12-year-old twins Matt & Emily Calder are Animare: they can bring art to life & enter paintings at will. They must do everything in their power to prevent a breach in Hollow Earth: a supernatural place that holds all the demons devils & creatures ever imagined. The Hollow Earth Society are getting closer to finding the key that will release the beasts: an ancient bone quill whose powers can be only be used by a powerful Animare. The quill has been lost for centuries but important clues to its whereabouts lie somewhere on the island of Era Mina
- as does the entrance to Hollow Earth itself. Matt & Em must find the quill & protect it through their drawings through certain famous paintings & ultimately deep into the mists of time itself. But their lives in the relative safety of Auchinmurn Abbey are thrown into confusion with the arrival of a newcomer who threatens to ruin everything they have worked for. All too soon Matt makes a fateful decision which forces him to make a terrible choice
- save his family or save the world?

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900 A.D. & the kingdom of Mercia is under threat... Groomed for the priesthood since he was a boy young Wulfgar is a scholar not a hero. However when his mistress tasks him with recovering St Oswalds bones refusal is not an option. The holy relics of their beloved patron saint are the only hope the Lady of Mercia has of holding her kingdom. Rumoured to be hidden outside Lincoln buried deep in the badlands of the North. It will prove an incredibly dangerous journey requiring resources & courage Wulfgar did not know he possessed. & support from surprising allies along the way including a maverick priest & a Viking adventuress whose loyalties are far from clear... ...

Contains free paperback of Bones of Betrayal! Bill Brockton is exhuming a body to obtain a bone sample for a paternity test. A simple enough job until he discovers that the bodys limbs have all been removed. Digging deeper he soon finds himself embroiled in the massive & very illegal market for human body parts. He becomes drawn into the enterprise selling donated corpses to the postmortem chop shop
- in league with the FBI hoping to bring the organization down. All the while his friend & Medical Examiner Eddie Garcia is struggling with the aftermath of their last case. A massive dose of radiation has left him missing one hand & most of the fingers from the other. Hes on the waiting list for a transplant but with so many parts around Brockton is sorely tempted to jeopardize the investigation
- & his own principles
- to help his friend. Will he be able to live with himself if he does? Will he be able to live with himself if he doesnt?


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Roe Teagardens been kept pretty busy what with two weddings
- one of a former lover
- & a funeral for Jane Engle a member of

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Following the critically acclaimed & top ten Best Seller The Deadhouse Linda Fairstein now takes us behind the scenes of some of New Yorks magnificent & mysterious institutions in her most electrifying Alexandra Cooper thriller yet. The Bone Vault begins in the glorious Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where wealthy donors have gathered to hear plans for a controversial new exhibit. An uneasy mix of scholarship & showbiz. The exhibition has raised fierce opposition from some of the museums elite: IMAX time trips & Rembrandt refrigerator magnets have no place for them at the Met. Assistant DA Alex Cooper off duty for the evening observes the proceedings with bemused interest until the Met director suddenly pulls her aside: the body of a young researcher has been found in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. Teaming up with cops Mike Chapman & Mercer Wallace Alex must penetrate the silent sentinels comprising New Yorks museum society investigating not only at the Met but also at the Museum of Natural History & the Cloisters to find a killer. Atmospheric chilling & shot through with procedural authenticity. ...

At twenty to midnight Neil Griffons home is broken into & he is roughly abducted by masked men. He has no idea who they are or what they want. But when Neil wakes up hours later he quickly discovers that unless he cooperates his kidnappers will destroy his fathers precious horses racing stable & ultimately Neil himself. Returned to take charge of the stables Neil can tell no-one about his ordeal. Vicious threats & horrible violence against his horses become a day-to-day reality & he is forced to comply with his blackmailers wishes. Trapped in a war of attrition Neil realises he must find a way to stop these criminals before his nerve gives out. After all a choice between his integrity & his life is no choice at all... ...

Anthony Bonehill plans to outwit a Djinn with his seven accomplices. Six will make their wish & the seventh must wish the Djinn dead. But the seventh accomplice Carlos Grossford double-crosses them & now he can wield whatever tyranny he chooses. Necessity Bonehill is a tomboy. Being sent to a boarding school for girls has honed rather than tamed her wild side. She fears her parents were keen to get rid of her & therefore feels abandoned. So when Uncle Carlos starts sending her food parcels she is happy that someone cares. Then one day he sends a stoppered bottle. Ness is perplexed but surely there cant be any harm in opening an empty bottle? She takes out the stopper & unwittingly launches herself into & exotic & cut-throat world as the powerful Djinn is set free hell-bent on revenge. ...

The Seven Cities Rebellion is over Shaik is dead but a last rebel force remains holed up in the city of YGhatan under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy
- for it was here that the Empires greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain & a tide of Malazan blood spilled... But agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon a schism threatens sides must be chosen but whatever each god decides the rules have changed
- & the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world: a world in which a host of characters familiar & new search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. But gods are disinclined to be kind. There shall be war war in the heavens. & the prize? Nothing less than existence itself...

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The crowning achievement of an astonishing career Boneland concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. If the sleeper wakes the dream dies... Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time & in another time the Watcher cuts the rock & dances to keep the sky above the earth & the stars flying. Colin cant remember; & he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years & nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was what he was doing in every minute of every hour of every day. But Colin will have to remember what happened when he was twelve if he wants to find his sister. & the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall & there will be only winter wanderers & moon... ...

The crowning achievement of an astonishing career ' Boneland' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in ' The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'. If the sleeper wakes the dream dies... Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time & in another time the Watcher cuts the rock & dances to keep the sky above the earth & the stars flying. Colin can't remember; & he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years & nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was what he was doing in every minute of every hour of every day. But Colin will have to remember what happened when he was twelve if he wants to find his sister. & the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall & there will be only winter wanderers & moon... ...