Hal & his brotherband crew are hot on the trail of the pirate Zavac & they have one thing only on their minds: Stopping the bloodthirsty thief before he can do more damage. The chase leads down mighty rivers terrifying rapids to the lawless fortress of Ragusa. If Hal is to succeed he will need to go beyond his brotherband training. He will need to challenge the pirate one-on-one knowing only one of them will survive. The epic series from Ranger's Apprentice" author John Flanagan continues delivering pulse-pounding adventure & fun." ...

Enter a world of wolfships epic battles & treachery in the cold northern seas. Enter the world of Brotherb&. Hal & the Heron brotherband are on the trail of Zavac & his precious cargo. Will they be able to find the pirates when the weather clears? & when they do how can they possibly beat the mighty Raven & its crew of vicious cut-throats & killers? ...

There is only one way to become a warrior. Boys are chosen for teams called Brotherbands & must endure months of gruelling battles in the treacherous sea. Hal finds himself the unwilling leader of a band of outcasts the boys that no one wants. They are small & wiry but what they lack in size they make up with skill & courage. Now they must battle against the other bands in the ultimate race where there can only be one winner. The icy waters make the sea a dangerous playing field. Especially when
- for some
- this is anything but a game.. .

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The epic struggle begun in THE SUM OF ALL MEN continues in BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahten but Ahten is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities & fortresses & killing dedicates Ahten seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power in order to crush him. But as they weaken each others forces in battle the armies of an ancient & implacable enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth... ...

This jolly birthday card for your brother designed exclusively for WHSmith features an illustration of a dancing boy & the words ‘bro it’s your birthday Hope you have a super cool day
- wahey!’ on the front. Greeting inside reads ‘ Have a fab day’. Comes complete with a blue envelope ready for posting..

Approximate dimensions: 22 x 10cm


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Roger Thursby aged twenty-four is called to the bar. He is young inexperienced & his love life is complicated. He blunders his way through a succession of comic adventures including his calamitous debut at the bar. His career takes an upward turn when he is chosen to defend the caddish Alfred Greenat at the Old Bailey. In this first Roger Thursby novel Henry Cecil satires the legal profession with his usual wit & insight. ...

Brothers in War" is the immensely powerful & deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers & how they paid the ultimate price for King & country. All eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France Flanders East Africa & Gallipoli. Only three would return alive. Even amid the carnage of the trenches it was a family trauma almost without parallel. Their wives & sweethearts were left bereft their widowed mother Amy devastated. It is a tragedy that has remained forgotten & unmarked for nearly 90 years. Until now. Kept in a small brown case handed down by the brothers youngest sister Edie were hundreds of letters sent home from the front by the Beechey boys: scraps of paper scribbled on in the firing line heartfelt messages written from a deathbed exasperated correspondences detailing the absurdities of life in the trenches. From it all emerges the remarkable tale of the lost brothers. Tragic & moving poetic in its intensity " Brothers in War" reveals first-hand the catastrophe that was the Great War; all told through one family forced to sacrifice everything." ...

1915: Ben Retallick is asked by a War Office friend to provide two traction engines for a secret expedition attempting to take two gunboats overland from Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika
- more than 3 000 miles
- to wrest control of the lake from the Germans. He sends engines with young Ruddlemoor as the driver who meets a Portuguese East African nurse & takes her side against a group of white racist south Africans. Meanwhile Antonia St Anna is influential in having Ben released when he is arrested on circumstantial evidence provided by a business rival & accused of being pro-German. In Brothers in War E. V. Thompson returns to his acclaimed Retallick saga immersing the family in the upheaval of the First World War & through them creating a captivating tale of love & war loyalty & betrayal loss & adventure that weaves its way from Cornwall to the uncharted territory of the depths of Africa
- & an eventful conclusion in Cornwall once more.


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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith meaning & morality The Brothers Karamazov" is translated with an introduction & notes by David Mc Duff in " Penguin Classics". When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya the sensualist whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan the intellectual whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha who tries to heal the family's rifts; & the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation & trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence & corruption good & evil blur & everyone's faith in humanity is tested. This powerful translation of " The Brothers Karamazov" features & introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt & salvation with a new chronology & further reading. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison & in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other works available in " Penguin Classics" include " Crime & Punishment" " The Idiot" & " Demons". If you enjoyed " The Brothers Karamazov" you might like Nikolai Gogol's " Dead Souls" also available in " Penguin Classics". " There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions & fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky & nowhere more astonishingly than in " The Brothers Karamazov"". (Joyce Carol Oates). " Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life". (Friedrich Nietzsche). " The most magnificent novel ever written". (Sigmund Freud)." ...

The Brothers Karamazov" is a murder mystery a courtroom drama & an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov & his three sons
- the impulsive & sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; & the healthy young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story Dostoevsky portrays the social & spiritual strivings in what was both a golden age & a tragic turning point in Russian culture."
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