While trying to decipher what few clues they have managed to recover about the Templar's secrets, Jessop & Mallory discover that

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The shadowy chambers of the Knights Templar hold a devastating secret...

Having barely escaping the crosshairs of

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Constantinople, 1203. As the rapacious armies of the Fourth Crusade lay siege to the city, a small band of Templars infiltrate the imperial library. They escape with three large chests filled with explosive secrets
- ones they will not live long enough to learn. Vatican City, present day. In the hidden archives of the Inquisition, FBI agent Sean Reilly has no choice but to violate the trust he has earned. A vicious terrorist has kidnapped Tess Chaykin, & the key to her freedom lies in this underground crypt, where a secret could explain the real reasons for the Templars; extermination & bring devastation to our world. A pulse-pounding manhunt takes Reilly & Tess across the world as they follow the blood-soaked trail of their enemy, a devious, uncompromising foe unlike any they have battled before...
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Shrouded in myth & conspiracy, the history of the Knights Templar is little understood.

Geordie Torr pulls fact from

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His touch was electric. His eyes were magnetic. His lips were a temptation... But was he real? Shane is near death after crashing her car on a long stretch of empty highway in rural New Mexico when she is miraculously saved by a mysterious young man who walks out of nowhere. She feels an instant energy between them, both a warmth that fills her soul & a tingle that makes her shiver. But who, or what, is he? For the first time in her life, she believes in the term "soul mates"? Travis is her destiny, & she is his. But she soon discovers that Travis is dead & strict rules govern kindred spirits of different

Dimensions. Even a kiss could destroy both their souls. & while Travis is almost impossible to resist, temptation proves to be the kindest enemy they encounter. In this part romance, part supernatural thriller, true love discovers it may not be able to surpass all?especially the power of pure evil

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In Kenya's ' Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn & indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his Buick in the early hours of 24 January 1941. Some said the good-looking womaniser had it coming. He was a philanderer who could have had any number of enemies who wanted revenge. Ageing Jock Delves Broughton stood trial for Erroll's murder but was acquitted & the mystery remained unsolved
- until now. American heiress Alice de Janze had been conducting a clandestine affair with Joss for years. Married into French aristocracy, her stunning beauty was to prove a fatal lure to men of adventure. Previously tried by a French court for shooting one of her lovers, scandal followed her wherever she went. She arrived in Kenya as a newly married Countess in the 1920s, but by 1941 she had turned forty & the years of partying had taken their toll. Pushed aside by Erroll for younger lovers, Alice was thrown into desperation, resulting in Errol's murder & her own tragic demise. The Temptress not only solves the mystery of Josslyn Hay's murder with the utmost conviction
- it eloquently paints a portrait of a volatile, captivating woman.

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A glamorous American multi-millionairess, Alice de Janz? scandalized 1920s Paris when she left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover?whom she later tried to kill in a failed murder-suicide in the Gare du Nord. Abandoning Paris for the moneyed British colonial society known as Kenyas Happy Valley, she became the lover of the handsome womanizer, Joss Hay, Lord Erroll. In 1941, Erroll was shot in his car on an isolated road. A cuckolded husband was brought to trial & acquitted, & the crime remained tantalizingly unsolved. Paul Spicer, whose mother was a confidante of Alices, used personal letters & his own extensive research to piece together what really happened that fateful evening. He brings to life an era of unimaginable wealth & indulgence, where people changed bed partners as easily as they would order a cocktail, & where jealousy & hidden passions brewed. At the heart of The Temptress is Alice, whose seductive charms no man could resist, & whose unfulfilled quest for love ended in her own suicide at age forty-two. ...

The most famous document in all history, the Ten Commandments are the words of God carved into stone. But what do they mean & how do they still apply to society today? Who was Moses, the man chosen by God to translate his message to the World & what happened on Mount Sinai, the place where Moses is said to have come face-to-face with God himself? Join a distinguished group of scholars as they explore these questions & examine what issues have been raised over the years, as well as analysing the punishments that have been handed out if any of the commandments were broken. We also look at why this set of rules became central to the whole of Western civilisation, why Moses ordered the killing of three thousand fellow Hebrews at Sinai & whether the original document, said to be preserved in the sacred Ark of Covenant, could actually still exist. This fascinating collection contains four programmes that explore the most famous document in history: The Ten Commandments. ...

The moment she starts her doctorate in Oxford, Sarah is beset with mysteries. An old portrait in her rented house bears an uncanny resemblance to her. Her new lover insists he's a ghost. Her attractive, sinister supervisor refuses to let her see manuscripts on witchcraft. An ordinary hill on the meadow fills her with fear
- & not just her, but also the man with whom she falls in love. Every time she has sex, she hallucinates strange places & other times. Through sex, magic & orgasmic visions, she must fight betrayal to learn the truth behind the secrets. The size of this book is 17.8cm in height & 10.9cm wide with 255 pages
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With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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