Covering all the Framework objectives using a clearly structured & rigorous approach Nelson Thornes Framework English" offers an attractive & dynamic route through the demands of the Framework for Teaching English Years 7-9 laying particular emphasis on the basic skills of English in order to raise standards in writing. Covering fiction & non-fiction using the popular twin-track approach each student text provides 18 units of themed stimulus texts plus differentiated activities at word sentence & text levels. It addresses the academic dip in attainment in Year 8 provides preparation for optional tests in Year 8 & prepares students for Key Stage 4 by raising standards of achievement." ...

Nelson: A Dream of Glory" is the most comprehensive & thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vivid & compelling style." ...

Born in Serbia Nemanja began playing football at the age of just seven & was quickly spotted by local clubs
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The investigative journalist & author of Ari draws on interviews with Aristotle Onassis & his closest associates & family members to profile the feud between Onassis & the Kennedy family documenting such areas as Robert Kennedys role in barring Onassis from U.S. trade & the shipping magnates early relationship with Jacqueline. Reprint. ...

OVER 9 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE How do you catch a killer when you're the number one suspect? A man is caught on CCTV shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12 hours. Then the girl is found dead in mysterious circumstances & he beings to receive threatening emails: is someone trying to frame him for her death? As Harry fights to clear his name the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery... ...

Summer 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark' a terrifying epidemic is raging threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming paralysis life-long disability even death. Vigorous decent twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges & disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear the panic the anger the bewilderment the suffering & the pain. Through this story runs the dark question that haunts all four of Roth's late short novels Everyman Indignation The Humbling & now Nemesis: what choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is each of us up against the force of circumstances? ...

After Istvaan V Horus declares outright war against the Imperium. In the shadows of the Emperors Palace powerful figures convene. Their plan
- to send a team of assassins to execute the arch-traitor Horus & end the war for the galaxy of mankind before its even begun. But what they cannot know is that another assassin is abroad already with his sights firmly set on killing the Emperor.
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A message from a dead acquaintance prompts a bus tour to an unknown crime... In utter disbelief Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel
- an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. Recognising in Miss Marple a natural flair for justice Mr Rafiel had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was he had failed to tell her who was involved or where & when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing.
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A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form
- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design.
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In the high summer of 77AD Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved & facing unexpected upheavals in his life it is a relief for him to consider someone elses misfortunes. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father Geminus have disappeared in mysterious circumstances. They had an old feud with a bunch of notorious freedmen the Claudii who live rough in the pestilential Pontine Marshes terrorising the neighbourhood. When a mutilated corpse turns up near Rome Falco & his vigiles friend Petronius investigate even though it means travelling in the dread marshes. But just as they are making progress the Chief Spy Anacrites snatches their case away from them. As his rivalry with Falco escalates he makes false overtures of friendship but fails to cover up the fact that the violent Claudii have acquired corrupt protection at the highest level. Making further enquiries after they have been warned off can only be dangerous
- but when did that stop Falco & Petronius? Egged on by the slippery bureaucrats who hate Anacrites the dogged friends dig deeper while a psychotic killer keeps taking more victims & the shocking truth creeps closer & closer to home...
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