In the world of ASH fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life & death reality & magic. As orphaned Ash grows up a servant in her stepmother's home she begans to realise that her beloved mother Elinor was very much in tune with these underworld folk & that she herself has the power to see them too. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty greed & ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court & hopefully Royal or aristocratic marriage Ash befriends one of these fairies-a mysterious handsome man-who grants her wishes & restores hope to Ash's existence even though she knows there will be a price to pay. But most important of all she also meets Kaisa a huntress employed by the king & it is Kaisa who truly awakens Ash's desires for both love & self-respect... Ash escapes a life with her grim & self-serving stepmother & finds her beloved one...ASH is a fairy tale about possibility & recognizing the opportunities for change. From the deepest grief comes the chance for transformation. ...

With her mother dead & her father away the Ash Girl lives huddled deep in the protection of the ashes with her stepmother & two stepsisters. When an invitation to the Ball addressed to all the daughters of the house arrives from Prince Amir Ashie can't believe that she can go too. ...

Breathtaking action adventure for 8 to 12-year-olds. Ash Mistry reluctant hero faces ancient demons...and comes into an astonishing magical inheritance. Varanasi: holy city of the Ganges. In this land of ancient temples incense & snake charmers... Where the monsters & heroes of the past come to life... One slightly geeky boy from our time...IS GOING TO KICK SOME DEMON ASS. Ash Mistry hates India. Which is a problem since his uncle has brought him & his annoying younger sister Lucky there to take up a dream job with the mysterious Lord Savage. But Ash immediately suspects something is very wrong with the eccentric millionaire. Soon Ash finds himself in a desperate battle to stop Savages masterplan
- the opening of the Iron Gates that have kept Ravana the demon king at bay for four millennia...
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Widely acclaimed for its warm humor lyricism & honesty this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public & private themes setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backdrop of the times: unemployment the rise of Hitler & Mussolini & the Spanish Civil War. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Spring 2010 & when Charlie & Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house set in acres of English countryside is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep it in the family or will they have to sell? Moving back in time in an interwoven narrative spanning two & a half centuries we witness the house from its beginnings through to the present day. Along the way we meet those who have built the house lived in it & loved it; those who have worked in it & those who would subvert it to their own ends including Mrs Trimble housekeeper to the rackety spendthrift Mores; the wealthy Henderson family in their Victorian heyday; six-year-old Pudge; Walter Beckmann prisoner in its grounds; & Reggie & Hugo agents of its postwar revival. Through good times & bad the better we get to know the house the more we care about its survival. A novel about people architecture & living history Ashenden" is an evocative & allusive reflection on England & its past." ...

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914 Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne
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Alex has run away & is hiking through the wilderness with her dead parents' ashes about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live. But then the world suddenly changes. An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky zapping every electronic device & killing the vast majority of adults. For those spared it's a question of who can be trusted & who has changed... Everyone still alive has turned
- some for the better (those who acquired a superhuman sense) while others for the worse (those who acquired a taste for human flesh). Desperate to find out what happened & to avoid the zombies that are on the hunt Alex meets up with Tom
- an Army veteran who escaped one war only to find something worse at home
- & Ellie a young girl whose grandfather was killed by the electromagnetic pulse. This improvised family will have to use every ounce of courage they have just to find food shelter while fighting off the ' Changed' & those desperate to stay alive. A tense & involving adventure with shocks & sudden plot twists that will keep teen & adult readers gripped.


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Ruby's life is changed forever when one night she stumbles across the gorgeous Kieran Ashaik. Almost immediately she is in danger by association stalked & threatened by those who want Kieran dead; not just because of his bad attitude & violent unpredictable nature. He is part of an ancient species of Phoenix capable of transforming into terrifying predators; a species Ruby soon realises she is part of. She is then presented with a choice: to follow this dark stranger & his family into a dangerous unfamiliar world of love lies & killing or risk dying alone without ever knowing her true potential. Either way she will die a brutal death; slowly burning from within until her body becomes nothing but ashes. Her choice will determine whether she will ever live again. ...

In the summer of 2013 cricket's greatest rivalry will be renewed as England take on Australia to see who can win the Ashes arguably sport's smallest trophy but one that has cricket lovers everywhere transfixed. With almost 140 years of history behind it the Ashes have provided some of the greatest & funniest stories in sport
- from touching moments as when Andrew Flintoff consoled a distraught Brett Lee after England's narrow Test victory in 2005 to the truth about who holds the record for downing the most beers on the flight between the two countries. With characteristic talk SPORT insight & irreverence Portnoi looks back at the greatest players & matches in Ashes history reveals some of the extraordinary goings-on in the changing rooms & unearths some of the most bizarre cricketing trivia. & yes: the bushiest tache of them all Merv Hughes does feature!
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