Winter Parva a traditional Cotswolds village next door to Carsely has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities & Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend & rival in the sleuthing business Toni to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha
- & the rest of the village
- realise that things aren't as they seem... Very quickly it transpires that the spit pig is in fact Gary Beech a policeman not much loved in Winter Parva. & although Agatha has every intention of leaving the affair to the police she rapidly changes her mind when she finds out Gary's ex-wife has hired Toni to investigate. Cantankerous & competitive as Agatha is she has to now join the fray & try & solve the case herself. Praise for M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin" series: "I know I once vowed to read only Agatha Christie for a year but I cheated. My Number 1 mistress M.C. Beaton & her Agatha Raisin whodunits. Agatha is like Miss Marple with a drinking problem a pack a day habit & major man lust. In fact I think she may be living my dream life". (" Entertainment Weekly"). " Once again M.C. Beaton has concocted an amusing brew of mystery & romance that will keep her fans turning the pages". (" Publisher's Weekly"). " Pure entertainment". (" The Guardian")."

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Agatha has fallen in love
- again. This time it's the local gardener George Marston she has her eye on. But competition for his
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Agatha has fallen in love
- again. This time it's the local gardener George Marston she has her eye on. But competition for his
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This is the third volume of the M.C. Beaton mystery series starring Penelope Keith. The Curious Curate"
- When the village
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Agathas former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful young woman & Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan a Frenchman she met at James engagement party. To distract her still further she decides upon a holiday & flies to Istanbul where unfortunately she bumps into James & his fiancee not once but twice
- convincing him she is stalking them. So when the bride is murdered on her wedding day naturally Agatha is Suspect Number One
- but then matters are turned on their head when the dead brides mother engages Agatha to take on the case of her murdered daughter! & very soon Agathas own life is in danger while she tries to solve the mystery of the corpse bride while fighting off (halfheartedly) the advances of a very attractive & determined Frenchman.

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These were the crimes that were meant to change the world & sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American robber baron. Taking in Malcolm X & Queen Victoria Adolf Hitler & Andy Warhol Charles Manson & Emma Goldman Tsars Presidents & pop stars Age of Assassins" traces the process that turned thought into action & murder into an icon. In tackling the history of political violence the book is unique in its range & attention to detail summoning up an age of assassination that is far from over." ...

In this updated edition of his concise biography Werner Eck tells the extraordinary story of Augustus Romes first monarch. * Incorporates literary archaeological & legal sources to provide a vivid narrative of Augustus brutal rise to power * Written by one of the worlds leading experts on the Roman empire * Traces the history of the Roman revolution & Romes transformation from a republic to an empire *

Includes:: a new chapter on legislation further information on the monuments of the Augustan period more maps & illustrations & a stemma of Augustus family * Thorough straightforward & organized chronologically this is an ideal resource for anyone approaching the subject for the first time

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The first & best major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic & political vocabulary of the world: capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitive private enterprise on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) & selling it in the dearest. An economy so based & therefore nestling naturally on the sound foundations of a bourgoisie composed of those whom energy merit & intelligence had raised to their position & kept there would
- it was believed
- not only create a world of suitably distributed material plenty but of ever-growing enlightenment reason & human opportunity an advance of the sciences & the arts in brief a world of continuous & accelerating material & moral progress.

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After the betrayal at Isstvan Horus begins his campaign against the Emperor a galaxy-wide war that can lead only to Terra. But the road to the final confrontation between father & son is a long one
- seven years filled with secrecy & silence plans & foundations being formed across distant stars. An unknown history is about to be unveiled as light is shed on the darkest years of the Horus Heresy & revelations will surface that will shake the Imperium to its very foundation... Age of Darkness enters a new chapter of the epic Horus Heresy story & features stories from some of the Black Library's best-known authors including Dan Abnett Graham Mc Neill James Swallow & Aaron-Dembski Bowden.
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As seen on TV: now a major BBC4 television series. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigata harbour -- & into a puzzling new mystery. The crew of a mysterious yacht
- the Vanna
- due to dock in the area have discovered a corpse floating in the water the dead mans face badly disfigured. It isnt long before Montalbano begins to become suspicious of the Vannas inhabitants. Who is the yachts owner the glamorous & short-tempered Livia Giovannini? How has she accrued her riches? & why does she spend so much time at sea? Meanwhile Montalbano finds himself getting into tangles with the dreaded Commissioner the exasperating Dr Lattes & a very beautiful young woman at the harbour with whom he becomes dangerously besotted.. . Can the Inspector clear his head long enough to unravel this murky mystery?

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