Following his adventures in THE DARK MOON THE JASPER FOREST & THE CRYSTAL DESERT Terrel travels ever onwards hoping that each step will take him closer to his homeland of Vadanis. Now Terrel finds himself in the war-torn land of Takkuk where no one can remember a time before conflict & no one but the powerful sorcerers know the cause of it. Horrified to learn that the powers of nature are being harnessed for use as weapons Terrel discovers that a volcano among the glaciers is home to a deadly presence.. . Look out for more information on this book & others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk ...

Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal' 'load of old codswallop' 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this irreverent journey through the most fascinating & richest regions of the English language. In a book that takes you all over the world from nautical origins to food & drink terms once you have learnt one phrase you will be eager to learn them all! From the drop of a hat to the bitter end
- you'll be surprised & intrigued & you'll never speak English in the same way again.
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No sooner has Batmans former sidekick Jason Todd put his past as the Red Hood behind him than he finds himself cornered by a pair of modern day outlaws: Green Arrows rejected sidekick Arsenal the damaged soldier of fortune & the alien Starfire a former prisoner of intergalactic war who wont be chained again. As a loner Jason has absolutely no interest in this motley crew of outlaws. So whats he going to do when they choose the Red Hood as their leader? ...

Trees Cant Dance began over 4 years ago at the worlds most northerly chilli farm. Against all conventional horticultural wisdom Dan May began growing chillies in the wilds of Northumberl&. It wasnt long before Dan had to find something to do with all the produce. Disappointed with the quality of the chilli sauce brands available in the UK he hit on the idea of filling a gap in the market by producing his own sauces using home-grown ingredients. In this fabulous book chilli guru Dan shares more than 70 recipes celebrating chillies in all their varieties & strengths. Acquaint yourself with the history of chillies how to grow them at home & how to identify the key varieties. There are ideas here for every kind of dish: soups & salads; nibbles & sharing plates; mains; side dishes; sauces salsas & marinades; sweet things & drinks. Mouthwatering recipes include Thai Beef Noodle Soup; Moroccan Spiced Lamb Burgers; Texas Marinated Steak with Stuffed Mushrooms; Sweet Chilli-glazed Ham; Quick Chilli Lime Mayonnaise; three fiery pasta sauces; Chilli Pecan Brownies; & Chilli Hot Chocolate. ...

Family that slippery word a star to every wandering bark & everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mothers death Richard a newly remarried hospital consultant decides to build bridges with his estranged sister inviting Angela & her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults & four children a single family & all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals log fires card games & wet walks. But in the quiet & stillness of the valley ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past & present lovers. Friends enemies victims saviours. & watching over all of them from high on the dark hill Karen Angelas stillborn daughter. The Red House is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary weaving the words & thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter stranger voices
- of books & letters & music of the dead who once inhabited these rooms of the ageing house itself & the landscape in which it sits. Once again Mark Haddon bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time & A Spot of Bother has written a novel that is funny poignant & deeply insightful about human lives.
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Red Kite Country" is a celebration of the wildlife & landscape of Mid Wales. Through their superb photographs & beautiful ...

This is a world dominated by The Wild. Man lives in pockets of civilisation claimed from The Wild. Within mens walls life is civilised the peace punctuated by tournaments politicking courtly love & canny business. Beyond those walls men are prey
- vulnerable to the exceptionally powerful & dangerous creatures which populate the land & even more vulnerable to those creatures schemes. So when one of those creatures breaks out of The Wild & begins preying on people in their homes it takes a specialist to hunt it down or drive it out.. .and even then its a long difficult & extremely dangerous job. The Black Captain & his men are one such group of specialists. They have no idea what theyre about to face.. . Forget George & the Dragon. Forget Sir Lancelot & tales of Knightly exploits. This is dirty bloody work. This is violent visceral action. This is a mercenary knight as youve never seen one before.
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As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics
- The New 52 event of September 2011 Atrocitus & his Red Lantern Corps return in their own
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Recently married to Dermot & tipped as Ireland's hottest new designer Celine Moore is relaxed happy & looking forward to an exciting future. Why then just five years later is she barely able to hold her head up high in her local Dublin neighbourhood at odds with her father & sister-in-law & accepting a job in a second hand clothes shop? Celine's life changed the night Dermot failed to return from work. The shock of Dermot's violent end destroys all her happiness & ambition. Aching loneliness & anger take their place & without thinking through the consequences Celine embarks on an affair with a married man. Desperate to put some distance between herself & the local gossips a new start in a new place & a new job seems like the perfect opportunity to start again. But it's not long before she realizes that however much you try to run away your past has a habit of catching up with you dramatically in the end... ...

Hayley Phillips has come to Memphis hoping for a new start for herself & her unborn child. She isn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz just a job. What she finds is a home complete with resident ghost & the best friends she's ever had. & if Roz's son Harper occasionally shows up in her private fantasies as more than a friend...well she'll just have to get over it. Her new daughter Lily is the focus of her life now; & Hayley is reluctant to risk her friendship with Harper & her new life on the promise of an affair. However the ghost
- a madwoman who has been haunting the family home for centuries
- has now turned her attentions to Hayley consuming her thoughts & dreams. Harper is determined to protect her but before Hayley can begin to trust her growing feelings for him they must battle to discover the truth behind the ghost's despair so that they can finally lay her spirit to rest.

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