FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WALLANDER MYSTERIES. REVENGE CAN TAKE MORE THAN A LIFETIME. In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered. It is a crime unprecedented in Swedens history & the police are under incredible pressure to solve the killings. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved & decides to investigate. When the police make a hasty arrest it is left to her to investigate the source of a nineteenth century diary & red silk ribbon found near the crime scene. What she will uncover leads her into an international web of corruption & a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years. The Man from Beijing is a gripping political thriller & a compelling detective story from a writer at the height of his powers. ...

Would the real Lucia Acosta please stand up? Fun-loving & feisty Lucia Acosta was the girl everybody wanted at their party. With her sultry South American looks she captured every mans attention. One terrible secret later a paler quieter Lucias gone from owning the dance floor to cleaning it when a ghost from parties past walks in... Luke Forster would recognise those curves anywhere
- he grew up hypnotised by them! But as his best friends little sister she was strictly off-limits. Hes shocked to see her fallen so low but relieved her prides still intact! The real Lucia Acosta is still in there somewhere & hes the man to tempt her out...I think I must be Susans biggest fan; I cant get enough of her books!
- Ruth Web Developer Brighton

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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels from Starter to Advanced this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A plane crashes in the middle of the desert in Oman leaving a pilot & his family hurt & stranded. The pilot begins a journey across the desert to get help but collapses from exhaustion. He is found & taken to a nearby hospital but he is unconscious & no one has any idea who he is or where he has come from. Meanwhile time is running out for his wife & son who are waiting in the desert for help to arrive. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book. ...

It is just before the outbreak of World War I & Britain must enlist the aide of Russia. Czar Nicholass nephew is to visit London for secret naval talks with Lord Walden who has lived in Russia & has a Russian wife Lydia. But there are other people who are interested in the arrival of Prince Alexei: the Waldens only daughter Charlotte -- willful idealistic & with an awakening social conscience; Basil Thompson head of the Special Branch; & above all Feliks Kschessinky the ruthless Russian anarchist. No one could have foretold that Lydia should recognize Feliks or that she might put her own daughters life at risk for his sake. As the secret negotiations progress the destinies of these characters become ineluctably enmeshed. & as Europe prepares for the catastrophe of war the final private tragedy which will shatter the complacency of the Waldens is acted out. ...

The man from the land of Fandango is coming to pay you a call! He wears a hat with a tassel & a polka-dot tie
- & he juggles &
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Edward Payson Westons 3 100-mile walk from California to New York completed on 3 May 1910 was one of his great achievements but only one. It took him just 77 days. He was 71 years old. For half a century Weston was one of the most famous people in the English-speaking world as the first age of international celebrity unfolded. The godfather of the pedestrianism movement he criss-crossed Britain & America on foot earning fame fortune & notoriety in an athletic career that saw him complete some of the most amazing endurance feats ever witnessed. In this entertaining & wide-ranging book co-authors Nick Harris Helen Harris & Paul Marshall skillfully recreate a vanished world to tell one of the most amazing stories in sporting history. Part social history part biography part exposition of the seedy underbelly of Victorian society this is a work that draws in elements of sporting genius high stakes gambling drug abuse & marital scandal. A Man in a Hurry is one mans flamboyant athletic journey from the Gold Rush to the Jazz Age the story of a dreamer schemer & ladies man who met with Presidents & royalty crooks & knaves. With its colourful detail historical context & readable style this groundbreaking work is an important addition to the sports literature canon. ...

Ten years ago The Bonfire of the Vanities" defined an era
- & established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America
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Mark Smith is the Man in Seat Sixty-One. Although this might make him sound like a fictional spy he is in fact the man behind the massively popular www.seat 61.com website which offers invaluable advice on worldwide train travel. This book is the essential guide for anyone who wishes to travel to Europe & beyond by train. Packed with insider knowledge & top tips it offers advice on everything from the quickest routes & the cheapest fares to the best weekends away; travelling with children & changing trains; timetables & maps; essential items to travel with; & everything in between. More & more people are choosing to avoid air travel & seek alternatives & this is the only book they need to plan those journeys. ...

Mark Smith is the Man in Seat Sixty-One. Although this might make him sound like a fictional spy he is in fact the man behind the massively popular seat 61.com website which offers invaluable advice on worldwide train travel. Following on from the success of The Man in Seat 61" which took travellers around Europe by train this book covers international train travel around Africa Asia the Americas & Australasia. Focusing on affordable international travel by scheduled trains not just deluxe tourist services this book is packed with insider knowledge & top tips on the best routes & cheapest fares; travelling with children & changing trains; timetables & maps; essential items to travel with; & everything in between. More & more people are choosing to avoid air travel & seek alternatives & this is the only book they need for environmentally friendly journeys around the world." ...

A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station & finds herself of a ship bound for South Africa! Pretty young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact adventure comes looking for her -- & finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man reeking of mothballs loses his balance & is electocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? & why did he race off leaving a cryptic message behind: 17-122 Kilmorden Castle? ...