Imprisoned in the Druid's Keep young Pen Ohmsford is separated from all who care for him & at the mercy of the usurper Shadea a' Ru who will do anything to destroy the rightful High Druid. Although Pen was successful in his mission to obtain the magical staff called the Tanequil Shadea has taken it from him. Without the Tanequil Pen cannot open the gateway to the Forbidden & rescue his aunt the rightful High Druid. Pen has allies but they are under siege as well
- his parents fleeing from the Druids the Rock Troll Kermadec & the dwarf Tagwen far away & the young elf Khyber Elessedil in deadly danger within the Druid's stronghold. Can the scattered band of friends join forces in time to defeat Shadea's evil plot?
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Fatigued by bloated big-game football & bored of samey big cities Daniel Gray went in search of small town Scotland & its teams. At a time when the Scottish club game is drifting towards its lowest ebb once more Stramash singularly fails to wring its hands & address the state of the game preferring instead to focus on Bobby Manns waistline. Part travelogue part history & part mistakenly spilling ketchup on the face of a small child Stramash takes an uplifting look at the countrys nether regions. Using the excuse of a match to visit places from Dumfries to Dingwall Gray surveys Scotlands towns & teams in their present state. Stramash accomplishes the feats of visiting Dumfries without mentioning Robert Burns being positive about Cumbernauld & linking Elgin City to Lenin. It is ae fond look at Scotland as youve never seen it before. ...

If no one knows you're missing how can you be found? The unmissable new novel from the queen of psychological suspenseful women's fiction. Bruised from the breakdown of her marriage Esther Lomax needs to get away & Malaysia's unspoilt shores seem the perfect place. But a day's boat trip takes a desperate turn when Esther & six other holidaymakers are taken to a desert island & their guide does not return. The group have no way of getting back to the mainland & know nothing about each other. As the days pass tensions erupt secrets emerge & time increasingly runs out Esther must ask herself the ultimate question: will she leave the island alive? ...

For decades tired travellers have stopped at rest areas on America's epic highways to rest refuel & get a bite to eat but little do they know that one man's rest stop is another's hunting ground. For years the defenceless the weary & the stranded have been disappearing along the highways & byways vanishing without a trace. When FBI special agent Maggie O' Dell & her partner Tully discover the remains of a young woman in a highway ditch the one clue left behind is a map that will send Maggie & Tully on a frantic hunt crisscrossing the country to stop a madman before he kills again. As the body count rises & Maggie races against the clock to unmask the monster who's terrorising the nation's highways she turns for help to a former foe who seems to have an uncanny knack for guessing what the killer's next move will be. But as she gets closer to finding the killer it becomes eerily clear that Maggie is the ultimate target. ...

This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool & Liverpool Strands" is about what is lost & buried then discovered about all the things you find on a beach dead or alive about flotsam & jetsam about mutability & transformation
- about sea-change. Every so often the sands shift enough to reveal great mysteries: the Star of Hope wrecked on Mad Wharf in 1883 & usually just visible as a few wooden stumps is suddenly raised one day up from the depths
- an entire wreck black & barnacled & on either side two more ruined ships taking the air for a while before sinking back under the s&. & stranger still perhaps are the prehistoric footprints of humans animals & birds on the beach: prints from the Late Mesolithic to mid-Neolithic period which are described as 'ephemeral archaeology' because they are preserved in the Holocene sediment revealed briefly & then destroyed by the next tide. " Strands" describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal & constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses lugworms sea potatoes messages in bottles buried cars beached whales & a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. Jean Sprackland a prize-winning poet & natural storyteller is the perfect guide to these shifting sands
- this place of transformation."


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When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale where a young woman has been found dead in her car. In the victim's pocket scribbled on a slip of paper police discover Banks' name & address. Living in Roy's empty South Kensington house Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew nor even liked. & as he begins to uncover a few troubling surprises the two cases become sinisterly entwined. ' The Banks novels are simply put the best series now on the market'
- Stephen King.
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Carla Craig is passionately in love with Richard Mere
- he has a hold over her she cant resist. Even when her world is blown apart
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Dru Anderson: Night Hunter. Knife Wielder. Heart Breaker. Dru can sense evil which helps when she & her Dad are tracking down ghosts suckers wulfen & the occasional reanimated corpse. Its a dangerous life but its the only one she knows. Then Drus dad turns up dead & she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a deadly game where every move she makes could be her last. Dru is more special than she realizes
- & whatever killed her dad could be coming for her next. Can Dru stay alive long enough to fall for one
- or both
- of the guys hungry for her affections? Find out in the heart-stopping first book in a thrilling series.


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Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. ' All human beings as we meet them are commingled out of good & evil.' After taking an elixir created in his laboratory mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel & despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first things soon descend into chaos & Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stop Hyde. Stevenson's quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conflict between psychology science & religious morality but is fundamentally a triumphant study of the duality of human nature. ...