Flames & funerals circus feats & seduction neighbours & nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright sparkles with historical drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution a surprising bond forms between Jem the youngest Kellaway boy & streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour the printer poet & radical William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem & Maggie navigate the unpredictable exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring. This novel is perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus & Essie Fox's Somnambulist. ...

The sequel to Falling Fast. Four months have passed & River & Flynns romance is still going strong. River thinks Flynn has his anger under control but when she discovers he has been getting into fights & is facing a terrible accusation at school she starts to question both Flynns honesty
- & the intensity of their passion. Things come to a head at a family get together when River sees Flynn fly into one unprovoked rage too many. The consequences for both of them are devastating & threaten to tear them apart forever.
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Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s Gibsons vision has become a touchstone
- his lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined to be current well in to the future. Lowlife characters ghosts & hallucinations haunt the malls & plazas of an intensely realized holographic world a name-brand society with cloned Ninja bodyguards retro fashions stunning ideas. Gibson in the year 2000 is the unchallenged guru prophet & voice of the new cybernetic world order & virtual reality.
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If only our country hadnt been invaded. If only we could have carried on the way we used to watching other peoples wars on television. Ellie & her friends are more determined than ever to make an impact on the enemy. But the constant fighting is beginning to take its toll on the group. Kevin is suffering an emotional breakdown & the friendship that has kept the gang together for so long is under strain. & while there is no time for love in a time of war Ellie cant forget her feelings for Lee...A tale of relentless action & gripping intensity from one of the worlds best storytellers. (Book 5 of The Tomorrow Series.) ...

A MAN WHO KILLS FOR MONEY X marks the spot
- & when that spot is a corpse's naked back & the X is carved in blood DI Tom Thorne
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The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health & his heir is an untested youth. The Danes who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex smell opportunity... First comes Harald Bloodhair a savage warrior leading a Viking horde who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred his unwilling warlord who leads Harald into a trap & at Farnham in Surrey inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. This novel the fifth in the magnificent series of England's history tells of the final assaults on Alfred's Wessex that Wessex survived to become England is because men like Uhtred defeated an enemy feared throughout Christendom. ...

The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health & his heir is an untested youth. The Danes who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex smell opportunity... First comes Harald Bloodhair a savage warrior leading a Viking horde who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred his unwilling warlord who leads Harald into a trap & at Farnham in Surrey inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. This novel the fifth in the magnificent series of Englands history tells of the final assaults on Alfreds Wessex. That Wessex survived to become England is because men like Uhtred defeated an enemy feared throughout Christendom. ...

A strongly issue-led play Burning Monkey relates the story of a teenage couple & their interactions with an older war veteran trying to rebuild his fractured relationship with his daughter. While their exchanges initially show a hostile & unsympathetic clash of generations it soon becomes apparent that they share similar pain
- based on their damaged family relationships & absent parents/children
- & they begin to feel empathy for one another's plight. In the background the presence of war looms; the character of Old is haunted by memories of his time as a soldier & the character of Monkey looks forward to a time when he can escape the depressing realities of his life & join the army. In the midst of this Shell is fifteen madly in love with Monkey & pregnant with his child. Her attempts to try & make the irresponsible immature Monkey stay with her become increasingly desperate. Burning Monkey is a play that raises important issues for teenagers addressing themes such as war violence separated families & responsibility.

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Take one complex scientific discipline. Add the future of energy economics & geopolitics. Season with human nature... Entertaining & authoritative The Curve" shines a fascinating new light on the world's energy & climate change challenges. Combining accessible explanation & cutting-edge analysis Berners-Lee & Clark join the dots between the science politics economics & psychology of this sprawling issue to uncover surprising & overlooked truths. Human energy use & carbon emissions it turns out have been rising exponentially
- following a smooth upwards curve
- for hundreds of years. Nothing we've done so far has made any difference because saving energy is like squeezing a balloon: gains made in one place reappear as bumps elsewhere. But if previous efforts have failed what would it take to flatten off the curve? & what happens if we fail to do so? In answering these questions " The Curve" reveals climate change as an intriguing intellectual social & political puzzle that will enthral readers of popular science economics & psychology alike."

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In 1915 the first euphoria of the war has worn off but the nation is more determined than ever to win. When Ned is sent to the Front ahead of his battalion Jessie already involved in various charity works feels the need to do more & becomes an auxiliary nurse. But life on the wards is harder than she expects. Meanwhile Helen & Jack settle in a home of their own at last & Helen takes on a surprise war role of her own. & for violet in London a chance meeting with talented young artist threatens to destroy her calm & ordered life. With stalemate on the Eastern Front everything now hangs on the new September offensive on the Western Front the Battle of Loos. Both Ned & Bertie will be leading their men over the top leaving the rest of the family to pray for their safe return. ...