Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments, & an equally troubled personal life, Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission: a wintry month in an isolated house with only an assortment of animals, including her loyal spaniel Hepzie, for company. With the summer lushness of the Cotswolds turned ice grey, Thea spends her first few days exploring the beautiful hamlet of Hampnett, meeting some of the locals. But then the weather turns extreme & so do events. When she stumbles across a man lying dead in a snow-covered field, Thea finds herself once again at the heart of a mystery... ...

Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock & his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine's novel, & Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the party entertained
- & expose their deepest fears.
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Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock & his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephines novel, A Shilling for Candles, & Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertained
- & expose their deepest fears. But things get out of hand when one of Hollywoods leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village. The following day, as fear & suspicion take over in a setting where nothing
- & no one
- is quite what it seems, Chief Inspector Archie Penrose becomes increasingly unsatisfied with the way the investigation is ultimately resolved. Several years later, another horrific murder, again linked to a Hitchcock movie, drives Penrose back to the scene of the original crime to uncover the shocking truth.


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His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich. Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend
- a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence.
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Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is a system that thrives on panic
- & feeds on fear.
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Books Crime Books The latest novel in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series. Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness
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I have been one acquainted with the night. Christopher Snow is athletic, handsome enough, intelligent, romantic, funny. But his whole life has been affected by xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare genetic disorder that means his skin & eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight. Like all Xpers, Chris lives at night ï ½ & has never ventured beyond his hometown of Moonlight Bay, a place of picturesque beauty & haunting strangeness; he knows it as no one else can possibly know it, is intimate with its shadows & darkest hours. Despite the limitations imposed by nature, he has always been determined to lead the fullest life &, with the help of family & friends, he has on the whole succeeded. But for Chris ï ½ & all the inhabitants of Moonlight Bay ï ½ a terrible change is about to happen; a change of potentially catastrophic proportions ...

Carol Bacchi tells of her battle with her baby son, & the difficulty she encountered encouraging him to eat. Surrounded by inept or dismissive medical practitioners, struggling with sleep deprivation, & alone with her fears, Fear of Food combines diary entries & personal reflections. ...

Examines the parallel histories of modern art & modern music & examines why one is embraced & understood & the other ignored, derided or regarded with bewilderment, as noisy, random nonsense perpetrated by, & listened to by the inexplicably crazed. ...

Fear of music so a great read that Garry Mulholland set out as a one-man mission to reclaim music criticism. A sexy book to look at & brilliantly written it will capture your imagination & make you re-live your music heydays. Pages 372, 18.3cm x 18.3cm x 2.4. ...