Hugh of Singleton fourth son of a minor knight has been educated as a clerk usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith he turns to the profession of surgeon training in Paris & then hanging out his sign in Oxford. A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cess pit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith & her young man whom she had provoked very publicly is in due course arrested & sentenced at the Oxford assizes. From there the tale unfolds with graphic medical procedures droll medieval wit misdirection ambition romantic distractions & a consistent underlying Christian compassion. ...

The Cold Case crime department of Derby Constabulary feels like a morgue to DI Damen Brook. As a maverick cop his bosses think it's the best place for him. But Brook isn't going to go down without a fight. Applying his instincts & razor sharp intelligence he sees a pattern in a series of murders that seem to begin in 1963. How could a killer go undetected for so long? & why are his superiors so keen to drive him down blind alleys? Brook delves deep into the past of both suspects & colleagues unsure where the hunt will lead him. What he does know for sure is that a significant date is approaching fast & the killer is certain to strike again... ...

The Cold Case crime department of Derby Constabulary feels like a morgue to DI Damen Brook. As a maverick cop his bosses think it's the best place for him. But Brook isn't going to go down without a fight. Applying his instincts & razor sharp intelligence he sees a pattern in a series of murders that seem to begin in 1963. How could a killer go undetected for so long? & why are his superiors so keen to drive him down blind alleys? Brook delves deep into the past of both suspects & colleagues unsure where the hunt will lead him. What he does know for sure is that a significant date is approaching fast & the killer is certain to strike again... ...

Danny Mc Rae private detective scraping a living in ration-card London. Eve Copeland crime reporter looking for new angles to save her career. Its an alliance made in heaven. Until Eve disappears a contact dies violently & an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths. His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers double agents & assassins & hurls him into the shattered remains of Berlin where terrorism & espionage foreshadow the bleakness of the Cold War. & Danny begins to lose sight of the thin line between good & evil... ...

24 meets the X Files in the biggest teen blockbuster of the summer...STOP THE COUNTDOWN. SAVE THE WORLD... Leaving the beach seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit head on by a pickup truck. & killed. Then Ben Michaels resident stoner is leaning over her. & even though it isnt possible she knows Ben somehow brought her back to life... Meanwhile Janelles father a special agent for the FBI starts working on a case that seems strangely connected to Ben. Digging in his files Janelle finds a mysterious device
- one that seems to be counting down to something that will happen in 23 days & 10 hours time. That something? It might just be the end of the world. & if Janelle wants to stop it shes going to need to uncover Bens secrets
- & keep from falling in love with him in the process...

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' He has known all forms of fear he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man
- like myself as a matter of fact
- for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this way about death & risk he seems to be implying quite consciously that by testing his luck each time he is testing his Maker's indulgence'
- John le Carre ' Mc Cullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about'
- The Times ' From the opening...there is hardly a dull sentence: his prose is so lively & uninhibited... An excellent book'
- Sunday Telegraph ' Unsparing reminiscences that effectively combine the bittersweet life of a world-class photojournalist with a generous selection of his haunting lifework...A genuinely affecting memoir that reckons the cost & loss involved in making one's way on the cutting edge of conflict'
- Kirkus Reviews ' If this was just a book of Mc Cullin's war photographs it would be valuable enough. But it is much more'
- Sunday Correspondent






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I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War but for the moment that did not affect me. In the first instalment of Clive Jamess memoirs we meet the young Clive dressed in short trousers & wrestling with the demands of school various relatives & the occasional snake in the suburbs of post-war Sydney. His adventures are hilarious his recounting of them even more so in this -- the book that started it all.. . You cant put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed Sunday Times All that really needs to be said to recommend Unreliable Memoirs is that James writes exactly as he talks which is all his millions of fans could wish Evening Standard ...

Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism John Simpson has become not only one of the most recognisable & trusted British personalities but has transferred his skill to books with multiple bestselling success. With his new book he turns his eye to how Great Britain has been transformed by its free press down the years. He shows how while the press likes to pretend its independent they have enjoyed the power they have over the events they report & have at times exercised it irresponsibly. He examines how it changed the world & changed itself over the course of the last hundred years from the creation of the Daily Mail" & the first stokings of anti-German sentiment in the years leading up to the First World War to the Suns propping up of the Thatcher government & beyond. In this self-analysis from one of the pillars of modern journalism some searching questions are asked including whether the press can ever be truly free & whether we would desire it to be so. Always incisive brilliantly readable & never shy of controversy " Lies Like Truth" sees John Simpson at the height of his game as one of Britains foremost commentators." ...

Seventeen-year-old Elliott hasnt slept properly for six months. Not since the accident that nearly killed him. Now he is afraid to go to sleep. Sometimes he wakes to find himself paralysed unable to move a muscle while shadowy figures move around him. Other times he is the one moving around while his body lies asleep on the bed. According to his doctor sleep paralysis & out of body experiences are harmless
- but to Elliot theyre terrifying. Convinced that his brush with death has opened up connections with the spirit world Elliott secures a live-in job at one of Englands most haunted locations determined to find out the truth. There he finds Sebastian the ghost of a long-dead servant boy hanged for stealing bread. He also meets the living breathing Ophelia a girl with secrets of her own. She & Elliott grow closer but things take a terrifying turn when Elliott discovers Sebastian is occupying his body when he leaves it. & the more time Sebastian spends inhabiting a living body the more resistant he becomes to giving it back. Worse he seems to have an unhealthy interest in Ophelia. Unless Elliott can lay Sebastians spirit to rest he risks being possessed by him for ever & losing the girl of his dreams...
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