As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the strangest case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutally murdered in one of the citys oldest buildings
- a library where the English citizens of Quebec safeguard their history. & the death opens a door into the past exposing a mystery that has lain dormant for centuries.. .a mystery Gamache must solve if hes to catch a present-day killer. Steeped in luscious atmosphere brimming with the suspense & wit that have earned Louise Penny a massive global following Bury Your Dead is the most ingenious suspense novel of the year.
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Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde & blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had been suffocated at birth. Bucks father was a terrifying figure with a maniacal zeal for religious conversion
- a passion rarely shared by the local communities he targeted. He drained the familys budget for his Chinese translation of the New Testament while his aggrieved long-suffering wife did her utmost to create a homely environment for her children several of whom died tragically young. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in America as a bestselling author (her most renowned work The Good Earth" re-entered the bestseller charts in 2004 when it was selected for Oprahs Book Club) but in this startlingly original biography Spurling recounts with elegance & great insight her unspeakable upbringing in a China that was virtually unknown to the West."
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Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harmans professional & private lives collide when a skeleton is unearthed in her garden" Fran is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner but renovations at the rectory they plan to move into are disrupted by the discovery of a skeleton buried in the vegetable patch. As investigations into its identity progress its also clear that Marks two grown-up children are less than ecstatic at the prospect of their fathers forthcoming nuptials. In fact at least one of them seems to be behaving very strangely indeed... " ...

One quiet day when her mother was away from home Carmen Bugans father put on his best suit & drove into Bucharest to stage a one-man protest against Ceausescu. He had been typing pamphlets on an illegal typewriter & burying it in the garden each morning under his daughters bedroom window. This is the story of what happened to Carmen & her family isolated & under surveillance in their beloved village home. It is an intimate piece of our recent history the testimony of an extraordinary childhood left abruptly behind. Above all it is a luminous compassionate & unflinchingly honest book about the price of courage the pain of exile & the power of memory. ...

At 2 a.m. on 10 March 1983 Carmen Bugan's father left the family home alone. That afternoon Carmen returned from school to find secret police in her living room. Her father's protest against the regime had changed her life for ever. This is her story. ...

The third title in the new Usborne Very First Reading" series designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together with their parents. Parents & children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) & as the books progress in the series the adults read less & less & the child more & more. There are puzzles at the end to check the childs understanding of the text & guidance notes for the parents. Beautiful illustrations help to motivate beginner readers." ...

On 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old school girl Milly Dowler. Milly disappeared on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames Surrey in 2002. Six months later her body was discovered many miles away. A massive police investigation the largest manhunt in Surreys history got nowhere. Only when nightclub bouncer & bare-knuckle boxer Levi Bellfield was arrested for the murder of another young woman did it become clear to police that they had a serial killer on their hands. This is the full story of the murders the victims & the pain-staking nine-year investigation & trial by police & prosecutors. It tells of Bellfields terrifying controlling personality
- a man who went from charming to monstrous in the blink of an eye
- & his depraved stalking of young women. It is a terrifying portrait of the only man in modern British legal history to be given two whole-life sentences.

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Bus-Pass Britain" is a colourful celebration of travelling by bus around the British Isles & features a selection of 50 favourite bus-routes submitted by members of the public in response to a Bradt competition. Their favourite bus routes reveal a wonderful mosaic of journeys across Britain from a pleasant meander through Surrey lanes to an orbit through Birmingham's edgy suburbs. Evocative & fun the book reveals how free bus passes have encouraged a new generation of keen explorers. Join us on the top deck for a fresh perspective on towns & villages across Britain. Each journey

Includes:: recommendations on where to stop & explore providing details of inspiring sights suggested walks & the best local cafes pubs restaurants. All the practical

Details: bus times the length & duration of each route & travel connections to the start & finish are provided & the book features a scattering of quirky stories & reflections (entitled Bus-stops) on the wonders of this more leisurely form of travel."



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Since the autumn of 2007 Justin Pollards Eccentric Engineer column in the awardwinning E&T magazine has been campaigning to remind engineers of the extraordinary role that their subject has played in human history. This book gathers together three years of those musings highlighting not simply the most famous engineering tales but the unusual the erratic & occasionally the patently insane. In its fifty stories it covers everything from aircraft carriers made from ice to the origins of the omnibus. Well toy with Roman turbines & Greek computers look at Renaissance hypertext & have arguments with Americans over the shape of our lightning conductors. Well shake Scotland with earthquakes & build cars out of beans. But most of all well celebrate the joys & perils of living in an engineered world. ...

The more than 150 photographs in this twelfth volume in the overall series the third of three volumes featuring Scotland & Ireland hence the revised titling were taken between 1951 & 1978. The majority are in colour & have never before been published. This volume covers the following cities: W Alexander & Sons (Fife) W Alexander & Sons (Midland) W Alexander & Sons (Northern) Baxters Bus Services of Ayr Central SMT Highland Omnibuses David Mac Brayne Eastern Scottish Starks Motor Services Western SMT AA Motor Services Ayrshire Bus Owner (A 1 Service) Ltd T D Alexander (Greyhound luxury Coaches) Clyde Coast Services Garelochhead Coach Services Graham Bus Service Ltd Hutchison's Coaches Mc Gill's Bus Services Ltd A & C Mc Lennan Paton Brothers Simpson's Motors The pictures show the buses & trams in nostalgic views of street scenes that provide wonderfully evocative views of shops & contemporary road vehicles. ...