On holiday in Victoria British Columbia Bond becomes intrigued Lee Fu-Chu a half-Blackfoot half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as Brokenclaw" because of a deformed h&. On his return to the UK Bond is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection system. It becomes clear that Brokenclaw is behind the kidnapping & worse he has a devastating plan to cause economic meltdown through the collapse of the dollar. Bond has no choice but to enter his lair.. ." ...

To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department Store there is no Outside. No Day or Night no Sun or Rain. They're just daft old legends. Until they hear the devastating news that the Store is to be demolished.. . And so their journey begins. From the store to an abandoned quarry
- where they find the monster Jekub
- & on to a place where they must steal one of those space shuttle things all the nomes want is to get home again. They don't mean to cause any trouble.. .A magnificent trilogy of tales about about a race of little people struggling to survive in a world full of humans. From Carnegie Medal-winning author Terry Pratchett.

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I loved it.. .extremely funny. A must-read for anyone who loves football. Peter Crouch In the late 1960s in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup Dave Roberts like most teenage boys his age was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United Daves team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club
- one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division. This book is the story of Bromleys worst ever season. It is a funny & heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score. Its easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. The Bromley Boys is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin & even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch the more there is to gain on the terraces.
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Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement. He has been locked in dungeons in iron boxes concreted into the middle of cells & famously in a cage. When he is unlocked up to 12 prison officers
- sometimes in riot gear & with dogs
- are standing by. Yet this is a man of great warmth & humour who has never killed anyone & has often dealt with his gruelling life with humour
- during a siege in 1993 he demanded an inflatable doll & a cup of tea. Now his story is being turned into a Hollywood film. Now in this amazing new edition of his best selling autobiography Charlie reveals the truth about his extraordinary life behind bars.


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Charles Bronson is the most feared & most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for his serial hostage-taking & his rooftop sieges he is a legend in his own lifetime. The recent film of his life was a critically acclaimed box-office hit. Yet he is a man of great warmth & humour; a man of huge artistic talent who exhibits his drawings around the country; a man with an overpowering urge not to let the system get him down. More Porridge Than Goldilocks is a crazy look into the mind of a true individual. ...

This handsome boxed set contains the following unabridged novels: Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"; " Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre"; & Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights". This elegant boxed set of the three most popular novels by the Bronte sisters
- Anne Charlotte & Emily
- makes a perfect gift or addition to a home library. Beautifully designed with a real cloth padded top & matt laminated printed sides over 3mm boards it will be as much at home in the living room as on the bedside table or bureau. With 1 680 pages of text as well as a free box the price represents a saving on the purchase of individual volumes. Each book is produced to the highest standards bound in real cloth with gilt edges head & tail bands ribbon marker illustrated matt laminated jackets that bring to the books a period feel unequalled in any other edition. It

Features: padded real cloth tops; 3mm boards; red ribbon pull-out; four colour matt laminated sides; liner on 120gm wood-free paper; shrink-wrapped; top edge gilt; real cloth binding; section-sewn; ribbon marker; head & tail bands; & matt laminated jacket with period front cover picture."



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The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad repressive father the drunken drug-addicted wastrel of a brother wild romantic Emily unrequited Anne & 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that
- imaginary
- created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists & were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes. It demolishes myths yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling
- but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass & among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers this book is both scholarly & compulsively readable. THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family. ' As a work of scholarship it is briliant.. . For those with a passion for the Brontes or for Victoriana or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae it is a stupendous read' INDPENDENT ON SUNDAY


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The three Bronte sisters
- Anne Charlotte & Emily
- moved to Haworth Parsonage as children in 1820. It was there on the edge

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This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies. Dan Howard describes the development of weapons armour & chariots how they were made & their tactical use in battle. Spanning from the introduction of massed infantry by the Sumerians (c. 26th century BC) through to the collapse of the chariot civilizations (c. 12th century BC) this is the period of the epic struggles described in the Old Testament & Homers Iliad the clashes of mighty empires like those of the Babylonians Egyptians & Hittites. rn The author draws on the latest research & archaeology as well as his own experiences of using & making replica weapons & armour to challenge established views & bring fresh insights to this fascinating period of military history. The main regions of discussion are the Aegean the Near East & the Middle East but some reference is also made to other relevant cultures such as the Aryan Indians & the Shang Chinese. ...

Chariots the first mobile fighting vehicle seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot carrying a driver & an archer armed with a short compound bow revolutionized military tactics after 1700 BC. This expensive weapon spread throughout the Middle East & is thought to have reached Egypt with the conquering Hyksos. It spread into Asia Minor Greece & was known in Northern Europe by 1500 BC. This book covers the evolution of the War Chariot throughout the Bronze Age including the design development & combat history B in particular its fundamental involvement at the battle of Qadesh. ...