Private detective Isaac Bell returns in Clive Cussler's The Wrecker". 1907: train wrecks fires & explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line... The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency who send their best man Isaac Bell. He quickly discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited from down-&-outs
- who are killed afterward. " The Wrecker" strikes wherever he pleases causing untold damage & loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he an anarchist? A revolutionary? A criminal mastermind? Whoever he is whatever his motives the Wrecker knows how to create havoc. & Bell is convinced he is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If the Wrecker isn't stopped in time more than a railroad is at risk
- the future of the entire country is on the line... Bestseller Clive Cussler
- author of the " Dirk Pitt" novels " Black Wind" & " Trojan Odyssey"
- & co-author Justin Scott pit legendary detective Isaac Bell against a mysterious murderer & railroad saboteur in the second novel of historical thriller series " The Isaac Bell" Adventures " The Wrecker". Praise for Clive Cussler: " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). 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 Isaac Bel Adventures" there are also the "NUMA" & " Oregon Files" series the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) & the " Fargo" series. Other titles in Cussler's first historical series
- " The Isaac Bell Adventures"
- include " The Chase" " The Spy" " The Race" & " The Thief" which are all available from Penguin."





...

Private detective Isaac Bell returns in Clive Cusslers The Wrecker". 1907: train wrecks fires & explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroads new express line... The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency who send their best man Isaac Bell. He quickly discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited from down-&-outs
- who are killed afterward. " The Wrecker" strikes wherever he pleases causing untold damage & loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he an anarchist? A revolutionary? A criminal mastermind? Whoever he is whatever his motives the Wrecker knows how to create havoc. & Bell is convinced he is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If the Wrecker isnt stopped in time more than a railroad is at risk
- the future of the entire country is on the line... Bestseller Clive Cussler
- author of the " Dirk Pitt" novels " Black Wind" & " Trojan Odyssey"
- & co-author Justin Scott pit legendary detective Isaac Bell against a mysterious murderer & railroad saboteur in the second novel of historical thriller series " The Isaac Bell" Adventures " The Wrecker". Praise for Clive Cussler: " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). 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 Isaac Bel Adventures" there are also the "NUMA" & " Oregon Files" series the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) & the " Fargo" series. Other titles in Cusslers first historical series
- " The Isaac Bell Adventures"
- include " The Chase" " The Spy" " The Race" & " The Thief" which are all available from Penguin."





...

The lid gave eventually with surprisingly little noise. Nothing splintered. Nothing broke. No hinges flew or even creaked & for a second or two nothing happened at all. Then came the first scream. It blew out a candle that scream.. . Shut the lid! For the love of God.. .SHUT THE LID! & so the box was slammed shut hidden away & forgotten about. But what lay within was only dormant.. .waiting for the time when it would be released & let loose upon the world. & that time was about to come.. . That time is now. This fantastic new novel from acclaimed writer Julie Hearn is truly unique & tells of friendship secrets love hate & hope. ...

Robin Robertsons fourth collection is if anything an even more intense moving bleakly lyrical & at times shocking book than Swithering winner of the Forward Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth yet sound utterly contemporary: the poets gaze -- whether on the natural world or the details of his own life -- is unflinching & clear its utter seriousness leavened by a wry dry & disarming humour. Alongside fine translations from Neruda & Montale & dynamic (and at times horrific) retellings of stories from Ovid the poems in The Wrecking Light pitch the power & wonder of nature against the frailty & failure of the human. Ghosts sift through these poems -- certainties become volatile the simplest situations thicken with strangeness & threat -- all of them haunted by the pressure & presence of the primitive world against our own & the kind of dream-like intensity of description that has become Robertsons trademark. This is a book of considerable grandeur & sweep which confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting & powerful poets at work today. Robin Robertson continues to explore the bleak beautiful territory that he has made his own. His stripped-bare lyricism haunted by echoes of folksong is as unforgiving as the weather & poems such as At Roane Head show him writing at the height of his considerable powers The Times ...

LONDON needed rebuilding after the great fire of 1666. Eighty-eight churches had been destroyed & a grand plan to rebuild them was started by Sir Christopher Wren. In the end he designed fifty-one new churches & the splendour that is St Pauls Cathedral. Of the fifty-one churches many have been lost either to a combination of Victorian indifference fire subsidence or German bombs. Twelve Wren City churches survive in their original form while many of the remaining churches have been rebuilt or substantially altered. Wren left an amazing legacy & John Christopher takes us on a tour of the churches showing them as built & showing us a comparison scene of today. ...

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization The Wretched of the Earth" made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. This " Penguin Modern Classics" edition is translated from the French by Constance Farrington with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule & first published in 1961 Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since analysing the role of class race national culture & violence in the struggle for freedom. With power & anger Fanon makes clear the economic & psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon himself a psychotherapist who exposed the connection between colonial war & mental disease who showed how the fight for freedom must be combined with building a national culture & who showed the way ahead through revolutionary violence to socialism. Many of the great calls to arms from the era of decolonization are now of purely historical interest yet this passionate analysis of the relations between the great powers & the ' Third World' is just as illuminating about the world we live in today. Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born French author essayist psychoanalyst & revolutionary. Fanon was a supporter of the Algerian struggle for independence from French rule & became a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization & the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. If you enjoyed " The Wretched of the Earth" you might like Edward Said's " Orientalism" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " In clear language in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage he showed us the internal theatre of racism". (" Independent")." ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
...

Widely thought to be the greatest American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer both artistically & technically. At a time when reinforced concrete & steel were considered industrial building materials Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house concept--that of a low sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most famous houses & became a model for rural architecture across America. Wrights designs for office & public buildings were equally groundbreaking & unique. From Fallingwater to New Yorks Guggenheim Museum his works are among the most famous in the history of architecture. ...

When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a wrinkle in time for his lost father he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as It. How Charles his sister Meg & friend Calvin find & free his father makes this a very special & exciting mixture of fantasy & science fiction which all the way through is dominated by the funny & mysterious trio of guardian angels known as Mrs Whatsit Mrs Who & Mrs Which. ...