In Cambridge a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper & hundreds of exquisite pens wait for someone who, with Clara Cohen's help, will express the true emotions felt to correspondents alive, estranged or dead. When Clara discovers a cache of wartime love letters, she follows them on the start of her own journey. ...

Raleigh doesn't have a soul. A cat stole it
- at least that's what she tells people
- at least that's what she would tell people

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Lost Between Worlds is based on a journal written between 1940 & 1945 when Edward H Herzbaum was in his twenties. It is a first-hand account of his horrendous wartime experiences, both physical & psychological, published for the first time: the journal had been lying in a suitcase for 65 years until it was discovered & translated. ...

Winifred Rudge is a writer who is struggling to get beyond the runway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. When she arrives in London she discovers that her step-cousin John Comestor has disappeared & a ghostly presence has invaded his home. Winifred has to investigate & finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of spectres & shades. This book is 19.7cm in height & 12.9cm wide with 401 pages. ...

After the oil company that employs Arthur Dashwood fails to protect him from a kidnap attempt in Baghdad, he returns to his traumatised family in London. But everything is not as it should be. Having quit the blistering heat & swimming pool luxury of Saudi Arabia for fear of terrorist attack, Arthur finds that danger is closer to home. Arthur's young son Timothy is struggling in the hostile terrain of his new public school. Bullied by other pupils & neglected by his preoccupied parents, he withdraws into a fantasy world, a hybrid of computer-generated guerrilla warzone & exotic dreams of his time in Saudi Arabia, a place where boys can fight & escape their teachers & families. As one middle-class boy from Timothy's school & then another disappears, so evidence emerges of an extreme & disturbing rejection of the adult world. & then it is Timothy's turn to disappear. Haunted by memories of post-Saddam Baghdad, Arthur embarks on a terrifying search for his son, one that will reveal his own complicity in the brutal consequences of Western power. ...

Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth & romance. This title tells the story of this once-great city
- its rise & fall & its place in the history of the Peloponnese & the Byzantine empire.
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A victim? Or a killer?

One icy cold morning, the remains of a woman are discovered. She has been abused, then butchered.

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The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups Christians claimed that there was just not one God. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine; & others that he was divine but not human. This book offers a study of these forms of Christianity, & how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. ...

Details: For more than 10, 000 years, cities have been the sites of inspiration, myth & mystery. From Peru's Machu
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Explore the history of vanished empires & forgotten cultures from the oldest, prehistoric civilisations to the mysterious lost

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