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... ...

A funny & thought-provoking compilation of"ations for & about women. We wanted to produce a book that celebrated the differences between the sexes
- without being afraid to laugh at those differences
- & yet provoke constructive thought explain Killy John & Alie Sibble. We ended up with a compilation of wit & wisdom to appeal to women from different backgrounds at different stages of life & in a multitude of different circumstance. Covering a multitude of everyday themes from chocolate to careers & from love to leadership this book is a must read for every woman living in todays world! If you feel youre too small to make a difference try going to bed with a mosquito Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important Years wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul

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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. ...

Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared & fortunes were made but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of the men who sought to end slavery & brought the issue to the heart of British political life. ' Hochschild's marvellous book is a timely reminder of what a small group of determined people with right on their side can achieve. Carefully researched & elegantly written with a pacy narrative that ranges from the coffee houses of London to the back-breaking sugar plantations of the West Indies it charts the unlikely success of the first international human rights movement' Saul David Literary Review ' Hochschild is such a gifted researcher & story-teller that he never fails to hold the reader's attention... For all its terrible theme Hochschild's book is not in the least depressing because it is suffused with admiration for the courage & enlightenment of the men & women who crusaded against this evil & finally prevailed' Max Hastings Sunday Telegraph ' Thought-provoking absorbing & well-written' Brendan Simms Sunday Times ' Stirring & unforgettable' Economist ...