White Mughals is the romantic & ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural religious & political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa
- Most Excellent among Women
- the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. He fell in love with her & overcame many obstacles to marry her converting to Islam & according to Indian sources becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company. It is a remarkable story but such things were not unknown: from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny the white Mughals who wore local dress & adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations. Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as Hindoo Stuart who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols & Sir David Auchterlony who took all 13 of his Indian wives out for evening promenades each on the back of her own elephant. In White Mughals William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history & places at its centre a compelling tale of seduction & betrayal.

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When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim -- a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death. Yet this is no desperate act of anguish but the work of a cold & calculating killer. As Perez investigates he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community. Then another body is found. Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs. But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day & nothing is quite as it seems.. . ...

First published in 1985 White Noise won the National Book Award. It is now regarded as a classic of postmodern literature. Jack Gladney is a pioneering professor in the field of Hitler Studies at the bucolic Midwestern College-on-the-Hill. Married five times he has a brood of children & stepchildren with his current wife Babette. Over the course of an absurd tragic year Jack & Babette will each be forced to confront the question that keeps them awake at night: who will die first? In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning & bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis & Cormac Mc Carthy Alice Sebold & Helen Fielding Graham Swift & Alan Hollinghurst. Years later Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction non-fiction & poetry from across the globe. Discover more at http://www.picador.com/40 ...

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers & daughters their ambiguous alliances their selfish love & cruel behaviour & the search for love & identity. Astrid has been raised by her mother a beautiful headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover & is imprisoned for life. Astrid's fierce determination to survive & be loved makes her an unforgettable figure. 'LIQUID POETRY'
- Oprah Winfrey ' Tangled Complex & extraordinarily moving'
- Observer

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This is a mountain bike guide to the White Peak area of the southern Peak District from the most successful UK publisher of MTB guides. The White Peak covers the area around Chesterfield Hope Valley Matlock Buxton Macclesfield Bakewell & Dove Valley with 26 routes of varying difficulty & length. Combining the finest trails in the southern half of the Peak District with new some new routes from the Dark Peak this guide leads the rider to the sweetest trails in this fantastic region; along its twisting singletrack down its grin-inducing descents & with luck up its exhausting climbs. Complementing the best-selling Dark Peak Mountain Biking" the rides are designed by local riders with many years experience. Each route has been ridden enjoyed & then accurately described with easy-to-follow directions & clear specially designed mapping. Featuring a special bonus section it

Includes:: 26 great routes & Andy Heading photography."

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When Tom Headley enlists underage in the Great War he & his childhood friends head straight to the front line as tunnellers. In tragic circumstances Tom is blamed for the deaths of his comrades. His family & sweetheart back home are shunned by the community. Eighty years later a young schoolgirl sets out to research her great grandparents as part of a Poppy Day project. She uncovers shocking truths & in doing so rights a wrong that has lasted for generations & rewrites history...* Engaging accessible dialogue * Many cross-curricular links * Perfect for exploring the relevance of history today. ...

Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings the tumult & intrigue of The Wars of the Roses to vivid life through the women of the House of Lancaster & the House of York beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville the White Queen. A woman who won the love of a king & ascended to royalty by virtue of her beauty Elizabeth fought tenaciously for the success of her family -- her daughter who would one day unite the warring dynasties & her two sons whose eventual fate has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower. An active player in the power struggles that surrounded her she made hard & courageous choices always trying to protect those whom she loved. Informed by impeccable research & framed by her inimitable storytelling skills Philippa Gregory gives an unforgettable voice to an extraordinary woman at the heart of a devastating conflict. ...

The first in a stunning new series The Cousins War is set amid the tumult & intrigue of The War of the Roses. Internationally ...

In South Carolina a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape & murder of Marianne Larousse daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch a case with its roots in old evil & old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover his unborn child even his soul... For in a prison cell a fanatical preacher is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker its instruments the very men that Parker is hunting & a strange hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn. Soon all of these figures will face a final reckoning in southern swamps & northern forests in distant locations linked by a single thread a place where the paths of the living & the dead converge. A place known only as the White Road. ...

A classic of mountaineering literature this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger the most legendary & terrifying climb in history. Heinrich Harrer author of ' Seven Years in Tibet' & one of the twentieth century's greatest mountaineers was part of the team that finally conquered the Eiger's fearsome North Face in 1938. It was a landmark expedition that pitted the explorers against treacherous conditions & the limits of human endurance & which many have since tried
- & failed
- to emulate. Armed with an intimate knowledge that comes only from first-hand experience of climbing the Eiger Harrer gives a gripping account of physical daring & mental resilience. A new introduction by Joe Simpson author of ' Touching the Void' confirms the lasting relevance of this true adventure classic.

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