As a child in the 1960s Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers & lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces it seemed to him waited alien & mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow & for years he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves including an inspirational young intelligence officer from whom he learnt stealth deception & the art of the dry fly. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. It would lead to bright streams & wild country but would end with his mentors capture torture & execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling about great fish caught & lost but it is also about friendship honour & coming of age. As an adult Jennings has sought out lost & secretive waterways probing waters as deep as England at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest as always is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface Jennings suggests in this most moving & thought-provoking of memoirs can you connect with your own deep history. ...

Imprisoned in Liz's Toy Box Staz is surprised by a visit from his older brother the very man he came to Demon World Acropolis to seek out. But Blaz hasn't come to help Staz unlock the secrets of The Book of Human Resurrection. Instead he's come to release Staz's true vampire powers the very magic Blaz sealed away years ago by putting a bullet through his little brother's heart. Staz's strength is needed to conquer a terrible threat that has appeared in the Demon World & once again Staz finds himself a pawn in his brother's game. Unless he confronts this terror the secrets of his brother's book will remain a mystery & Fuyumi will remain a ghost
- if she doesn't disappear entirely first!
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When Fuyumi is captured Staz & the others split up to try to look for the missing girl. Saty's power of sight Bell's space-bending spying Liz's crystal ball & Staz's old-fashioned detective work lead them to their culprit: Bell's younger brother?! Like his sister Neru has dimension- warping abilities that have allowed him to whisk Fuyumi away to a room contained within his magical cloth. Caught between family & friends will Bell help Fuyumi return to Staz or will she plant herself firmly between them.. .? ...

Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton Anna is given her first case. But is it a full-blown murder investigation or purely a missing persons case? An ominous pool of blood & no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details Langton fears that she is losing control of the case. They still have no body & Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest... ...

Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton Anna is given her first case. But is it a full-blown murder investigation or purely a missing person's case? An ominous pool of blood & no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details Langton fears that she is losing control of the case. They still have no body & Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest... ...

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence & depravity that attended Americas westward expansion brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel & the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas--Mexico border in the 1850s it traces the fortunes of the Kid a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered & the market for their scalps is thriving. Cormac Mc Carthys violent lyric masterpiece Blood Meridian acquires an amoral apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language.. . It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose Irish Times Mc Carthys achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent & vivid as that of the movies yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect.. . He is a great writer Independent A bloody & starkly beautiful tale Stephen Amidon Sunday Times ...

The Fuhrers orders were clear
- conquer Mount Elbrus highest peak in the Caucasus mountains. But there were problems: Elbrus was
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A fishermans son is snatched from home to fulfil his true destiny in this thrilling novel of ancient curses warring emperors forbidden love...and blood-sucking ninjas. Taro is a boy from a coastal village in rural Japan fated to become a fisherman like his father. But in just one night Taros world is turned upside down
- & his destiny is changed forever. Skilled in the art of silent & deadly combat ninjas are the agents of powerful nobles who rule sixteenth-century Japan. So why did a group of these highly trained assassins creep into a peasants hut & kill Taros father? & why did one ninja rescue Taro from their clutches saving his life at enormous cost? Now on the run with this mysterious saviour & his best friend Hiro Taro is determined to learn the way of the ninja to avenge his fathers death. But if they are to complete their perilous journey Taro must first evade the wrath of the warring Lords decipher an ancient curse resist forbidden love
- & come to terms with the blood-soaked secrets of a life lived in moonlight.

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The tears of Alexander shall flow giving bread & freedom.. .612 AD. Egypt the jewel of the Roman Empire seethes with unrest as bread runs short & the Persians plot an invasion. In Alexandria a city divided between Greeks & Egyptians by language religion & far too few soldiers the mummy of the Great Alexander dead for nine hundred years still has the power to calm the mob
- or inflame it.. . Aelric the young British clerk who has become a senator & the trusted henchman of Emperor Heraclius has come to Alexandria to send Egypt's harvest to Constantinople & to force the unwilling viceroy to give its land to the peasants. But the city
- with its factions & conspirators
- thwarts him at every turn. & when an old enemy from Constantinople arrives supposedly on a quest for a religious relic that could turn the course of the Persian war he will have to use all his cunning his charm & his talent for violence to survive.


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The feral warrior-kings of Fenris the Space Wolves are the sons of Leman Russ. Savage heroes few can match their ferocity in battle. After half a century apart Space Wolves Ingvar & Gunnlaugr are reunited. Sent to defend an important shrine world against the plague-ridden Death Guard the Grey Hunters clash with the pious Sisters of Battle who see the Space Wolves as little better than the enemy they fight. As enemies close in around them & treachery is revealed Gunnlaugr & his warriors must hold the defenders together
- even as hidden tensions threaten to tear their pack apart.
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