Breathtaking action adventure for 8 to 12-year-olds. Ash Mistry reluctant hero faces ancient demons...and comes into an astonishing magical inheritance. Varanasi: holy city of the Ganges. In this land of ancient temples incense & snake charmers... Where the monsters & heroes of the past come to life... One slightly geeky boy from our time...IS GOING TO KICK SOME DEMON ASS. Ash Mistry hates India. Which is a problem since his uncle has brought him & his annoying younger sister Lucky there to take up a dream job with the mysterious Lord Savage. But Ash immediately suspects something is very wrong with the eccentric millionaire. Soon Ash finds himself in a desperate battle to stop Savages masterplan
- the opening of the Iron Gates that have kept Ravana the demon king at bay for four millennia...
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Widely acclaimed for its warm humor lyricism & honesty this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public & private themes setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backdrop of the times: unemployment the rise of Hitler & Mussolini & the Spanish Civil War. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Spring 2010 & when Charlie & Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house set in acres of English countryside is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep it in the family or will they have to sell? Moving back in time in an interwoven narrative spanning two & a half centuries we witness the house from its beginnings through to the present day. Along the way we meet those who have built the house lived in it & loved it; those who have worked in it & those who would subvert it to their own ends including Mrs Trimble housekeeper to the rackety spendthrift Mores; the wealthy Henderson family in their Victorian heyday; six-year-old Pudge; Walter Beckmann prisoner in its grounds; & Reggie & Hugo agents of its postwar revival. Through good times & bad the better we get to know the house the more we care about its survival. A novel about people architecture & living history Ashenden" is an evocative & allusive reflection on England & its past." ...

Alex has run away & is hiking through the wilderness with her dead parents' ashes about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live. But then the world suddenly changes. An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky zapping every electronic device & killing the vast majority of adults. For those spared it's a question of who can be trusted & who has changed... Everyone still alive has turned
- some for the better (those who acquired a superhuman sense) while others for the worse (those who acquired a taste for human flesh). Desperate to find out what happened & to avoid the zombies that are on the hunt Alex meets up with Tom
- an Army veteran who escaped one war only to find something worse at home
- & Ellie a young girl whose grandfather was killed by the electromagnetic pulse. This improvised family will have to use every ounce of courage they have just to find food shelter while fighting off the ' Changed' & those desperate to stay alive. A tense & involving adventure with shocks & sudden plot twists that will keep teen & adult readers gripped.


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Ruby's life is changed forever when one night she stumbles across the gorgeous Kieran Ashaik. Almost immediately she is in danger by association stalked & threatened by those who want Kieran dead; not just because of his bad attitude & violent unpredictable nature. He is part of an ancient species of Phoenix capable of transforming into terrifying predators; a species Ruby soon realises she is part of. She is then presented with a choice: to follow this dark stranger & his family into a dangerous unfamiliar world of love lies & killing or risk dying alone without ever knowing her true potential. Either way she will die a brutal death; slowly burning from within until her body becomes nothing but ashes. Her choice will determine whether she will ever live again. ...

In the summer of 2013 cricket's greatest rivalry will be renewed as England take on Australia to see who can win the Ashes arguably sport's smallest trophy but one that has cricket lovers everywhere transfixed. With almost 140 years of history behind it the Ashes have provided some of the greatest & funniest stories in sport
- from touching moments as when Andrew Flintoff consoled a distraught Brett Lee after England's narrow Test victory in 2005 to the truth about who holds the record for downing the most beers on the flight between the two countries. With characteristic talk SPORT insight & irreverence Portnoi looks back at the greatest players & matches in Ashes history reveals some of the extraordinary goings-on in the changing rooms & unearths some of the most bizarre cricketing trivia. & yes: the bushiest tache of them all Merv Hughes does feature!
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Bumble is back! The funny forthright & not infrequently filthy author of best-seller Start the Car & star of Sky Sports returns with a new collection of yarns from his years at the crease & at the microphone. Its the book that Bumbles many fans have been longing for After three long years Bumble is finally back! The outspoken author of best-seller Start the Car returns with a whole new cricket bag full of yarns from his years on the pitch & in the commentary box. Expect more tales of Bumbles time rubbing shoulders (and chinking glasses) with the great (as well as not so great) & good (as well as bloody awful) of cricket. Released alongside Englands home Ashes series there will be more than a few stories of Bumbles encounters with the Aussies over the years but thats not to say this will be any less rambling madcap & downright fun than weve come to expect & hope for from the great David Bumble Lloyd ...

The Calahrian Empire is collapsing. All across the realm native populations are rising up to throw off the shackles of colonial rule. Two key factors drive this -- the return of the Stars of Power & Knowledge & the spread of the Shadow Monarchs forest. The result is that the Calahrian Imperial Army is stretched thin trying to maintain order at the critical moment when it is needed to fend off the advances of the elf-witch. For the Iron Elves regiment their loyalty is tested to the breaking point. The Prince is devastated by the destruction of the Lost Library & the realization that the Empire he is to inherit is crumbling. Major Konowa Swift Dragon is determined to lead the living survivors of the regiment while Private Alwyn Renwar -- an emissary with his own agenda -- commands the dead. Together their only hope is to break the oath that binds them but doing so means making the perilous journey to the Shadow Monarchs mountain in a final confrontation that may be the ultimate trap. There is only one way to find out... ...