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. ...

Spans almost 200 years from the first faint image ever caught to todays state of the art digital equipment. The text is complemented by more than 350 cameras plus historic photographs adverts & drawings. This gorgeous cornerstone volume celebrating the camera & the art of The brilliant photograph created in collaboration with the George Eastman House spans almost 200 years from the first faint image ever caught to todays state-of-the-art digital equipment. The informative narrative by Todd Gustavson including insightful essays by Steve Sasson (inventor of the digital camera) & Alexis Gerard (visionary founder of Future Image Inc.) traces the cameras development the lives of its inventors & the artists behind the lens. Images of more than 350 cameras from the George Eastman House Collection plus historic photos adverts & drawings complement the text. ...

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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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. ...

The first one-volume walking guide in English to the most popular long-distance route in Europe walked by British tourists. With the advent of low-cost airlines it is as cheap for the British tourist to go to mainland Europe as to the extremities of the UK
- which is why in recent years continental long-distance routes have become increasingly popular with the British walker. Most popular by far is El Camino de Santiago de Compostela the ancient Christian pilgrimage route that has been travelled for over a thousand years to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela where legend has it the bones of St James are buried. This guide follows the most popular route starting at St Jean-Pied-de-Port in south-west France & heading all the way westwards across northern Spain for 800km to finish at Cape Finisterre on the Atlantic coast. Now extending its series of Trail Guides beyond the UK for the first time Aurum publishes the first compact one-volume guide to the path Fully illustrated with photography it offers comprehensive route directions sectional route maps gradient profiles a history of the route & details of sights to see & separate chapter guides to the main cities along the way like Pamplona & a list of accommodation en route.
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This is the fully updated 2010 second edition of the Camino de Santiago Map". This second edition

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Behind the large house the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here in the dizzying heat of August 1939 five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth with the heady exhilarations & freedoms of lost innocence as well as the fears of the coming war. The Camomile Lawn" moves from Cornwall to London & back again over the years telling the stories of the cousins their family & their friends united by shared losses & lovers by family ties & the absurd conditions imposed by war as their paths cross & recross over the years. Mary Wesley presents an extraordinarily vivid & lively picture of wartime London: the rationing imaginatively circumvented; the fallen houses; the parties the new-found comforts of sex the desperate humour of survival
- all of it evoked with warmth clarity & stunning wit. & through it all the cousins & their friends try to hold on to the part of themselves that laughed & played dangerous games on that camomile lawn."
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