For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday's Counter-Terrorist meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain. An 'invisible'
- a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country who can cross its borders unchecked & move about unnoticed
- is the ultimate nightmare. For Liz this signals the start of an operation that will test her to the limit. Who or what is the target? Where & who is the invisible? With each passing hour the danger increases. But as she desperately sifts the incoming intelligence & analyses the reports from her agents she finally realises that it is her ability to get inside her enemy's head that is the only hope of averting disaster.

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A 'one-off' from the best-selling creator of the Dr Kay Scarpetta series based on the serialisation in the New York Times. Moving between the chill of Cambridge Massachusetts & the sultry humidity of Knoxville Tennessee Winston Garano a police investigator is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority he gets on with the task unaware of the can of worms he will prise open. With her hallmark qualities of deft characterisation perfect research & tense story-telling Patricia Cornwell has created a novel which entertains intrigues & satisfies. ...

When Lady Enid
- a woman in need of a project & a husband
- throws in her lot with dashing Bernard Finch she thinks shes found

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Two sisters. One man. One moment that will change all their lives forever... Living in the shadow of their domineering father Rhianon & Sabrina Webster plan two very different futures. Edwin dotes on his youngest daughter beautiful flighty Sabrina but it is homely steady Rhianon who holds their little family together. Until one fateful day when Pryce Pritchard the man Rhianon loves gets into a fight & all their worlds are thrown into turmoil. Pryce is arrested
- & Sabrina disappears... Months later Rhianon chances upon her sister & is shocked to find her pregnant living in squalid lodgings in the poorest part of Cardiff. When Davyn is born Sabrina will have nothing to do with him & kind-hearted Rhianon looks after the little boy patiently awaiting Pryces release. But when Pryce is finally set free he brings with him secrets that will devastate them all.
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Flann OBriens first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas mythology & nonsense. Operating on many levels it incorporates plots within plots giving full rein to OBriens dancing intellect & Celtic wit. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin drinks too much with his friends & invents stories peopled with hilarious & unlikely characters one of whom in a typical OBrien conundrum creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people. Flann OBriens blend of farce satire & fantasy result in a remarkable astonishingly innovative book. ...

Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater & James Ross is on his uppers. An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy (Its the slump) with a landlady harassing him for unpaid rent & occasional sleepless nights spent in the waiting room at Kings Cross Station he is reduced to selling carpet-cleaning lotion door-to-door. His prospects brighten when he meets the glamorous Suzi (the red hair & the tight jumper werent a false card: she really was a looker & no mistake) but their relationship turns out to be a source of increasing bafflement. Who is her boss the mysterious Mr Rasmussen
- whose face bears a startling resemblance to one of the portraits in Police News"
- & why is he so interested in the abandoned premises above the Cornhill jewellers shop? Worse mysterious Mr Haversham from West End Central is starting to take an interest in his affairs. With a brief to keep an eye on Schmiegelow James finds himself staying incognito at a grand Society weekend at a country house in Sussex where the truth
- about Suzi & her devious employer
- comes as an unexpected shock. Set against a backdrop of the 1931 financial crisis & the abandonment of the Gold Standard acted out in shabby bed-sitters & Lyons tea-shops " At the Chime of a City Clock" is an authentic slice of Thirties comedy-noir. Praise for " Kept: A Victorian Mystery": Very entertaining & well done with a sharp appreciation for the details The Times An ingenious tale of madness murder & deception
- " The Guardian". A stylish page-turner.. .all done with humour & cunning
- " Sunday Telegraph"."





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Growing up in a mining family Caths husband Doug promised his father he wouldnt follow in his dangerous footsteps. But after struggling with terrible poverty in 1970s Scotland Doug decided a pit job would provide his wife & young family much needed security despite extraordinary risks to life & limb. Every day Cath kissed her husband goodbye not knowing if shed see him again as he went to work at the coalface. & while her husband toiled deep below the mother-of-five put her cooking & cleaning skills to use in the colliery canteen. In good times & bad the miners wives pulled together as much as their men underground. Then Thatcher swept to power & suddenly loyalties were tested & a fight for survival of a different kind ensued. One for their very existence. ...

An impossible choice
- Jorge Salcedo was trapped. For years he had climbed the ladder inside the Cali drug cartel the worlds most
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Topsy & Tim are always finding fun adventures in the real world & this story is reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. In Topsy & Tim At the Farm" the children meet all kinds of interesting animals. They help collect eggs from the chickens & find some little ducklings learning how to swim. They are a little bit frightened when they get chased by some large geese but Farmer Stewart soon finds them a nice job to do helping to feed a calf." ...

The conclusion of the bestselling Demon War series which began with Rides a Dread Legion Recent events have devastated the Conclave of Shadows; the discovery of the demon horde on the heels of the taredhel invasion of Midkemia the threat of the star elves themselves & the terrible personal cost paid by Pug & his family. But grieving must wait. At a deserted fortress in the Valley of Lost Men the Conclave's agents witness horror beyond their imagination orchestrated by a familiar enemy. But Belasco's motives are as yet unclear. The Conclave must regroup & discover the true meaning behind the chaos seeded by the evil magician if they are ever to find a way to stop the destruction of Triagia before the demon horde even arrives. ...