Dawn broke fine on that fatal day. A couple of thousand feet above the tiny canvas tent the summit of the world's highest mountain stood impassively waiting for someone to have the courage to approach. Inside the ice-crusted shelter two forms lay still as death. Then there was a groan a stirring & eventually the slow scratch of match against sandpaper. Low voices shared the high-altitude agonies of waking the heating of water the struggle with frozen boots. As the sun rose through wisps of cloud beyond the Tibetan hills to the east one of the men emerged through the tent flaps. It was a fine morning for the attempt with only a few clouds in the sky. The two of them stood for a while shuffling their feet & blowing into their hands. Inside the tent lay a mess of sleeping bags & food. The men lifted oxygen sets onto their backs then they turned towards the mountain & stamped off into history. On the 6th June 1924 George Mallory & Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of history. George Mallory's body was discovered high on Everest in 1999. Sandy Irvine's body is still believed to be on the mountain having been rediscovered in 1975 by a Chinese climber who was killed the very next day. In 1993 Graham Hoyland became the 15th English man to climb Everest having become obsessed by the mountain & the myth of what happened to Mallory & Irvine. It was his evidence that led to the discovery of Mallory's body & it will be his evidence that will lead to the discovery of Sandy Irvine's. The Last Hours on Everest is the most detailed reconstruction of what happened after the two English climbing legends left the camp on that fateful day. Combining personal experience the physical evidence found on the mountain & an insight into the hearts & minds of the two climbers Graham Hoyland produces the most compelling description of what actually happened on that day & the answer to that most intriguing of questions
- did they actually climb Everest?
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Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters & distinguished by the color of their skin the Black Jews & the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now when their combined number has diminished to less than 50 & they are on the threshold of extinction have the two remaining Jewish communities in south India begun to realize that their destiny & their undoing is the same. Living in Cochin alongside this last generation Edna Fernandes tells their story from the illustrious arrival of their ancestors from the court of King Solomon through their long heyday of wealth tolerance & privilege to their present twilit existence as synagogues crumble into disuse & weddings disappear leaving only funerals. ...

It is India 1922 & the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently one each year & always in March. The only link between the bizarre but apparently accidental deaths is the bunches of small red roses that appear on the womens graves. When a fifth wife is found with her wrists cut in a bath of blood the Govenor rejects the verdict of suicide & calls in Joe Sandilands an ex-soldier & Scotland Yard Detective. It becomes clear to Joe that the deaths are indeed a series of murders & they are have not yet run their course. Who will be the recipient of the next
- & last
- Kashmiri Roses? As he discovers the shocking truth Joe must work fast to unmask a killer whose motives are rooted in the dark history of India itself.

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In an incredible twist of fate a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the worlds most barbaric figures: Idi Amin. Impressed by Dr. Garrigans brazen attitude in a moment of crisis the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician & closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered & fascinated by his new position he soon awakens to Amins savagery
- & his own complicity in it. Horror & betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs & escape Uganda alive.
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The first book in a brand new series The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten he is captured & adopted by a Dane & taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtreds fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred King of Wessex who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The struggle between the English & the Danes & the strife between christianity & paganism is the background to Uhtreds growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side & he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfreds kingdom. Marriage ties him further still to the West Saxon cause but when his wife & child vanish in the chaos of the Danish invasion Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea. There in the horror of the shield-wall he discovers his true allegiance. The Last Kingdom like most of Bernard Cornwells books is firmly based on true history. It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Great & his descendants & of the enemies they faced Viking warriors like Ivar the Boneless & his feared brother Ubba. Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties reluctant love & desperate heroism. In Uhtred he has created one of his most interesting & heroic characters & in The Last Kingdom one of his most powerful & passionate novels. ...

A twisted zoo where otherworlders are the main attraction & trapped in the cages. Any time AIR gets close to shutting it down the zoo vanishes & reappears somewhere else. Solo is a black ops agent who's captured & enslaved & treated like an animal. Vika is his new handler tasked with his care & feeding. They were supposed to be enemies but they become lovers-until his feelings for her are used against him & he's put to the ultimate test. ...

Martine is looking forward to the holidays & riding Jemmy her white giraffe until an accident sends her & Ben on a journey to the Matobo Hills wilderness in Zimbabwe. It is a lawless land where nothing is as it seems. When they uncover a plot in which the fate of a magnificent leopard & the lost treasure of an African King are mysteriously linked their friendship faces its greatest test. Far from home & the help of Grace & Tendai & with Gwyn Thomas languishing under false accusations in jail Martine & Ben must use every survival skill they possess. They'll come face to face with Griffin Mercy Mr Ratcliffe (known as Rat) Magnus the hornbill & a witch doctor not to mention Khan the last leopard. They must decide who their friends are & who are enemies as they race against time to save the world's rarest leopard & each other. This third African adventure is written with all the zest & skill that have endeared so many readers to THE WHITE GIRAFFE & DOLPHIN SONG. ...

Join Martine & her magical giraffe Jemmy in two more heart-warming adventures. In The Last Leopard an accident sends Martine & Ben on a journey to the Matabo Hills in Zimbabwe where they must race against time to save the world's rarest leopard
- & each other. & In The Elephant's Tale Martine & Ben travel to the Namibian desert where they uncover a terrible plot. These are books full of charm & atmosphere & stunning African landscapes which will enchant animal lovers everywhere.
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From the bestselling author of Me Before You & two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. When journalist Ellie looks through her newspapers archives for a story she doesnt think shell find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960 written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband
- & Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man. In 1960 Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She cant remember anything
- her husband her friends who she used to be. & then when she returns home she uncovers a hidden letter & begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for. Ellie & Jennifers stories of passion adultery & loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel
- interspersed with real last letters.


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Will Elliott is out of a job. The lighthouse he's been manning on Prince Albert Rock off the wild Cornish coast is about to become automated. So Will decides to fulfil his lifelong ambition
- to sail round the coastline of Britain. Determined to continue his solitary existence Will begins his preparations for his epic voyage. But before he has time to so much as paint his hull he meets Amy Finn
- a beautiful artist & fellow loner. & as if that isn't distraction enough suddenly his sleepy Cornish village is rocked by the biggest scandal to hit Cornwall since Guenevere ran off with Launcelot. It seems as if Will will never get away & even if he does will his journey be solo or is there hope that he & Amy could be embarking on a two-man voyage of discovery?

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