New Dalziel & Pascoe novel from Britain's finest male crime writer: ' Reginald Hill stands head & shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Tom Hiney Observer In the Beginning was the Word...A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents...yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette as entries in a short story competition someone seems to be claiming responsibility for the deaths. In Mid-Yorkshire CID the word is heard but not believed. But when the story is leaked to television & a third indisputable murder takes place Dalziel & Pascoe find themselves playing a game no-one knows the rules of against an opponent known only as the Wordman. ...

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests & uninvited visitors alike while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl May Day The Rich Boy Crazy Sunday An Alcoholic Case The Lees of Happiness The Lost Decade & Babylon Revisited. ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space.. . Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY & REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination & breathtaking vision of The most exciting space opera writer working today (Locus) in these two tales of high adventure set in the same universe as his novels. The title story Diamond Dogs tells of a group of mercenaries trying to unravel the mystery of a particularly inhospitable alien tower on a distant world; Turquoise Days is about Naqi who has devoted her life to studying the alien Pattern Jugglers. ...

Dixie is the youngest Diamond girl. She & her sisters
- dreamy Martine glamorous Rochelle & tough Jude
- could hardly be more

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This handbook updates jewellery professionals & serious diamond buyers on the new developments in diamond grading treatments synthetic diamonds fancy-colour diamonds & lab certificates. Using close-up photographs it shows how to make visual judgements about clarity transparency cut quality & brilliance. The handbook also discusses how gem labs are incorporating brightness size scintillation & pattern into their cut grades & it provides tips on detecting treatments & man-made diamonds. Topics include: Quality evaluation; Diamond Recutting; Branded diamonds; Antique cuts & jewellery; Diamond treatments; Fancy-colour diamonds; Synthetic diamonds; Light performance; Fluorescence; Lab reports. ...

I realized I was writing about getting sober about coming alive about claiming myself & uncovering these gifts that had been obscured by both outside & internal forces about this veil of confusion & dysfunction & addiction being peeled away bit by bit. Shawn Colvin had found her voice. From age ten Shawn Colvin was determined to make a life in music-a decision that influenced every choice she would make. In 1997 two decades after she started she got her big break. Like the troubled would-be arsonist & survivor of her smash hit Sunny Came Home" Colvin knows a thing or two about heartache
- & setting fires. " Diamond in the Rough" recounts this passionate young musicians coming
- of
- age from prairie small-town South Dakota to bar sets in Austin & New York City to the world stage at the Grammys. " Diamond in the Rough" captures her years touring cross-country in vans full of boys falling in & out of love; making music of all genres with lifelong friends; meeting heroes like Joni Mitchell; becoming addicted & staying sober weathering divorce & raising a daughter-and learning to channel those experiences into song. Through its pages we witness the maturation of a woman finding her voice & learning to care for a child as well as herself. With the rich lyricism wit frankness & deep empathy that have characterized her songs & inspired audiences worldwide Colvins memoir looks back over a rich lifetime of highs & lows with stunning insight & candor."


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Neil Diamond is one of the worlds most successful singer-songwriters & solo performers. His songs are marked out by a combination of a deep sense of isolation & a desire for commitment & love at the same time. This unique poignant mixture has propelled him to the top of the charts world-wide & kept him there for generations of fans. This book covers his early career from being an NYU student writing songs for $50.00 each his first contract with Columbia Records first success with Sunday & Me" & then " Im A Believer" & "A Little Bit me a Little Bit You" sung by the Monkees then followed his own version of " Sweet Caroline" & " Song Song Blue". He has also dueted success fully with other artist including Barbara Streisand with " You Dont Bring Me Flowers Any More" & recently toured to great critical & public acclaim. Illustrated with all manner of mementos collectibles posters memorabilia this book features reviews a full discography producers & musicians & a narrative of Diamonds life drawn from exclusive interviews conducted by the author since 1976. The result is the most complete & captivating portrait of this incomparable artist ever to emerge one that both celebrates & reveals Neil Diamond as both a private man & superstar." ...

Earth is finally part of the Galactic Milieu. But the next step is to achieve Unity with other galactic races. To attain this higher state we must gather sufficient numbers of the metapsychically talented. However a rebel group want to keep Earth forever separate. & their covert supporter is Fury an unstable metapsychic entity with its own ruthless plans for humanity. Furys greatest threat now is Jack the Bodiless whose power it craves. But Jack wont be used. So the entity turns to Dorothea Macdonald a young woman whos been hiding her great powers from the Milieus best mind-readers. Yet she cant keep them from Fury
- or Jack. She rejects their advances suspicious of megalomaniacal dreams & galactic politics. But when Jacks brother Marc puts his schemes ahead of saving millions of lives Jack needs her. Because ultimately no one
- even the Galactic Milieu
- can match the powers of the girl theyll call Diamond Mask. Rich in intrigue & vibrating with creative energy Library Journal May has largely earned her impressive following which makes this book a virtually mandatory acquisition Booklist


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With the flair for narrative & the meticulous research that readers have come to expect Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch & to the monarchy chronicling the Queens pivotal role at the centre of the state which is largely hidden from the public gaze & making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically Marr dissects the Queens political relationships crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth & her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 & how the monarchy & the monarch have had to change & adapt as a result. Indeed he argues that under her watchful eye the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized & made as fit for purpose in the twenty-first century as it was when she came to the throne & a new Elizabethan age was ushered in. ...

With the flair for narrative & the meticulous research that readers have come to expect Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch -- & to the monarchy chronicling the Queens pivotal role at the centre of the state which is largely hidden from the public gaze & making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically Marr dissects the Queens political relationships crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth & her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 & how the monarchy -- & the monarch -- have had to change & adapt as a result. Indeed he argues that under her watchful eye the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized & made as fit for purpose in the twenty-first century as it was when she came to the throne & a new Elizabethan age was ushered in. ...