1164. The young warrior Saladin joins a Saracen army headed for Egypt. He finds there a land of wonders
- from the ancient pyramids
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Discover the fate of the original black Magician Pug & his motley crew of agents who safeguard the world of Trigia as prophecy becomes truth in the first book of the last ever Midkemian trilogy. THE KINGDOM BESIEGED The Darkness is coming... The Kingdom is plagued by rumour & instability. Kingdom spies in Kesh have been disappearing
- either murdered or turned to the enemy side. Information has become scant & unreliable; but one thing appears clear. Dark forces are on the move... Since Pug & the Conclave of Shadows enforced peace after the last Keshian invasion the Empire has offered no threat. But now factions are rising & Jim Dasher reports mobilizations of large forces in the Keshian Confederacy. As the men of the West answer the King's call to muster Martin con Doin
- left as caretaker of Crydee Keep
- will suddenly be confronted with the vanguard of an invading army. He reminds himself that he is a year older than his legendary ancestor Prince Arutha was when he stood firm against the Tsurani invasion but Arutha had an army to command & Martin is left with old men & young boys. Massive events are about to unfold events which threaten the future of all human life in Midkemia...


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Guaradian award winning novel about courage friendship & war. Reissued into the Essential Modern Classic list. When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harrys home & kills his family he knows that he is all alone in the world & has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live with his fussy Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the war-battered land of North East England his only friend in his journey a stray dog that he meets on the beach. Will Harry ever find a place to call home again or will he be on the run forever? ...

Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that though closer to home than most of his expeditions uncovers some surprising truths about Britain & the British people in the 80s in The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain". Paul Therouxs round-Britain travelogue is funny perceptive & best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure... After eleven years living as an American in London Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast & find out what Britain & the British are really like. It was 1982 the summer of the Falklands War the ideal time he found to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid & engaging reading. "A sharp & funny descriptive writer. One of his golden talents perhaps because he is American & therefore classless in British eyes is the ability to chat up & get on with all sorts & conditions of British... Theroux is a good companion". (" The Times"). " Filled with history insights landscape epiphanies meditations celebrations & laments". (" The New York Times"). " Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast & I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly & honestly". (Anthony Burgess " Observer"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people & places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles " Riding the Iron Rooster" " The Happy Isles of Oceania" " Sunrise with Seamonsters" " The Tao of Travel" " Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" " The Old Patagonian Express" " The Great Railway Bazaar" " Dark Star Safari" " Fresh-air Fiend" " Sir Vidias Shadow" " The Pillars of Hercules" & his novels & collections of short stories including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner " The Mosquito Coast" are available from Penguin." ...

Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father & grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated & independent he can carve out his own career & spread his wings. But success freedom & happiness are more elusive than ever in the fiercely competitive Seventies. From Cumbria to the frenetic whirl of sophisticated life in New York & London Douglas like all the Tallentires must come to terms with private uncertainty & pain. ...

Paris 1938. Nicholas Morath former Hungarian cavalry officer returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. Hes been in Vienna where amid the mobs screaming for Hitler hes done a quiet favour for his uncle Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat & desperate to stop his countrys drift into alliance with Nazi Germany he trades in conspiracy
- with SS renegades Abwehr officers British spies & NKVD defectors leading Morath deeper & deeper into danger as Europe edges towards war.
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Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddahs murder squad. But for the past year he has been having an affair with a woman named Maria. One day though she disappears. Terrified & with nowhere else to turn Ibrahim goes to Katya one of the few women on the force. As she ventures into Saudi Arabias underworld she uncovers a murder which connects Maria to a human trafficking ring. Soon Ibrahim realises that the killer is closer to home than he had ever imagined. Kingdom of Strangers is a suspenseful story of murder & deception among Saudi Arabias shaded alleys gleaming compounds & vast lonely deserts. ...

Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddahs murder squad. But for the past year he has been having an affair with a woman named Maria. One day though she disappears. Terrified & with nowhere else to turn Ibrahim goes to Katya one of the few women on the force. As she ventures into Saudi Arabias underworld she uncovers a murder which connects Maria to a human trafficking ring. Soon Ibrahim realises that the killer is closer to home than he had ever imagined. Kingdom of Strangers is a suspenseful story of murder & deception among Saudi Arabias shaded alleys gleaming compounds & vast lonely deserts. ...

With her master dead & her oaths foresworn necromancer & spy Isyllt Iskaldur finds herself in exile. Hounded by assassins she seeks asylum in Assar the empire she so recently worked to undermine. There warlords threaten the Empire's fragile peace & the empress is beset by enemies within the court. Even worse darkness stirs in the deep desert. Ancient spirits are waking that could destroy Assar faster than any army. Isyllt must travel into the heart of the desert to lay the darkness there to rest once more. But first she must stop an order of mages that will do anything to keep the Empire safe
- even raze it to dust.
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All animal life is to be found within the pages of The Kingfisher Animal Encyclopedia". The book is arranged simply covering every animal group from the smallest to the largest. Individual animal entries are packed with vital facts & accompanied by superb images & are complemented by panels on subjects such as metamorphosis camouflage & hibernation." ...