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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After his pyrrhic victory at Moorview King Emin learns the truth about the child Ruhen but he is powerless to act. Instead he must mourn his dead friends while his enemy promises the beleaguered peoples of the Land a new age of peace. The past year has taken a grave toll: the remaining Menin troops seek revenge upon Emin daemons freely walk the Land & Ruhens power is increasing daily. & yet a glimmer of hope remains. There is one final desperate chance for victory: a weapon so terrible only a dead man could wield it & only a madman would try. But if they do not grasp this opportunity King Emin & his allies will be obliterated as Ruhens millennia-old plans are about to bear terrible fruit. If his power continues unchecked Ruhen will achieve total dominion & not just over mankind but over the Gods themselves. One way or another the future of the Land will be decided now written in the blood of men. ...

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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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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It is 1943 & Captain Mike Blackwood Royal Marine Commando is a survivor. Young toughened & tried in the hellish crucible of Burma he labours sometimes faltering beneath the weight of tradition the glorious heritage of his family & the burden of his own self-doubt. For Blackwood the horizon is not the lip of the trench seen by men of the Corps in the previous war but the ramp of a landing craft smashing down into the sea & the fire of the enemy on a Sicilian beach. Here tradition is not enough & Mike Blackwood must find within himself qualities of leadership which will inspire those Royal Marines who are once again the first to land & among the first to die. This is the fourth novel in the Blackwood saga spanning 150 years in the history of a great seafaring family & the tradition in which they served. ...

April knows she was abandoned in a rubbish bin as a newborn baby fourteen years ago. Now she's happily settled with her foster mother Marion
- but there's a part of April that's desperate to know where she really came from & who she really is. If only she could remember her real mother
- or even find her.. . An engrossing engaging & highly moving novel from the acclaimed bestseller Jacqueline Wilson.

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Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling & at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier. In this remarkable book Richard Holmes draws on the testimonies of the 700 soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment to capture in vivid detail the average soldiers day-to-day experience of war. Embroiled in a conflict often too dangerous for reporters to cover these soldiers -- most of them young many without any previous experience of warfare -- have kept ongoing records of the drudgery anxiety & horror involved in fighting a violent & increasingly unpopular war against a ruthless & resourceful enemy. All have risked their lives & many have died. Others have been recognised & awarded for their courage resourcefulness & gallantry -- Private Johnson Beharry recently became the first man to be awarded the Victoria Cross in twenty-three years. With these intimate & revealing glimpses of life in the modern army Richard Holmes paints a sweeping portrait of a new generation of soldiers -- grunts gallants & heroes -- & the sacrifices their decision to fight for their country entails. ...

Dutch is spoken by 23 million people mainly in the Netherlands & Belgium & is an official EU language. For English speakers written Dutch can be fairly straightforward to pick up although the pronunciation can be more of a challenge. This simple guidebook & audio CD covers Dutch grammar pronunciation & everyday phrases making this vibrant language more accessible to English speakers
- whether youre just visiting or planning to stay on a long-term basis. Dutch For Dummies is the essential guide for everyone from students & holidaymakers to those wanting to speak Dutch for business purposes. From numbers & vocabulary to greetings popular expressions & proper etiquette this clear easy-to-follow guide will have you speaking Dutch like a native in no time. Dutch For Dummies
Includes::* Audio CD to assist learning* Introductory grammar & vocabulary* Meeting & getting to know people* Dining out shopping leisure time & the workplace* Dealing with emergencies* Tips on how to pick up Dutch quickly

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