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. ...

Never tell the whole truth, nobody wants to hear it. As the widow of an infamous racing car champion, Abby O' Hurley shunned publicity. Now a single mum, struggling to keep her family & farm afloat, Abby has invited charming, disarming & ruthlessly cynical biographer Dylan Crosby to tell her story. Abby's doing it for the sake of her sons, but she needs to keep Dylan from uncovering her darkest secrets. She'll tell him just enough to close that chapter of her life, even if Dylan wants more than she's willing to give... New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you the remarkable O ' Hurley Family. ...

As the widow of an infamous champion racing driver, Abby O' Hurley shuns publicity. Until the single mum, struggling to keep her family & farm afloat, invites charming, disarming & ruthlessly cynical biographer Dylan Crosby to tell her story. Abby's doing it for the sake of her sons, but she needs to keep Dylan from uncovering her darkest secrets. She'll tell him just enough to close that chapter of her life, even if Dylan wants more than she's willing to give... ...

Extended version (not shown in the cinemas) of the remake of Wes Craven's 1972 horror film of the same name. When teenage friends Mari (Sara Paxton) & Paige (Martha Mac Isaac) go into town in search of marijuana, they meet Justin (Spencer Treat Clark), a ...

Extended version (not shown in the cinemas) of the remake of Wes Craven's 1972 horror film of the same name. When teenage friends Mari (Sara Paxton) & Paige (Martha Mac Isaac) go into town in search of marijuana, they meet Justin (Spencer Treat Clark), a ...

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Books Romance Books One final letter. His last wish. Go & be with her... Beckett, If you're reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn't. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get out of the army & get to Telluride. My little sister Ella's raising the twins alone. She's too independent & won't accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, & now me. It's too much for anyone to endure. It's not fair. So if I'm gone, that means I can't be there for Ella. I can't help them through this. But you can. So I'm begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family. Please don't make her go through it alone. Ryan   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781804994733 •†Author: Rebecca Yarros •†Publisher:†  Penguin •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 480 •†Dimensions:† 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.9 cm ...