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The early twelfth century is a time for ambitious men to prosper
- & royal servant John Fitz Gilbert is one of them. But when the
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In a brutal world charismatic rebel miner Mack Mc Ash
- a slave by birth
- is a man with the courage to stand up for what is

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A redemptive & captivating novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of PS. I Love You. Ever wondered where lost things go? Ever since the day her classmate vanished Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something -- or someone -- disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother who vanished into thin air a year ago. He spots an ad for Sandys missing persons agency & is certain that she will answer his prayers & find his brother. But then Sandy disappears too stumbling upon a place that is a world away from the only one she has ever known. Now all she wants more than anything is to find her way home. ...

This book is all about a sense of place about our fascination with the fact that wherever we are in the world were living breathing feeling & thinking where thousands of other people have done so before us. That fascination is heightened when the location in question has been the scene of great events
- sometimes joyous sometimes calamitous
- a place where history was made. Colin Philpott Director of the National Media Museum takes us on a personal journey around Great Britain to visit destinations such as sports stadiums that were built to stage great events or places made famous by a single event such as a disaster or an event of social political or cultural significance. It also examines what has happened to those places touched by history how changing uses reflect changes in society particularly in economic circumstances & in leisure time. Above all it is a journey to inspire further exploration & discovery & an enduring sense of place.

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From the author of the critically-acclaimed Austerlitz" & " Across the Land & Water comes". "A Place in the Country" the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most brilliant works. When W. G. Sebald the prize-winning author of " Austerlitz" travelled to Manchester in 1966 he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life & during the years when he was settled in Engl&. In "A Place in the Country" he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person & as a writer from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography & essay & finding as ever inspiration in place
- as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre the tiny lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace & inspiration
- Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive inimitable voice. A " Place in the Country" is a window into the mind of this much loved & much missed writer. Praise for W.G. Sebald: "A new kind of writing combining fiction memoir travelogue philosophy & much else besides...greatness in literature is still possible". (John Banville " Irish Times"). " When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience". (" Literary Review"). " Is literary greatness still possible? One of the few answers available to English-Language readers is the work of W.G. Sebald". (Susan Sontag). W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau Germany in 1944. He studied German language & literature in Freiburg Switzerland & Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester & settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia & the author of " Austerlitz"; " The Emmigrants" which won a series of major awards including the Berlin Literature Prize the Heinrich Boll Prize the Heinrich Heine Prize & the Joseph Breitbach Prize."

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Dido Kent's sister-in-law Margaret is attempting to marry her off to the ghastly clergyman Doctor Prowdlee with his abominable side-whiskers. Dido however is determined to refuse him. As punishment she is sent on a journey as companion to her rich hypochondriac Aunt Manners
- whom the family wants to keep on the right side of. When they arrive at Charcombe Manor Aunt Manners' childhood home they find a mystery lying in wait for them. The rich heiress Letitia Verney has disappeared while visiting the house & Mr Tom Lomax is suspected of abducting her. Dido upon hearing his story is inclined to believe in his innocence
- but how is she to explain the impossibility of Miss Verney vanishing into thin air? & there is also the abandoned wing of Charcombe Manor to be considered. Why do lights appear there at night? The house is full of enigmas with its memories of old family quarrels & its crying ghost that keeps visitors awake. As the mystery intensifies Miss Dido Kent embarks on her most intriguing investigation yet.. .

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A riveting psychological thriller now a major ITV drama from the Number One bestselling Queen of crime fiction Val Mc Dermid. In the Peak District village of Scarsdale thirteen-year-old girls didn't just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of '63 everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when Alison vanished decades on she still recalls the sense of fear as parents kept their children close terrified of strangers. Now a journalist she persuades DI George Bennett to speak of the hunt for Alison the tantalizing leads & harrowing dead ends. But when a fresh lead emerges Bennett tries to stop the story
- plunging Catherine into a world of buried secrets & revelations. Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote but just when the book is poised for publication Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past with results that turn the world upside down. A Greek tragedy in modern England A Place of Execution is a taut psychological suspense thriller that uniquely explores exposes & explodes the border between reality & illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their head & reminds us that what we know is what we do not know. A monstrous tale of deception the technique of the telling is the greatest deception of all.
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From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination
- this is Hilary Mantels epic novel
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