When Percy & Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent life for their daughter April changes dramatically. She is befriended by the wonderfully dangerous Ruby whose red hair & brutal home life emphasise her love of fire & by the immaculately dressed Mr Greenridge who likes to follow her around the village. Mingling the innocent with the sinister & laced with the tragic & the bizarre this is a rare evocation of a 1950s childhood. ...

Orchids were once just for the wealthy & the skilled greenhouse grower but now they are for everyone. All too often they are thrown away after flowering
- The Orchid Expert shows you how to make them permanent members of your family with information on: The way to ensure repeat flowering. What to look for when buying a plant. The secrets of success plant by plant. Orchid identification the unique Expert way. Increasing your stock the simple way. Preserving blooms the microwave way. Reliable easy-to-follow advice & information from EXPERT books
- the world's best-selling gardening series.

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Growing orchids has never been more popular. While some orchids are difficult to grow most orchids that can be purchased in nurseries supermarkets & florists. They are easy to grow providing that the instructions on the label are followed. Furthermore orchids are such good value with many flowering for extended periods. Orchids are rewarding subjects for both the amateur & for the serious grower. Whether you grow them on a kitchen window-sill bathroom garden or glasshouse there are orchids that will suit your purpose. In this book Michael Tibbs provides a simple straightforward & well-illustrated guide to: classification & biological structure; choosing the right orchid & establishing a collection; all aspects of cultivation; recognizing & dealing with pests & diseases; entering your orchids in competitions; & cool intermediate & warm climate orchids. ...

This work is packed with photos including 8 pages in full color. Color your world with orchids. Orchids are beautiful fragrant wonderfully varied & surprisingly affordable. But arent they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids keep them healthy encourage blooms & even propagate your own plants. In this work discover how to: select orchids that will thrive in your home; water fertilize repot & propagate orchids; decipher complicated orchid names; get familiar with favorite orchid varieties; & create spectacular orchid displays. ...

Combining the acclaimed trilogy of books BODYGUARD OF LIGHTNING LEGION OF THUNDER & WARRIORS OF THE TEMPEST plus a new short story previously only available in a small press anthology this is the entire story of Stryke & his band of Orcs. Fantasys bad guys finally get their own say in this fast moving action packed tongue in cheek tale or Orc valour & human treachery. ...

Stryke & the Wolverines returned in 2008 in ORCS BAD BLOOD 1: WEAPONS OF MAGICAL DESTRUCTION taking their quest to save the Orc race from both man & the sorceress Jennesta across the

Dimensions. Now they are back in another volume of frenetic action nail-biting adventure & black humour. Orcs warband the Wolverines are stranded in a parallel world. Their only means of escape the mysterious instrumentalities have been seized by their nemesis the depraved sorceress Jennesta. But regaining the artefacts is only one of their problems. To ignite an uprising in the face of ruthless human oppressors commanding magic Stryke & his band must reawaken the lost martial spirit of the worlds indigenous orcs. Youll never look at an Orc again in the same way.

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The original Orcs trilogy ended with Stryke & his band of Orcs finding the ancestral Orc home hidden in another dimension. Orcs Bad Blood will tell the story of their hectic adventures in the other

Dimensions as they attempt to find peace for their race & escape the ever greedy savage expansion of mankind. Fast moving tongue-in-cheek & full of sorcery & bloodshed these are the perfect reads for the fantasy reader who wants a little fresh perspective on the endless war between good & evil.

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Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life
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The Argyle family is far from pleased to discover one of its number has been posthumously pardoned for murder
- if Jacko Argyle
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Believers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics & Michael the Senior Proctor has his work cut out to keep the peace. When a nominalist is murdered during a riot Michael is certain he will easily find the killer amongst the Dominicans but before he can get any sense out of them his junior proctor Walcote is found hanged & he discovers that his trusted ally had arranged secret meetings at the St Ragelund Convent between men who would not normally be seen together
- & the nuns of St Ragelund are renowned for behaviour entirely inappropriate to their calling. Meanwhile Matthew Bartholomew learns that Michael his lifelong friend is in all probability the thief who relieved one of the anti-nominalist colleges of some of their most precious papers. If that charge were proved it would put paid to Michaels long term plans to become Master of Michaelhouse
- but would he kill to protect himself? Unable to believe his colleague would be capable of such acts Bartholomew knows the only way he can quiet his own conscience is to solve the murders himself.

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