The War of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 & 1485 four kings lost their thrones more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block & thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. Yet almost nothing is known about the thoughts & feelings of the people who lived through this bloody conflict. Almost nothing but not quite. As they made their way in a disintegrating world a Norfolk family called the Pastons were writing letters
- about politics about business about shopping about love & about each other. Using these letters the oldest surviving family correspondence in English Helen Castor traces the extraordinary history of the Paston family across three generations. Blood & Roses tells the dramatic moving & intensely human story of how one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English history.
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On 6 June 2004 Frank Gardner & cameraman Simon Cumbers were in a suburb of Riyadh filming a report on Al-Qaeda when they were confronted by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was brought down by shots in the shoulder & leg. As he lay bleeding in the street a figure stood over him & pumped four more bullets into him at point blank range... Against all the odds Frank Gardner survived & this is his remarkable account of the agonizing journey he has taken
- from being shot & left for dead to where he is today partly paralysed but alive. It is a journey that really began 25 years earlier when a chance meeting with explorer Wilfred Thesiger inspired what would become a lifelong passion for the Arab world. This would take him throughout the Middle East & eventually lead to his becoming a BBC journalist. & in the wake of the events of 9/11 this passion sent him on the journey that came to dominate
- & nearly end
- his life: his coverage of Al-Qaeda. Honest moving & inspiring his story
- now updated for this paperback edition
- reveals a deep understanding of the Islamic world & offers a compelling analysis of the on-going ' War on Terror' & what it means in these uncertain times.




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In this two-book sequence author James Swallow brings the Blood Angels Chapter to life. In an epic story of heroism corruption & betrayal battle-brothers Rafen & Arkio find themselves pitted against each other in a battle for the very soul of the Chapter. When Brother Arkio claims to be a reincarnation of Sanguinius the Blood Angels spiritual father the message is clear: follow me or die. Rafen kneels before Arkio & swears an oath of devotion
- but the words are ashes in his mouth & in his heart he knows that he & his brother will have a reckoning that only one of them will survive...
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The bets are on whodunnit when a body is found at the bookies.. . Jude has never been averse to a bit of a flutter; her friend Carole on the other hand thinks that the local betting shop is a den of iniquity. But when Jude stumbles upon the body of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski -- the race is on to find his killer. The odds arent looking good. No one seems to know anything about the mysterious Tadek -- even his sister cant shed any light on what he was doing in Fethering. Who was the anonymous woman in the bookies who seems to have vanished? Why was Tadek interested in the local university? & who is the Fifi Tadek spoke of with his dying breath? As they question the local residents Carol finds an unexpected friend in an inveterate gambler & Jude finds herself in potentially more trouble than she can handle with a lecherous & charming drama professor. In this race there can only be one winner but with no leads & several suspects in the running will our lady detectives be pipped at the post by a cold & calculating killer? ...

The master of horror returns with another spine-tingling adventure in the fifth title of the Demonata... Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening & about to swallow him whole. He has cheated death defeated demons moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic & his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood? ...

Like most people who own their own business I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night theyd better be dying.. . Mechanic Mercy Thompson is woken at 3am by a vampire calling in a favour. He has to deliver a message to a fellow undead & needs a witness that wont be noticed
- & Mercys shapeshifting abilities make her the perfect candidate. But the assignment turns into a bloodbath & Mercy attracts the attention of not just a powerful vampire but the even more powerful demon possessing him. She can count on the supernatural community for protection
- & alpha werewolf Adam would like her to rely on him in other ways too
- but when it comes to being proactive shes on her own.


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A Liverpudlian West Side Story Blood Brothers is the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. One of them is given away to wealthy Mrs Lyons & they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. Blood Brothers was first performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983 & subsequently transferred to the Lyric Theatre London. It was revived in the West End in 1988 for a long-running production & opened on Broadway in 1993. ...

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons & they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. ' Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate & destiny.. .it carries one along with it in almost unreserved enjoyment Guardian One of the longest-running & most successful ever West End musicals Blood Brothers premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983." ...

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons & they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate & destiny.. . it carries one along with it in almost unreserved enjoyment " Guardian" One of the longest-running & most successful ever West End musicals " Blood Brothers" premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983." ...

Another page-turning story of tragedy & triumph from the No.1 bestselling author of The Loner & The Journey. Alice Jacobs has finally found the family she always wanted... With her shy smile & kind nature Alice wins the hearts of the Arnold family. A decent & well respected couple Tom & Nancy Arnold have raised two very different sons Frank & Joe. Frank is a devious brutal man. Seeing Alice as the key to his fortune he is determined to have her for himself. However his younger brother Joe has fallen in love with Alice so when she & Frank become engaged to marry Joe leaves home determined to put a distance between himself & temptation. He reluctantly returns when Frank summons him to be his best man. Alice finds herself inexplicably drawn to Joe but feeling it to be her duty she goes ahead & marries Frank not wishing to hurt him. On their wedding night Frank shows his true colours & when he forces Alice to reveal a devastating secret his evil nature reaps a shocking revenge. In his blind hatred intent on punishing those who have crossed him Frank plans the final ultimate retribution. An act that could tear apart not only the Arnold family but shatter the lives of those around them forever. Unless someone can stop him.. . ...