As the leading churchmen & women gather at the Synod of Whitby in 664AD to debate the rival merits of the Celtic & Roman Churches tempers begin to fray. Conspirators plot an assassination while mysterious violent death stalks the shadowy cloisters of the Abbey of St Hilda. When the Abbess Etain a leading speaker for the Celtic Church is found murdered suspicion inevitably rests on the Roman faction. Attending the Synod is Fidelma of the community of St Brigid of Kildare. As an advocate of the Brehon Court she is called on to investigate the murder with Brother Eadulf of the Roman faction. However the two are so unlike that their partnership is described as that of a wolf & a fox
- but which is which? More gruesome deaths follow & the friction among the clerics could end in civil war. Can the solution to the mysteries avert such a conflict?
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Mankind has endured centuries of horrific plague & a particularly brutal interstellar war.. .but there is still no time for peace & quiet. Stirred from aeons of sleep the Inhibitors
- ancient alien killing machines
- have begun the process of ridding the galaxy of its latest emergent intelligence: mankind. As a ragtag bag of refugees fleeing the first wave of the cull head towards an apparently insignificant moon light-years away they discover an avenging angel a girl born in ice. She has the power to lead mankind to safety & the ability to draw down their darkest enemy. & on a planet where vast travelling cathedrals crawl towards the treacherous fissure known as Absolution Gap an unsettling truth becomes apparent: to beat one enemy it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much much worse.. .

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September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together. But in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield & declared himself a conscientious objector an act which has brought shame & dishonour on the Bancroft family. The letters however are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He holds a secret deep within him. One that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian if he can only find the courage. Whatever happens this meeting will change his life
- forever.
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By placing abstract art within its political & cultural history Anna Moszynska elucidates a form that since its origin has bewildered its admirers & detractors alike. She offers the reader a comprehensive trajectory of abstraction-- from the radically new pictorial language of Bella & Delaunnay to the visceral spirituality of Kandinsky & Mondrian to the geometrically-obsessed artists of the 1930s & 1940s. The author takes us from the origin of the movement during the First World War to the post-World War II Zeitgeist that emphasized personal expression & finally the revival of Abstraction practiced by Neo-Geo among others in the 1980s. A succinct & deftly written account of abstraction Moszynska offers both an overview of the philosophy of the movement as well as analyses of the approaches of individual artists. ...

Up until now a veil of mystery surrounded the techniques used to create great abstract paintings. ABSTRACT PAINTING TECHNIQUES & STRATEGIES lifts that veil to reveal the exact methods behind the masterworks. Now students & professional artists can stop guessing & start building on the techniques of the great abstract artists to create their own innovative new work. Two clear comprehensible sections let artists focus quickly on their specific areas of interest. The first section on Traditional Painterly Abstraction (brush & easel painting) looks at pictorial space brushwork paint quality & collage. The second section on Post-Painterly Modern Abstraction (non-easel painting) considers options ranging from the pour-&-spatter techniques of Jackson Pollock to the staining scraping & abrading of modern acrylic artists. Step-by-step recipes for key approaches show every artist how to get the best aesthetic results freeing them to move forward philosophically. ...

Written by residents for residents the Abu Dhabi Explorer is a captivating guide to life that bridges the gap between practical living & working guides & inspirational destination-specific travel guides. From paperwork to partying the Abu Dhabi Residents Guide covers everything a new resident needs to know about living working & making the most out of life in this fast-growing exciting city ...

Fresh produce is a joy: crunchy lettuce sun-warmed tomatoes juicy berries
- their flavours are immediate
- but a winter of those

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When it comes to relationships Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. & when it comes to girls named Katherine Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times to be exact. On a road trip miles from home this anagram-happy washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail & an overweight Judge Judy
- loving best friend riding shotgun
- but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship avenge Dumpees everywhere & finally win him the girl. Love friendship & a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising & heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself. From the New York Times" bestselling author of " The Fault in Our Stars" & " Looking for Alaska" John Green. John has a huge online presence through his 1.1 million Twitter followers & You Tube channel Vlogbrothers which has been viewed over 200 million times & has 660 000 subscribers making it one of the most successful online channels in history."

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1833: the industrial age is sweeping through England & the Stephensons are planning the greatest engineering scheme ever undertaken- a railway line from Liverpool to London. At Morland Place Nicholas had hoped that his brother Benedict had been banished forever but railway fever has brought Benedict back to Yorkshire as an engineer on the Leeds & Selby line. It is a lonely life & he fears he will never be wealthy enough to marry his new love Miss Fleetham. Nicholas fears that Benedict is not only a threat to his inheritance but to Morland Place itself as plans to bring the railway to York will desecrate the estate. The conflict between the brothers mirrors the nation's battle between the old & new but the Morland feud seems certain to end in tragedy & no-one the victor. ...

AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975 & soon set up a residency at Londons Marquee Club. Their short hair (including the odd mullet) loud rock & attitude chimed well with the lingering pub rock & soon-to-be punk crowd. They werent really a band for guitar solos & singer Bon Scott was the original bike-riding speed-snorting fighting man. An ex-convict he lived life fast & short; he died in February 1980 just before BACK IN BLACK their huge-selling album took off & the second period of AC/DC (with Brian Johnson as lead vocalist) was ushered in. BACK IN BLACK has gone on to sell 45 million copies worldwide & as the band have become a global phenomenon so their reclusiveness has increased. Mick Wall the don of heavy metal writing seeks to penetrate the wall around the Young brothers & write the first authoritative in-depth critical account of AC/DC. ...