Britain's inter-war landscape re-projected & enlarged to match the present-day Ordnance Survey Landrangers?. These maps are taken from Ordnance Survey's Popular Edition maps which were first published between 1919 & 1926. They have all been carefully scanned, digitally re-projected & enlarged to match the present-day Ordnance Survey Landranger? series. Each Cassini Popular Edition map is directly comparable with the corresponding Ordnance Survey Landranger? & uses the same sheet number & grid references, so enabling the past & the present to be compared with ease & accuracy. ...

A strikingly beautiful young woman is found dead in her Florence apartment. She lies on her bed, naked, a black rose between her legs. & the murders do not stop there: shortly afterwards, a woman is burned to death in a church, & a man is shot on the Ponte Vecchio. Chief Superindendent Michele Ferrara is all too familiar with the dark side of Florence. But he has never seen anything of this magnitude before
- he is up against a mysterious, powerful enemy who would do anything to hide his identity, & manages to controls events at every turn. As more violent deaths occur, Ferrara has to face the most dangerous investigation in his entire career & must confront deadly secrets from his own past
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When young, wealthy spinster Letitia Fairchild witnesses Ella being ill-treated, she takes her in as a scullery maid.



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Michael Caine stars in this thriller as John Tarrant, a military intelligence agent whose son is kidnapped by two of his colleagues after they decided to round up a diamond smuggling ring. Using the child as leverage, they hope to force Tarrant to co-oper ...

As the haunting air raid sirens of World War II echoed around blacked out streets, the people of London & other British cities would gather together in tube stations, tunnels, railway arches, basements & makeshift shelters at the bottom of gardens, fearful of what the night might bring from the dark skies. Here, in these cramped refuges, families & strangers would find comfort & distraction in the form of games, stories & jokes. Evelyn August brings together over five hundred games, pensees, puzzles, jokes & literary snippets which provided some amusement during the long nights of the blitz. From 'A thought for the petrol-rationed motorist' & ' Prayers of the Great' (Henry VIII, Raleigh, Plato), to ' What happened to the shilling?' & ' What to do when sleep won't come', The Black-out Book provides an insight into the pastimes & distractions sought during the blitz. Entertaining to all, nostalgic for many, what emerges in this fascinating book is the spirit & humour of the British people during the terrifying black-out nights of World War II. ...

CCTV footage captures Cate & Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine & explodes. When fire crews arrive, the vehicle is empty. Cate & Aiden have vanished. Missing persons investigator David Raker has solved too many impossible cases. He knows that behind every disappearance lies a dark tale waiting to be uncovered. What he doesn't know is how dark this one is
- or how close it will get to him...   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781405943741 •†Author:   Tim Weaver •†Publisher:   Penguin •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 464 •†Dimensions:†12.9 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm 
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A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty & inhabitants of deep-rooted

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Decimus Rex is fighting his way through the perilous maze beneath the arena to locate the blade of fire, a legendary sword that Doom is intent upon possessing. But before he can retrieve the sword, Decimus must first rescue his friends. Will he manage it, or is his time about to run out? ...

Ghost Stories of Rathmines infests the author's Dublin neighbourhood with an authentic population of ghosts, ghouls & goblins. ...

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On her wildly popular recipe blog, Tess Masters—aka, The Blender Girl—shares easy plant-based

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