Interweaving real & fictional elements, ' The American Boy' is a major literary historical crime novel in the tradition of ' An Instance of the Fingerpost' & ' Possession'. Repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction promotion. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy & the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas & all that he has come to dearly value. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder & lies -- a tangle that grips him even tighter as he tries to escape from it. & what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allan Poe? ...

Widowed US President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) is unwilling to jeopardise his high standing in the opinion polls by taking political risks. However, when he begins dating environmental lobbyist Sydney Wade (Annette Bening), his opponents use his p ...

An intriguing mystery surrounds the King's mistress. London 1667. Acclaimed beauty & singer Harriet Gow is the star performer at the famous Theatre Royal on Drury Lane, as well as the favourite mistress of King Charles II. After seeing her perform, Christopher Redmayne is likewise captivated so he is intrigued when the King urgently summons him
- it seems Harriet has been kidnapped. Redmayne with the help of his friend Jonathan Bale, is engaged to resolve this delicate affair & they quickly begin to delving into Harriet's background. The facade of elegance soon begins to crumble in the face of their investigations, & just as Redmayne & Bale start to question whether Harriet is really the victim of the guilty party, a brutal murder provides the answer...
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This is a comprehensive guide to anatomy & figure drawing in a wide range of media. The book is filled with step-by-step projects that will help artists develop their skills in this area. There is a special section on developing techniques & the book is filled with beautiful illustrations that will inspire the reader. This is a practical book suitable for artists of a wide variety of abilities & it should be a must for the reference shelves of any artist wanting to draw figures. The size of this book is 20cm in height & 16.6cm wide with 224 pages ...

Having invented the game, for England & its national football team, everything that has followed has been something of an anti-climax. There was, of course, the golden summer of 1966, when Alf Ramsey's radicalism in unveiling his wingless wonders in a World Cup quarter-final paid dividends. & there was the great period of English dominance on the world stage, which fell roughly between 1886 & 1900, when England won 35 of their 40 internationals.. . But before long foreign teams, with their insistence on progressive 'tactics', began to pose a few questions. & much of what followed for England constituted a series of false dawns (a thrashing of Italy in 1948; one World Cup triumph; the demolition of Holland in Euro '96), muddling through & by & large panicking under pressure. In The Anatomy of England award-winning journalist Jonathan Wilson seeks to place the bright spots in the context of the twentieth-century, where, time & again, progressive coaches have been spurned by England
- technique being all very well, but what really matters is pluck & 'organised muscularity', or to"e Jimmy Hogan's chairman at Aston Villa in 1936: 'I've no time for these theories about football. Just get the ball in the bloody net.' Wilson takes ten key England fixtures
- from defeat in Madrid in 1929; to Steve McLaren's evening to forget at Wembley in 2007
- & hacks back through the myth, conjecture & personal recollections, to get at the games themselves, & explore how what actually happened on the pitch shaped the future of the English game. Bursting with insight & critical detail, yet imbued with a wry affection, this is a history of England like no other before.


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The story of Manchester United told through ten key matches that have helped to shape its history.

Award-winning football

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Directed by Academy Award winner Robert Wise, this compelling account of the earth's first biological crisis is perhaps the most chillingly realistic science fiction thriller ever made. After an errant satellite crashes to earth near a remote New Mexico v ...

Sci-fi mini-series from the makers of ' American Gangster' & based on the novel by Michael Crichton. In a sleepy desert town, a satellite carrying a deadly disease has just fallen from the sky. Within an hour, all the people in the town, apart from a child & a drunken old man, are dead. An elite scientific unit, led by Dr Jeremy Stone (Benjamin Bratt), is sent to the town to study the virus, determine its origin & figure out a way to stop it
- before it's too late.
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When a burned body is found in a disused signal box, suspicion falls on lonely teenager Gabriel Webb.

There’s no doubt

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For the first time, best-selling author Angela Mc Gerr writes of her own initiation into the world of angels
- how she first became
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