Ciel Sebastian & Lau investigate a case where British citizens returning from India are attacked stripped & hung upside-down outside Indian pubs in London. Attached to each victim is a letter insulting the English. The group is attacked by poor Indian men during their investigation but are helped by the Indian Prince Soma & his butler Agni who are searching for Somas servant Meena who was taken away by a British man. Although Agni is human as a fighter hes on a par with Sebastian but he rejects such compliments however saying that he once had power & wealth which he abused until he was to be hanged. He was saved by Soma who gave him a new life & name & who Agni now views as a god. Agni leaves the manor at night & the group including Soma follow him to Lord Wests home. When he hears Meena mentioned Soma quickly reveals the groups presence. Agni refuses to obey Somas orders but begins to act on Wests order to beat Soma. A disguised Sebastian saves Soma & the group escapes to the manor. ...

A pleasure cruise turns to horror when cha-os descends upon the maiden voyage of the luxury liner Campania the reanimation ...

Ciel Phantomhive having just managed by the skin of his teeth to escape from the threat of the ravening corpses in the Campania's hold thanks to his fiancee Elizabeth's sword skills finally arrives at the secret behind the Aurora Society's resurrection of the dead. As the platinum blond locks of the handsome young ' Kaiser ' who holds all the keys to the Pandora's box of this horrific case undulate in the sea breeze another shocking turn of events involving an old ally sets the young earl's ship reeling as a storm on the high seas begins to unfurl. ...

The veil of mystery lying over the Aurora Society & its Absolute Salvation is torn asunder when the true mastermind behind the horrors that have sealed the fate of the Campania is revealed. Caught in the middle of a battle between reaper & butler Earl Ciel Phantomhive looks on as Sebastian his infallible manservant is struck down by the death scythe of an unexpected combatant. Even a devil cannot escape the edge of a grim reaper's scythe it seems. As Sebastian's cinematic record spills forth the tale of how a devil became a butler to a little lost lord is woven in shades of sepia blood & ash.. . ...

LUCIFER BOX. Hes tall hes dark & like the shark he looks for trouble. Or so he wishes. For with Queen Elizabeth newly established on her throne the now elderly secret agent is reaching the end of his scandalous career. Despite his fast-approaching retirement queer events leave Box unable to resist investigating one last case... Why have pillars of the Establishment started dying in bizarrely reckless accidents? Who are the deadly pay-masters of enigmatic assassin Kingdom Kum? & who or what is the mysterious Black Butterfly? From the seedy streets of Soho to the souks of Istanbul & the sun-drenched shores of Jamaica Box must use his artistic licence to kill & eventually confront an enemy with its roots in his own notorious past. Can Lucifer Box save the day before the dying of the light? ...

In his new book well-known London cabbie Alf Townsend tells us the complete story of the black cab from its origins at the time of Oliver Cromwell to the brand new taxis which now grace the capitals streets. This light-hearted romp through the world of the knowledge the vehicles the streets of London & the cabbies themselves is full of juicy snippets & fascinating"es & with a multitude of great pictures too is a must-have for anyone who loves this world-famous London icon. ...

An inch in the right direction is better than a mile in the wrong direction. If you think your life is bland then you havent added enough flavour. People who live in glass houses should never undress. In September 2009 London cabbie Mark Solomon began asking passengers in the back of his taxi for a random"e or proverb. It started spontaneously to give him more purpose & direction but he found that sharing these daily inspirations with others made them feel part of something special too. The project developed into a popular website & now this pocket-sized book offers the best thoughts for the day ranging from the truly philosophical to the downright bizarre. ...

Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen by the time she was twenty-three in 1880 she was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel but Victoria's happiness was paramount to her. So a pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come a pattern of some good & some great evil but all of it inexorably linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores & their house. The Black Candle" displays all of Catherine Cookson's narrative skills & shrewd perception of human strengths & frailties which have established her as our most widely-read & best-loved novelist." ...

The Black Cat" is one of the titles in Allan Ahlbergs iconic childrens picture book series about skeletons " Funnybones". Despite being set in a dark dark house this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! The skeleton friends go sledging
- whee! & crashing
- bang! They cant see their bones in the white snow but they can see a black cat.. .until she slips into their dark dark cellar. " There can be few families in the British Isles who do not possess at least one well-thumbed Ahlberg". (" Independent on Sunday"). Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 childrens books & with his late wife Janet created many award-winning childrens picture books including " Peepo!" " Each Peach Pear Plum" & the Kate Greenaway Medal winning " The Jolly Postman". Other titles in the " Funnybones" series include " Funnybones" " Mystery Tour" " The Ghost Train" " The Pet Shop" " Bumps in the Night" " Dinosaur Dreams" " Skeleton Crew" " Give the Dog a Bone" & "A Brilliant Bone Rattling Collection" all of which are available from Puffin."

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John Burnsides remarkable new book is full of strange unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love & disappointment of raw desire of the stalking beast eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood; poems that recognise we have too much to gain from the gods & this is why/they fail to love us; poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to grief in a sequence that echoes the old murder ballads or of a hunter losing himself in the woods while pursuing an unknown & possibly unknowable quarry. Drawing on sources as various as the paintings of Pieter Brueghel & the lyrics of Delta blues Black Cat Bone examines varieties of love faith hope & illusion to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find
- in the forest or in our own hearts
- ends in failure we can now begin the hard & disciplined quest for what is actually there. Full of risk & wonder Black Cat Bone shows the range of Burnsides abilities but also strikes out for new territories. He remains consistently though one of our finest living lyric poets & each of these astonishing poems is as clear & memorable as a silver bracelet//falling for days/through an inch & a half/of ice.

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