The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century & the shifts in religious political scientific literary economic social & moral culture that they brought about. It does so through the fascinating story of one family & their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains a murder mystery bigamy a scandal novel & a tyrannized wife all set against a backdrop of violently competing local factions rampant religious prejudice & the last conviction of a witch in Engl&. Spencer Cowper was accused of murdering a Quaker & his brother William had two illegitimate children by his second wife. Their scandalous lives became the source of public gossip much to the horror of their mother Sarah who poured out her heart in a diary that also chronicles her feeling of being enslaved to her husb&. Her two sons remained in the limelight. Both were instrumental in the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell a firebrand cleric who preached a sermon about the illegitimacy of resistance & religious toleration. His parliamentary trial in 1710 provoked serious riots in London. William Cowper also intervened in 1712 to secure the life of Jane Wenham whose trial provoked a wide-ranging debate about witchcraft beliefs. The Cowpers & their town are a microcosm of a changing world. Their story suggests that an early Enlightenment far from being simply a movement of ideas sparked by great thinkers was shaped & advanced by local & personal struggles. ...

Playing with fire! Drusilla Bennetts job from hell will soon be over. Ready to take her life back & walk away from the devil
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When Marco Pierre White's mother died when he was just six years old it transformed his life. Soon his father was urging him to earn his own keep & by sixteen he was working in his first restaurant. White went on to learn from some of the best chefs in the country such as Albert Roux Raymond Blanc & Pierre Koffmann. He survived the intense pressure of hundred-hour weeks in the heat of the kitchen developed his own style & then struck out on his own. At Harveys in Wandsworth which he opened in 1987 he developed a reputation as a stunning cook & a rock 'n' roll sex god of the kitchen. But he was also a man who might throw you out of his restaurant & his temper was legendary as younger chefs such as Gordon Ramsay & Heston Blumenthal would find out when they worked for him. He eventually opened several more restaurants won every honour going & then realised that it still wasn't enough. Here Marco takes the reader right into the heat of the kitchen with a sharp-edged wit & a sizzling pace that will fascinate anyone brave enough to open the pages of this book & enter his domain. ...

The Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893 & its amazing White City was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization & of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect the other a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham the driving force behind the White City the massive visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals & gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair
- & his own devilish charms
- to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics infighting personality clashes & Chicagos infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earther Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the Worlds Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace a gas chamber a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men toegther with a remarkable supporting cast of colourful characters including as Buffalo Bill George Ferris Thomas Edison & some of the 27 million others who converged on the dazzling spectacle of the White City are brought to life in this mesmerizing murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America & set it on course for the twentieth century.

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Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest Wallflower once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives Evie has approached the rake Viscount St Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage! Sebastians reputation is so dangerous that thirty seconds alone with him will ruin any maidens good name. Still Evie appeared unchaperoned on his doorstep to offer her h&. Certainly an aristocrat with a fine eye for beauty could do far worse. But Evies proposal comes with a condition: no lovemaking after their wedding night. She will never become another of the Viscounts discarded broken hearts
- which means Sebastian will have to work harder at his seductions.. .or surrender his own heart for the first time in the name of true love.
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THE NEW HIGGINS HAS LANDED! The mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller of murder terrorism & revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Fresh from his mission in THE JUDAS GATE to seek out & eliminate one of al Qaedas most valued agents a traitor responsible for countless soldiers deaths in Afghanistan Sean Dillon is back in a blistering new adventure. The American President on a planned visit to Europe is entertained by the British Prime Minister on the terrace of the House of Commons. On the same day London born Mullah Ali Salim makes an impassioned speech at Hyde Park Corner accusing the President of war crimes objecting to his presence & offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate him. Dillon Major Ferguson & Daniel Holley are called into action helped by a new recruit Intelligence Corp Captain Sara Gideon a war hero in the Afghan conflict whose speciality is Pashta & Iranian. They quickly find themselves trying to handle a massive upsurge in terrorism from enemies near & far all with links to al Qaeda. As a Sephardic Jew from a wealthy & ancient English family Sara will find herself at the heart of the firestorm when she is swept into the heart of the terror organisation. Though their leader may be gone the threat remains as terrible as ever & though Dillon & company may have won the first battle with al Qaeda they will learn the war is far from over. A devil is indeed waiting & the assassination plan is only the beginning... ...

THE NEW HIGGINS HAS LANDED! The mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller of murder terrorism & revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Fresh from his mission in THE JUDAS GATE to seek out & eliminate one of al Qaedas most valued agents a traitor responsible for countless soldiers deaths in Afghanistan Sean Dillon is back in a blistering new adventure. The American President on a planned visit to Europe is entertained by the British Prime Minister on the terrace of the House of Commons. On the same day London born Mullah Ali Salim makes an impassioned speech at Hyde Park Corner accusing the President of war crimes objecting to his presence & offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate him. Dillon Major Ferguson & Daniel Holley are called into action helped by a new recruit Intelligence Corp Captain Sara Gideon a war hero in the Afghan conflict whose speciality is Pashta & Iranian. They quickly find themselves trying to handle a massive upsurge in terrorism from enemies near & far all with links to al Qaeda. As a Sephardic Jew from a wealthy & ancient English family Sara will find herself at the heart of the firestorm when she is swept into the heart of the terror organisation. Though their leader may be gone the threat remains as terrible as ever & though Dillon & company may have won the first battle with al Qaeda they will learn the war is far from over. A devil is indeed waiting & the assassination plan is only the beginning... ...

Bond is back. With a vengeance. M has summoned agent 007 to London. Its the swinging Sixties & a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source & James Bond is dispatched to investigate. The trail takes Bond to Paris & then Persia
- where the beautiful & enigmatic twins Scarlett & Poppy lead him to Gorners secret desert headquarters. Here Bond uncovers Gorners cold-blooded plans for world domination. Only by playing Gorners twisted game can Bond stop him.
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Ever since that moment his status as a god was revoked by Artemis Sin has done nothing but plot his revenge. He kidnaps a woman he believes to be the goddess but she is Artemis' servant Katra. & instead of imprisoning her Katra captures him & refuses to release him until he promises not to seek vengeance on her mistress. Despite himself Sin finds himself intrigued by Katra who is nothing like the goddess she serves. She's fierce true but she's also compassionate & loyal. However Sin is not the only enemy Artemis has & it quickly becomes apparent that he must help Katra save her mistress or the world as we know it will end. What's a wannabe god to do? ...

Tokyo 1990. Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that it does & that it lies hidden
- somewhere in Tokyo. Alone in an alien city Grey becomes a hostess in an exclusive club catering for Japanese businessmen
- & gangsters. One gangster dominates
- an old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage
- who is rumoured to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued health. It is an elixir that others want
- at any price.. . With its focus on 1990's Tokyo & Nanking in 1937 The Devil of Nanking is a literary thriller of the highest order. With its heady atmosphere of overt violence lurking fear & sexual tension this is a novel that takes hold of the reader & does not let go until its explosive final pages.




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