A journey into the heart of Sicily using art food history & literature to shed light on southern Italys legacy of political corruption & violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. ...

St Petersburg 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of her native Kiev to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. With her looks & talents she feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle of friends. But revolution is in the air & as society begins to fracture she is forced to choose between her heart & her head. She loves her brooding cousin Yasha but he is wild destructive & bent on revolution; Horace Wallich the Englishman who works for Faberge is older & promises security & respectability. As the revolution descends into anarchy & blood-letting a commission to repair a priceless Stradivarius violin offers Inna a means of escape. But will man will she choose to take with her? & is it already too late? ...

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. & a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah Georgia a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed
- & whose dirty linen is gleefully aired
- in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story & a hugely entertaining & deliciously perverse travelogue Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil is as bracing & intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.

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Beautifully repacked edition of this stunning novel of contemporary & historical betrayal & revenge from the author of LADY ...

Its said that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London then the Tower will crumble & the kingdom will fall. As it happens thats not so far from the truth.. . One by one the magical wards that guard the city are failing: the London Wall defiled with cryptic graffiti the ravens found dead at the Tower the London Stone destroyed. This is not good news. This array of supernatural defences
- a mix of international tourist attractions & forgotten urban legends
- formed a formidable magical shield. Protection for the City of London against.. .well thats the question isnt it? What could be so dangerous as to threaten an entire city? Against his better judgement resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift is about to find out. & if hes lucky he might just live long enough to do something about it.. .

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Elly Tash & Sierra are back for their most mysterious adventure yet. At a sleepover in Tash's tree house the girls are going through all of Old Man Blake's inventions trying to figure out what they are & what they're meant to do. When Tash pulls out a ghost detector the three of them can't resist trying it out. At first nothing happens but then it starts bleeping madly & when Elly looks out of the window & sees lights coming from the graveyard the girls know something's up. There are rumours that Sunday Island's haunted by the ghost of Old Man Blake so perhaps he's trying to tell them something about his inventions.. . But Sierra's sure that ghosts don't exist. So why is she scared of them? & if ghosts don't exist then who was it in the graveyard? Can the girls face their fears & solve the mystery? ...

1916 Calcutta. A man pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeters Gate station knowing he has only hours to live. Pursued by assassins he must ensure the safety of two newborn twins before disappearing into the night to meet his fate. 1932. Ben & his friends are due to leave the orphanage which has been their home for sixteen years. Tonight will be the final meeting of their secret club in the old ruin they christened The Midnight Palace. Then Ben discovers he has a sister
- & together they learn the tragic story of their past as a shadowy figures lures them to a terrifying showdown in the ruins of Jheeters Gate station.
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The book begins with a chase through the streets of Calcutta in May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of the Jheeters Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies
- twins a boy & a girl. Peake entrusts them Aryami Bose. Sixteen years later we meet the boy Ben & his friends. They have formed a secret club The Chowbar Society which meets each week at midnight in the old ruin they have christened The Midnight Palace. Then Aryami Bose turns up with Sheere Bens sister & tells them the story of the parents they never knew. Their father was an engineer & writer who died in tragic circumstances at the inauguration of Jheeters Gate station. But as the novel unfolds there is more to their history than meets the eye & they are lured by a shadowy figure from the past into a final showdown in the ruins.
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Three children whose parents have gone to America try to run a secluded West Country beach hotel on their own. The chaos mounts as they pretend there are adults in charge. A sinister guest brings danger. A ship is grounded off the beach & crates of washed-up cargo are there for the taking. But the wreck was no accident... ...

In a world of shadows & consuming passions desire is the deadliest weapon... Fuelled by pain & rage over a shattering betrayal the warrior Rio has pledged his life to the war against the Rogues. He will let nothing stand in his way
- least of all a mortal woman who carries a secret power. But now an ancient evil has been awakened & a new darkness is on the rise. For journalist Dylan Alexander it began in Prague where suddenly she is at the centre of a gathering storm of violence & secrets. But nothing is as dangerous as the scarred lethally seductive man who appears from the shadows to plunge her into his world of dark desire & endless night. Very soon Dylan will have to choose: leave Rios midnight realm or risk everything for the man who has shown her infinite pleasures of the heart...
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