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
...

With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

...

As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steals herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered & her Seventeen-year-old son has disappeared. The violence has re-opened old wounds & inflamed deep-running tensions in the frontier township- some want to solve the crime; others seek only to exploit it. To clear her sons name, she has no choice but to follow the tracks leaving the dead mans cabin & head north into the forest & the desolate landscape that lies beyond it. ...

Dove River, as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement, a man has been murdered & a woman's 17 year old son has disappeared. The murder has sparked tension in the settlement as old wounds are re-opened & inflamed deep-running tensions with the town divided as some want to exploit the murder while others are trying to solve it. In order to clear her son's name, she has to follow the track's leaving the dad man's cabin & towards the forest & the desolate landscape that lies beyond it. ...

In 1930, at the age of twenty-seven, Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion, a celebrity in Vienna. Liesl, her husband David & their daughter Dorli came to Britain after escaping the Nazis. In London, though initially stripped of their Austrian passports & rendered stateless aliens, both Liesl & her daughter Dorli competed at Wimbledon. They remain the only mother & daughter ever to have played doubles together at Wimbledon. This moving story of escape & survival is told by Liesl’s gr&-daughter, Dorli’s daughter. Some of the story, the author heard first-hand from her grandmother; the rest, she has meticulously researched over many years in four countries.   It is as much a search for the author’s own identity as for her own children & grandchildren to ensure that their remarkable family history is never lost again.  Illustrated throughout with family photographs & original documents, this is a story of survival against terrible odds, an inspiring tale... ...

Nestled in the heart of Dublin city, St Endas Terrace is like any other close-knit community: warm, colourful, looks after its own. But behind closed doors lie secrets... In Number Eight he wants a baby, she doesnt. The guy a few doors down just wants to find love. Across the street a single mum struggles to cope. While the people next door might appear to have it all, their mortgage holder knows different. When the street syndicate wins the National Lottery, it seems that things are looking up. Enter a New York production company on a mission to document a quintessential Dublin community
- just as it becomes clear that the winning ticket is nowhere to be found. Facades begin to crumble in the scramble to uncover the missing ticket &, as the gloves come off for the once unremarkable residents of St Endas, its game on with everything to play for.
...

The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious t?te-?-t?te with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, & some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years & still embracing are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Montalbanos passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the islands past & into a familys dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. Andrea Camilleris Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian small-town life & his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes. ? The novels of Andrea Camilleri breath out the sense of place, the sense of humour, & the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily. To read him is to be taken to that glorious, tortured island? Donna Leon ? Both farcical & endearing, Montalbano is a cross between Columbo & Chandlers Philip Marlowe, with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret? Guardian ...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about the TERRIBLE TUDORS, including why Henry VIII thought he'd married a horse, all about terrible Tudor torture & which shocking swear words the Tudors used. With a bold, accessible new look & a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ...

Show your friends & family this cool magic trick! Product Information: • The Terrifying Finger Guillotine Magic Trick • Brand:

...

It has been twenty years since Phil Hunt had made the worst mistake he ever made. Phil has done his time & has been saved by a woman's love. He wants to lead a simple, quiet life but he still needs to make a living & something that involves being on the wrong side of the law. Follow Phil on his journey as he is faced to make terrible choices. The size of the book is 19.8cm in height & 13cm wide with 306 pages. ...