A boy called Seth drowns, desperate & alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he is here? & where is this place? ...

Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt's life has collapsed around him. His childhood sweetheart is gone, & even debt-collecting jobs are beyond his reach. A late-night gambling session ends in a bet: can he walk to Oxford by lunchtime the next day? Gaunt sets off, & as morning breaks his evening's winnings look set to double. But when men in a Jeep reverse into him, scooping him off the roadside, Gaunt enters a stranger world. Taken to a country house, he is kept hostage by a man with impeccable manners, Mr Khan. When the mysterious captor offers Gaunt ten thousand pounds to marry Adeena
- a beautiful girl kept in the house against her will
- he decides to accept. After initial suspicion, Adeena realises that Gaunt is her only chance, & the pair forge a plan of escape. This audiobook has 7 CDs & has a runtime of 474 mins

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Pitbull is back & angrier than ever, with another collection of hilariously well-observed & rambunctiously argued grievances about the mad world of sport & beyond. Following the success of The Thoughts of Chairman Moore, Volume I, you might have hoped that sport's powers that be would have sat up & taken notice of its many faults & flaws. But alas no, lunacy prevails & so Brian has taken it upon himself to put forward another collection of his unique insights & not-so-unique frustrations. Uproariously funny & spot-on in its every complaint, Volume II is required reading for anyone who can't live without sport but who also can't help but wonder at its unbridled idiocy! ...

Commenting on the demise of the New Labour project from the re-election of Tony Blair in 2001 to the ultimate foreign policy disasters of Afghanistan & Iraq, this book gives other prescient accounts of the government's by-passing of Cabinet, parliament & the party, of the 'war on terror', & the debate about Islam. ...

Kate Lewis is thirty-five & feeling restless. Shes fed up of worrying about the ironing & would like her husband Jeffrey to pay more attention to her than his golf clubs. There must be more to life than this! Kate enrols herself on a Tai Chi course & takes best friend Sonia along for the ride. Shes determined to find herself but its easier said than done, especially when she finds the distracting Ben Mahler first... ...

In a compelling masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant & engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. In addition to the poisonings, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence & a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile, the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business & Campion decides with danger in his efforts to find the truth. ...

Uh-oh! Archie has discovered a new word: “more!”  MORE books at bedtime! MORE ice cream! MORE bubble bath!  He wants to build BIGGER towers & BETTER fancy dress costumes.  But sometimes “more” is just too much. The indomitable Archie returns in his hilarious sequel to No! & Why? With acutely observed text from Tracey Corderoy (Shifty Mc Gifty & Slippery Sam, Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble) & laugh-out-loud illustrations from Tim Warnes (Dangerous!), it’s set to become a bedtime favourite. The perfect tale for families with strong-willed toddlers who just want MORE! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781848691346 • Author: Tracey Corderoy • Publisher: Little Tiger Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 28 x 24.5 x 0.4 cm ...

Morecambe Bay is usually claimed to be the largest bay in the United Kingdom at over 200 square miles, & over half of this area is revealed as sand at low tide. The resulting landscape of channels, quicksands & tidal races is unique, & it is surrounded by some of the most beautiful landscapes in the British Isles, but the shipbuilders of Barrow in Furness, the power station at Heysham, the fishermen at Fleetwood, & the holiday makers in the resort of Morecambe itself, speak of old & new industry & leisure, while Furness Abbey & Cartmel Priory recall much older inhabitants. For a landscape photographer there is a constantly changing seascape of big skies, with shimmering sands, wild birds in profusion, & picturesque villages & noble, & more modest houses. John Morrison records all this in its full diversity & in all its moods. ...

Spoil yourself with Merino, the world's most luxurious wool yarn. Tucked away in a valley surrounded by rolling hills, Morehouse ...

Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes & fantastic headwear, & a smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people
- a jockey, a shipping magnate, a foreign art dealer
- & he likes to do this more & more since his brood of daughters are all growing up, getting married & finding him embarrassing.

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