's Protectorate, the Restoration of Charles II & the ' Glorious Revolution' of 1689
- made it possible for Engl&, Ireland & Scotland to progress towards their own more distant future as democratic societies. This book has 888 pages & is 12.6 x 4.7 x 19.6 cm

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If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe & compare the dazzling civilizations of the Orient with Europe & North America, the idea that the West would dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. So how did it happen? This book presents the answers. ...

Civilizations of the Ancient World offers a uniquely visual approach to exploring the cultures of the key civilizations of ancient times. By combining historic engravings with a modern commentary that is at once authoritative & accessible, it creates both a visual celebration & invaluable reference for all students of early history. The main section of the book focuses on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Rome & Greece, offering a detailed exposition of each in turn through thematic spreads depicting many aspects of their cultures. Government, society, war, religion, work, leisure, shelter, food, costume & daily life are all unveiled in vivid detail through carefully designed compositions of both coloured & monotone engravings. A second section features timelines, maps & overviews of the other key civilizations that were flourishing throughout the world at that time. Thus the reader is offered both a close-up view of the four major peoples who hold an endless fascination for modern readers, plus a broader panorama of the global cultures that shaped the ancient world. ...

For fans of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY & BARED TO YOU. In RELEASE ME, powerful multimillionaire Damien Stark made Southern belle Nikki Fairchild an unforgettable indecent proposal which she couldn't resist. Now their sensual, erotic, powerfully emotional romance continues in CLAIM ME, the next in J. Kenner's internationally bestselling trilogy. For Damien, our obsession is a game. For me, it is fiercely, blindingly, real. Damien Stark's need is palpable
- his need for pleasure, his need for control, his need for me. Beautiful & brilliant yet tortured at his core, he is in every way my match. I have agreed to be his alone, & now I want him to be fully mine. I want us to possess each other beyond the sweetest edge of our ecstasy, into the deepest desires of our souls. To let the fire that burns between us consume us both. But there are dark places within Damien that not even our wildest passion can touch. I yearn to know his secrets, yearn for him to surrender to me as I have surrendered to him. But our troubled pasts will either bind us close...or shatter us completely.
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The Shadow Guardians: a vampire, a werewolf, a demon, a dragon & a fae are united in brotherhood
- & war. Shadow Guardian Kenrick
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Hanover Falls hasn't had a werewolf problem in over one hundred years. But when people suddenly start dying in Claire Benoit's town, panic spreads fast. At Claire's sixteenth birthday party, the gruesome killings are all anyone can talk about. Claire, however, is more interested in the fact that the gorgeous Matthew Engle keeps chatting & flirting with her as if she's the only girl there. But that night, she discovers something that takes away all sense of normalcy: she's a werewolf. As Claire is initiated into the pack of female werewolves, she must deal not only with her changing identity, but also with a rogue werewolf who is putting everyone she knows in danger. Claire's new life threatens her blossoming romance with Matthew, whose father is leading the werewolf hunt. Now burdened with a dark secret & pushing the boundaries of forbidden love, Claire is struggling to feel comfortable in either skin. With her lupine loyalty at odds with her human heart, she will make a choice that will change her forever... ...

Please note this book contains content of an adult nature. Meet the women of Claire's, the most glamorous & exclusive escorts in the world. Solicited by upper-class Park Avenue businessmen, these women have the beauty, style, & charm to seduce any man, & the willingness to fulfil his most lavish & extravagant fantasy. This book has 157 pages & is 17.5cm x 10.5cm x 1.3cm ...

The complete first series of the classic children's programme from 1969, about the adventures of the Clangers, strange creatures with stranger voices who live beneath the surface of their moon-like planet, while their friends the Soup Dragon & the Iron ...

We return to the blue cratered moon for a second installment of the ever-lovable kids favourites, The Clangers. Featured are a further 13 episodes of everybody's favourite long-nosed pink whistling aliens, featuring such colourful characters as the Frogle ...

Details: With a recording career spanning five decades & a rep as one of the greatest guitarists to ever tread the planet,
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