Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the twentieth book in the series. ' If we had only two or three of Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction... This is great writing by an undiminished talent. Now on to Volume Twenty & the liberation of Chile.' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE Literary Review This is the twentieth book in Patrick O' Brian's highly acclaimed bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey & his best friend Stephen Maturin part ship's doctor part secret agent. The novel's stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon's hundred days of freedom & his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo & Aubrey has finally as the title suggests become a blue level admiral. He & Maturin have
- at last
- set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea O' Brian's writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights & sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O' Brian has written.

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Ten years after it was first published THE BLUE BALLOON is now a celebrated classic which continues to delight millions of children. Kipper has found a soggy blue balloon in the garden. At first it seems like an ordinary balloon but it's not. It's full of fun & magic. This is a book to be treasured loved read time & time again with fantastic fold out pages. ...

The big bedroom was lovely: all pale blue & white satin & muslin cool & airy the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen-year-old Emily beautiful though it was it was all wrong. Her stepmothers bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died. & stretched out on the bed: Stephanie very white & pained. The new baby on its way a month early. All of a sudden with her father away on business Emily had to take charge keep calm ring for the doctor & the ambulance. The time for looking back had gone. The Blue Bedroom is just one of Rosamunde Pilchers magical collection of stories. Stories that will enchant everyone who has read & loved The Shell Seekers. ...

The big bedroom was lovely: all pale blue & white satin & muslin cool & airy the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen-year-old Emily beautiful though it was it was all wrong. Her stepmother's bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died. & stretched out on the bed: Stephanie very white & pained. The new baby on its way a month early. All of a sudden with her father away on business Emily had to take charge keep calm ring for the doctor & the ambulance. The time for looking back had gone. The Blue Bedroom is just one of Rosamunde Pilcher's magical collection of stories. Stories that will enchant everyone who has read & loved The Shell Seekers. ...

They're Young Fabulous & Fanged... And they rule Manhattan from the trendy uptown clubs to the downtown boutiques. Fifteen-year-old Schuyler Van Alen has never quite fit in at her exclusive prep school
- she's more of a vintage than a Versace girl
- but all that's about to change... Because Schuyler has just found out she's a Blue Blood. The Blue Bloods are the city's glamorous
- & secret
- vampire elite. They're young beautiful & powerful. But now they're being murdered. & Schuyler must find out who
- or what
- is behind it before she's next.





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Recently widowed Stella Rothchild is no stranger to the ghosts of the past but the move from Michigan back to her roots near Memphis Tennessee is supposed to be about the future. Her two energetic young sons are thriving in their new school. Stella's got a great job managing successful nursery ' In the Garden' & an interesting boss & landlady in local legend Roz Harper. She even has a new friend in Hayley Phillips the feisty young pregnant woman who turns up at Harper House Stella's new home looking for a job. More than that Stella feels an instant attraction to ' In the Garden's' landscaper Logan Kitridge who gets under her skin & makes her feel truly alive for the first time in years. But there is someone at Harper House who isn't happy about Stella's growing feelings for Logan
- the Harper Bride an unidentified woman whose grief & rage have kept her spirit alive long past the death of her body. Love & loss broke her mind & in her madness she will stop at nothing to destroy the new passion that Logan & Stella have found.
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Since the end of its crippling 27-year civil war over a decade ago Angola has changed almost beyond recognition. An oil-fuelled bonanza has brought about massive foreign investment & a fabulously wealthy new elite making its capital Luanda the second most expensive city in the world. Today fortunes are being made & lost overnight & rich Angolans are eagerly buying up the assets of its former coloniser Portugal. Fascinated by this complex nation perched at the forefront of a resurgent Africa writer Daniel Metcalfe travelled to Angola to explore the country for himself. Ebullient & proud & often unwilling to dwell on its past Angola has a large army a hunger for wealth & a need to prove itself on the continent. But as Metcalfe also discovers it has some of the most grinding poverty in Africa as few Angolans have reaped the rewards of the peace. Nonetheless amid Angola's brash reality Metcalfe finds there is a place for a traveller who isn't there to make a quick buck. Crossing the country as ordinary Angolans do talking to tribal elders oil workers mine clearers & street children he encounters a place of extremes where cynicism & excess go h&-in-hand with great hospitality & ingenuity. Metcalfe also reveals a colourful history of pirates & slave traders capuchin monks syncretic Christian cults & elaborate spirit masks. This is an Angola that symbolises nothing less than a broader turning point between the continents the repositioning of the rich developed world versus Africa. It is a land that until now few outsiders have managed to unlock. ...

The new edition will have a revised cover & case binding with beefed up production values illustrated endpapers & a new Foreword. In addition h&-coloured elements will be added to all the black & white photos creating a completely four-colour book with the same empathic warm supportive message for anyone feeling down & blue. ...

Twenty years ago a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre & ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the lost race of the Etruscans & leaving in their wake a group of dead students a murdered couple a cryptic message & a kidnapped child. Now the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace. But when a politician is found ritually murdered seemingly by a strange young man dressed as an Etruscan god detective Nic Costa suspects that the old case was never really solved. The Blue Demon appear to have returned
- & planning under the leadership of the fanatical Andrea Petrakis to unleash a devastating sequence of attacks on the city. As Costa & his team start to dig deeper into the past they find that there are still too many unanswered questions -- & much more to the history of the Blue Demon than anyone wants to admit.. . Hewson is a daunting talent -- a writer who is master stylist who respects the audiences intelligence & who effortlessly keeps the thrills coming a mile a minute Jeffery Deaver
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When 12 year-old djinn twins Philippa & John Gaunt are plunged into their second fantastic adventure they need all their magical skill courage & intelligence to survive. Their adversary is the terrifying Blue Djinn who lures Philippa to a secret kingdom in ancient Babylon. John must embark on an epic journey across the globe to rescue her... ...