In 1787 the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-An epic description of the brutal transportation of men women & children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag & was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning scholarly brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia. ...

A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site... Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperence Brennan is first on the scene. The task that confronts her is a sad & sickening one & her investigation seems to be throwing up more questions than answers. But when Tempe makes a discovery that raises dangerous questions her professional standing is threatened. Convinced that another corpse lies in the woods Tempe pits herself against a conspiracy of silence & uncovers a shocking tale of deceit & depravity... ...

1581: young St Andrews academic Hew Cullan is unhappy with his life & disillusioned with the law. After his father's death he is invited by the advocate Richard Cunningham to complete his legal education in Edinburgh as Richard's pupil at the bar. Among his father's things Hew finds a manuscript entitled ' In Defence of the Law' directed to the Edinburgh printer Christian Hall. At first he resists its influence but when a young girl is found dead on the beach at St Andrews he is left unsettled & confused. He resolves to take the book to press & agrees to Richard's offer. Embarking on his new life in the capital he falls in love. His relationships are fraught with lies & secrets & lead to brutal murder on the borough muir. Hew suspects a link with the dead girl on the beach. As he begins his desperate search to find the killer he finds that the truth lies closer to home. ...

FATE IS THE HUNTER is a fascinating & thrilling account of some of the more memorable experiences Ernest K Gann had in the air. He's flown in both peace & war & come close to death many times. Here he reveals the characters he's known & the dramas he's experienced portraying fate (or death) as a hunter constantly in pursuit of pilots. This is a fabulous account of both the history of aviation & one man's life in the air. ...

For the last time the dwarves are going to war
- & the outcome will decide the fate of their race. There has been no word from
...

What happens when you discover you arent who you thought you were? When the person you love is the person who must betray you. If fate is already determined
- can you fight it? Lucas Gray is half Shadow Warrior half human & a member of the Brotherhood
- a group of assassins tasked with killing the last purebred Hunter on Earth before she can fulfil a dangerous prophecy. The Hunters name is Evie Tremain. Evie Tremain is seventeen-years-old a waitress & has just discovered she is the last in a long line of demon slayers
- & an unwilling participant in a war between Hunters & unhumans that has raged for the last thousand years.


...

Scientist & single mother Cara paulsen is used to fighting for what she wants & doing whatever it takes to protect her daughter Janie. But 'whatever it takes' has never before included a shotgun wedding to a dangerous-looking stranger. Vampire leader Talen says that he's there to protect Cara & Janie. But his idea of a wedding night is more like a sexual taming
- dominant & scorching hot. With shapeshifting allies they must fight against an evil race of vampires that has discovered a way to venture into sunlight in order to safeguard Janie...and the rest of humanity.
...

Ian Kershaws Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-41" offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In " Fateful Choices" Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940 when Britain chose not to surrender & December 1941 when Hitler decided to destroy Europes Jews showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history. " Powerfully argued.. .important.. .this book actually alters our perspective of the Second World War". (Andrew Roberts). " This fascinating closely-argued book adds to our understanding of a terrible war". (Alan Massie). "A compelling re-examination of the conflict... Kershaw displays here those same qualities of scholarly rigour careful argument & sound judgement that he brought to bear so successfully in his life of Hitler". (Richard Overy). "A splendidly lucid & impeccably argued exposition of the greatest political decisions of the Second World War". (Max Hastings). " How fortunate that it is Ian Kershaw bringing his immense knowledge & clarity of thought to the task.. .brilliantly explained.. .an immensely wise book". (Anthony Beevor). Ian Kershaw (b. 1943) was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield from 1989-2008 & is one of the worlds leading authorities on Hitler. His books include " The Hitler Myth" his two volume biography " Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" & " Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" & " Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941". He was knighted in 2002." ...

At birth Edmund Gosse was dedicated to the Service of the Lord. His parents were Plymouth Brethren. After his mothers death Gosse was brought up in stifling isolation by his father a marine biologist whose faith overcame his reason when confronted by Darwins theory of evolution. Father & Son" is also the record of Gosses struggle to fashion his inner life for himself
- a record of whose full & subversive implications the author was unaware as Peter Abbs notes in his introduction. First published anonymously in 1907 " Father & Son" was immediately acclaimed for its courage in flouting the conventions of Victorian autobiography & is still a moving account of self-discovery."
...

From London to Cornwall then to Italy & France a short shabby priest runs to earth bandits traitors killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood Father Brown knows human nature & is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation & how to deal with it. The stories included are The Paradise of Thieves" " The Duel of Dr. Hirsch" " The Man in the Passage" " The Mistakes of the Machine" " The Head of the Caesar" " The violet Wig" " The Perishing of the Pendragons" " The God of the Gongs" " The Salad of the Colonel Cray" " The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" & " The Fairy Tale of Father Brown"." ...