As the war between different coloured Lantern Corps rages on the prophecy of the Blackest Night descends. Now its up to Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps to lead DCs champions in the battle to save the Universe from an army of undead Black Lanterns made up of the fallen Green Lanterns & DCs deceased heroes & villains. ...

Written by JAMES ROBINSON GEOFF JOHNS & GREG RUCKA Art by SCOTT KOLINS NICOLA SCOTT EDDY BARROWS & RUY JOSE Cover by RUDOLFO MIGLIARI The Flash Wonder Woman & the JSA come face to face with their greatest foes & long-lost loved ones newly undead as evil Black Lanterns in this collection of three 3-issue BLACKEST NIGHT miniseries. ...

In 1887 Government inspectors were sent to investigate the Old Nichol a notorious slum on the boundary of Bethnal Green parish where almost 6 000 inhabitants were crammed into thirty or so streets of rotting dwellings & where the mortality rate ran at nearly twice that of the rest of Bethnal Green. Among much else they discovered that the decaying 100-year-old houses were some of the most lucrative properties in the capital for their absent slumlords who included peers of the realm local politicians & churchmen. The Blackest Streets is set in a turbulent period of London's history when revolution was in the air & award-winning historian Sarah Wise skilfully evokes the texture of life at that time not just for the tenants but for those campaigning for change & others seeking to protect their financial interests. She recovers Old Nichol from the ruins of history & lays bare the social & political conditions that created & sustained this black hole which lay at the very heart of the Empire. ...

As a part of DC Comics
- The New 52 event of September 2011 welcome to a world waging a new kind of war thats faster & more brutal
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Blackheath in the heart of the Black Country only came into existence in the 1830s as a variety of industries grew up in the area. Many of the people who lived here were quarrymen miners & nailmakers. Life was not glamorous here: abject poverty was almost universal & privation that is unknown & unimaginable today was commonplace. Despite or perhaps because of this a strong sense of community has existed here since earliest times. Anthony Pages new book draws on previously unpublished photographs from a variety of sources including family albums to chronicle Blackheaths streets people industry & events. ...

The Isle of Lewis is the most remote harshly beautiful place in Scotland where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by peoples fear of God. But older pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith the primal yearning for blood & revenge. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But since he himself was raised on Lewis the investigation also represents a journey home & into his past. Each year the islands men perform the hunting of the gugas a savage custom no longer necessary for survival but which they cling to even more fiercely in the face of the demands of modern morality. For Fin the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice. The Blackhouse is a crime novel of rare power & vision. Peter May has crafted a page-turning murder mystery that explores the darkness in our souls & just how difficult it is to escape the past. ...

Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor hoping to find a body. Every day after school while his classmates swap football stickers Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew who disappeared aged eleven & is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery. Only Stevens Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before its too late. & if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son hell do it. So the boy takes the next logical step carefully crafting a letter to Arnold Avery in prison. & there begins a dangerous cat-&-mouse game between a desperate child & a bored serial killer.. . ...

The year is 2041 & Shaun Mason is having a bad day. Everyone he knows is dead or in hiding. The world is doing its best to end itself for the second time. The Centre for Disease Control is out to get him. With too much left to do & not much time left to do it in he must face mad scientists zombie bears & rogue government agencies before the conspiracy that killed Georgia manages to kill the only thing he has left of her
- the truth. & if theres one thing he knows is true in this post-zombie post-resurrection America its this: Things can always get worse.
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I am on the run. The police are chasing me because they think Im a terrorist. The trouble all began when my Dad whos a bookseller hid a writer called Omar Shakir in our house. Omar wrote a book you may have heard of but wont have read. Its called The Exploded. It inspired a terrorist attack on London. Thats why its a BANNED book. We live in dangerous times. Lots of books are banned now. Harry Potter". " Alex Rider". " James Bond". If youre caught reading one you could go to jail. The state says books & films & computer games have to be nice & happy so they dont inspire teenagers to commit violent crime or terrorism. I thought they were wrong. I thought how much harm can a book do? Then I read one. Now Im about to commit murder. Now I know better. Books are dangerous." ...

This is another gripping World War Two drama from the master storyteller & multi-award-winner Robert Swindells. Life in a small village is boring now the war is over there is still rationing & bomb damage & war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village things look at bit more interesting. & then two strangers turn up in the village
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