1731: When his youngest son is killed in a tragic accident Sir William Keyt master of Norton House buries himself in his fortune. He builds a second vast mansion on his grounds squandering money he does not have on luxury his family does not want. Keyt has long been blind to the desires of others. His eldest son has fallen in love with their young maidservant Molly Johnson a ray of light in a household dimmed by tragedy. Keyt wants Molly for himself & driven mad with lust & jealousy he will do anything to have her... ...

An Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novel You cant trust anyone who sleeps with the monsters. Thats what Ive always said. Thats what Ive always believed. But now Im the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. Im Anita Blake the woman the vampires call the Executioner. From part of the solution Ive become part of the problem. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over town
- an arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. Its the monsters who are in danger now. & its up to the Executioner to save them from the inferno.
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In a prison cell in the US a man stands trembling naked fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders. August 9th 1945 Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back she is twenty-one in love with the man she is to marry Konrad Weiss. In a split second the world turns white. In the next it explodes with the sound of fire & the horror of realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings she travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrads half-sister Elizabeth her husband James Burton & their employee Sajjad Ashraf from whom she starts to learn Urdu. As the years unravel new homes replace those left behind & old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history
- personal political
- are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons Ashrafs & the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York & in the novels astonishing climax to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound them together over decades & generations are tested to the extreme with unforeseeable consequences. Sweeping in its scope & mesmerising in its evocation of time & place Burnt Shadows" is an epic narrative of disasters evaded & confronted loyalties offered & repaid & loves rewarded & betrayed."

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' Toast. You know when you're trying to make it & you just can't get it right? It's too light or too soft then totally burnt. Do you try to scrape off the black? Do you throw it away or do you just eat it? Up until now I ate the burnt toast.. .then I hit forty.' The best-selling inspirational memoir from your favourite desperate housewife. It took Teri Hatcher a divorce the experience of single motherhood a parade of bad dates a stalled career & a memorable fortieth birthday to realize that she didn't want to spend another decade preparing herself for the next disaster. Burnt Toast is the heartfelt funny poignant & inspiring account of Teri's jagged route to happiness. Teri reveals her life in unexpected ways in the hopes of keeping other women from eating the burnt toast & explains why you'll never get a second chance if you don't open yourself up to the possibility. ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN. Querry a world famous architect is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a burnt-out case a leper mutilated by disease & amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However in the heat of the tropics no relationship with a married woman will ever be taken as innocent... ...

Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral & Airport. But as this superbly readable & insightful biography demonstrates he was an actor with much broader ambitions
- brilliantly realised in Viscontis The Leopard
- as well as the founder of the first actor-led production company in Hollywood. Lancasters liberal political views led not only to frequent clashes with the House Un-American Activities Committee & a voluminous FBI file but also a private life that was colourful even by Hollywood standards. Although a devoted father & husband (to three wives) the actor took numerous lovers
- of both sexes. In his sexual tastes as in his choice of roles he defied classification. Kate Bufords definitive biography offers a full frank sensitive & compelling portrait of the star of Atlantic City From Here to Eternity & Elmer Gantry (for which he won a Best Actor Oscar). Lancaster emerges as a man of restless energy relentless curiosity & continual development as an actor: a star every bit as interesting offscreen as on. As one American reviewer put it: Not many film stars receive first-class biographies; Burt Lancaster not only deserved one he got one. Acclaimed biographer Kate Buford has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio in the United States since 1994.


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It is 1861 & Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger faster noisier & dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive & unjust laws & flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty & creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic sexuality drugs & anarchy. Returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile explorer linguist scholar & swordsman Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral & ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister Lord Palmerston employs him as ' King's Spy'. His first mission: to investigate the sexual assaults committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack; to find out why chimney sweeps are being kidnapped by half-man half-dog creatures; & to discover the whereabouts of his badly injured former friend John Hanning Speke. Accompanied by the diminutive & pain-loving poet Algernon Swinburne Burton's investigations lead him back to one of the defining events of the age: the brutal assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840; & the terrifying possibility that the world he inhabits shouldn't exist at all. ...

The American West 1860-1890: years of broken promises disillusionment war & massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos & ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land lives & liberty to white settlers pushing westward. Woven into a an engrossing saga of cruelty treachery & violence are the fascinating stories of such legendary figures as Sitting Bull Cochise Crazy Horse & Geronimo. First published in 1970 Dee Brown's brutal & compelling narrative changed the way people thought about the original inhabitants of America & focused attention on a national disgrace. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...