A full account of Cambridge begins this volume tracing its development prior to the University & continuing with the architectural spendours that have appeared since. Cambridges architectural highlights are numerous. From the medieval college precincts built throughout the town & marked out by their turreted gatehouses to Wrens Trinity Library through the period of Victorian expansion & on to the ambitious & innovative buildings of the twentieth-century. In the county itself the most notable monument is Ely Cathedral with its unique octagonal crossing & the Georgian river port of Wisbech is especially attractive while Wimpole Hall exemplifies the grandeur of the major country houses. Substantial survivals of timber-framed buildings are more modest in scale but no less significant. Cambridgeshire architecture cannot fail to delight. ...

The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he & his friends a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford monitoring the investigation the suicide verdict doesnt ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesnt belong he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile Americas powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery
- but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead.. . And as The Camel Club" is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washingtons highly secretive corridors of power Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen... "
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Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mothers body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. & when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mothers effects she realises that the past she has always been so sure of has been built on a tissue of lies. Devastated she runs away to London & loses herself in a metropolis that offers opportunity temptation & danger especially to a young girl hungry for love & acceptance. But her past wont stay buried forever & eventually Camellia begins the long journey towards uncovering the truth about her background & also ultimately about herself. ...

An highly engaging romantic fantasy set in the evocative time of King Arthur. Laurel Carnbrea Queen of Cambryn arrives at Camelot to marry a man she has never met
- Sir Agravain the brother of the renowned Sir Gawain. Laurel Carnbrea Queen of Cambryn arrives at Camelot to marry a man she has never met
- Sir Agravain the brother of the renowned Sir Gawain. Laurel has heard that Agravain is a reserved & cold man but marriage to King Arthurs nephew will give vital protection to her own lands. However before the marriage can be consummated Laurels new huband receives news that his father King Lot is dying & he must return to his homeland of Gododdin in the north. King Lot has been mad for many years
- tormented by the sorceress Morgaine Arthurs half-sister & deadliest enemy. Agravain & Laurel arrived to find the land of Gododdin in disarray & under threat of invasion from the Picts
- led by Morgaine. Laurel has powers of her own inherited from her grandmother the Sea & is prepared to use them to save the land of the new husband she is learning to love. By pitting herself against Morgaine she will face the gravest danger; & Agravain risks losing the woman who has finally managed to reach his heart...



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The key actors range from the enigmatic & long discredited Detective Chief Inspector Herbert Balmer (whose nickname was the King of the Verbals) to the much criticised Lord Chief Justice of the times Lord Goddard to a relative of the author whose knowledge of a travesty of justice echoes throughout the books pages. George Kelly was hanged in 1949 for shooting dead two men: the manager of the Cameo Cinema Wavertree & his assistant. Undeniably from the wrong side of the tracks & involved in the black markets rackets & illegal drinking dens of the post-Second-World-War era Kelly & his co-accused Charles Connolly (who went to prison for ten years) found themselves expertly fitted-up because they were deemed to be riff-raff in what for them both became a Kafkaesque nightmare. In this the definitive book on the Cameo case the author recounts these events with the eye of someone who has undertaken prodigious research & has a passion against injustice. The result is not simply a superbly worked account of how due process & justice faltered but a snapshot of social & legal history in which the parallel worlds of the Underworld & Establishment collide in the courtroom & official decision-making. The Cameo murder case can also be seen as one of the most important of the 20th century. Although it took 50 years for the injustice to be admitted along with the case of Timothy Evans & others incomprehensible to the modern-day eye it ranks as a turning point in understanding the depths of wickedness or wilful blindness to which certain people or their organizations can descend to in the absence of decency integrity & adequate safeguards. After more than half a century the books two subjects were posthumously cleared by the Court of Appeal in 2003 following the release of the original version of this book. ...

Examining the themes of presence & absence the relationship between photography & theatre history & death these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. ...

Britt Baxter is unaware of the effect she has on people. A big-hearted no nonsense northern girl she naturally looks for the best in everyone she meets but in her attempts to make it as a model she finds she struggles against being pinned down on the casting couch by the most unlikely people... So when a happy accident lands her a career as a presenter on breakfast television it looks as if she has made it out of the modelling world of close-ups & cattle calls & into the big time
- or at least daytime TV. But scarcely has Britt had time to wonder at how far she has come when backstage machinations propel her with ever increasing speed through a series of trapdoors & she soon realises that the drama backstage far eclipses anything that happens in front of the camera. ' Fun sad & packed with glamour & deceit this brilliantly written read will have you hooked.' 5* Closer ' It's a whirlwind of glitz glamour & sex.' Heat ' The gorgeous & fearless Tess has stuck her neck out & written a delightfully sharp & well-observed novel (4 stars)' Mirror ' Tess has written a brilliant debut full of memorable characters & gasp-out-loud scenarios.' Star
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The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest in which voters hold their noses & sigh as they trudge to the polls. Peter Hitchens explains how & why British politics has sunk to this dreary level
- the takeover of the parties & the media by conventional left-wing dogmas which then call themselves the centre ground. The Tory party under David Cameron has become a pale-blue twin of New Labour offering change without alteration. Hitchens a former Lobby reporter examines & mocks the flock mentality of most Westminster journalists explains how unattributable lunches guide coverage & why so many reporters
- once slavish admirers of Labour
- now follow the Tory line. This revised edition of Hitchenss The Broken Compass (2009) features a brand new introduction. In an excoriating analysis Hitchens examines the Tory Partys record in government & opposition dismissing it as a failure on all fronts but one
- the ability to win office without principle. The one thing it certainly isnt is conservative.



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In April 2005 Prince Charles & Camilla Parker Bowles made history by marrying amidst a flurry of publicity & press speculation. Prior to the wedding opinions were divided on the effect that the union would have on the constitution. In this sensational bestselling book royal expert Caroline Graham reveals everything about their relationship their decision to marry the big day itself & what has happened since the wedding. The book examines how the couple were kept apart by the Royal Family & how Charles's love for Camilla throughout his marriage to Diana led to her being cast as the villain of the piece when the marriage ended. Caroline has spoken to sources very close to the couple to uncover one of the most talked-about relationships of our time. ...

One day a strange man arrives in Camilles town. He has a straw hat & a yellow beard. The man turns out to be the artist Vincent van Gogh. This is an introduction to the great painter seen through the eyes of a young boy entranced by his painting. There are reproductions of Van Goghs work. ...