Various snow & ice climbs in Britain are described in this book in a series of 60 essays. Each climb is described by a leading climber & the book offers a history of each climb. Ken Wilson has also written Hard Rock" " Classic Rock" & " Black Cliff"." ...

Following her promotion & working now from Reykjavik Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases
- the first in tracking down
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A witty portrait of rural England in the early twentieth century the Penguin Classics" edition of Stella Gibbons' " Cold Comfort Farm" is introduced by Lynne Truss author of " Eats Shoots & Leaves". When sensible sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos preaching fire & damnation; their sons lustful Seth & despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; & crazed old Aunt Ada Doom who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. Armed with common sense & a strong will she resolves to take each of the family in h&. A hilarious & ruthless parody of rural melodramas & violet prose " Cold Comfort Farm" is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. This new " Penguin Classics" edition

Includes:: an introduction by Lynne Truss discussing Stella Gibbons' unconventional life & career & her joyously satirical voice. Stella Gibbons (1932-89) novelist poet & short-story writer was educated at North London Collegiate School & studied journalism at University College London. She then worked for ten years on various papers including the " Evening Standard" & published several books of poetry & short stories. If you enjoyed " Cold Comfort Farm" you might like George & Weedon Grossmith's " Diary of a Nobody" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Brilliant.. .very probably the funniest book ever written". (Julie Burchill " Sunday Times"). " Literary bliss". (" Guardian")."

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Ringil Eskiath scarred wielder of the kiriath-forged broadsword Ravensfriend is a man on the run
- from his past & the family who
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You cant keep a good wizard down
- even when he wants to stay that way. For years Harry Dresden has been Chicagos only professional
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At the centre of the Galaxy a planet-sized Machine of terrifying power & unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a supermassive black hole. Wesley Crusher now a full-fledged Traveller knows the Machine must be stopped...but he has no idea how. He enlists the help of Captain Picard & the Enterprise crew who also fail to halt the unstoppable alien juggernaut's destructive labours. But they soon divine the Machine's true purpose which threatens to exterminate all life in the Milky Way Galaxy. With time running out Picard realizes he knows of only one person who might be able to stop the Machine in time to avert a galactic catastrophe-but he has no idea how to find him. ...

Farley is dying & we are by his side. As his mind begins to move back over his 75 years Farley takes us into his past & with the comic wit of a true Dubliner unravels his life
- its loves its losses & its betrayals
- right in front of our eyes.

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Cat & her cousin are key players in a drama of dragons & politics. Everyone wants something from them
- including the warlord who's
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Stuart Mac Bride's Number One bestselling crime series opens with this award-winning debut. DS Logan Mc Rae & the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter in Aberdeen: murder mayhem & terrible weather... It's DS Logan Mc Rae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick & it couldn't get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch strangled mutilated & a long time dead. & he's only the first. There's a serial killer stalking the Granite City & the local media are baying for blood. Soon the dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets & Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. & if Logan isn't careful he could end up joining them... ...

The sixth Anya Crichton thriller in a series to rival Patricia Cornwells Kay Scarpetta books. It feels like the safest place on earth. A family-friendly floating palace. But as Anya Crichton soon discovers cruise ships arent all that they seem... Statistics tell us that a woman is twice as likely to be sexually assaulted on a cruise ship than on dry l&. Customers arent screened so the ships are a haven for sex offenders & paedophiles. With no policing & floating in international waters sexual assaults & passengers disappearing are uncommonly frequent... So when a teenage girl is discovered dead on the deck of the ship that she is holidaying on Anya feels compelled to get involved. Theres no apparent cause of death but Anyas forensics expertise uncovers more than the ships doctors can...or want to. With the killer still on board & subsequently a crew-member found shot it becomes clear that the safe haven of the cruise-ship is actually anything but. & as Anya comes under increasing pressure to abandon her investigations will she continue? Or do whatever it takes to keep her own family safe? The sixth book to feature forensic pathologist Anya Crichton is perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell & Kathy Reichs. ...