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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The Blood of Crows" is the fourth instalment in Caro Ramsay's epic Anderson & Costello series. For one Scottish cop the beat is about to get dark & very bloody...DI Colin Anderson is having a bad week. His conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe
- putting Fairbairn back on Glasgow's streets & leaving Anderson under investigation. Add to this a gangster torched alive a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge & the suicide of a cop who worked an unsolved child kidnapping way back in 1996 & Anderson's got his hands full. Then one night a young girl is tied to the river bank & left for the tide. Anderson gets there but she dies in his arms. Working round the clock his team discover these strange crimes are linked to an elusive criminal mastermind known as The Puppeteer. But unable to find him unable to stop the murders Anderson is forced to follow the only lead he has
- Skelpie Fairbairn... But which is worse
- The devil you don't know or the one you do...? Caro Ramsay's Anderson & Costello thrillers have been widely recognised as one of the most significant new series in the genre in recent years & Ramsay's utterly unique investigators are ready to become the nation's favourite Scottish cop duo. " Absolution" is the amazing opening to this stunning series. Subsequent titles include " Dark Water" & " Singing to the Dead". Fans of Ian Rankin & Val Mc Dermid will love this series. Praise for Caro Ramsay: " Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page". (" Guardian"). " Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb the dialogue crackles & the search for the killer has surprising twists & turns". (" Observer"). " Many shivers in store for readers followed by a shattering climax". (" The Times"). Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow & now lives in a village on the west coast of Scotl&. " Absolution" is her first novel which was shortlisted for the CWA's New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. This success was followed by two further DI Anderson & DS Costello novels " Singing to the Dead" & " Dark Water". The fourth book in the same series " The Blood of Crows" is also released this summer."


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For more than a hundred years humans dwarves gnomes & elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed the uneasy peace is over & now the races once again fight each other
- & themselves: dwarves are killing their kinsmen & elves are murdering humans & elves at least those elves who are friendly to humans.. . Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting. Ciri the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe the Lioness of Cintra has strange powers & a stranger destiny for prophecy names her the Flame one with the power to change the world
- for good or for evil.. . Geralt the witcher of Rivia has taken Ciri to the relative safety of the Witchers Settlement but it soon becomes clear that Ciri isnt like the other witchers. As the political situation grows ever dimmer & the threat of war hangs almost palpably over the land Geralt searches for someone to train Ciris unique powers. But someone else has an eye on the young girl someone who understand exactly what the prophecy means
- & exactly what Ciris power can do. This time Geralt may have met his match.


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Set in seventeenth-century Iran THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful & haunting story of a young girls journey from innocence to adulthood. A village girls dreams of marriage end on the death of her father. Cast on the mercy of relatives in fabled Isfahan she & her mother are reduced to servitude until she reveals a talent for designing carpets
- an invaluable skill. Hope is short-lived for a disastrous headstrong act results in the girls disgrace. Caught between forces she can barely comprehend she faces a life lived at the whim of others
- unless she is prepared to risk everything & choose a future based on her own strength & will. THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS tells an unforgettable story: a tale of sensuality of the treachery of friendship of the power of love & of the fragile possibility of finding happiness against all odds.

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It's Crete May 1941. In the face of a German invasion Sergeant Jack Tanner is embroiled in a deadly game of survival that will test his resolve more than ever before. Not only has he fallen out with his commander but he has mortally offended Alopex a powerful local chieftain. As if that wasn't enough Tanner & the rest of his battalion are caught in vicious close-quarter fighting against crack German paratroopers. Before long they find themselves in bitter retreat to the mountainous interior where only one man can help them
- Alopex. Although whether he will come to their rescue or not remains to be seen
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Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon the seer Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez -- but he has only days before this magical artefact is lost to him forever. Meanwhile the forces of the Empire are mustering for their next great offensive. Stenwold & his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the enemy soldiers are on the march again conquering everything in their path. & if they cannot hold them back before spring then the hated black & gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year's end. & should the Shadow Box fall into the hands of the power-mad Emperor then nothing will save the world from his relentless ambition. ' This is not your regular run of the mill fantasy world' Graemes Fantasy Book Review.com 'A unique voice in the fantasy industry & this book is a great addition to an epic & complex story' Walkerof Worlds.com ...

Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian Livingstone OBE brings the world's original gamebook series
- 30 years old in August 2012
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November 1940. I.A. Serebin a writer from Odessa & former decorated Hero of the Soviet Union is on his way to Istanbul following a cryptic letter from a former lover. Ostensibly there on official business for the International Russian Union an emigre organisation based in Paris he is drawn into a clandestine world of international spies & political players. With war in Europe drawing nearer Serebin is recruited by the British secret services
- his mission to stop the export of Romanian oil to Germany. In a race against time Serebins journey will take him from the glittering salons of Paris to the back alleys of Bucharest & the Black Sea ports in a covert operation to staunch the flow of oil the precious blood of victory.
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One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza Italy. Shortly before her disappearance Elisa had met Danilo Restivo a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting womens hair on the back of buses. Elisas family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughters disappearance but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father by a doctor with links to organised crime by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by & Elisas family could find only false leads. 2002 & Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year his neighbour is found murdered with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. Its not until 2010 when Elisas decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing that the two cases are linked & Restivo is finally dealt with. Blood on the Altar" combines a gripping true crime case with Jones deep understanding of Italian culture
- the impunity it offers to the powerful
- he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: " The Dark Heart of Italy"."

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1857. On the LNWR train to London a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley conman thief & murderer has one last ace up his sleeve
- a beautiful & ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover including cold-blooded murder. When the Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that Oxley his arch nemesis has escaped black memories of their shared past leave him no choice but to do his duty whatever the cost. With the faithful Victor Leeming at his side Colbeck must use all of his skills to track his elusive enemy. But could he have finally met his match?
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