Despatches from the secret world behind the headlines. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his seventeenth novel filled with his trademark action thrills & inside knowledge. Osama Bin Laden is dead. The President of the United States knows it. The world knows it. & SAS hero Joe Mansfield knows it. He was on the ground in Pakistan when it happened. He saw Seal Team 6 go in & he saw them extract with their grisly cargo. He was in the right place at the right time. Or maybe the wrong place at the wrong time. Because now somebody wants Joe dead & they're willing to do anything to make it happen. His world is violently dismantled. His family is targeted his reputation destroyed. & as a mysterious & ruthless enemy plans a devastating terror attack on both sides of the Atlantic Joe knows this: his only chance of survival is to find out what happened in Bin Laden's compound the night the Americans went in. But an unseen menacing power has footprints it needs to cover. & it will stop at nothing to prevent him uncovering the sinister truth... ...

The first book in the gruesomely funny Tales from Schwartzgarten series. Meet Osbert Brinkhoff the unlikeliest of avengers. His is a tale of dark delights & ghastly goings-on of injustice & revenge. The villains are vicious. The settings are sinister. & good does NOT always prevail... If you prefer cleavers to kittens & fiends to fairies...then welcome to the GRUESOMELY FUNNY Tales from Schwartzgarten. ...

When Kate Allans beloved black cat Oscar is found lying severely injured in a field near their Jersey home she is sure the accident-prone boy has met his end. With both hind legs severed by a combine-harvester his life hangs in the balance; luckily for Oscar his vet knows Noel Fitzpatrick star of BBC Ones The Bionic Vet who agrees to try pioneering surgery to replace his legs with specially created prosthetics. This is the amazing true account of a loving family faced with agonising decisions & unexpected twists of fate & a courageous black feline destined to become the worlds first bionic cat. ...

Explore the natural world with Oscar as he sees tadpoles seeds & eggs & learns to understand the concept of growth. Offering a whole new storytelling experience this picture book & DVD edition features a charming story animation narrated by Emilia Fox. Running time: Approx. 6 minutes. ...

In OSCAR WILDE & THE CANDLELIGHT MURDERS the first in Gyles Brandreths acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde & Arthur Conan Doyle the brutal murder of a young rent-boy puts Oscar in grave danger... Intelligent amusing & entertaining Alexander Mc Call Smith London 1889. Oscar Wilde celebrated poet wit playwright & raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime
- but it is Wildes unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life from society drawing rooms & the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. The Oscar Wilde Murders is a gripping detective story of corruption & intrigue of Wildes growing success of the breakdown of his marriage & of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser Inspector at Scotland Yard... Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London Paris Oxford & Edinburgh Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wildes trademark sardonic wit with huge flair intertwining all the intrigue of the classic English murder mystery with a compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.
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In OSCAR WILDE & THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde & Arthur Conan Doyle Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless & fiendishly clever serial killer. ' Intelligent amusing & entertaining' Alexander Mc Call Smith It is 1897 Dieppe. Oscar Wilde poet playwright novelist raconteur & ex-convict has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink & the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. He has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill solitary confinement censored letters no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation Oscar's astonishing detective powers remain undiminished
- & when first a brutal warder & then the prison chaplain are found murdered who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol's most celebrated inmate? In this the latest novel in his acclaimed Oscar Wilde murder mystery series Gyles Brandreth takes us deep into the dark heart of Wilde's cruel incarceration.
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In OSCAR WILDE & THE NEST OF VIPERS the fourth in Gyles Brandreths acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde & Arthur Conan Doyle the Prince of Wales asks Oscar to investigate a scandalous crime at the very heart of Victorian high society... Intelligent amusing & entertaining Alexander Mc Call Smith The story opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke & Duchess of Albemarle. All Londons haut monde is there including the Prince of Wales who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar & Bertie have met Oscar seems far more interested in Rex La Salle a young actor who disarmingly claims to be a vampire... However what begins as a diverting evening ends in tragedy. As the guests are leaving the Duchess is found murdered two tiny puncture marks in her throat. No one has entered the house; no one has left. Desperate to avoid another scandal the Prince of Wales asks Oscar to investigate the crime. What he discovers threatens to destroy the very heart of the Royal Family... ...

In OSCAR WILDE & THE RING OF DEATH the second in Gyles Brandreths acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde & Arthur Conan Doyle a parlour game of Murder has lethal consequences... Intelligent amusing & entertaining Alexander Mc Call Smith I see murder in this unhappy h&... When Mrs Robinson palmist to the Prince of Wales reads Oscar Wildes palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when that same evening he proposes a game of Murder in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen victims begin to die mysteriously one by one & in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag... With growing horror Wilde & his confidantes Robert Sherard & Arthur Conan Doyle realise that one of their guests that evening must be the murderer. In a race against time Wilde will need all his powers of deduction & knowledge of human behaviour before he himself
- the thirteenth name on the list
- becomes the killers next victim.

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Hannah is delighted to receive a Dalmation puppy Oscar just before Christmas. She wishes she could spend all her time with her gorgeous puppy but she has her school Christmas play to rehearse. Meanwhile Oscar feels lonely & neglected. Why doesnt Hannah want to be with him any more? ...

Following the familiar easy-to-use at a Glance format OSCEs at a Glance 2nd Edition is both a revision guide & a comprehensive introduction to objective structured clinical examinations for medical students. Fully revised to suit the current curriculum & written with student feedback & experiences in mind this full-colour textbook contains brand new & comprehensively indexed chapters which include 32 new OSCE stations covering distinct areas of specialisation as well as broader practical & communication skills covered in the exams. This new edition of OSCEs at a Glance is also supported by a companion website at www.ataglanceseries.com/osces containing downloadable OSCE checklists
- perfect for testing knowledge on the run-up to exams.
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