King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table is one of the worlds greatest legends. Everyone knows the story of the boy who pulled the sword from the stone who was mentored by the great wizard Merlin who broke the sword & retrieved it from the Lady of the Lake who was finally betrayed by Guinevere leading to his final battle & his death on the Isle of Avalon. Yet little is known of the truth behind the great story. This book enters the realm of conjectural history
- the blurred middle ground between fact & fiction
- to separate the fiction from the facts. Known events are linked to probable facts & compared to imprints on the landscape; the aim being to build a starting point for archaeological investigations & to finally discover the truth of King Arthur & his Knights of the Round Table.

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Life dealt Mary Queen of Scots love intensity betrayal & tragedy in generous measure. On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots" traces the major events in the turbulent life of the beautiful enigmatic queen whose romantic reign & tragic destiny exerts an undimmed fascination. Here is the essential guide to over 200 Mary Queen of Scots sites of interest in Scotland England & France. It is fully illustrated with maps & plans & clearly shows the best tour routes region by region. Sites to visit in Scotland include: Linlithgow Palace
- Mary's birthplace now a magnificent ruin.; Stirling Castle
- where only nine months old Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland; The Palace of Holyrood House
- Rizzio one of Mary's many lovers was murdered here
- some say his blood still stains the spot where he was stabbed to death; & Fotheringay
- after 16 years' imprisonment Mary met her death on the executioner's block."




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Well " said Claire "there was a very big bad wolf.. . Claire has hurt her knee so she sets off home to tell her mum all about it. On the way she meets her friends & tells them how the fall happened. But just how did it happen.. .? Was she dropped by a wolf a slithering snake an enormous dragon or a hairy gorilla? By the author & illustrator of the bestselling " Peace At Last" & " Whatever Next" this is a fantastic journey of the imagination that every child can relate to." ...

Unlike most men of his acquaintance Gregory Bridgerton is a firm believer in true love. Hed have to be an idiot not to be: all seven of his siblings are happily married. Gregory figures he is just biding his time until the right woman comes along. & so when he sees Hermione Watson he knows with every fibre of his being that she is meant to be his. But through Hermiones closest
- & slightly less beautiful
- friend Lucy Abernathy he finds out that Hermione is desperately in love with another man. Sadly by the time Gregory figures out the right girl is actually the wrong girl & the right girl was Lucy all along its too late. Lucy is to marry another! Now
- on the way to the wedding
- Gregory must figure out how to thwart the nuptials & convince Lucy that she was always meant to be his



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Frankie fears her dreams of ice-skating stardom are over when a skiing injury means she's unable to enter the World Junior Championships. So when Frankie is matched with Paul
- another injured-skater
- for the Pairs Competition Frankie is delighted. But this is no match made in heaven. Paul's reluctance to share the spotlight makes teamwork virtually impossible & his fierce ambition appears to be masking a deeper worry. If only Frankie could be paired with tall talented Dylan
- when they skate together Frankie feels like a perfect 6.0. Skating in synch with Paul is tough enough so when he suggests spicing up their routine with a stunning
- but notoriously difficult
- skating move Frankie's concerned. While it's guaranteed to grab attention Frankie fears that if they fail on the ice people will be talking about them for all the wrong reasons. What's more Paul insists they keep this a secret from their coach & following Frankie's maverick moves in last year's routine she's already skating on thin ice. Ultimately Paul's mad desire for victory could even get them kicked out of Skate School. Frankie's a strong skater with a big personality
- but is she strong enough to stand up to Paul?





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In 2001 Nick Brandt embarked on an ambitious photographic project a trilogy of books memorialising the vanishing natural grander of East Africa. Focusing on of the world's last great populations of large mammals; elephants giraffes lions gorillas & their kin he created two of the new century's most influential photographic books: On This Earth (2005) & A Shadow Falls (2009). His iconic portraits of these majestic animals express & empathy usually reserved for human subjects. The magisterial On This Earth A Shadow Falls collects the most memorable images from Brandt's first two books along with their accompanying essays. A testament to the bookmaker's craft it is the first volume on Brandt's work to capture the superb quality of his remarkable large format prints which are notable for their velvet blacks & tonal subtleties. Brandt is currently completing the final volume of his trilogy documenting the fate of the great animals of East Africa. ...

Shane Warne is one of the most fascinating sports people on the planet. You might not follow cricket you may never have even seen Warne on the cricket field yet you know who he is what he looks like & what is going on in his personal life at any given time. Selected as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century Warne dazzled opposition batsmen & cricket fans alike with his bowling on the field & his outspokenness & scandals off it. Gideon Haigh one of the worlds most celebrated cricket journalists tackles this great personality in his unique style. How has Warne shaped sport & how has sport has shaped him? Who is the real man behind the back page & front page headlines? ...

This stunning wedding card is perfect for congratulating the newly married couple on their special day! Features a pair of ...

Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this charming book. Weaving together memoir & historical anecdote he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography. Learning to drive was no easy matter for Michael: the lessons required military precision when practising how to get in & out of his car correctly. His biographical subjects also had their difficulties: Bernard Shaw drove with reckless gusto when overtaking his eightieth year; Vita Sackville-Wests car became a chamber for sudden romantic assignations & getaways; while Augustus John & his family careered through vulnerable villages as the poor vehicle piled high with bohemian friends stuttered & jerked along in first gear. Wry thoughtful & very funny On Wheels is an elegy to the glamour of the car. Subtle & perceptive Michael Holroyd finds surprising ways to understand the past & challenge our view of the future. ...

On Wings of Eagles is the account of an incredible rescue by a Green Beret colonel & a group of corporate executives hastily trained into a fighting team. When Ross Perot millionaire head of the Dallas-based company EDS discovered that two of his key men in Iran had been jailed he turned to the one man in America who could help. Colonel Bull Simons famed World War II & Vietnam commando agreed to do what the US government could not -- go in & get the men out. This is the stuff of Follets fiction -- a secret penetration into a dangerous territory; a dramatic jailbreak; a harrowing overland escape to the Turkish border -- & all the more extraordinary because it is fact. ...