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. ...

When Damnos is hit by cataclysmic earthquakes an ancient force is awakened. Deep beneath the earth the necrons rise from their slumber to decimate the human populace. All appears lost until salvation comes from the heavens
- the Ultramarines brave an orbital bombardment to deploy their forces on Damnos led by two legendary warriors
- Captain Cato Sicarius & Chief Librarian Tigurius. They are the planets last great hope against the remorseless alien foes but tensions within their ranks threaten to derail victory. As battle rages on Damnos & the Ultramarines seek to defeat their soulless enemies Tigurius receives a terrible vision
- a vision telling of the death of a hero...


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On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan & elsewhere only five days after launching their attack. Churchill who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten rushed to Paris to meet the French leaders. The mood in the meeting was one of panic & despair; there was talk of evacuating Paris. Churchill asked Gamelin the French Commander in Chief Where is the strategic reserve? There is none replied Gamelin. This exciting book by Julian Jackson a leading historian of twentieth-century France charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat & surrender of one of the greatest bastions of the Western Allies & thus to a dramatic new phase of the Second World War. The search for scapegoats for the most humiliating military disaster in French history began almost at once: were miscalculations by military leaders to blame or was this an indictment of an entire nation? Using eyewitness accounts memoirs & diaries Julian Jackson recreates in gripping detail the intense atmosphere & dramatic events of these six weeks in 1940 unravelling the historical evidence to produce a fresh answer to the perennial question of whether the fall of France was inevitable. ...

This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War the Russian Revolution & the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams a Welsh coal-mining family is linked by romance & enmity to the Fitzherberts aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson & to two orphaned Russian brothers whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war conscription & revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama & intriguing complexity Fall of Giants" moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg from the dirt & danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty." ...

The mysterious Time Tombs are opening & the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying seige to the Hegemony of Man & the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean annihilation for man. Something is drawing the hegemony the Ousters the AIs the entire universe to the Shrike. ...

The mysterious Time Tombs are opening & the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying seige to the Hegemony of Man & the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean annihilation for man. Something is drawing the hegemony the Ousters the AIs the entire universe to the Shrike. ...

Thanks to its unique mix of human & vampire residents Morganville Texas is a small college town with big-time problems. But it isn't the only town with vampire trouble.. . Claire never thought she'd leave Morganville but when she gets accepted into the graduate course at MIT she can't pass up the opportunity. Saying goodbye to her friends especially her boyfriend Shane is bittersweet & her new life at MIT is both scary & exciting. Enrolled in a special advanced study programme with Professor Irene Anderson former Morganville native Claire is able to work on VLAD her machine designed to cancel the mental abilities of vampires. But Morganville & its inhabitants are never really far from Claire's mind. When she begins testing her machine on live subjects things quickly spiral out of control & Claire begins to wonder whether leaving Morganville was the last mistake she'll ever make.. . ...