Can a man be maimed by witchcraft? Can a severed head speak? Based on the most notorious of English witch-trials this is a tale of magic superstition conscience & ruthless murder. It is set in a time when politics & religion were closely intertwined; when following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 every Catholic conspirator fled to a wild & untamed place far from the reach of London law. This is Lancashire. This is Pendle. This is witch country. ...

Good Friday 1612. Pendle Hill. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by a local magistrate. Is it a witches' Sabbat? In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial & certain death while the beautiful & wealthy Alice Nutter rides to their defence. Elsewhere a starved child lurks. & a Jesuit priest & former Gunpowder plotter makes his way from France to a place he believes will offer him sanctuary. But will it? & how safe can anyone be in Witch Country? ...

Continuing the impressive debut fantasy series from author Peter V. Brett The DAYLIGHT WAR is book three of the Demon Cycle pulling the reader into a world of demons darkness & heroes. On the night of a new moon all shadows deepen. Humanity has thirty days to prepare for the next demon attack but one month is scarcely enough time to train a village to defend themselves let alone an entire continent caught in the throes of civil war. Arlen Bales understands the coreling threat better than anyone. Born ordinary the demon plague has shaped him into a weapon so powerful he has been given the unwanted title of saviour & attracted the attention of deadly enemies both above & below ground. Unlike Arlen Ahmann Jardir embraces the title of Deliverer. His strength resides not only in the legendary relics he carries but also in the magic wielded by his first wife Inevera a cunning & powerful priestess whose allegiance even Jardir cannot be certain of. Once Arlen & Jardir were like brothers. Now they are the bitterest of rivals. As humanity's enemies prepare the only two men capable of defeating them are divided against each other by the most deadly demons of all: those that lurk in the human heart. ...

It began with the breathtaking DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE... This November the story continues in the astounding must-read sequel DAYS OF BLOOD & STARLIGHT Once upon a time an angel & a devil fell in love & dared to imagine a new way of living
- one without massacres & torn throats & bonfires of the fallen without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers arms to take their turn in the killing & dying. Once the lovers lay entwined in the moons secret temple & dreamed of a world that was a like a jewel-box without a jewel
- a paradise waiting for them to find it & fill it with their happiness. This was not that world.

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The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history. The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political order in the Middle East & brought on a quarter-century of warfare but introduced a new way to look at history. In Days of God James Buchan lives each moment of the revolution through the eyes of ordinary people as he tries to answer his own troubling question: why did his friends with their peculiar Iranian dreaminess & charm act the way they did? ...

When someone looks back & writes a history of this summer two people they will almost certainly leave out are Sue & Daniel Bagnold... So begins Joff Winterharts sublimely funny & perceptive graphic novel Days of the Bagnold Summer". Sue 52 works in a library. Daniel 15 is still at school. This was the summer holidays Daniel was due to spend with his father & his fathers pregnant new wife in Florida. When they cancel his trip Sue & Daniel face six long weeks together... Joff Winterhart perfectly captures the ennui the tension the pathos & yes the affection of this mother-son relationship. Already well-known for his animated films like "violet & Turquoise" he here shows himself to be a comics author of extraordinary talent." ...

Get out & explore the best that Britain & Ireland has to offer with the Great Days Out Guide 2012. Whether youre planning a holiday or just stuck for something to do this weekend our experts have selected over 2 000 places to visit including hundreds of attractions from theme parks gardens & zoos to castles railways & museums. If none of that sparks your interest what about llama trekking or mountain boarding? Each entry has detailed practical information as well as a description so you can plan your day to perfection. ...

A deeply personal memoir of time spent with John Lennon & Yoko Ono Cott's account begins with his first meeting of the world-famous couple in their basement flat in London as a graduate student on a Fulbright where he was also serving as the London editor" of a small rock magazine named Rolling Stone. The next day he was invited by Lennon to watch the recording of " Glass Onion" & " Birthday" at Abbey Road Studios. A connection was formed that lasted until Lennon's death
- with Cott formally interviewing him again days before he was killed. Cott has also remained close friends with Yoko One. It is a fascinating & intimate reminiscence filled with Cott's insights as a cultural critic & journalist along with portions of the 1968 & 1980 interviews which will be transcribed within our book for the first time."
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It is the year 2051 & Britain is a divided country deliberately divided by economic & education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe & Daz the semi-literate ghetto dweller whose brother was executed for raiding with the underground resistance movement. When Zoe & her friends go slumming one day she meets Daz
- & it's Romeo & Juliet all over again. But their impossible relationship has far-reaching consequences.. .
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Scarborough 1934. John Fastolf rakish heir to a Dukedom has sponsored a glamorous tunny fishing contest. He has his reasons. The young journalist Martha Gellhorn is covering the event for the London gossip papers. She has hers. & quiet little Henny Rosefield has arrived in town with Zane Grey bestselling author & expert mountain man of the Wild West. The international craze for hunting giant tuna has swept the North Yorkshire coast & huge yachts have transformed the harbour into something like Monte Carlo. Over them all towers the Dazzle resplendent in jagged stripes of black white & blue. She looks like a junior sort of ocean liner but she's a very adult sort of yacht. In the harbour damaged dilettantes will swap beds & swap lies. Far offshore on the rips & tides of the malevolent North Sea gallant battle will be done. All the while something truly dangerous is lurking. But we can't see any of that. Just the Dazzle sitting on the edge of the world shimmering as the sea glitters her outline wavering. Wrapped in a gripping adventure story Robert Hudson's second novel is a deliciously witty tale of wilderness vengeance & the death of love. ...