He was my religious teacher. I should have been able to trust him. But he made me do unspeakable things... At seven years old Nabila Sharma began her lessons at the mosque as every good Muslim girl does. But from the minute she looked up at her Imam the man who held her spiritual future in his hands she knew something was wrong. Over the next five years Nabilas life became unbearable. While she was behind the doors of the mosque the most sacred of places the Imam brutally molested her on the slightest whim. Each day he would make her perform unspeakable acts physically & mentally torturing her into compliance to fulfil his perverse desires. Nothing would stop him; no plea would make him relent. But he was a respected member of the community trusted by everyone; if Nabila cried for help she would risk the honour of her family an unthinkable act. There was nowhere she could turn no one she could talk to. As a young Muslim girl Nabila was powerless. Brutal is the shocking revelatory & heart-rending account of one girls plight in a society where honour & shame are a matter of life & death. It is a tale of innocence lost & a life shattered but above all it is a tale of survival of a young girl who found love & hope in the darkest of places. ...

When Chief Inspector Gamache arrives in picturesque Three Pines he steps into a village in chaos. A man has been found bludgeoned to death & there is no sign of a weapon a motive or even the dead mans name. As Gamache & his colleagues start to dig under the skin of this peaceful haven for clues they uncover a trail of stolen treasure mysterious codes & a shameful history that begins to shed light on the victims identity
- & points to a terrifying killer...
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A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain loaded to the gunwales with enough arms & ammunition to start a war. Twenty years later an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery one by one. The last victim was brutally tortured with a Black & Decker drill then shot through the head. & Nick Stone
- ex-SAS tough resourceful ruthless highly trained
- is next on the killers list.. . In his most daunting mission yet Nick Stone must find a man who shared that past & who may know more about the present threat than he is prepared to reveal. As the two find themselves pursued across sea & desert they become ever more enmeshed in a deadly network of betrayal to which Stone himself unwittingly holds the key. & in a final confrontation that echoes his worst nightmares only he can stop the unthinkable & save the lives of those he holds most dear.

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This is a special edition featuring exclusive author interview on Bonus CD. A cargo ship is apprehended off the coast of Spain laden with arms & ammunition. 20 years later someone is killing those responsible for the treachery & Nick Stone ex-SAS is next on the killer's list. As he is pursued across land & sea he must locate a man who may know more about the killer than he is prepared to reveal... This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed. ...

The world's top comic artist Bryan Hitch explores his inspirations approaches & techniques through a stunning collection of ...

This is the first ever field guide from best selling author Bryan Peterson featuring material from previous titles plus new examples. It covers a broad list of topics & features Peterson's breathtaking imagery that never fails to inspire. Best-selling author Bryan Peterson revises the best material from his previous books with the addition of exciting new photographic examples in his first ever field guide. For the beginning photographer to the serious amateur including students aspiring professionals & the multitude of existing Peterson fans this is the perfect pocket guide to take along while shooting for on-location reference. It covers a broad list of topics useful to photographers from composition & lighting to shutter speed & much more. It is the perfect size for taking on-location & as always Peterson keeps his readers inspired with his breathtaking imagery. ...

Two small children are playing a game called Witch-Hunter. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard & wait for her to die. An hour later the woman is indeed found dead inside St Brides Church
- a building that no-one else has entered. Unfortunately Bryant & May are refused the case. Instead there are hired by their greatest enemy to find out why his wife has suddenly started behaving strangely. Shes become an embarrassment to him at government dinners & he is convinced that someone is trying to drive her insane. She has even taken to covering the mirrors in her apartment & believes herself to be the victim of witchcraft. Then a society photographer is stabbed to death in a nearby park & suddenly a link emerges between the two cases. & so begins an investigation that will test the members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit to their limits setting Arthur Bryant off on a trail that leads to Bedlam & Bletchley Park & into the world of madness codes & the secret of Londons strangest relic. As the members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit dig behind the citys facades to expose a world of private clubs hidden passages & covert loyalties they realise that the case might not just end in disaster
- it might also get everyone killed.

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Two small children are playing a game called Witch-Hunter. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard & wait for her to die. An hour later the woman is indeed found dead inside St Brides Church
- a building that no-one else has entered. Unfortunately Bryant & May are refused the case. Instead there are hired by their greatest enemy to find out why his wife has suddenly started behaving strangely. Shes become an embarrassment to him at government dinners & he is convinced that someone is trying to drive her insane. She has even taken to covering the mirrors in her apartment & believes herself to be the victim of witchcraft. Then a society photographer is stabbed to death in a nearby park & suddenly a link emerges between the two cases. & so begins an investigation that will test the members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit to their limits setting Arthur Bryant off on a trail that leads to Bedlam & Bletchley Park & into the world of madness codes & the secret of Londons strangest relic. As the members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit dig behind the citys facades to expose a world of private clubs hidden passages & covert loyalties they realise that the case might not just end in disaster
- it might also get everyone killed.

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What is the difference between cant & jargon or assume & presume? What is a fandango? How do you spell supersede? Is it hippy or hippie? These questions really matter to Bill Bryson as they do to anyone who cares about the English language. Originally published as The Penguin Dictionary for Writers & Editors Brysons Dictionary for Writers & Editors has now been completely revised & updated for the twenty-first century by Bill Bryson himself. Here is a very personal selection of spellings & usages covering such head-scratchers as capitalization plurals abbreviations & foreign names & phrases. Bryson also gives us the difference between British & American usages & miscellaneous pieces of essential information you never knew you needed like the names of all the Oxford colleges or the correct spelling of Brobdingnag. An indispensable companion to all those who write work with the written word or who just enjoy getting things right it gives rulings that are both authoritative & commonsense all in Brysons own inimitably goodhumoured way. ...