BBC Radio 4 Extra Book at beachtime. Joan's voice is almost a whisper. ' Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren't allowed to.' Joan Stanley has a secret. She is a loving mother a doting grandmother & leads a quiet unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door & suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world. Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas & idealists yet unworldly Joan feels better suited to a science lecture & a cup of cocoa. But a chance meeting with the glamorous Russian-born Sonya & her charismatic cousin Leo blurs the edges of the things Joan thought she knew about the world & about herself. In the post-War world of smoke & mirrors allegiance is a slippery thing. Working in a government ministry with access to top-secret information Joan is suddenly faced with the most difficult question of all: what price would you pay to remain true to what you believe? Would you betray your country your family even the man you love? ...

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... ...

From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie & Tornado Down comes this powerful & deeply moving account of Bomber Command's 1944 Nuremberg Raid
- the RAF's bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew losses during the whole of the four-month-long Battle of Britain. This is the story of the air raid intended to be the climax of Sir Arthur ' Bomber' Harris's relentless campaign to defeat Nazi Germany. The target was Nuremberg: 795 aircraft set out nearly 700 men did not return. In ' The Red Line' we meet the young aircrew who flew on the night of 30 March 1944. John Nichol has interviewed the few surviving veterans British & German in the air & on the ground to record the voices of a diminishing generation. While the airmen of Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the conflict their contribution & sacrifice has until recently been sidelined in the face of post-war criticism of Bomber Command's tactics. Yet they were among the best of their generation. John Nichol's dramatic tribute to the men who flew on the RAF's bloodiest raid has provided the surviving veterans with the chance to tell the story of that terrible night
- the night they flew to Nuremberg.

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The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinsons massively successful & lavishly praised Mars trilogy. The ultimate in future history Daily Mail Mars
- the barren forbidding planet that epitomises mankinds dreams of space conquest. From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth & saw a small blue star to the first colonists
- h&-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert
- Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet factions are forming tensions are rising & violence is brewing...for civilization can be very uncivilized.


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Red Men" is a unique & exhaustively researched history of Liverpool Football Club. The key figures of the club are featured including the side's first great manager Tom Watson; Elisha Scott the darling of the Kop in the 1920s; & of course Bill Shankly who won that elusive first FA Cup in 1965. The recent tragedies that have shaped the club's contemporary identity are covered here as are the new Continental influences at Liverpool & of course the glory of Istanbul in 2005 & the return to the club as manager of Kenny Dalglish in 2011. " Red Men" is the definitive history of a remarkable football club from its formation in 1892 to the present day told in the wider context of the social & cultural development of the city of Liverpool & its people." ...

Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender & the mother of a vicious & diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out
- she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings but who is behind them & why? As she learns more Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy & potential terrorism on an international scale. & she is the only one who can stop it...
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Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender & the mother of a vicious & diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out
- she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings but who is behind them & why? As she learns more Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy & potential terrorism on an international scale. & she is the only one who can stop it...
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