England 1911. When a free-spirited young woman arrives in a sleepy Berkshire village to work as a maid in the household of The Reverend & Mrs Canning she sets in motion a chain of events which changes all their lives. For Cat has a past
- a past her new mistress is willing to overlook but will never understand.. . This is not all Hester Canning has to cope with. When her husband invites a young man into their home he brings with him a dangerous obsession... During the long oppressive summer the rectory becomes charged with ambition love & jealousy
- with the most devastating consequences.

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Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. & now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic so they're in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can a maker of jolly good pies a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been & the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt not even Mr Nutt which worries him too). As the match approaches four lives are entangled & changed for ever. Because the thing about football
- the important thing about football
- is that it is not just about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

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Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork
- not the old fashioned grubby pushing & shoving but the new fast football
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The thing about football
- the important thing about football
- is that it is not just about football. Football is supposed

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Penelope Shuttle is one of Britains leading poets. This selection
- drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus
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The first modern work to give a comprehensive picture of the RMS Titanic & the people intertwined with her fate from disaster to recovery. Drawn from primary sources & contemporary accounts & updated to coincide with the April 2012 anniversary this new heart-rending narrative allows readers to come to their own conclusions about this legendary vessel. Daniel Allen Butler spend more than 30 years researching the work delving into the lives of every principal participant. In addition to examining the roles played by individual he also looks into the problems of equipment & errors in technical data that resulted in the deaths of 1502 people. Rather than focussing on the night of the tragedy alone he also investigates the events leading up to & following the fateful night. ...

While many set out to commit the perfect crime & ultimately fail by being caught & convicted there are a plethora of unsolved cases throughout history. Unsolved Crimes takes a look at numerous unsolved homicides committed throughout the 20th century as well as some carefully planned robberies that still leave the authorities stumped many years later. This book provides a fascinating insight into some of the most riveting cases of the past 100 years including the Black Dahlia Julia Wallace Peter Falconio
- the British backpacker who disappeared in the Australian outback in July 2001
- & high profile murders such as Jill Dando Stephen Lawrence Suzy Lamplugh Carl Bridgewater & Genette Tate. Serial killers such as Jack the Stripper the Zodiac Killer & Bible John are investigated as well as the Babes in the Wood killings that horrified the nation & the mysterious deaths of Rudolf Diesel Natalie Wood & Robert Maxwell are scrutinised. These & many other cases still continue to baffle & challenge all those involved & provide a fascinating backdrop to crimes of the 20th century & beyond.

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Unsolved crimes have a special fascination none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself & the mystery surrounding it the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose the insight the cases give into outdated police methods & the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed
- all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. In this companion volume to his bestselling Unsolved Murders of Victorian & Edwardian London Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 haunting sometimes shocking cases from the period between the two world wars. Included are the shooting of PC James Kelly in Gunnersbury violent deaths associated with Fenian Conspiracies the stabbing of the French acrobat Martial Lechevalier in Piccadilly the strychnine poisoning of egg-seller Kusel Behr the killing by arsenic of three members of a Croydon family & perhaps most gruesome of all the case of the unidentified body parts found at Waterloo Station. Jonathan Oates describes each of these crimes in precise forensic detail. His case studies shed light on the lives of the victims & summon up the ruthless sometimes lethal character of London itself.
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' Truth will come to light murder cannot be hid long a man's son may but at the length truth will out.' said Launcelot in The Merchant of Venice. Whilst the passage of time can & has uncovered many secrets killers could get away with their crimes in 1596 when Shakespeare penned these words & this is certainly the case in more recent times as Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire clearly demonstrate. The early chapters include cases of historic interest where killers certainly went to the grave in the knowledge they had got away with murder. Cases include suspicious deaths which left detectives in South Yorkshire baffled but which were it would seem acts of callous murder which were not recognised as such due to dubious police opinions & practices. There are also cases of clear murder such as a man shot in the head during the Victorian period whose killer was never identified. The later chapters however feature more recent cold cases where there is still the possibility that the wicked men or women who were responsible for such acts of inhumanity may remain within our society. Cases include a man murdered for less than GBP70 in a city centre multi storey car park a teenage girl abducted sexually assaulted & left dead on a dung hill a young mother who entered prostitution & died at the hands of a man with more than sex on his mind a pregnant woman who left home one day to go shopping but was found days later dead in a ditch with her throat cut & a disabled woman who was strangled in her home which was then set ablaze. For some of these cases there is the chance that someone has information which despite the passage of decades could lead to one or more individuals standing trial for murder. Justice can still prevail. ...

Unsolved crimes have a particular fascination none more so than unsolved murders. The horror of the crime itself the mystery surrounding it the notion of a killer on the loose the insight into primitive police work the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed
- all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. For this collection Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 varied & intriguing cases from the late 1830s to just before the Great War. Among them are the headless body found in a bag at Waterloo Bridge the pregnant maid who was bludgeoned to death the blackmailer whose corpse was discovered in the gutter the shooting of the night watchman at the Caf A (c) Royal the barmaid whose corpse rode the train from Hounslow to Waterloo the dead girl packed in a parcel & the enigmatic case of Frances Coles the Whitechapel prostitute who may have been Jack the Rippers ultimate victim. Each of these case histories is recounted in precise sometimes shocking detail. The inadequacy of the detection & forensic techniques employed over a century ago is revealed as is the corrupt & brutal side of life in the Victorian city.
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