It was not until long after his grandmother Sophie had died that Michael Jacobs was eventually permitted to read the lengthy & passionate letters that his grandfather Bethel had written her from nine thousand miles away. In these letters Jacobs discovered a remarkable story of hardship deprivation & enduring love. His grandfathers work on the railway through the Andes was exhausting & desperately lonely. He had little in common with his fellow workers & became consumed by a mounting despondency from which only his love for Sophie could save him. But as the months & years of separation passed the world in which Sophie was blossoming appeared more & more remote from his own. Michael Jacobs journey back through time takes him from a rain-swept Hull churchyard to desolate Antofagasta in Chile & to the former silver capital of Potosi. Climbing through ghostly lunar-like scenery towards the snow-capped summits of the Andes he follows the route of his grandfathers railway
- across giant rocky plateaux through terrifyingly steep gorges & valleys of tropical lushness & past grim mining townships buffeted by winds rain & snow
- to reveal an extraordinary love story.

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The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House Ghost Wars is the most accurate & revealing account yet of the CIAs secret involvement in al-Qaeadas evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East accessed previously classified government files & interviewed senior US officials & foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIAs covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan explores how this sowed the seeds of bn Ladens rise traces how he built his global network & brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all he lays bare American intelligences continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrrorism in the years leading to 9/11
- & its devastating consequences.
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Back for an amazing ninth printing this is our bestselling book ever a Catcher in the Rye for its generation & the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film. It tells the story of Enid & Rebecca two above-it-all best friends confronted with the prospect of adulthood & the uncertain future of their friendship. ...

Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson as a young boy in Mawson Australia learns how to open the secret drawer in his mothers room. There he finds a manuscript & from the moment his mother catches him in the act Gerard Freemans life is irrevocably changed. What is the invisible ever-present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? & why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life? Gerards quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family & his life will lead him from Mawson to London to a long-abandoned house & the terror of a ghost story come alive. ...

Charlotte Usher has always felt invisible at school. But now she has a plan to break into the popular crowd & nothing is going to stop her. Not even death. Its the first day of the rest of Charlottes life. She isnt going to be invisible any more. & shes not going to stop at just getting noticed shes determined that shell be envied! Much to Charlottes surprise her plan actually seems to be working: Petula the most popular girl at school has finally acknowledged her existence & her lab partner for the rest of the term is none other than Damen Dylan school heart-throb & object of Charlottes desire. Its only a matter of time before shes accepted into their elite circle...that is until in her excitement Charlotte chokes to death on a gummy bear. So OK its the first day of the rest of Charlottes death
- why should that change her plans?
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Annie ONeill has it all: a cosy Manhattan apartment a beautiful bookshop & a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole
- a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood. So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop & claims to be her fathers oldest friend she jumps at the chance to find out more of her own past. But Forresters not being free with the answers she needs. Hes much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord & a fifty-year-old betrayal. A betrayal that she will realise far too slowly has something very much to do with her...
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Fetlocks Hall is in trouble! The school is desperately short of funds & unless some money can be found it may have to close! The Headmistress is not sure what to do. Penny is determined to help & draws on her magical powers in a nail-biting bid to solve the problem. Soon Penny & the ghosts as well as many of the schools ponies are involved in an exciting race to the finish! ...

From reports of haunted castles stately halls hotels public houses Roman forts stone circles & even Englands deepest lake to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions poltergeists & related supernatural phenomena Ghostly Cumbria" investigates twenty of the most haunted locations to be found in the area today. Drawing on historical & contemporary sources this selection

Includes:: a phantom friar said to walk the lanes near Grey Friars Lodge Hotel in Clappersgate; the ghost of Mary Queen of Scots at Carlisle Castle; a cavalier at Moresby Hall in Whitehaven; & several ghosts at the Kirkstone Pass Inn at Ambleside including a young boy killed by a coach outside the building a young woman who died whilst travelling along the road during a snow storm & a seventeenth-century coachman who lurks around the bar. Illustrated with sixty photographs together with access details for each location this book will appeal to all those interested in finding out more about Cumbrias haunted heritage."

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Fast hard & knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue tradecraft & suspense. Read it immediately!' Lee Child. I make things disappear. It's what I do. This time I'm tidying up the loose ends after a casino heist gone bad. The loose ends being a million cash. But I only have 48 hours & there's a guy out there who wants my head in a bag. He'll have to find me first. They don't call me the Ghostman for nothing... ...

Murder & ghosts go h&-in-hand & vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK cases include the discovery of a body by a spiritualist medium a murder solved by a dream of the mother of the victim & evidence at a Scottish murder trial provided by the ghost of the victim herself. Featuring visions psychometry ghosts haunted prisons possessions & spiritualist detectives this book is a fascinating look at criminology & ghost hunting. Paranormal historian Paul Adams has opened the case files of both the criminologist & the ghost hunter to compile a unique collection of crime from British history. No true-crime bookshelf is complete without Ghosts & Gallows. ...