This is a biography of one of Welsh rugbys much-missed stars. Before Ray Gravells untimely death last year he was already in the process of writing his autobiography with Gomer Press. In the book Grav in his own words will draw upon a number of resources including the manuscript by Grav himself as well as a range of radio & television interviews over many years. The book is edited by experienced author & rugby commentator Alun Wyn Bevan who was a close friend to Grav. It contains full-colour photographs of various periods in his life. A percentage of the selling price of the book will be donated to the Ray Gravell Trust Fund to be distributed to various charities dear to him. The book will contain chapters on: Early life & family roots school the game: Grav on glories of rugby Stradey & the Scarlets precious family: Mari & the girls Wales
- playing for ones country acting performing & broadcasting seeing the world illness friendship & sustenance the National Eisteddfod & other honours.
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Memories hid in every cell of the body. Memories that my grave magic could unlock & give shape as a shade. Of course that depended on having enough of the body at my disposal for my magic to fill in the gaps". After a month spent recovering from a vicious fight with a sorcerer Grave Witch Alex Craft is ready to get back to solving murders by raising the dead. With her love life in turmoil thanks to the disappearance of FBI agent Falin Andrews & Deaths shocking L word confession Alex is eager for the distractions of work. But her new case turns out to be more of a challenge than she was expecting. The police hire Alex to consult on a particularly strange investigation in a nature preserve. The strange part? There are no bodies just leftover pieces. With a probable serial killer on the loose & no way to raise a shade without a body Alex will have to rely solely on her ability to sense the grave to lead her to the dead. But with the strain of overusing her magic this might be the last case Alex ever solves..." ...

Thea Osborne & her loyal spaniel Hepzie are still pursuing their occupation as house-sitters despite the disastrous incidents of the past. At the moment they are staying in the late Greta Simmonds' house which is currently between ownership. But when a body is discovered in a nearby field Thea finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation once again. After befriending undertaker Drew Slocombe she soon finds she's aligned herself with the police's only suspect. Believing him to be innocent Thea works together with Drew to clear his name although it slowly dawns on them that in a village simmering with secrets a means & a motive could be laid at anybody's door. ...

This is a murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Browne. Verity Browne & Lord Edward Corinth are attending the memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Benyon killed a few months before when the Hindenburg airship burst into flames as it docked in New Jersey. As the congregation begins to disperse after the service Edward hears Miss Pitt-Messanger cry for help. Her father is slumped in his seat stabbed to death with an ancient Assyrian dagger. Edward has no wish to investigate the murder but Verity gets herself invited to Swifts Hill the ultra-modern house in Kent belonging to the millionaire Sir Simon Castlewood. His wife Virginia is one of Veritys school friends & she is looking after Maud Pitt-Messanger who is still grieving for her father. Verity quickly discovers that the old man was a selfish bully who had made his daughters life a misery & prevented her from marrying the man she loved. By coincidence Mr Churchill then asks Edward to investigate the Castlewood Foundation which Sir Simon has set up to fund medical research among other worthy projects. Churchill has received information that Sir Simons protege the eminent surgeon Dominic Montillo is using the Foundation to fund his own research into racial types
- the so-called science of eugenics. Then Maud Pitt-Messanger is herself stabbed to death with a dagger from Sir Simons archaeological museum & Edward & Verity join forces to find her killer
- but Veritys distrust of Winston Churchill & her growing attraction to the young German aristocrat Adam von Trott drives a wedge between them which brings them both unhappiness & endangers the outcome of the investigation.

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For fans of the contemporary urban fantasy series of Charlaine Harris Patricia Briggs Chloe Neill & Karen Chance Kalayna Price brings us Grave Memory" the third novel in the " Alex Craft" series about a kick-ass grave witch who can communicate with the dead. When the dead need to talk Alex Craft is always ready to listen... As a Grave Witch Alex solves murders by raising the dead
- an ability that comes at a cost & after her last few cases that cost is compounding. But her magic isnt the only thing causing havoc in her life. While shes always been on friendly terms with Death himself things have recently become a whole lot more close & personal. Then theres her sometime partner agent Falin Andrews who is under the glamour of the Winter Queen. To top everything off her best friend has been forever changed by her time spent captive in Faerie. But the personal takes a backseat to the professional when a string of suicides occur in Nekros City & Alex is hired to investigate. The shades have no memory of the days leading up to their brutal endings so despite the very public apparent suicides this is murder. But what kind of magic can overcome the human will to survive[unk] & why do the shades lack the memory of their deaths? Searching for the answer might mean Alex wont have a life to remember at all..." Grave Memory" is the devilishly brilliant sequel to " Grave Witch" & " Grave Dance" & not to be missed. Praise for Kalayna Price: " Yum. A rare treat intriguing & original. Dont miss this one". (" Patricia Briggs"). " Fascinating magic a delicious heart-throb & a fresh inventive world". (Chloe Neill). Kalayna Price is a writer a painter & a hula hoop dancer residing in the Carolinas USA. She draws ideas from the world around her her studies into ancient mythologies & her readings of classic folklore. Her previous books in the " Alex Craft" series " Grave Witch" & " Grave Dance" are also published by Penguin."
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All is not well in the kingdom of Waldberg.. . The orphan Hans is desperate to escape his master the grave robber Knobbe the Bent. The young countess Angela von Schwanenberg must rescue her parents from the mad archduke. But when fate flings them together they find themselves on a daring quest hurtling through haunted forests racing down mountains in a coffin & sneaking along underground passageways with a travelling circus. & at every turn the archdukes Necromancer is there to thwart their progress. Will Angela save her parents? Will Hans escape his past & find out who he truly is? Or will the evil Necromancer capture them first? ...

When the ancient Italian volcano Mount Vesuvius erupts right before their eyes djinn twins John & Philippa Gaunt know that a br&-new adventure has found them. Soon they learn that volcanoes all over the world are beginning to erupt & are spewing a strange golden lava. It quickly becomes clear that there is a peculiar
- & perhaps evil
- force at work causing these disasters. If the twins cant figure out who is responsible & stop him a environmental catastrophe of epic proportions will devastate the planet. Will John Philippa & their uncle Nimrod be able to use their powers to save the day once again?

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When she was 15 Harper Connelly was struck by a bolt of lightning which left her with a spiderweb of red over her body headaches & episodes of weakness. Sometimes her right hand shakes. & she can find dead people. Its taken a while but at last Harpers pretty happy with her life: shes making a living using her unique talent to help people & shes got a lover
- her stepbrother Tolliver. That creeps some people out but though they grew up together & got each other through the real bad times
- their parents drug-use the abuse the disappearance of Harpers elder sister Cameron
- theyre not blood relatives. Then Tollivers dad arrives on the scene seeking forgiveness for the sins of their youth & the police get a tip-off that after all these years Camerons been spotted in a mall. With all this going on Harper realises life is getting a little complicated but she doesnt expect those complications to include Tolliver getting shot or watching a cop die taking a bullet for her. Harper can find dead people but now its clear someone wants her dead.. .


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In the searing heat of Guatemala Dr Temperance Brennan excavates the remains of a two-year-old child from a site that is said to contain the bodies of twenty-three women & children. Shaken by the discovery Tempe tries to harden herself against the horrors that she finds. & then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City... When a skeleton is found in a septic tank at the back of a rundown hotel only someone with Tempes expertise can deduce who the victim was & how they died. But her path is blocked at every turn. It would seem that some people would prefer that Guatemalas disappeared stay buried. & others want the missing girls kept the same way... ...

The award-winning & Number One bestselling Val Mc Dermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history heritage & heinous crimes. A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life & death. & it could be worth a fortune. It's summer in the Lake District & heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be linked to the old rumour that Fletcher Christian mutinous First Mate on the Bounty had secretly returned to England? Scholar Jane Gresham wants to find out. She believes that the Lakeland poet William Wordsworth a friend of Christian's may have sheltered the fugitive & turned his tale into an epic poem
- which has since disappeared. But as she follows each lead death is hard on her heels. The centuries-old mystery is putting lives at risk. & it isn't just the truth that is waiting to be discovered but a bounty worth millions.. .
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