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... ...

1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing... On the island of Java the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe & the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away from Norwegian-born Lise & her siblings. Then one day her friends & neighbours start to disappear & she begins to realise that they are not safe after all. Through ten-year-old eyes Lise tells of her familys two-year imprisonment in POW camps & the brutal treatment received at the hands of their Japanese captors. For respite from the rat-infested floor of their shelter they adopt a blue door which sits on concrete posts in the ground. They live on it during the day as young Lise plots ways to protect her family from disease starvation & the desperate behaviour of fellow prisoners. This is a little girls heartbreaking tale of survival. A devastating portrayal of a childs loss of innocence to humiliating cruelty Observer ...

Raised by Father Fujimoto a famous exorcist Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth
- the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rins veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy & becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons & keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It wont be easy especially when drawing his fathers sword releases the demonic power within him! While most of the students at True Cross Academy head home for the summer break Rin & his classmates are sent to a training camp in the forest district & the right to go on a real mission is riding on their performance! Locating & recovering their objectives in the woods is tough & will require teamwork skill & more than a little magic-and Rin will have to learn to rely on his friends. But is Mephisto masterminding something behind the scenes?!
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Raised by Father Fujimoto a famous exorcist Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth-the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rins veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy & becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons & keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It wont be easy especially when drawing his fathers sword releases the demonic power within him! The heads of the various Myodha temple families gather to discuss recent events surrounding the Eyes of the Impure King. Revelations at the meeting only deepen suspicion of Suguros father Tatsuma & angry accusations follow. Tatsumas silence on the matter isnt helping either. Amid all the swirling distrust Rin tries to make sense of things but struggles to keep his flame in check. Then Rin receives a letter that may shed more light on the current situation-and the secret past! ...

Raised by Father Fujimoto a famous exorcist Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth-the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rins veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy & becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons & keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It wont be easy especially when drawing his fathers sword releases the demonic power within him! ...

Awakened by the traitor Saburota Todo the Impure Kings massive form threatens to engulf the city of Kyoto. As the Exorcists of the Tokyo Branch & the monks of the Myodha temple do all they can to contain the demon Rin & his friends find themselves separated & facing their own battles. While Rin & Ryuji race to confront the full might of the Impure King Yukio takes on Todo singlehanded & discovers that he may be his own worst enemy! ...

Raised by Father Fujimoto a famous exorcist Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth
- the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy & becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons & keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It won't be easy especially when drawing his father's sword releases the demonic power within him!
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