Private eye Kate Brannigan confronts betrayal & cold-blooded greed as she investigates the alien world of medical experimentation & the underbelly of the rock music business. Kate Brannigans not just having a bad day shes having a bad week. Her boyfriends death notice is in the paper her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray & a neo-punk band want her to find out whos trashing their flyposters. & her business partner wants her to buy him out. Fine but private eyes with principles never have that kind of cash. Kate cant even cry on her best friends shoulder for Alexis has worries of her own. Her girlfriends pregnant & when the doctor responsible for the fertility treatment is murdered Alexis needs Kate like shes never done before. So whats a girl to do? Delving into the alien world of medical experimentation & the underbelly of the rock-music business Kate confronts betrayal & cold-blooded greed as she fights to save not only her livelihood but her life as well! ...

Planet Earth is a paradox
- a lush fertile world three-quarters-covered by water yet in danger of running dry. Fresh water is disappearing
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At the close of Wilbur Smiths bestselling Monsoon" Tom Courtney & his brother Dorian battled on the high seas & finally reached the Cape of Good Hope to start life afresh. In this spellbinding new novel the next generation of Courtneys are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa travelling along the infamous Robbers Road. It is a journey both exciting & hazardous that takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes & wild animals. At heart a story of love & hatred vengeance & greed " Blue Horizon" is an utterly compelling adventure from one of the worlds most celebrated novelists. " Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared"
- " The Times". "A masterstory teller"
- " Sunday Times"."

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Blue Lightning is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series -- which is now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall SHETL&. With the autumn storms raging Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped tension is high & tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder.. .A woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory with feathers threaded through her hair. The islanders react with fear & anger. Detective Jimmy Perez has no support from the mainland & must investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion -- but a murder of cold & calculated intention. There's no way off the island until the storms abate -- & so the killer is also trapped just waiting for the opportunity to strike again. Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black White Nights Red Bones & Dead Water. Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series (ITV television drama VERA) contains five titles of which The Glass Room is the most recent. ...

The world's most famous travelling reporter is on the trail of the Blue Lotus. In India Tintin gets drawn into a dangerous mystery revolving around a madness-inducing poison. He traces its origins to Shanghai & a nefarious web of opium traffickers. But can he outwit the crooks? Join the most iconic character in comics as he embark on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100 000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th. ...

The final novel in Kim Stanley Robinsons massively successful & lavishly praised Mars trilogy. The ultimate in future history Daily Mail Mars has grown up It is fully terraformed
- genetically engineered plants & animals live by newly built canals & young but stormy seas. It is politically independent. A brave & buzzing new world. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth. Earth has grown too much Chronic overpopulation bitter nationalism scarce resources. For too many Terrans Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for fight for...perhaps even die for.
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It is the most singular of sounds yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions. Miles Davis Kind of Blue" is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz & for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also notoriously the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous hours) there has been nothing like it since. Its atmosphere
- slow dark meditative luminous
- became all-pervasive for a generation & has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever since. Richard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music
- identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing
- while making effortless connections to painting literature philosophy & poetry. This makes for an elegant graceful & beautifully-written narrative."



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Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents & the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. Convinced at first the police will dismiss her fears out of hand Frieda reluctantly finds herself drawn into the heart of the case. A previous abduction from twenty years ago suggests a new lead
- one that only Frieda an expert on the minds of disturbed individuals can uncover. Struggling to make sense of this terrifying investigation Frieda will face her darkest fears in the hunt for a clever & brutal killer...
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Blue Monday" is the thrilling first novel in Nicci French's top-ten bestselling new series introducing psychotherapist Frieda Klein & is perfect for all fans of the crime novels of Peter James. " Blue Monday"
- A day for murder... Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents & the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. Convinced at first the police will dismiss her fears out of hand Frieda reluctantly finds herself drawn into the heart of the case. A previous abduction from twenty years ago suggests a new lead
- one that only Frieda an expert on the minds of disturbed individuals can uncover. Struggling to make sense of this terrifying investigation Frieda will face her darkest fears in the hunt for a clever & brutal killer... Nicci French has sold over eight million copies worldwide & the Frieda Klein series will make you long for more psychological suspense featuring this amazing new character with every title released. "A brilliantly crafted new crime series". (" Daily Mirror"). " Terrific. The writing is pacy the jaw-dropping twists are plentiful". (Short List). " One of French's hardest-to-put-down novels". (Sunday Express). Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written thirteen other bestselling novels: " Complicit" " What to Do When Someone Dies" " Until It's Over" " Losing You" " Catch Me When I Fall" " The Memory Game" " Beneath the Skin" " The Safe House" " The Red Room" " Land of the Living" " Killing Me Softly" " Secret Smile" & " Tuesday's Gone" the second instalment in the " Frieda Klein" series."

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Put a nickel in the jukebox assuming you can locate a jukebox & that you remember what a nickel is. Heres legendary Beach Boy Brian Wilson singing lead & 10-part harmonies on Speed Turtle." The incomparable Neil Sedaka crooning " Your Nose." B. B. King brings you a wistful " One Shoe Blues " Gerry & the Pacemakers offer " Mersey Lullaby " & relative newcomer (in this seasoned company) Patti Lu Pone of " Evita" fame sings
- what else
- the " Rabbit Tango." & then theres the hit single from Boyntons Your Personal Penguin sung by the impossibly cute Davy Jones of The Monkees. I mean jeepers even Sha Na Na is here. So roll over Beethoven
- & Lieber & Stoller. Boynton & Ford once again bring great words great music great performers to children & vintage children alike. & oh! The book! Boynton has filled it with all things 50s & 60s. & well golly its so happy & colourful & just terrific Mister! Grab your saddle shoes plunk two straws into that swell chocolate malt & lets twist again like we did last century."


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