Can you gallop like a horse? Can you strut like a rooster? Can you run like a dog? Can you spring like a cat? Can you soar like an eagle? Can you swing like a chimp? Can you flutter like a butterfly? Can you swim like a turtle? Then take a bow & smile: you twinkle like a star! Then take a bow & shine: a star is what you are! ...

This is Brough Scotts moving biography of his grandfather
- the author of the best-selling Warrior. Galloper Jack Seely was at
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The thirteenth-century is just begun & King John has fallen out with the Pope leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles & corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England the people are dying in sin. In the village of Gastmere this has shocking consequences for servant girl Elena. Unwittingly drawn into a macabre scheme to absolve dying Lord Gerard of his crimes death & betrayal haunt her dreams like a curse. & when Elena is threatened with hanging for a murder she did not commit it is certain that unnatural conspiracy lies behind these dark deeds. But where can she turn? For in every face lies wickedness & in every shadow lurks treachery... ...

Taking its title from the name of the road down which condemned Donegal criminals were once led Gallows Lane follows Inspector Benedict Devlin as he investigates a series of gruesome murders in & around the Irish borderlands. When a young woman is found beaten to death on a building site in what appears to be a sexually-motivated killing Devlin's enquiries soon point to a local body-builder & steroid addict. But days later born-again ex-con James Kerr is found nailed to a tree -- crucified -- having been released from prison & returned to his hometown to spread the word of God. Increasingly torn between his young family & his job Devlin is determined to apprehend those responsible for the murders be-fore they strike again even as the carnage begins to jeopardise those he cares about most. Gallows Lane is the heart-stopping follow-up to Brian Mc Gilloway's acclaimed debut Borderlands. ' Brian Mc Gilloway joins the roll-call of excellence in Irish crime fiction' Marcel Berlins The Times 'A satisfying mystery with an attractive central character' Sunday Telegraph ' Another masterly thriller' Irish News ...

1820s Britain: after the wars with France when unemployment was high & soldiers could be paid off when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest any crime was drastically punished & thousands were hung. But one could petition the King & an investigation might ensue! The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent -- but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man he said. But even in 1820 the Home Secretary could occasionally use his powers to grant mercy if his investigator found cause & Rider Sandman once of the First Foot Guards is given the job. Rider Sandman a hero of Waterloo has family debts to repay but when his first steps in the investigations produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way this only arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England a country which he & others in Wellingtons army had fought to preserve. Stepping between gentlemens clubs & taverns talking to aristocrats fashionable painters their models & their mistresses dodging professional cut-throats & deceptive swordsmen Sandman uncovers a conspiracy of silence a group whose proudest boast was that they would do anything for any one of them. Sandman is a wonderful character as yet undaunted by the sleazy streets dank jails or the looming scaffold & uncorrupted by politicians sneering gentlemen or frightening bruisers an investigator in the making & a brilliant but very different hero for all Bernard Cornwell fans. ...

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of the metropolis. But he soon finds that life in the country is not quite as idyllic as he had imagined.. .A peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale. Two glue-sniffing thugs are breaking into homes. An old woman may or may not have been murdered. In addition Banks has to deal with his attraction to a young psychologist Jenny Fuller. As the tension mounts both Jenny & Banks's wife are drawn deeper into events. & Banks realizes that his cases are weaving closer & closer together.. .' The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative deeply nuanced works of art' Dennis Lehane ' If you haven't encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before prepare for a crash course in taut clean writing & subtle psychology. & watch for those twists
- they'll get you every time' Ian Rankin ' An expert plotter with an eye for telling detail' New York Times
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Ian Stewarts Galois Theory has been in print for 30 years. Resoundingly popular it still serves its purpose exceedingly well. Yet mathematics education has changed considerably since 1973 when theory took precedence over examples & the time has come to bring this presentation in line with more modern approaches. To this end the story now begins with polynomials over the complex numbers & the central quest is to understand when such polynomials have solutions that can be expressed by radicals. Reorganization of the material places the concrete before the abstract thus motivating the general theory but the substance of the book remains the same. ...

Twenty years ago Anthony Galton vanished along with his streetwise bride & several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found & Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere happy & eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds
- a headless skeleton a clever con & a terrified blonde
- reveals a game whose stakes are so high that someone is willing to kill. The Galton Case" is a wonderfully devious & poetic look at poverty greed murder & identity. Ross Macdonald's " Lew Archer" mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible humane hero & with Macdonald's insight & moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman Jonathan Kellerman Eudora Welty & Elmore Leonard."

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From Britains favourite Michelin-starred chefs comes Galvin: A Cookbook de Luxe in which brothers Chris & Jeff Galvin provide their singular take on the worlds favourite cuisine
- the much-loved & ever-popular brasserie de luxe food of France. A publishing event destined to do for French food what The River Cafe Cookbook did for Italian! With mouthwatering classics such as Cassoulet of Toulouse Sausage Crisp Confit of Duck Leg Black Pudding & Salad Lyonnaise & Apple Tatin with Creme Normande this beautiful book comprises 150 recipes & is richly illustrated throughout.
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Lonely Planet's 4th edition of The Gambia & Senegal" will take you from the arid desert lands of the north to the lush tropical forests in the south & from the capital cities of Dakar & Banjul to the more remote Bassari country. Go lion spotting in the Parc National de Niokolo-Koba or hike around the beautifully conserved Abuko Nature Reserve. Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate practical & honest advice designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip. In This Guide: Dedicated chapters on birdwatching & music Customised itineraries take you up the coast or down the river Unique Green Index highlights the best ecofriendly options" ...