From award-winning historian Mark Mazower Dark Continent: Europes Twentieth Century" retells the story of a century of division charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind. The end of the First World War saw old empires swept away & the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division & bloodshed on an unprecedented scale as liberal democracy communism & fascism struggled against one another for mastery of the world. " Dark Continent" radically overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of the twentieth century. " Original thought-provoking iconoclastic". (Frank Mc Lynn " Irish Times"). " Fascinating & forceful". (Martin Gilbert " Literary Review"). " Mazower leaves us in this wonderful book with an account of our century that anyone who takes an interest in Europes present & future will enlarge their mind by reading". (John Keegan " Daily Telegraph"). " There are few who can walk with A.J.P. Taylor. One is Mark Mazower.. .a tour de force". (Alex Danchev "TLS"). " Combines narrative verve with wise & humane analysis. For anyone who wants to know how Europe came to be the way it is in the years since 1900 this is the work to provide the answers". (David Cannadine Observer Books of the Year). Mark Mazower is the author of " Inside Hitlers Greece" " The Balkans" which won the Wolfson Prize for History " Salonika: City of Ghosts" which won both the Runciman Prize & the Duff Cooper Prize & " Hitlers Empire"." ...

A classic tale of espionage secret missions & exotic locations which out-Bonds Bond from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. Eight job advertisements. Eight jobs. Eight specialists in modern technology required. Eight scientists to fill them. Applicants to be married with no children & prepared to travel. Highly persuasive salaries. One criminal mastermind. Eight positions filled. Eight scientists
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- disappear. Completely. One secret agent to stop him. Advertisment no.9. Sydney Australia. Fuel specialist required. Looks like a job for John Bentall...

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Born into a world of ice slave to her evil father Lara Calladine knew paralysing fear as a child. Only by escaping with her mysterious gifts unbroken did she survive to claim her great Carpathian heritage as a Dragonseeker. She walked her chosen path alone trusting no one. For beyond the frozen hall of her youth was a world of even greater mystery & danger. Now the worlds leading expert in the field of ice-cave study Lara is on a search for healing microorganisms but also for the source of her nightmares
- the cold dark corners of her childhood. Only one man has the will & the power to help her: Nicolas De La Cruz. Dangerous & arrogant centuries of hunting & killing have taken their toll on him but he still longs to feel sensual love without the hunger for blood. A tenuous trust emerges between Lara & Nicholas & a passion neither of them has ever experienced but as much as they long for a future as lifemates they are also haunted by the unknown dangers of the dark curse.
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Seven years ago Dr Shea OHalloran experienced an unexpected & horrendous pain unlike anything she had ever known. It felt as if she were being tortured. Eventually the pain disappeared but Shea never forgot. She has since devoted her life to trying to understand the cause of the rare genetic blood disorder that is slowly killing her. The answers to some of Sheas questions start to reveal themselves when she is approached by two men who accuse her of being a vampire. Shea runs for her life &
- following a feeling she cant explain
- her desperate wanderings lead her to Romania. The ancient one known as Jacques Dubrinsky can explain. Seven years ago Jacques was captured tortured & buried alive by several humans & a Carpathian betrayer. The years of extreme pain & lack of sustenance that followed have nearly driven Jacques insane. He has been using what is left of his powers to psychically draw Shea to the region. But is Shea to be his healer or his prey?

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Twenty stories of sex thats out of this world. Explore your darkest fantasies in this spooky new anthology of paranormal erotica. From virgins to vampires ghostly encounters that are far from cold to ghoulish girl fun the stories will send a shiver down your spine. Xcite Books offer the very best erotic writing. Clear branding & consistently good reviews in magazines such as Forum Desire & Scarlet have helped build Xcite into a bestselling br&. Xcite Books have achieved the Number One position in three erotic categories on Amazon & are core-stocked by Waterstones. ...

You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family one of 532 descendants of Angela & Tommy. You shelter beneath the light & warmth of the Forest's lantern trees hunting woollybuck & harvesting tree candy. Beyond the forest lie the treeless mountains of the Snowy Dark & a cold so bitter & a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among you recount legends of a world where light came from the sky where men & women made boats that could cross between worlds. One day the Oldest say they will come back for you. You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family one of 532 descendants of two marooned explorers. You huddle slowly starving beneath the light & warmth of geothermal trees confined to one barely habitable valley of a startlingly alien sunless world. After 163 years & six generations of incestuous inbreeding the Family is riddled with deformity & feeblemindedness. Your culture is a infantile stew of half-remembered fact & devolved ritual that stifles innovation & punishes independent thought. You are John Redlantern. You will break the laws of Eden shatter the Family & change history. You will be the first to abandon hope the first to abandon the old ways the first to kill another the first to venture in to the Dark & the first to discover the truth about Eden. ...

Dark sexy & erotic paranormal romance... Janine Ashbless brings you more breathtaking tales of lust & magic dark fantasy & even darker desires. An unearthly stranger who pursues a newlywed on her Mediterranean holiday an opera production where emotions run out of control & a ghost who wants one thing only from the descendant of her murderer are just three of the seductive & stylishly written stories that will tease tempt & transport you to fantastic realms where dreams fantasies
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The Dark Film Paul Farleys first collection since the highly acclaimed Tramp in Flames expands the poets research into the art of seeing & all that humans project of themselves into the world. Farleys great poetic gift is his ability to switch between the local & the universal the present & the historical past with the most apparently effortless of gear changes; he brings to our immediate attention things previously hidden -- whether out of sight in the periphery of our vision or right under our noses. The Dark Film is a profound meditation on time on the untold stories of our history & on the act of human beholding -- as well as Farleys most richly entertaining & rewarding collection to date. ...

It is 1540 & the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell is busy trying to maintain his legal practice & keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister -- & a new assignment.. . The secret of Greek Fire the legendary substance with which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies has been lost for centuries. Now an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. When Shardlake is sent to recover it he finds the official & his alchemist brother brutally murdered -- the formula has disappeared. Now Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor London while trying at the same time to prove his young client's innocence. But very soon he discovers nothing is as it seems.. . ...