A rather large problem has befallen the Huit girls. (Sisters actually. Octuplets to be exact.) One particular New Years Eve the girls wait for their Mummy to bring them hot chocolate & their daddy to return with more wood for the fire. But they dont. Mummy & Daddy that is. Theyre gone. Poof! Maybe dead
- no one knows for sure. You must see the problem here. Eight little girls on their own no mommy or daddy to take care of them. This is not a good thing. So now these little girls must take care of themselves. Get to school cook the meals feed the cats (eight of them too) & pay the bills. They cant ask for help oh no. Any self-respecting adult would surely call in social services & those well-meaning people would have to split them up. After losing their parents being split up would be completely unbearable. At the same time the question remains: What happened to Mummy & Daddy? The Sisters Eight (as they are called affectionately & otherwise) are determined to find out. Luckily they do seem to have someone or something helping them. Notes keep appearing behind a loose brick in the fireplace. Its a good old-fashioned mystery with missing (or dead) parents nosy neighbours talking refrigerators foul-smelling fruitcake (is there any other kind?) & even a little magic. Eight little girls eight cats & one big mystery
- let the fun begin.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

65 million years ago: the last dinosaurs are dying out the mammals are beginning to take over the earth & the very first bats are learning how to fly. Our young hero Dusk a chiropter
- a small arboreal glider
- discovers an unusual ability. The only member of his colony capable of powered flight Dusk becomes an outcast. But after his colony is massacred by a prowl of carnivorous felids (proto-cats) a homeless & hunted Dusk may prove to be its salvation. Set during a dynamic evolutionary moment in earths history Dusk" tells the story of the very first bat & a colonys perilous journey to find a new home."

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Dusk" by Eve Edwards is a beautiful love story set against the brutal back drop of WWI. For all fans of Sebastian Faulks & historical romantic fiction
- this is Bird Song for Young Adult readers. A love worth fighting for. When Helen a young hard-working nurse meets aristocratic artist Sebastian she doesn't expect to even like him let alone fall in love. But against the troubled backdrop of wartime London an unlikely but intense romance blossoms. & even the bloody trenches of the Somme where they are both posted cannot diminish their feelings for each other. But Helen is concealing a secret & when a terrible crime is committed there are devastating consequences for them both. When lives are being lost can true love survive? Eve Edwards is an award-winning author. She lives in Oxford & is married with three children."
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A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order mocking him & subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown & madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee & the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge & are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity & spurn their feelings of guilt. In these two narratives Coetzee has crystallized in their absurdity & horror the extremes of scientific evangelism & heroic exploration. ...

Byrd Roberts has done it again! Hot on the heels of his last book Between Trash & Tramp" comes a collection of gothic short stories that takes you on a journey through a largely gay make believe land with unexpected & often bizarre twists. Bravo for surprising delighting & horrifying me a jaded reader!" ...

After she was buried Jessie awoke & tore through the earth to arise reborn as a zombie. Jessies gang is the Fly-by-Nights. She loves the ancient skeletal Florian & his memories of time gone by. Shes in love with Joe a maggot-infested corpse. They fight hunt dance together as one-something humans can never underst&. There are dark places humans have learned to avoid lest they run into the zombie gangs. But now Jessie & the Fly-by-Nights have seen new creatures in the woods-things not human & not zombie. A strange new illness has flamed up out of nowhere causing the undeads to become more alive & the living to exist on the brink of death. As bits & pieces of the truth fall around Jessie like the flesh off her bones shell have to choose between looking away or staring down the madness
- & hanging onto everything she has come to know as life...
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Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye & the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. It's also six months since Benny Imura & Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. Now after months of rigorous training with Benny's zombie-hunter brother Tom Benny & Nix are ready to leave their home forever & search for a better future. Lilah the Lost Girl & Benny's best friend Lou Chong are going with them. Sounds easy; sounds wonderful. Except that everything that can go wrong does. Before they can even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town. & as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead wild animals insane murderers & the horrors of Gamel&. Because in the great Rot & Ruin everything wants to kill you. Everything. & not everyone in Benny's small band of travellers will make it out alive. ...

On the Letherii continent the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen. The fate awaiting the Bonehunters is one no soldier can prepare for & one no mortal soul can withstand
- the foe is uncertainty & the only weapon worth wielding is stubborn courage. In war everyone loses & this brutal truth can be found in the eyes of every soldier in every world. Destinies are never simple. Truths are neither clear nor sharp. The Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen are drawing to a close in a distant place beneath indifferent skies as the last great army of the Malazan Empire seeks a final battle in the name of redemption. Final questions remain to be answered: can one's deeds be heroic when no one is there to see it? Can that which is unwitnessed forever change the world? The answers await the Bonehunters beyond the Wastelands...
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