One wet November morning a field on Meagher's Farm gives up the dismembered bones of eleven women. In this part of Ireland unmarked graves are common. But these bones date to 1915 long before the Troubles. What's more these bones bear the marks of a meticulous executioner. These women were almost certainly skinned alive. Detective Katie Maguire of the Cork Garda is used to dead bodies. But this is wholesale butchery. Her team think these long-dead women are a waste of police time. Katie is determined to give them justice. & then a young American tourist goes missing & her bones carefully stripped of flesh are discovered on the same farm. With the crimes of the past echoing in the present Katie must solve a decades-old ritualistic murder before this terrifying killer strikes again. Published in America under the title A Terrible Beauty White Bones marks Katie Maguire's UK debut. ...

Harriet must choose between her friend Lalla & her new-found love of ice-skating! If you pass your inter-silver Ill tell Aunt Claudia that I dont want to work with you any more." Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isnt much good at it until she meets Lalla Moore a young skating star. Now Harriet is getting better & better on the ice & Lalla doesnt like it. Does Harriet want to save their friendship more than she wants to skate?" ...

In this new anecdotal book the unstoppable Dickie Bird takes one County Cricket Club at a time & revisits each with the aid of memorabilia statistics books & videos. A mass of new hilarious stories flow from Dickie as he flexes his memory: he describes the cricketers the matches & the character of these clubs. Dickie also relives his journeys as a umpire to clubs & Test match arenas overseas & recalls the humorous times that have filled his unique career. This is a must have for cricket enthusiasts everywhere. ...

In the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries 300 000 people or more became slaves there in all but name. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labour in the tobacco fields brothels were raided to provide 'breeders' for Virginia & hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants unaware they would become chattels who could be bought sold & gambled away. Drawing on letters diaries & court & government archives the authors demonstrate that the brutalities associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploitation & cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo" brings the brutal uncomfortable story to the surface." ...

Cassel is cursed. Cursed by the memory of the fourteen year old girl he murdered. Life at school is a constant trial. Life at home even worse. No-one at home is ever going to forget that Cassel is a killer. No-one at home is ever going to forget that he isnt a magic worker. Cassels family are one of the big five crime families in America. Ever since magic was prohibited in 1929 magic workers have been driven underground & into crime. & while people still need their touch their curses their magical killings their transformations times have been hard. His granddad has been driven to drink his mother is in prison & his brothers detest him as the only one of their family who cant do magic. But there is a secret at the centre of Cassels family & hes about to inherit it. Its terrifying & thats the truth. The White Cat is a stunning novel of a world changed by magic. In this world only 1% of the population can work magic but they have the power of nightmares. ...

Captain Titus Oates hero of the Antarctic has been dead for nearly a century. But not in Syms head. In there he is her constant companion her soulmate her adviser. It is as if he walked out of the Polar blizzard & into her mind. In fact if it were not for Titus life might be as bleak a place as the Antarctic wilderness. When she is taken on a mystery expedition by her eccentric uncle Victor Sym cant believe her luck. Destination Antarctica-the very place shes always wanted to visit. But Victor has other plans more sinister than Sym could possibly imagine. Stranded in the most isolated part of the world with her trust in someone she comes to realize is a madman she must find a way to avoid a gruesome fate. But what should a teenage girl do? Could it be that Titus the one who perished in that very place will be the means of her survival? ...

Clive Cussler author of the best-selling Dirk Pitt" novels " Arctic Drift" & " The Treasure of Khan" & co-author Paul Kemprecos navigate a treacherous sea of sabotage & conspiracy in " White Death" the fourth novel of the action-packed "NUMA Files" series. When a confrontation between a radical environmental group & a Danish cruiser off the Faroe Islands sinks a ship trapping her crew beneath the waves Kurt Austin of NUMA is immediately called to the rescue. Investigating the collision Austin uncovers a trail of sabotage that leads to a sinister multinational corporation seeking control of the waves. When he is almost killed for his trouble Austin knows that this is one organization that will let nothing stand in its way. But with an environmental disaster underway the clock is ticking for Austin & the NUMA team... Filled with heart-stopping adventure & endless imagination " White Death" is an exceptional thriller from a writer at the height of his powers. " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the "NUMA Files" series there are also the " Oregon Files" the Dirk Pitt stories (which started it all) the Isaac Bell adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the "NUMA files" series are: " Serpent" " Blue Gold" " Fire Ice" " Lost City" " Polar Shift" " The Navigator" " Medusa" " Devils Gate" & " The Storm"." ...

An elite public school. An outsider. Rumours of a haunting... Fleeing expulsion & the death of a close friend Andrew Taylor is sent to spend his final year at the prestigious public school Harrow. It is an eccentric place a rambling ancient building filled with the sons of the rich & famous. The other pupils notice Andrew's striking resemblance to Lord Byron a former pupil of Harrow
- & then the trouble begins. Andrew senses a malevolent presence & when a classmate dies the haunting becomes all too real. When another classmate falls ill & Andrew discovers old letters hidden in a bricked-up basement he must uncover a secret history
- before it is too late.

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Woman to man is either a god or a wolf" John Websters first independent play The White Devil originally performed in 1612 centres on the beautiful Vittoria Corombona & her lover Duke Brachiano whose passionate adulterous affair unleashes the powerful revenge of their enemies. While clearly guilty of lust & murder these unsavoury characters become startlingly heroic under pressure challenging both conventional moral judgments & oppressive social forces. This revised student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author date & sources theme critical interpretation & stage history. The Introduction discusses Websters radical experimentation with tragic modes his interest in the heroic potential of women & evaluates the handling of both in recent stage productions." ...

Bullied at school for her dyslexia & troubled by her mothers unexplained disappearance Kara seeks sanctuary sailing the oceans waves in her fathers boat. Meanwhile Felix resents his well-meaning parents for dragging him to live by the coast & misses his old friends back in London. On their first encounter Kara & Felix take an immediate dislike to each other. But when they happen to discover a dolphin calf stranded on the beach they know they must work together to save it against all odds. Realizing they have more in common than they could ever have guessed the two friends set out to find the truth behind the disappearance of Karas marine biologist mother & to protect the delicate reef in the bay of their home town from the destruction of commercial dredging. Their actions set in motion a dramatic chain of events that no one could have foreseen. & soon they must make an impossible choice. Risk their own lives or face losing everything.. . ...