HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the fourth volume in the series. A Feast for Crows brings to life dark magic intrigue & terrible bloodshed as the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as any in its violent past. The War of the Five Kings has ripped Westeros apart. The bloodthirsty treacherous & cunning Lannisters occupy the Iron Throne with allies as ruthless as themselves. Lord Frey was host at the Red Wedding so called for the massacre of the guests their screams unheard above the music of the feast. Euron Crow's Eye is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail sworn to deliver the whole of Westeros to the ironborn. No less to be feared are their enemies. The Starks of Winterfell & the Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead. & the last of the Targaryens Daenerys Stormborn will bring fire & blood to King's Landing when her young dragons reach their terrifying maturity. The last war fought with dragons was a cataclysm powerful enough to shatter the Valyrian peninsula now a smoking demon-haunted ruin half drowned by the sea. Against a backdrop of alchemy & murder victory may go to the men & women possessed of the coldest steel.. .and the coldest hearts. ...

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FROM CROWS is the fourth volume in the series. A beautifully presented slipcased edition of A FEAST FROM CROWS. A Feast for Crows brings to life dark magic intrigue & terrible bloodshed as the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as any in its violent past. The War of the Five Kings has ripped Westeros apart. The bloodthirsty treacherous & cunning Lannisters occupy the Iron Throne with allies as ruthless as themselves. Lord Frey was host at the Red Wedding so called for the massacre of the guests their screams unheard above the music of the feast. Euron Crow's Eye is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail sworn to deliver the whole of Westeros to the ironborn. No less to be feared are their enemies. The Starks of Winterfell & the Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead. & the last of the Targaryens Daenerys Stormborn will bring fire & blood to King's Landing when her young dragons reach their terrifying maturity. The last war fought with dragons was a cataclysm powerful enough to shatter the Valyrian peninsula now a smoking demon-haunted ruin half drowned by the sea. Against a backdrop of alchemy & murder victory may go to the men & women possessed of the coldest steel.. .and the coldest hearts. ...

The olive harvest is drawing to a close in the town of Dendra & when Hermes Diaktoros arrives for the celebratory festival he expects an indulgent day of food & wine. But as young men leap a blazing bonfire in feats of daring one of them is badly burned. Did he fall or was he pushed? Then as Hermes learns of a deep-running feud between two families one of their patriarchs dies. Determined to find out why Hermes follows a bitter trail through the olive groves to reveal a motive for murder & uncovers a dark deed brought to light by the sin of gluttony. ...

It was hard to imagine how Claire's day could get any worse...and then the vampires holding her hostage wanted breakfast. In the town of Morganville vampires & humans have learned to live in relative peace. Still Claire Danvers knows that after dark her homework can take a backseat to staying alive. But this tenuous harmony is really turned on its head with the arrival of Mr Bishop. Bad to the bone the ancient old-school vampire cares nothing about keeping the peace. Staying at the top of the food chain is enough. What he wants from the town's living & dead is unthinkably sinister. It's only at a formal ball attended by vampires & their human dates that Claire realises Bishop's plan
- & the elaborately evil trap he's set for the warm-blooded souls of Morganville.
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Clement Freud who died suddenly in April 2009 was a man of many parts. His life embraced a variety of careers including TV chef gambler owner of a night club & several racehorses radio broadcaster adventurer &
- not least
- Member of Parliament. Yet as his son Matthew declared at his funeral it was Freuds writing that brought us closest to the man. In addition to several books
- notably the childrens book Grimble" (1968) " Freud on Food" (1978) " The Book of Hangovers" (1981) & a volume of autobiography " Freud Ego" (2001)
- he wrote on a vast range of subjects for newspapers & magazines including the " Observer" " Sun" " Financial Times" " Sporting Life" " Daily Mail" " Tatler" " Guardian" " New Yorker" & " Racing Post". "A Feast of Freud" presents a generous helping of Clement Freuds best & most humorous writing on a broad sweep of topics including his consuming passions of food sport politics & the absurdity of the human condition reflecting his extraordinarily varied life through the prism of his distinctive deadpan humour. From the pen of the man who once joked of being out-grandfathered by the younger Winston Churchill comes this richly stocked volume that every Freud fan no matter in which of his many lives they encountered him will treasure."



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In the High Kingdom of Danton Aurelius magisters from across the known world are gathering for an unusual meeting. The High King's son is dying of an apparently incurable wasting disease & he has charged them with providing an explanation & a cure. There is a mystery here but not the one the High King thinks: the magisters know the cause of the prince's illness but they dare not reveal it for fear that it will expose the secret at the heart of their order. No the mystery is not what is responsible but who... Now the magisters must embark upon a manhunt racing against time before the High King learns the truth. But they have not counted on the young prince's determination to control his own fate nor on the existence of Kamala a young woman schooled in their own arts who will soon shake the world to its very roots. ...

Robert Nobel the school pariah triumphs over his own fears & the school bully in this extraordinary tale of self-empowerment legend & death. Robert is a boy who can do anything -- or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesnt think so knowing as he does that he is the school geek. But something compels him to do what Edith asks -- to visit old Chance House where a boy once fell to his death from the top floor flat to confront his fears & find some answers. Niker the bully thinks this is a great laugh. He challenges Robert to spend the night at Chance House with him -- but there the balance of power changes & it is Robert who proves to be the stronger. Niker feels threatened by the change -- & when he finds out Roberts secret obsession to make the dying Edith Sorrel a coat of feathers like in the old legend of the Firebird he knows just how to wrest his old power back. But just how important is the coat of feathers? Could it really save Ediths life? ...

Now in paperback this is Thor Hansons critically-acclaimed natural & cultural history of natures finest invention. Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic insulating & beguiling. Their story begins in the Jurassic period & leads through the development of flight to high fashion
- from leaping dinosaurs to da Vinci sketches to showgirls on the Las Vegas Strip they date back to the dawn of time. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle" biologist Thor Hanson tells a sweeping natural history of feathers as theyve been used to fly protect attract & adorn through time & place. Applying the research of palaeontologists ornithologists biologists engineers & even art historians Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us? Engineers call feathers the most efficient insulating material ever discovered. Theyve inspired legends & literature from Icarus to Shakespeare. Theyve inked documents from the Constitution to the novels of Jane Austen. Theyve decorated queens jesters plague doctors Aztec priests & the fabled birds of paradise. They silence the flight of owls give shimmer to hummingbirds & keep penguins dry below the ice. They are at the root of biologys most enduring debate. It goes without saying the importance & intrigue of feathers is patent. Informed by Hansons own field experiences form Africa to Antarctica " Feathers" deftly traces a history of evolution fluff flight fancy & function. A captivating & beautifully-written exploration of the human fascination with a most enchanting object " Feathers" transports readers from mythical associations with the divine to the height of modern-day science & technology."
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Davie Armstrong watches as his master Angus Mc Bain publicly thrashes young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who had made her pregnant. & yet only an hour later Davie sees the two of them alone in the malthouse & learns that the child is Mc Bains. In a whirl of disbelieving rage he overhears them plotting to let him Davie take the blame & marry Molly. Meanwhile the masters wife is also pregnant. & a few months later the birth of the Mc Bains son Amos unleashes violence & tragedy at the farm. Born with no legs & emotionally crippled Amos will learn to wield power of frightening intensity over everyone around him. ...

Simon Templar is the Saint
- daring dazzling & just a little disreputable. On the side of the law but standing outside it he dispenses
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