Explores the human propensity for gossip & storytelling, & discusses how our fears & hopes can work against common sense. This book also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, & how the wish to conform, our natural biases & even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts. ...

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin & unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans & the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India & the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new & more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told in epic detail & for the first time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller Greenmantle, recounted through the adventures & misadventures of the secret agents & others who took part in it. It is an ominously topical tale today in view of the continuing turmoil in this volatile region where the Great Game has never really ceased. This book has 431 pages & is 15.9 x 2.7 x 24.1 cm ...

Celebrated writer & historian Maria Graham must make the treacherous voyage from Brazil to London to deliver her latest book to her publisher.

Having come to terms with the loss of her beloved husb&, Maria now has renewed hope for the future & is determined to live her life as she pleases, free from the smothering constraints of Georgian society.

For a woman travelling alone its a journey fraught with danger, & as civil war rages around her, the only ship prepared to take Maria belongs to roguish smuggler Captain James Henderson. Onboard, all is well until Maria makes two shocking discoveries the first a deadly secret, the second an irresistible attraction to the enigmatic captain.

With Henderson on a journey of his own & determined to finally put his life of crime behind him, he & Maria grow ever closer.

But can Henderson escape his illicit past or will the scandalous secret hes hiding ruin them both?

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781785300387
• Format: Paperback
• Author: Sara Sheridan
• Publisher: Black & White
• Pages: 440
• Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.7 x 3cm

















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Muriel, newly married & newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee & empties ashtrays, she

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In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts
- once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland
- were swept away as the land

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When the cynical divorce lawyer Thomas Clarin finds himself at a table on the terrace of the Bellavista Hotel beside Thomas Loos, an eccentric, ageing philologist, they strike up an unlikely conversation. Soon Clarin's questions tease out stories from Loo ...

Award-winning, bestselling German science author Stefan Klein transforms a simple object or everyday event
- such as rose blossom,
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The co-presenter o BBC TV's Top Gear tells a compelling story of his life before & after his shocking high-speed car crash. Richard Hammind is one of our best loved television presenters. In September 2006 he suffered a serious brain injury driving a jet powered dragster while fliming for Top Gear. His wife & family tell the story of the anxious waiting & watching until he finally emerged from his coma. In an extraordinary powerful piece of writing, she & Richard then piece together the stages of his recovery. The final chapter recounts his return home & his triumphant reappearance in front of the cameras. ...

Benjy, Penny, Rory & Sheila are staying with their aunt & uncle at Cherry Tree Farm. They feed the animals, explore the countryside & hunt for the mysterious Tammylan, who lives in the woods – & you can be sure that they get into mischief along the way...

This bumper volume collects Children of Cherry-Tree Farm, The Children of Willow Farm & More Adventures at Willow Farm.

This paperback book has 528 pages & measures: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.2cm



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Details: Moo! Baa! Oink! Quack! Join the friendly farm animals for lots of fun & games whilst learning about shapes,
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