Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce Rosemary Sutcliffs Black Ships Before Troy now in an exciting new format. Here is Homers epic poem The Iliad brought to life by Rosemary Sutcliff with all the skill of a master storyteller. Alan Lees dramatic cover image hauntingly recreates the age of heroes in this spellbinding introduction to the Greek classics
- a book that should become part of every childhood.
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Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life & those of his much more successful contemporaries leaving him bitter & resentful one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers. He readily agrees only to arrive to find one of the pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing his own reasons for being present at the murder scene. Moving from the villas of Reykjavik's banking elite to a sordid basement flat Black Skies is a superb story of greed pride & murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers. ...

The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon.. .or too late. First published in English in 1968 Frantz Fanons seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanons descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy & dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient & as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture a denial of difference that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political & cultural liberation in our troubled times. ...

This black address book is slim has silver lettering on the cover & the pages are edged in silver foil.. Inside there are 26 sections for addresses 1 letter to each section. Each page has three spaces for name address home number mobile fax & email. Measures approximately: H 170 x W 85mm ...

This is a fantasy reworking of Wuthering Heights" which interweaves wizard lore & vendetta with Emily Brontes beloved classic. " Black Spring" takes the passionate story of Emily Brontes " Wuthering Heights" & re-imagines it in a fantasy nineteenth-century society set in savage lands sustained by wizardry where its people live by the vengeance code of vendetta. Like " Wuthering Heights" its a story within a story featuring the brooding young Damek who is swept along by his emotions. The object of his affections is Lina daughter of the village lord whose magical powers make her a witch
- & witches are not tolerated in this brutally patriarchal society. When Lina is sent away & forced to become a servant Damek promises revenge & like Heathcliff spends a lifetime securing & refining it. This book has strong crossover potential & will appeal as much to adult fans of sophisticated fantasy & the Brontes as to teen fantasy readers. This is a beautifully written & unique take on " Wuthering Heights" which mixes wizard lore & the Armenian vendetta tradition with the epic romance of the original classic."
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A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of The Black Swan" Nassim Nicholas Taleb's " The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world. Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions contrasting the classical values of courage elegance & erudition against modern philistinism & phoniness. Only by accepting what we don't know he shows can we see the world as it really is. " Happily provocative.. .blistering.. .his observations concern superiority wealth suckerdom academia modernity technology & the all-purpose ignorant "they".. .very"able". (" The New York Times"). "A master philosopher". (" The Times"). " Taleb's crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems". (" Financial Times"). " Opinionated & witty... It showcases his wit & learning & provides ways to fillet his enemies". (" Independent on Sunday"). Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flaneur meditating in cafes across the planet. A former trader he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of " Fooled by Randomness" & " The Black Swan" an international bestseller which has become an intellectual social & cultural touchstone." ...

January 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor
- covert stammerer & reluctant poet
- anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater

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New York jeweller Garet James has her fair share of problems: money an elderly father a struggling business. One day she comes across an antiques shop shed never noticed before. The owner possesses an old silver box thats been sealed shut. Would she help an old man & open it perhaps? She does...and that night strange things begin to happen. Its as if her world
- our world
- has shifted slightly revealing another parallel place that co-exists without our knowledge: the world of the Fey... Garet learns that one of her ancestors was the Watchtower: an immortal chosen to stand guard over the human & the fey worlds
- a role that she has it seems inherited from her mother. But the equilibrium between these two existences is under threat. The 16th-century magician & necromancer Dr John Dee has returned the box has been opened & the demons of Despair & Discord released. In a race against time & impending apocalypse it is Garet who must find Dee...and close the box.


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With evil Gordon locked up in Strangeways for 5 years the characters from Karen Woods' debut novel ' Broken Youth' come to terms with life without him. Misty now married to Dominic gives birth to Gordon's child Charlotte. Her former best friend Francesca also gives birth to one of Gordon's children Rico while staying with Gordon's heroin addicted brother Tom. Meanwhile as the clock ticks down on his sentence Gordon broods on the injustice of his situation & plots sweet revenge on those on the outside. ...

Toby's dad & little sister have been kidnapped by pirates & Toby is left alone in the aftermath of the terrible Red Fever epidemic which has wiped out much of the world's population. Menacing tribes of super-intelligent dogs are gaining ever more ground in Scotland moving northwards. A mysterious figure called The General is leading a group of villains who are kidnapping people & imprisoning them in a place he calls New Caledonia. But where is this New Caledonia & what does The General plan to do with his captives? Toby sets out on a perilous mission to find New Caledonia & he hopes his family. He befriends a Russian girl whose family have also been taken. Together they sail to Inverness & down the Caledonian Canal & trudge through the snowy Highlands until they reach Stirling Castle for the dramatic final showdown. But in a freezing cold winter with vicious dogs wolves & pirates on the rampage will they make it in time? This is the dramatic sequel to Red Fever which won the Kelpies Prize in 2010. ...