A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother's neck & fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious?

As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.

Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioural patterns, & an outsider's fascination with group dynamics.

Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Southeast Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son, Freddy.

But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly & more acts of sabotage & child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career &, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.

Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful & viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.











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When George Best, a dark-haired skinny teenager from Belfast, made his United debut in the autumn of 1963, he was joining a club still recovering from the horrors of Munich. Among his team-mates were goalscorer supreme Denis Law & England midfielder Bobby Charlton. Together they would combine to help United to win two league titles & a long-awaited European Cup as the Reds came to personify all that was most exciting about the Swinging Sixties. By 1968, all three men would have been honoured as European Footballer of the Year
- the only time three winners of that award have lined up in the same side. In David Meek's compelling portrait of the United Trinity, he not only reveals their different characters & what made them so successful on the pitch, he also speaks to many of their team-mates to find out what it was like playing in the same side & researches contemporary reports to assess how they were viewed at the time. Having reported on their entire careers together, Meek has a unique insight into what made Best, Law & Charlton stand out as the truly special players they were.
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Details: An essential guide to astronomy, an authoritative reference & timeline detailing the 100 milestone discoveries.
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Season six of the pioneering series The Universe takes viewers further than ever, to the extreme edges of our solar system where chaos & catastrophe bring epic drama to the planets
- including some of the most horrifying days on Earth. Through stunning CGI, witness the birth pangs of the solar system, shocked into existence by a nearby supernova & enduring over 700 million years of brutal bombardment by deadly asteroids; colossal cataclysms that shaped the planets & transformed their climates forever; & startling new scientific discoveries revealing a hellish history of continuous devastation on Earth. Then travel to the solar system's very fringes to explore the possibility that the Sun has an evil twin... The Universe features astounding NASA footage & the opinions of leading astrophysicists to probe even more deeply into the billion-years-old story of the world beyond Earth.
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From the controversial first revelation that the Earth is not at the centre of the Universe, to the mind-bending quantum theories that are changing the way we view reality, our comprehension of the Universe is continually growing & the pace of scientific research in recent years is breaktaking. With over 200 of the very latest space images, Giles Sparrow's clear & insightful narrative explores how the greatest revelations & very latest breakthroughs have shaped our understanding of the cosmos, & provides a tantalizing peek at what the future might hold. This book has 416 pages & is 24.5cm x 18.6cm x 2.7cm ...

In 12 awe-inspiring programmes, The Universe ventures into the uncharted territory of outer space through visions, studies & predictions scientists & explorers. Utilising cutting edge computer graphics & stunning footage to bring the universe down to Earth. ...

Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family are never permitted to mention. Yet none of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the weaver's brat & heir apparent.. . Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of the most successful & best-loved romantic novelists of her age, & why her popularity endures to this day. ...

Hidden in the world's greatest desert a tiny caravan of fugitives inches towards its goal. It is a place where only the strongest & most determined will survive. In the caravan one man stands out. His strength, self-imposed discipline & leadership mark him. He is an Outsider whose past is blanked from his memory. & his loyalty to the leadership is total. Searching for him in the limitless dunes are American & British experts in counter-terrorism with a full range of sophisticated electronics at h&. Hunting him from above is the unmanned Predator aircraft, invisible in the cloudless skies, carrying the Hellfire missiles. But he is no easy prey. If they fail to find & kill him, if he reaches his family & receives his orders, the Outsider will disappear again, before re-emerging in a teeming western city with a suitcase that will wreak mass murder when it is detonated... ...

Four friends celebrate winning the lottery. Just hours later, one of them ? Waldemar Leverkuhn ? is found in his home, stabbed to death. With Chief Inspector Van Veeteren on sabbatical, working in a second hand bookshop, the case is assigned to Inspector M?nster. But when another member of the lottery group disappears, as well as Leverkuhns neighbour, M?nster appeals to Van Veeteren for assistance. Soon M?nster will find himself interviewing the Leverkuhn family, including the eldest ? Irene ? a resident of a psychiatric clinic. & as he delves deeper into the familys history, he will discover dark secrets & startling twists, which not only threaten the clarity of the case ? but also his life. ...

From potions to professors, spirits to spells & witches to wizards... this devilishly demanding quiz book will discover just how much you really know about the wizarding world of Harry Potter.

Misinformed muggles & enemies of hard questions beware. This fiendish test of tricky questions contains a complete examination of all things ‘ Potter’.

A word of warning though... if you haven’t read the books & have only seen the movies you might need some felix felicis to navigate your way through.

Including a children’s section with some simpler ‘starter’ questions this quiz book is fun for all the family.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781912511600
• Publisher: Bell & Mackenzie
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 93
• Dimensions: 24.5 x 19 x 1cm












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