The European project is in collapse. Far from bringing prosperity & peace the euro has catalysed an economic crisis & stirred up national antagonisms. We can now see clearly that the intellectual basis of European integration was false. Here is an alternative vision adumbrated from first principles: a statement of the case for national self-determination & parliamentary supremacy. Daniel Hannan is a committed European. He speaks French & Spanish has lived & worked all over Europe & has served in the European Parliament since 1999. He believes that the EU is making its constituent nations poorer less democratic & less free. It is time to rediscover the virtues that raised Europe to greatness: diversity pluralism personal freedom national independence & parliamentary democracy. ...

The final book in the series that counts down to the end of the world. After ninety-nine days of lockdown the annihilation of the human race is right on schedule. Luke & Jordan are fighting a losing battle. Peter has escaped Bill has disappeared & Co-operative Security are moments away from storming the Vattel Complex. As the battle rages on in town an offer of help arrives from the last place anyone could have expected. But can it really be trusted or is this just another one of Shackleton's deceptions? & with murder still looming over Luke will he even live long enough to find out? One way or another it's all coming to an end. The clock is still ticking. There are seventeen hours until the end of the world. ...

The Doomsday Code: the third book in Alex Scarrow's exciting Time Riders series. Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Yet moments before death someone mysteriously appeared & said ' Take my hand.. .' But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history... In 1993 British computer hacker Adam Lewis finds his name in a coded manuscript that is almost one thousand years old. How did Adam's name get in there.. .and why? Confronted by Adam in 2001 the Time Riders travel back to Sherwood Forest in 1193 to discover the origins of the ancient message. But when a strange hooded man appears interested in the same thing they begin to wonder what terrible threat this cryptic link from the past holds for the future... Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist then he became a graphic artist then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally he grew up & became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers & several screenplays but it's YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas & concepts he was playing around with when designing games. He lives in Norwich with his son Jacob his wife Frances & two very fat rats. The Time Riders series: Time Riders; Day of the Predator; The Doomsday Code; The Eternal War; Gates of Rome; City of Shadows; The Pirate Kings Alex's thrillers for adults: A Thousand Suns; Last Light; october Skies; Afterlight; & The Candle Man.
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OPERATION DOOMSDAY...ACTIVATE... Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerl&. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he too is being hunted by an unknown lethal force...that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening. ...

Great for boys with a huge collectability factor bolstered by the cards in the back of the books & links to an excellent interactive website. Doomskull the King of Fear Malvel's most terrifying Beast yet has kidnapped King Hugo! If Tom fails to save him Avantia is doomed. Tom must fight harder than he has ever done before to win the day! ...

When young mouse Bisky convinces the creatures of Redwall Abbey to go in search of fabled treasure they do not suspect that the evil Korvus Skurr & his sinister ravens the Doomwytes will be vying for the very same treasure. Bisky & his fellow Redwallers must summon all their courage to face their most ruthless enemies yet in an exhilarating terrifying treasure hunt. ...

A young writer struggling for success employs an elderly woman called Emerence to be her housekeeper. From their first encounter it is clear that Emerence is no ordinary maid. Although everyone in the neighbourhood knows & respects her no one knows anything about her private life or has ever crossed her threshold. Only a great drama in the writers life prompts Emerence to unveil glimpses of her traumatic past
- a past which sheds light on her peculiar behaviour. The Door" brilliantly evokes the development of the bond between these two very different women & the tragic ending to their relationship."
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WITH A FORWARD BY J. G. BALLARD In 1953 in the presence of an investigator Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin sat down & waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers was transformed. Huxley described his experience with breathtaking immediacy in The Doors of Perception. In its sequel Heaven & Hell he goes on to explore the history & nature of mysticism. Still bristling with a sense of excitement & discovery these illuminating & influential writings remain the most fascinating account of the visionary experience ever written. ...

Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands & a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days & settles on a plot to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital
- the National Gallery of Scotl&. So together with two close friends from the art world he devises a plan to lift some of the most valuable artwork around. But of course the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed...
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Ruby & Grace had grown up in the slums of Middle Court the poorest place in Hull. Friends since early childhood they had supported each other in bad times & good. Ruby's ma Bess addicted to the opium which dulled the pain of her miserable existence tried hard to be a good mother but without too much success while Grace's parents Bob & Lizzie looked after the girl as well as their own family as best they could. But the two families were bound together by more than friendship & secrets from the past threatened to make their hard lives even more difficult. The local cotton mill had provided work for Ruby & Grace since they were nine years old but with the decline of the industry they like many others were cast off. Both girls found themselves the object of attention from the mill owner's sons but as times grew harder & money became ever scarcer Grace became involved in militant campaigns against poverty & injustice while Ruby was tempted into prostitution. Both girls were searching for something which would take them far away from the slums they had always known. ...