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.. . ...

Blood Brothers pits brother against brother in this must-have double biography of the stars from The CWs hit series The Vampire Diaries. Discover all you need to know about the gorgeous actor Ian Somerhalder from his early modeling days through to the Lost years
- & why he was picked to play the sexy evil older brother Damon Salvatore despite completely messing up his audition. Or flip over & read about Paul Wesley the dark-eyed wavy-haired actor whose bad-boy past (he was kicked out of two different high schools!) made him the perfect choice for brooding vampire Stefan Salvatore. Thanks to their vampiric charms these two actors are the hottest properties in Hollywood at the moment
- but theres more to both of them than just their fangs! Including all the behind-the-scenes gossip from the hit TV show all your favourite Mystic Falls characters & what its really like for Ian & Paul playing such fierce on-screen rivals Blood Brothers is the ultimate guide to everyones favourite vampire siblings. Its time to choose your brother!

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The dazzling vampire Lestat was once the epitome of evil. But now he struggles with his immortality yearning for a more saintly path. His chance comes when he rescues a witch from death by turning her into a vampire. But the repercussions are swift as the powerful Mayfair family rally to punish Lestat for creating a killer from one of their flock. Yet in the midst of this schism comes a passionate love affair as Lestat becomes dangerously drawn to Rowan Mayfair a brilliant neurosurgeon & a true witch. However the fates are cruel & in an intense finale he must decide on the destiny of his beloved. ...

For Connor these are testing times aboard notorious pirate ship The Diablo
- not least when Captain Wrathes obnoxious nephew Moonshine
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Exactly 150 years after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 history came extremely close to repeating itself when another army set sail from the Continent with the intention of imposing foreign rule on Engl&. This time the invasion force was under the command of Louis the Lion son & heir of the powerful French king Philip Augustus. Taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by the civil war over Magna Carta & by King John's disastrous rule Prince Louis & his army of French soldiers & mercenaries allied with the barons of the English rebel forces. The prize was England itself. The invasion was one of the most dramatic episodes of British history. This is the first ever book on the subject. Blood Cries Afar tells a dramatic & violent but overlooked story with a broad appeal to those interested in the history of England & France the Middle Ages & war in an age of kings knights castles battles & brutality. ...

Barbara Vine's new novel is about blood
- blood in its metaphysical sense as the conductor of an inherited title & blood in its
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Two women are killed in the same horrific ritualistic manner. The murderer taunts the police with e-mails. It seems clear that a serial killer is at work selecting victims at random & living out some twisted fantasy. But as Jan Fabel & his murder team investigate further nothing is as it first seems. They are drawn into a dark half-world of Viking myth & legend of obscure religious cults of political intrigue & of a violent struggle to seize control of the city. & as Fabel desperately races to track down the killer before more killings take place he & his team come face to face with a cold brutal menace they could never have predicted. A greater evil than they could ever have imagined. ...

Joe Clayton thought the dangers of his undercover career were behind him. He was wrong. One grey October morning while working in a quiet Bristol street he hears the voice of the man who has sworn to destroy him. Minutes later Joe is running for his life again. Desperate for sanctuary he heads for the small Cornish town of Trelennan & the home of Diana Bamber widow of a former police colleague. But Diana reacts strangely to his arrival & gradually Joe discovers that Trelennan is far from the idyllic law-abiding resort it claims to be. The town is in the grip of one man. Leon Race doesnt welcome strangers especially ex-cops who start asking questions about missing women. Soon Joe is caught up in another undercover role but as he penetrates the web of secrets that ensnares the towns elite his own secret is at risk of discovery. & all the time his old enemy is circling... ...

It has been centuries since Isabeau St. Croix survived the French Revolution. Now she's made her way back to the living & must face the ultimate test by confronting the evil British lord who turned her into a vampire & left her buried for two hundred years. That's if she can control her affection for Logan Drake a vampire whose bite is as sweet as the revenge she seeks... ...