One dark night on the island of Great Saltee fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didnt commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain Conor is trapped in a sea swept dungeon & branded a traitor. He must escape & clear his name; he wants his old life back
- his family his friends...and his princess. Conor knows there is only one way out. Its an impossible task which has never been done before. But Conor is determined to do it. Hell have to fly. Swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer ideal for readers aged 11+.
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This is an exciting title in this informative series of books containing over 100 full-colour stickers which children can match to the illustrations. This beautifully illustrated sticker book doubles as a spotters' guide with accurate & simple descriptions that allow children to seek out & find the planes vehicles & buildings to be found in & around a busy airport. The small size allows the books to fit neatly into a pocket so children can spot on the go. ...

Ellen has been living on her own in a picturesque if damp cottage in Cheshire since her husband abandoned her to go & live with another woman in Provence. Having married once for love she is now determined that the second time around it will be for money. Close at hand is Duncan her not unattractive & enticingly single divorce lawyer... But then two new people enter her life: Jo-Jo a homeless girl several months pregnant; & Matthew an artist who paints murals in country houses & who on his first meeting with Ellen openly criticises her for being mercenary & devious. But as hostility gives way to friendship Ellen realises that she has wavered off course from her original plan & she has to remind herself very strongly indeed that Duncan is the man for her... ...

Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European airship stations in the Great War Germany's pre-eminent commercial & military zeppelins the construction of British behemoths R100 & its sister ship R101 & the calamitous losses of USS Akron in 1933 & LZ129 Hindenburg in 1937 events which ultimately heralded the end of large-scale airship production. The historical development of airships is seen to be protracted & fractious as the armed forces of leading European & US powers toyed with commercial propositions while trying to bend them to military uses. The book examines the axial role of Count Zeppelin the development of the Zeppelin in Germany as bomber & reconnaissance craft & the way the British Admiralty French Italian & American engineers attempted to imitate German design. The airship coincided with a time of international strife: mass unemployment General Strikes the Wall Street Crash & the growing shadow of fascist tumult. Airship draws on original sources official documents & private letters including interviews with figures like Mary Stopes-Roe daughter of the airship builder Barnes Wallis. It identifies & analyses the central themes & bold personalities of the era: forming a text that is readable entertaining & authoritative. The book is fully referenced with newly discovered first-hand material & a detailed bibliography. ...

Airway to the East 1918-1920 has been written & compiled using photographs & a diary discovered by Clive Semple in his fathers attic after his death in 1971. Once he retired in 1996 he set to work researching the background to his fathers collection. The diary & two of the albums were the basis of Clives first book Diary of a Night Bomber Pilot in WW1 which was published in 2008. The third album & most importantly the scrap book provided the starting point for research into a sorry tale of RAF mismanagement which is revealed in this book. The Balfour Declaration in 1917 promised the Jews a homeland in Palestine. This contradicted a previous promise which Britain had made to the Arabs guaranteeing them independence if they helped drive the Turks out of Palestine & Syria. The Turks were duly driven out. When the Arabs discovered that they had been swindled they revolted & the British Army was unable to contain the unrest. It was decided to reinforce the Army with a fleet of bombers & fifty-one set off from England & France to fly to Cairo in the summer of 1919. Seventeen crashed or were otherwise destroyed en route & eight airmen were killed. The story got into the newspapers & Parliament demanded a Court of Enquiry. The evidence of mismanagement looked so bad that before the enquiry began Hugh Trenchard Chief of the Air Staff decided to hold it behind closed doors at the Air Ministry. The enquiries findings were suppressed by the Secretary of State for Air Winston Churchill & the newspapers never followed up the story. Fortunately the enquiry proceedings were filed away at the Air Ministry & it was a newspaper cutting which Clive found in his fathers scrap book dealing with the row in Parliament that led him to search through the Air Ministry files & uncover this account. Most histories of the RAF are written by retired senior RAF officers who have all avoided including this event in their written works. ...

The AK47 Assault Rifle is the world's most prolific & iconic weapon with over 80 million produced. Today the largest threat the armies of the UK USA & NATO are faced with is not nuclear biological & chemical weapons but with man's real weapon of mass destruction the AK47. Much of what is written about it both in books & in the general media is out of date technically wrong incomplete & hard to underst&. Nigel Bennett sets out to truly demystify the AK47 in an easy to read & see format. He takes the reader through the three original basic models of Soviet design the AK47 the AKM & the AK74 & then the vast differing worldwide production models. The book gives in-depth coverage of the internal workings of the AK47 highlighting what makes it the 'perfect' killing machine. ...

This colourful perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers & the fascinating & personal recollections of among others the local schoolteacher doctor blacksmith saddler district nurse & magistrate. Providing insights into farming education welfare class religion & death Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has in many ways disappeared. ...

John & Philippa Gaunt are young djinns & can grant wishes & make themselves disappear. They go to stay with their eccentric uncle Nimrod to perfect their fledgling magical abilities & end up on a desperate quest to locate the tomb of the pharaoh Akhenaten. Pitted against them is the most evil djinn in the universe.. . This fast-paced fantasy is a breathtaking journey that grips young readers from its first page to its last line. ...

Includes: brilliant baboon facts! Akimbo loves his life in Africa & the animals that live there. In this newest Akimbo
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When Akimbo sees what poachers do to the elephants on his game reserve he is determined to stop them. Theres only one way to do it & thats to become an elephant hunter himself! But its going to take strength & courage & will involve facing danger... ...