Details: A woman's naked body is found floating in the weeds of a lake near Bath, by an elderly woman walking her Siamese
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Books Crime Books Our favourite octogenarian's are back to solve yet another mystery with The Thursday Murder Club & this time they're set to face their most deadly opponents yet! It's Christmas in Coopers Chase & it should be a relaxing time for our murder club gang but a dangerous package that was smuggled across the English coast on Boxing Day has gone missing & chaos has been unleashed! With a rising body count, including someone close to The Thursday Murder Club, the gang face an impossible task. The clock is ticking but will time run out for Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim & Ron? Check out the fourth novel in the record-breaking, million-copy bestselling Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman!   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780241512449 •†Author: Richard Osman •†Publisher:†  Viking •†Format:†  Hardback •†Pages:† 448 •†Dimensions:† 16.2 x 3.8 x 24 cm ...

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, & a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters & drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home. With the body count rising, the package still missing & trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? & who will be the last devil to die? Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9780241992401 •†Author: Richard Osman •†Publisher: Penguin •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages: 432 •†Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.8 x 19.7cm ...

The Fog Of War... What Better Time For A Robbery? Billy Zane (Titanic), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs) & a host of British talent (Nick Moran, Laurence Fox & Sean Pertwee) star in this daring heist movie set against the backdrop of World War II. In ...

Arthur has drawn the sword Caliburn from the stone & sits as High King of Dark Age Britain. It is a golden age for Camelot. But Merlin, Arthur's trusted advisor, can foresee doom, thanks to his gift of the Sight. In his twilight years he retreats to the crystal cave where the legend began & leaves Fate to take its course. ...

Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, & their children Hal & Charlotte. & Prince, their Labrador.

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Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is now 108 years old & one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian Engl&. He left school at fourteen to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud & trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he saw a great many of his comrades die, & in one dreadful moment the shell that wounded him killed his three closest friends. In vivid detail he describes daily life in the trenches, the terror of being under intense artillery fire, & going over the top. Then, after the Armistice, the soldiers' frustration at not being quickly demobbed led to a mutiny in which Harry was soon caught up. The Second World War saw Harry in action on the home front, & he warmly describes his friendship with American GIs preparing to go to France, &, years later, his tears when he saw their graves. Late in life Harry achieved fame, meeting the Queen & taking part in the BBC documentary The Last Tommy, finally shaking hands with a German veteran of the artillery, & speaking out frankly to Prime Minister Tony Blair about the soldiers shot for cowardice in the First World War. The Last Fighting Tommy is the story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life. ...

When Harry Patch wrote his memoir in 2007, he was the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. He was 109 years old & one of very few people who could directly recall the horror of that conflict. Born in 1898, Harry spent a rural childhood in Somerset before leaving school in 1913 to become a plumber. Three years later he was fighting in the mud & trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele. He saw a great many of his comrades die, & in one dreadful moment the shell that wounded him killed his three closest friends. He vividly describes the terror & intensity of daily life in the trenches. The Second World War saw Harry in action on the home front as a fire-fighter during the bombing of Bath. Later in life Harry achieved fame, meeting the Queen & taking part in the BBC documentary THE LAST TOMMY, finally shaking hands with a German veteran of the artillery, & speaking out frankly to Prime Minister Tony Blair about the soldiers shot for cowardice in the First World War. Sadly, Harry passed away in July 2009, aged 111 years old. His funeral in Wells cathedral was attended by over a thousand people, while many more lined the streets to pay their last respects to an ordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. ...

According to Jewish scripture, there are thirty-six righteous people on earth. Without them, humanity would perish. But the thirty-six do not know that they are the chosen ones. In Beijing, a monk collapses in his chamber. A fiery mark has spread across his back & down his spine. In Mumbai, a man who served the poor dies suddenly. His body shows the same mark. Similar deaths are reported in cities around the world
- the victims all humanitarians, all with the same death mark. In Copenhagen, it falls to veteran detective Niels Bentzon to investigate. He is told to find eight 'good people' of Denmark & warn them of this threat. But Bentzon is trained to see the worst in people & he becomes increasingly sceptical as he realizes that not everyone perceived to be good is truly good. It is only when Niels meets Hannah, a brilliant astrophysicist mourning the death of her husb&, that the pair begin to piece together the puzzle & a pattern emerges. There have been thirty-four deaths & there are two more to come. According to the pattern, Bentzon & Hannah can predict the time & place of the final two. The murders will occur in Venice & Copenhagen. & the time is now.
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Lord Simon Lovat was the last of the great Scottish chiefs ? & the last nobleman to be executed for treason. He is one of Scotlands most notorious & romantic figures, a shrewd & calculating soldier of unlimited ambition, wit & double-dealing who died a martyr for his country & for an independent Scotl&. Born into the unpredictable world of the late seventeenth-century as a younger son of a junior branch of the Frasers, Simon determined to enforce his claim to be chief of the Fraser clan & enjoy the income from its lands. In a life packed with plotting & incident, spells as a wanted outlaw, a prisoner in the Bastille, as loyal British soldier & aspirant Duke, Simon became the greatest double-agent of the age. Determined in 1701 to seek his fortune with exiled Jacobite king in France, Fraser acted as a spy for both the Stuarts & the Hanoverian Georges; claimed to be both Protestant & Roman Catholic. He was feudal, a Highland warrior chief, & benevolent despot. He disputed theological niceties with the Papal Nuncio in France, while courting Louis XIV for money to fund an invasion of Engl&. He was fluent in five languages. In July 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie landed on Eriskay ? a tiny Hebridean island & launched his last & greatest attempt to seize back his throne, joined after victory at Preston Pans by Simon Fraser & his clans. They reached Derby before retreating ignominiously & facing final defeat at the hands of the British at Culloden. Fraser ? one of Scotland's most colourful characters ? was found hiding in a tree. This gripping adventure & swash-buckling spy story uses the events of Lovats life to recreate this extraordinary period of history. As Sarah Fraser argues, the defeat at Culloden led directly to the end of traditional Gaelic civilization; to the brutal clearances & ?pacification? of the Highlands which followed & the lost civilisations of Scotland that were destroyed after 1745 by English repression. ...