It is Florence 1691. The Renaissance is long gone & the city is a dark repressive place where everything is forbidden & anything is possible. The Enlightenment may be just around the corner but knowledge is still the property of the few & they guard it fiercely. Art sex & power
- these as always are the obsessions. Facing serious criminal charges Gaetano Zummo is forced to flee his native Siracusa at the age of twenty first to Palermo then Naples but always has the feeling that he is being pursued by his past & that he will never be free of it. Zummo works an artist in wax. He is fascinated by the plague & makes small wooden cabinets in which he places graphic tortured models of the dead & dying. But Cosimo III Tuscany's penultimate Medici ruler gives Zummo his most challenging commission yet & as he tackles it his path entwines with that of the apothecary's daughter Faustina whose secret is even more explosive than his. Poignant but paranoid sensual yet chilling Secrecy is a novel that buzzes with intrigue & ideas. It is a love story a murder mystery a portrait of a famous city in an age of austerity an exercise in concealment & revelation but above all it is a trapdoor narrative one story dropping unexpectedly into another the ground always slippery uncertain...
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Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists authors & philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. & the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health wealth & happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions literature religions & philosophies throughout the centuries. A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato Leonardo Galileo & Einstein. Now 'the secret' is being shared with the world. Beautiful in its simplicity & mind-dazzling in its ability to really work The Secret reveals the mystery of the hidden potential within us all. By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom & spirituality the riveting practical knowledge will lead readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives. ...

Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists authors & philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. & the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health wealth & happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions literature religions & philosophies throughout the centuries. A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato Leonardo Galileo & Einstein. Now 'the secret' is being shared with the world. Beautiful in its simplicity & mind-dazzling in its ability to really work The Secret reveals the mystery of the hidden potential within us all. By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom & spirituality the riveting practical knowledge will lead readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives. ...

Over 80 years ago a young scholar emigrated from Eastern Europe to Jerusalem. Not long thereafter he received a priceless spiritual teaching that revealed the source of lasting joy & fulfilment from a spiritual master whose name he would never disclose not even after he himself became the most renowned Kabbalist of the 20th century. The young scholars name was Rav Yehuda Ashlag & though his letters & writings offer tantalising hints of the wisdom that was given to him the pieces of the puzzle have never been fully assembled until now. Here Michael Berg himself the descendant of great Kabbalists shares the result of years spent studying Rav Ashlags life & work. In this book Berg shows how the secret offers life-changing power. Drawing on stories & insights from Ashlag & other noted mystics Berg explains how to discover ones true purpose in the world & thereby find lasting peace & joy. ...

Agatha Christie's first Tommy & Tuppence mystery adventure reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. Tommy & Tuppence two young people short of money & restless for excitement embark on a daring business scheme
- Young Adventurers Ltd. Their advertisement says they are 'willing to do anything go anywhere'. But their first assignment for the sinister Mr Whittington plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined...
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Splat the Cat turns detective in this hilarious new title in the internationally best-selling series from the creator of Russell the Sheep. Splat the Cat notices that something isnt quite right in his house. First the toy ducks his father makes start to go missing. Then they are mysteriously returned but strangely enough without their beaks! Who could possibly be causing all of this trouble? To solve the mystery Splat musters up his courage & rises to the challenge as Secret Agent Splat! ...

The Secret Anatomy of Candles is a medico-legal mystery drama written by a doctor which is set predominantly in Durham City & the north east of Engl&. Jasper Candle is a ruthless compensation lawyer who finds blame behind every misadventure. But when 3 year old Ollie dies because of the measles vaccination controversy a man recovering from cancer surgery also perishes as a result of an infection caught from another sick patient & Jaspers wife commits suicide in mysterious circumstances Jaspers convictions are tested to the limit. Investigating the enigmatic death of his wife Jasper uncovers a devastating family secret running in his family which forced an impossible choice upon her. As the investigation unfolds Jasper finds blame for her death increasingly difficult to apportion something he is not accustomed to & this re-examination of culpability conflicts strongly with his professional convictions & practices. In the end finding somebody to blame for every event is not always that simple that appropriate nor that desirable. Jasper always tells his clients that blame facilitates closure but ultimately finds that neither blame nor closure can heal everything. ...

Britain 1941. The government is building a secret army of intelligence agents to work undercover gathering information & planning sabotage operations. Henderson's boys are part of that network: kids cut adrift by the war training for the fight of their lives. They'll have to parachute into unknown territory travel cross-country & outsmart a bunch of adults in a daredevil exercise. In wartime Britain anything goes. ...

When Liz learns from one of her agents that suspicious meetings are taking place at an Islamic bookshop she trusts her instinct that a terrorist cell is at work. Her boss Charles Wetherby Director of Counter Terrorism trusts her as well & immediately puts a surveillance operation into place. An attack seems imminent. So Liz is surprised when Wetherby suddenly takes her off the case. & she's shocked to hear the reason why: he has received a tip-off that a mole is at work inside British Intelligence. If true then the potential damage to the Service itself could be immeasurable. Now as her colleagues scramble to avert a terrorist strike Liz must find out who the mole is & what their intentions are before it is too late. ...

The city of Paradys was a place of decadence & decay of luxury & lasciviousness & after the revolution a graveyard peopled ...