Explore the fantasy world of D&D & delve into dungeons slay monsters & gain treasure! If youve been thinking of playing D&D or youve played before & you want to get up to speed on the all-new 4th Edition this is the book for you. Heres what you need to know to join the fantasy fun. D&D terminology
- understand what ability check modifier saving throw AC gp hp & XP mean Roll the dice
- add modifiers & see if you rolled the d 20 high enough to beat the challenge Minding your manners
- know D&D etiquette so youll be welcome in any adventure Character building
- select your characters race & class & choose the best powers skills feats & gear Roleplaying
- give your character a background & personality quirks Combat
- use combat rules a battle grid & miniatures to play out furious battles Open the book & find: Everything a new player needs to get started playing D&D Details on four fantasy races & four iconic classes Explanations of every number & statistic on the character sheet The best magic items & equipment for characters of all classes Advice on roleplaying & teamwork A ready-to-use adventure to get you started as a Dungeon Master A ready-to-use battle grid with character & monster markers





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Always dunk your biscuit horizontally. Drinking beer is good for the environment. A wig is safer than a cycling helmet. Based on international scientific research but presented in a tongue-incheek style Curious Science" reveals startling truths guaranteed to change your life
- or at least make you popular at dinner parties. Fascinating & often hilarious it will open your eyes to the quirky science behind our everyday lives. You can discover the best time of day to be operated on how kissing is good for hay fever how to appear more intelligent effortlessly
- plus many other tips for work & home for eating & drinking & for a better love life."

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At 2 a.m. on the morning of the 3rd of June 1940 General Harold Alexander searched along the quayside holding onto his megaphone & called Is anyone there? Is anyone there? before turning his boat back towards Engl&. Tradition tells us that the dramatic events of the evacuation of Dunkirk in which 300 000 BEF servicemen escaped the Nazis was a victory gained from the jaws of defeat. For the first time rather than telling the tale of the 300 000 who escaped Sean Longden reveals the story of the 40 000 men sacrificed in the rearguard battles. On the beaches & sand dunes besides the roads & amidst the ruins lay the corpses of hundreds who had not reached the boats. Elsewhere hospitals full of the sick & wounded who had been left behind to receive treatment from the enemys doctors. & further afield
- still fighting hard alongside their French allies
- was the entire 51st Highland Division whose war had not finished as the last boats slipped away. Also scattered across the countryside were hundreds of lost & lonely soldiers. These evaders had also missed the boats & were now desperately trying to make their own way home either by walking across France or rowing across the channel. The majority however were now prisoners of war who were forced to walk on the death marches all the way to the camps in Germany & Poland where they were forgotten until 1945.

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Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant). This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras & the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches & his own undignified evacuation are described in some detail & occasional humour. The second part begins on 20 June 1944 when the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards set sail for Normandy & they take part in the Battle for Caen with engagements at Cheux Cagny & Colombelles & thence to the Bocage country with a particularly bloody fight at Montchamp. The final element covers the race for & liberation of Brussels a fiercely fought engagement at Hechtel
- Operation MARKET GARDEN Nijmegen & the Island winter in Belgium & Holland & the Rhineland Battle. As a member of the Intelligence Section the Author was aware of the big picture. Very observant he has a literary style or ability unusual in a ranker. He often writes in his trench whilst under mortar or shell fire & one experiences the fear that he (and millions of others) felt. He describes several near death experiences & the casualties & deaths of his comrades & other horrors of war sometimes in graphic detail. There are descriptions of hair-raising motor-cycle rides the fanaticism of the SS the sadness of lettering crosses of his dead comrades the ecstatic receptions in liberated villages & towns culminating in the liberation of Brussels the uneasy relationship with American troops the importance of alcohol in his (and others) war & the joy of returning to Engl&. The many sketches are an important accessory to the journals.C S Murrell trained as an artist but enlisted in the Welsh Guards in 1933. He served throughout the War (as told in this book). He later worked for the Ordnance Survey. He died in 1987. The Editor Nick Murrell (C S Murrells son) lives at Pevensey East Sussex.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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A civilised game of Duplicate Bridge ends in a double murder in which both victims were strangled with a tourniquet of picture wire. The crimes seem identical but were they carried out by the same hand? The odds of solving this crime are stacked up against Inspector Hemingway. Fortunately this first-rate detective doesnt miss a trick. ...

Two men sit petrified on Christmas Eve at the thought of spending it in supernatural company; a young family makes a tense Cross-channel trip in fear of some unspecified threat; an old man contemplates jumping to his death at the thought of being evicted from the house in which he has lived all his life. In this book Doris Davidson looks back over an immensely successful writing career in a collection of twenty short stories which also

Includes:: her eagerly awaited latest work the novella Duplicity". Covering a wide range of themes & moods these stories are a wonderful tribute to the skill & imagination of one of Scotlands best-loved authors."

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After twenty years of searching Celty the headless Black Rider has at last found her missing head
- bobbing through the streets
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The Black Biker of Ikebukoro gliding along the dark streets on her pitch-black motocycle may take on any number of delivery jobs but Celtys objective remains fixed on one single task: recovering her severed head. The durahan of Irish lore has sensed her head in Tokyo but even with the research of her unorthodox doctor friend (perfectly suited to examine her unorthodox body) she has made little progress finding it. Meanwhile the color gangs of Ikebukuro are dealing with a newcomer even more mysterious than the Black Biker: the colorless gang known as the Dollars has the usual thugs fearful & uneasy...and they have good reason to be scared... ...

The colorless gang known as the Dollars has quite a reputation in Ikebukuro but even those who are i nthe group know nothing about the Dollars mysterious founderl But when Yagiri Pharmeceuticals crosses the line the true leader of the Dollars steps forward... As the boy relates how the Dollars came to be Celty seems distracted. Though this unobtrusive boy holds a disturbing degree of power in the palm of his hand it is Celtys own head that occupies her thoughts... For twenty years she has searhed diligently for her missing head only to find it seemingly out of her grasp forever. What is there for her to live for now? Perhaps...love...? ...