High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace richly dressed ladies wandered the windswept terraces; at night music floated out over the villages & gorges. Now the General's son has bestowed it on an order of nuns the Sisters of Mary. Well-intentioned yet misguided the nuns set about taming the gardens & opening a school & dispensary for the villagers. They are dependent on the local English agent of Empire Mr Dean; but his charm & insolent candour are disconcerting. & the implacable emptiness of the mountain the ceaseless winds exact a toll on the Sisters. When Mr Dean says bluntly ' This is no place for a nunnery ' it is as if he foresees their destiny... ...

An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects & an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon where she receives critical instructions: go to the Paris morgue to receive secret evidence & then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career. In a story which crosses international borders BLACK NOTICE puts Dr Kay Scarpetta directly in harm's way & places her & those she holds dear at mortal risk. For more on Patricia Cornwell & her books visit her website at www.patricia-cornwell.com ...

The Squad
- kickass teenage spies with the perfect cover. They are also part of an England youth football team. Wherever trouble
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At the Black Orchid Club adventurous women who yearn for the pleasures of exotic even kinky sex can quench their desires in discreet & luxurious surroundings. Having tasted the fulfilment of unique & powerful lusts one such adventurous woman learns what happens when the need for limitless indulgence becomes an addiction. ...

When the genteely impoverished & rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil scion of a privileged Sinhalese family she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel with their young son Milton from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in the 1950s & no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that it would England does not take kindly to strangers especially families who are half black & half white. A profound & moving novel this is the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin. ...

The Blitz London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city Londoners take to the shelters once again & eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German & it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Russian emigre Detective-Sergeant Troy it is the start of a manhunt which will lead him into a world of military intelligence & corruption in high places; a manhunt in which Troy is both the hunter & the hunted. ...

The frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Tornetrask in northern Sweden. She has been brutally tortured but the killing blow was clumsy almost amateur. The body is quickly identified raising hopes of an open-&-shut solution. But when a six-month-old suicide is disinterred Rebecka Martinsson & Anna-Maria Mella find themselves investigating shocking corruption at the heart of one of Swedens most successful mining companies. One that has powerful enemies of its own. ...

Since her family moved to Cornwall Lizzys world has been turned upside down by the discovery that she has a long-lost brother Kes & even more amazingly that their mother is a mermaid. Now Lizzy & her new family must bravely battle the evil sea queen & her terrfying servant for Lizzy has a powerful treasure & the sea queen will stop at nothing to get it. It is exciting & full of dark mystery & suspense ideal for girls of 8-10 who love stories with an edge. ...

Naomi Noviks stunning series of novels follow the adventures of Cpt Laurence & his dragon Temeraire as they travel from the ...

EVERY LIGHT CASTS A SHADOW Gavin Guile is the Prism the most powerful man in the world. His strength wit & charm are all that preserve a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last & Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power he must decide how much hes willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart. ...