Rob & Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together & become top climbers but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed & grief-stricken when he hears of Jamies death after a fall on a relatively easy Welsh rockface. The past though hides the secret clues behind the tragedy. Layer by layer Simon Mawer peels back what happened going not only into the friends childhoods but that of their parents
- who were also intimate. & there is no escaping that past
- vividly imagined scenes in the London of the Blitz reveal how through two generations Rob & Jamie & their respective parents have been addicted
- to desire & the heady dangers of climbing. Brilliantly structured as we move from past to present & back again this novel will make Simon Mawers literary reputation.


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What would you do if the man you love was accused of murder? Bad things never happen to Charlotte. Shes living the life shes always wanted & about to marry wealthy banker Dan. But Dans been hiding a secret & the pressure is pushing him over the edge. After hes arrested for the vicious killing of a nightclub owner Charlottes future is shattered. Then she opens her door to Keisha an angry & frustrated stranger with a story to tell. Convinced of Dans innocence Charlotte must fight for him
- even if it means destroying her perfect life. But what Keisha knows threatens everyone she loves & puts her own life in danger. DC Matthew Hegarty is riding high on the success of Dans arrest. But hes finding it difficult to ignore his growing doubts as well as the beautiful & vulnerable Charlotte. Can he really risk it all for whats right? Three stories. One truth. They all need to brace themselves for the fall.
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It is not natural" for human beings to kill each other for men to oppress women parents to oppress children for individuals or nations to accumulate massive wealth & power to abuse nature to even despise our own bodies & feel guilty for experiencing natural desires. The roots of our current malaise lie in an "ego-explosion" that happened several thousand years BC. " Primitive" pre-civilization men & women lived longer healthier happier & more productive & fulfilled lives than we do. We need to learn from their approach to life rather than dismiss it. This is the revolutionary thesis of this well-researched highly praised volume overturning the accepted wisdom of the last few centuries." ...

The tension-filled sequel to The Strain from the world-famous director whose films include Pan's Labyrinth & Hellboy. We survivors are bloodied we are broken we are defeated. But we are not turned. We are not Them. Not yet. The virus unleashed on New York City has taken over. Amid the chaos Dr Ephraim Goodweather leads a small team struggling against the bloodthirsty victims but fears it may already be too late. Their condition is contagious & is spreading across the country. Soon the entire world will fall. Though Eph understands the threat better than anyone he is powerless to protect his son Zack. Now corrupted by the deadly strain Zack's mother Kelly stalks the city awaiting the chance to reclaim her flesh & blood. Guided by Abraham Setrakian the brilliant professor & Holocaust survivor Eph & his team must fight off the great terror ahead. The ultimate plan in store for them & what remains of the human race is far more terrible than anyone can imagine
- a fate even worse than total annihilation.
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The much-anticipated latest novel from David Nobbs is the spiritual follow-up to The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin & is as witty as it is prescient. When revelations about the scandalous relationships & less than honest business practices of Sir Gordon Coppinger
- infamous financier & devotee of excess
- are made public the glamorous facade of his London life begins to crumble & those around him fear the worst. But much to Sir Gordons surprise all he can feel is relief. In this brilliant & funny examination of modern British values where success is governed by the principles of wealth & celebrity & driven by the insatiable desire to attain more & more we meet the perfect anti-hero: Gordon Coppinger a man going quietly sane.

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In this memoir meets relationship advice book 94-year-old Cutie Cooper chronicles the challenges & triumphs of her seven decade-long marriage & then pulls out sage tips & actionable advice on the art of fighting fair knowing if youve met the one raising children while maintaining your sense of self & everything else that goes into staying blissfully bonded.

Includes:: vintage photos of Cute & her husband Harry throughout.

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For Daisy & her husband Alec a long-awaited break by the sea becomes a busman's holiday when a local ladies' man turns up murdered on the beach... Yet in the coastal town of Westcombe it's hard to find someone who wouldn't have wanted George Enderby dead. The married Casanova's scandalous seductions had earned him the enmity of every jilted lover & cuckolded husband in the area
- not to mention the resentment of his long-suffering wife. & now as Daisy & Alec investigate among the seaside cliffs beautiful beach & quaint village this holiday idyll seems nothing more than a sinister backdrop for cold blooded murder...while the murderer may be closer than Daisy thinks. Praise for the Daisy Dalrymple" series: " Cunning...appropriate historical detail & witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece". (" Publishers Weekly"). " As always Dunn evokes the life & times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries". (" Booklist"). " For fans of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels". (" Library Journal")."
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Deluxe collector's edition featuring the first edition text & containing a facsimile page of Tolkien's original manuscript. The book is quarterbound with a gold motif stamped on the front board & is presented in a matching slipcase. The Fall of Arthur the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain may well be regarded as his finest & most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave & fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur's expedition overseas into distant heathen lands of Guinevere's flight from Camelot of the great sea-battle on Arthur's return to Britain in the portrait of the traitor Mordred in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle. Unhappily The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties & it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 & urgently pressed him ' You simply must finish it!' But in vain: he abandoned it at some date unknown though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937 the year of the publication of The Hobbit & the first stirrings of The Lord of the Rings. Years later in a letter of 1955 he said that 'he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur'; but that day never came. Associated with the text of the poem however are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting & experimentation in verse in which the strange evolution of the poem's structure is revealed together with narrative synopses & very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion & the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot & Guinevere which was never written. ...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain may well be regarded as his finest & most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave & fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur's expedition overseas into distant heathen lands of Guinevere's flight from Camelot of the great sea-battle on Arthur's return to Britain in the portrait of the traitor Mordred in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle. Unhappily The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties & it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 & urgently pressed him ' You simply must finish it!' But in vain: he abandoned it at some date unknown though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937 the year of the publication of The Hobbit & the first stirrings of The Lord of the Rings. Years later in a letter of 1955 he said that 'he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur'; but that day never came. Associated with the text of the poem however are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting & experimentation in verse in which the strange evolution of the poem's structure is revealed together with narrative synopses & very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion & the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot & Guinevere which was never written. ...

The struggle between Rome & Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest & most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved & the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World namely the ascendancy of Rome. An epic of war & battle this is also the story of famous generals & leaders: Hannibal Fabius Maximus Scipio Africanus & his grandson Scipio Aemilianus who would finally bring down the walls of Carthage. ...