The Vikings famously took no prisoners relished cruel retribution & prided themselves on their bloody-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west & as far as Baghdad in the east. As the Vikings did not write their history we have to discover it for ourselves & that discovery as Neil Oliver reveals tells an extraordinary story of a people who from the brink of destruction reached a quarter of the way around the globe & built an empire that lasted nearly two hundred years. Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? & just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1000 years ago? VIKINGS will explore many of these questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world's great empires of conquest. ...

This book lets you discover the dramatic world of the Celts & Vikings with how-to projects & 400 pictures. It features 30 fun step-by-step projects help you to recreate the past & learn through experience while having fun. Fascinating fact boxes provide extra insights & highlight links between the past & the present day. Packed with over 400 color photographs which add a high degree of visual impact to aid learning & make information accessible at many different levels. Illustrations include cross-sections historical maps & pictorial time lines. This book is ideal for home or school use for 8 to 12 year olds
- a really stimulating & practical reference book that feels like fun not work. Two thousand years ago the warlike Celts dominated northern & central Europe. Hundreds of years later a group of fearsome fighters known as the Vikings raided parts of Europe from the North. 30 step-by-step projects help to bring these two warrior cultures alive in this fun & fact packed book. Complete with cross-sections historical maps & pictorial time line there is plenty to provide extra insight into these societies & highlight links with the present.
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Enter the enchanting world of make-believe in Fairy Tales the first work of fiction by groundbreaking Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf. Beautifully illustrated by the designers themselves their surreal fairytales feature a lonely disco hedgehog a magical golden dress & a little girl with bright red hair as well as many other memorable characters. This sumptuous book is essential reading for style-conscious babies fashionistas & anyone with a hankering for some luxurious escapism. ...

Fight the Beasts Fear the Magic! Join the hero Tom on a high-action adventure with terrible Beasts & deadly danger! Tom must face not one but two Beasts on his next amazing Quest! The forests of Avantia are stalked by Viktor the Deadly Archer who rides a terrible skeleton horse. Will Tom prevail against double the danger? ...

Evelyn Waughs acidly funny & formally daring satire Vile Bodies" reveals the darkness & vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life. This " Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Richard Jacobs. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges wistful & vulnerable beneath the glitter. " The Bright Young Things" of twenties Mayfair with their paradoxical mix of innocence & sophistication exercise their inventive minds & vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade
- whether promiscuity dancing cocktail parties or sports cars. In a quest for treasure a favourite party occupation a vivid assortment of characters among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes & the glamorous aristocratic Nina Blount hunt fast & furiously for ever greater sensations & the fulfilment of unconscious desires. Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead second son of Arthur Waugh publisher & literary critic & brother of Alec Waugh the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti & his first novel " Decline & Fall" which was soon followed by " Vile Bodies" (1930) "A Handful of Dust" (1934) & " Scoop" (1938). In 1942 he published " Put Out More Flags" & then in 1945 " Brideshead Revisited". " Men at Arms" (1952) was the first volume of " The Sword of Honour" trilogy & won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes " Officers & Gentlemen" & " Unconditional Surrender" followed in 1955 & 1961. If you enjoyed " Vile Bodies" you might like Waughs "A Handful of Dust" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " The high point of the experimental original Waugh". (Malcolm Bradbury " Sunday Times"). " This brilliantly funny anxious & resonant novel.. .the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade". (Richard Jacobs). " Its Britains Great Gatsby". (Stephen Fry director of " Vile Bodies" film adaptation " Bright Young Things")."
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There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The Vile Village": Why would anyone want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows an angry mob a newspaper headline the arrest of innocent people the Deluxe cell & some very strange hats." ...

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- the Worlds Greatest Storyteller Sophia is the pride of the Giambelli clan & a vital player in the familys celebrated
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When Tess Angel receives a solicitor's letter inviting her to claim her inheritance
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THE VILLA GIRLS is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world & whatever theyre doing theyll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life taking them in very different directions their snatched days in the sun in little hidden villas are crucial to them all. Escape celebration recovery
- over the years the holidays change their lives. Rosie was always the odd one out
- initially only invited as the others felt sorry for her but it seems that in the end she might be the one whose life is touched the most by her villa days. For its there that she meets Enzo. The eldest son of an olive oil dynasty in southern Italy he is being groomed to take over one day as head of the family. Rosie & Enzo have a holiday romance that seems set to become something more serious until she discovers he is not entirely what he seems. Years later they meet again & this time Rosie must decide how much she is prepared to compromise for the sake of love...

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When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber Teresa a maverick pathologist thinks shes got the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. Shes wrong. Leo Falcone the chief inspector knows this case is recent history & the horror is still very much alive. So begins an investigation that will take the police deep into the dark underworld of modern day Romes most disturbing & sinister secrets. Nic Costa is trying to stay off the drink. Gianni Peroni used to work vice until he was caught in one of his own departments stings. Emilio Neri the local mafia boss cant trust his own son & Vergil Wallis the American mobster is refusing to talk. Meanwhile someone is trying very hard to kill the pathologist. & now another beautiful young woman has gone missing.. . ...