Bryan Sykes the worlds first genetic archaeologist takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain & Ireland to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today. In 54BC Julius Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of Britain. His was the first detailed account of the Celtic tribes that inhabited the Isles. But where had they come from & how long had they been there? When the Romans eventually left five hundred years later they were succeeded by invasions of Anglo-Saxons Vikings & Normans. Did these successive invasions obliterate the genetic legacy of the Celts or have very little effect? After two decades tracing the genetic origins of peoples from all over the world Bryan Sykes has now turned the spotlight on his own back yard. In a major research programme the first of its kind he set out to test the DNA of over 10 000 volunteers from across Britain & Ireland with the specific aim of answering this very question: what is our modern genetic make-up & what does it tell us of our tribal past? Are the modern people of the Isles a delicious genetic cocktail? Or did the invaders keep mostly to themselves forming separate genetic layers within the Isles? As his findings came in Bryan Sykes discovered that the genetic evidence revealed often very different stories to the conventional accounts coming from history & archaeology. Blood of the Isles" reveals the nature of our genetic make-up as never before & what this says about our attitudes to ourselves each other & to our past. It is a gripping story that will fascinate & surprise with its conclusions." ...

Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon the seer Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez -- but he has only days before this magical artefact is lost to him forever. Meanwhile the forces of the Empire are mustering for their next great offensive. Stenwold & his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the enemy soldiers are on the march again conquering everything in their path. & if they cannot hold them back before spring then the hated black & gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year's end. & should the Shadow Box fall into the hands of the power-mad Emperor then nothing will save the world from his relentless ambition. ' This is not your regular run of the mill fantasy world' Graemes Fantasy Book Review.com 'A unique voice in the fantasy industry & this book is a great addition to an epic & complex story' Walkerof Worlds.com ...

Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian Livingstone OBE brings the world's original gamebook series
- 30 years old in August 2012
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November 1940. I.A. Serebin a writer from Odessa & former decorated Hero of the Soviet Union is on his way to Istanbul following a cryptic letter from a former lover. Ostensibly there on official business for the International Russian Union an emigre organisation based in Paris he is drawn into a clandestine world of international spies & political players. With war in Europe drawing nearer Serebin is recruited by the British secret services
- his mission to stop the export of Romanian oil to Germany. In a race against time Serebins journey will take him from the glittering salons of Paris to the back alleys of Bucharest & the Black Sea ports in a covert operation to staunch the flow of oil the precious blood of victory.
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One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza Italy. Shortly before her disappearance Elisa had met Danilo Restivo a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting womens hair on the back of buses. Elisas family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughters disappearance but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father by a doctor with links to organised crime by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by & Elisas family could find only false leads. 2002 & Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year his neighbour is found murdered with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. Its not until 2010 when Elisas decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing that the two cases are linked & Restivo is finally dealt with. Blood on the Altar" combines a gripping true crime case with Jones deep understanding of Italian culture
- the impunity it offers to the powerful
- he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: " The Dark Heart of Italy"."

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Rebellion is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner spy for the King's intelligence service has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin but soon realises that England's capital is no haven of peace. He is ordered to investigate the shooting of a beggar during a royal procession. He soon learns the man is no vagrant but someone with links to the powerful Company of Barber-Surgeons. He master the Earl of Clarendon is locked in a deadly feud with the Earl of Bristol & an innocent man is about to be hanged in Newgate. Chaloner is embroiled in a desperate race against time to protect Clarendon to discover the true identity of the beggar's murderer & to save a blameless man from the executioner's noose. ...

How far will Rose go to keep a promise? The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimirs Academy was the deadliest ever in the schools history claiming the lives of many. Even worse the Strigoi took some of their victims with them
- including Dimitri. Hed rather die than be one of them & now Rose must abandon her best friend Lissa
- the one she has sworn to protect no matter what
- & keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?


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Solange Drake will not claim her birthright; she will not be queen as vampire tradition dictates. But change always comes at a cost.. . Possessed by a vengeful twelfth-century witch Solange commits heinous crimes against the vampire tribes that she pledged to empower. Motives are questioned. Trust is broken. The treaty between the Drakes & the Helios-Ra is under threat. Solange must escape the folds of memory & time & fight for the fate of the royal crown
- & win. Her destiny & her heart depends on it. The deliciously dark & dramatic finale to the much-loved Drake Chronicles series.
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The discovery of an unidentified decomposed corpse in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult & dangerous case. Set against the backdrop of the 3000-year-old city of Catalina in the shadow of Mount Etna Blood Rain" finds Aurelio Zen at his most desperate & driven." ...

Clones Rachel & Theo now live thousands of miles apart. They keep in touch but things just aren't the same. When Rachel discovers that evil scientist Elijah is still working in secret for a section of the government & about to murder Daniel she sets out to rescue the little boy but her plans backfire with disastrous consequences. Across the Atlantic Theo becomes suspicious when Rachel misses their weekly internet chat. He discovers a report online saying she's killed herself & travels to Scotland to find her certain that she has been kidnapped. A clue leads him to Elijah's mysterious clinic where the sinister Aphrodite Experiment is underway. But what is Elijah really planning? Why does he need to track Rachel down so badly? & will Rachel & Theo be able to pay the ultimate ransom that he demands? ...