Stir fries provide the perfect mid-week meal
- they're quick nutritious & very cheap to make. With only a wok sharp knife & chopping
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This is high action ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmass poking above the dangerous & unpredictable seas. Try & get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter & the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. & death doesn't just wait for you in the seas & the skies. On land from the tropical beaches & swamps of Kossuth to the icy machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families the corporations & the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything. Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love Kovacs is blown off course & into a maelstrom of political intrigue & technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World & his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead they say & hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage ...

The motor bus did not come to Woking until 1911. Unlike many other areas the town was not subsumed into the network of the major territorial operators for a considerable time. It was on the extreme fringe of the empires of Aldershot & District & London General & it was not until the mid-1920s that Aldershot & District was able to anchor itself firmly in Woking while London General had to wait until 1931. Being on the boundary of two major operators who were providing little meant that the Woking area (and Guildford too) became ripe for exploitation by local proprietors. Men were returning from the Forces after the war with their demobilisation gratuities. A fourteen-seat bus on a lightweight American chassis was relatively cheap so the cost of market entry was not prohibitive. It was however a cut-throat business with numerous proprietors competing on the most lucrative routes almost on a dog-eat-dog basis. One Councillor described the Woking
- St Johns
- Knaphill route as a little goldmine making competition fierce & surely against the public interest in terms of providing a regular reliable service. The history of A&D & London General has already been documented but little in-depth has been written about the so-called independents. This book sets out to remedy this & to put the activities of the larger companies into local context. The book concerns itself with the period before the Second World War up to the time of the disappearance of the last of the independent operators.

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Cassy lives with her granny until the night that she hears strange footsteps coming into their flat. The next morning she is packed off to her mums
- a squat in London that her beautiful simple mother shares with a couple of actors. Cassy does her best to throw herself into her mothers life even agreeing to take part in their travelling show called Wolf. But she cant ever get rid of the feeling that something is following her & something bad is going to happen. Her fear grows as time passes until Cassy knows she must face up to her past: who her father is why he left & where he has gone. What she doesnt know is that some questions are better left unanswered...
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Throughout history wolves have fascinated inspired & terrified people around the world. Fierce loyal tribal & intelligent these animals are the subject of this intimate portrait. Drawing on a wide variety of sources the author weaves together ancient legends up-to-date science historical writings & personal observations. With penetrating photography by Daniel J. Cox the result is a magnificent passionate & powerful story of an animal worth understanding & preserving. Chapters include: Early Myths & Legends
- stories that record the earliest humanwolf encounters; Part of the Pack
- how wolves work together to hunt for protection & to take care of the young; Legendary Predator
- how wolves organize the hunt & select their prey; Warriors & Wolves
- how from ancient times wolves have been role models for warriors; Shamans & Shape shifters
- how wolves have been seen as a great source of power & healing; Predator Becomes Prey
- how humans have hunted wolves beyond all reason or need; At the Edge Again
- what the future holds for this magnificent animal. Wolf blends natural science history & folklore to explore the fascination with one of the most complex creatures in the world. The book reveals how humans have interacted with wolves from the earliest creation myths to current attempts to restore near-extinct populations.






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Dillon & company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins...THE LEGEND IS BACK Someone is targeting the members of the elite intelligence unit known as the Prime Ministers private army & all those who work with them. On Long Island a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier when a man materializes out of the rain & shoots him. In London General Charles Ferguson adviser to the Prime Minister approaches his car on a side street when there is a flash & the car explodes. In New York a former British soldier takes a short walk when a man comes up fast behind him a pistol in his h&. For Sean Dillon the hunt is on a very well-connected old nemesis has clearly become tired of their interference in his schemes. But proving it is going to be a difficult task & surviving it the hardest task of all... ...

Thousands of years ago the land is one dark forest. Its people are hunter-gatherers. They know every tree & herb & they know how to survive in a time of enchantment & powerful magic. Until an ambitious & malevolent force conjures a demon: a demon so evil that it can be contained only in the body of a ferocious bear that will slay everything it sees a demon determined to destroy the world. Only one boy can stop it
- 12 year old Torak who has seen his father murdered by the bear. With his dying breath Torak's father tells his son of the burden that is his. He must lead the bear to the mountain of the World Spirit & beg that spirit's help to overcome it. Torak is an unwilling hero. He is scared & trusts no one. His only companion is a wolf cub only three moons old whom he seems to understand better than any human. Theirs is a terrifying quest in a world of wolves tree spirits & Hidden People a world in which trusting a friend means risking your life. Launched at the height of the Harry Potter phenomenon the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is the ultimate magical adventure. Audio edition also available read by Ian Mc Kellen.
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With his fathers dying words ringing in his ears Torak knows that time is running out. Soon the demon bear will kill again
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When Reuben otherwise known as Sunshine Boy was sent to write a piece about the uncertain future of the giant house on the cliff he wasnt expecting to warm so instantly to elegant heiress Marchent Nideck. Nor was he expecting to get caught up in a violent attack which will leave him changed in ways he could never have imagined.. . Anne Rices Vampire Chronicles" defined a genre but now she has another age-old story in her sights: the terrifying werewolf legend. The classic monster of horror fiction is here reimagined & reinvented with all Rices supernatural sympathy & inventiveness as a romantic being a potentially tragic figure bestowed with the gift of transformation & transcendence. " The Wolf Gift" is a glorious celebration
- of storytelling of possibility of truths revealed in the half-light. & in " The Wolf Gifts" Reuben we have a brand new hero for a brand new Anne Rice world."
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Man or Monster? Anne Rice reinvented the vampire legend. Discover what she's done with the werewolf myth. After a brutal attack Reuben finds himself changing. His hair is longer his skin is more sensitive & her can hear things he never could before. Now he must confront the beast within him or lose himself completely. ...