In THE AWAKENING a beautiful naturalist's dream of a life among the feral jungle creatures comes true. But an untamed irresistible beast of another sort inspires her to explore her own wild side. WILD RAIN's Rachael Lospostos has escaped from a faceless assassin & found sanctuary thousands of miles from home under the towering jungle canopy. In this world teeming with unusual creatures she encounters Rio a native of the forest imbued with a fierce prowess & possessed of secrets of his own. & when Rio unleashes the secret animal instincts that course through his blood Rachael must decide if he is something to be feared
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Fever casts a brilliant light over the life of a figure once described as 'the most dangerous woman in America'. Mary Mallon an Irish immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York is headstrong & brave a woman who has battled fiercely to better her lot in life & keep her wayward lover Alfred on the straight & narrow. She works her way up the ranks to cook for the wealthiest families in Manhattan but leaves a trail of death & disease in her wake. When she is imprisoned in complete isolation despite being perfectly healthy herself she refuses to understand her paradoxical situation. Condemned by press & public alike she is branded a murderer but continues to fight for her freedom. Mary Beth Keane's fictional account is as fiercely compelling as Typhoid Mary herself & Keane presents us with a very cleverly wrought conundrum: was Mary Mallon a selfish monster or was she a hounded innocent? ...

Two tales following the remarkable life of a girl in London in the tumultuous years of the Great Plague & the Great Fire. Hannah is excited as she is about to embark upon her first ever trip to London to help her sister in her shop The Sugared Plum making sweetmeats for the gentry. She does not however get the reception she expected from her sister Sarah. Instead of giving Hannah a hearty welcome Sarah is horrified that Hannah did not get her message to stay away
- the Plague is taking hold of London. In the second of these stories Hannah returns to her beloved London to re-open the sweetmeats shop with younger sister Anne. Londoners are reeling from the plague epidemic of the previous year but Hannah & Anne are keen to start enjoying everything the bustling city has to offer. But this is 1666 & it has been prophesised that terrible things will happen & on Pudding Lane flames are raging through the bakery.. . Based on meticulous research Mary Hooper evokes with complete mastery the sights sounds & terror of a London gripped firstly by the shocking & gruesome plague & then by the ferocious & terrible fire.
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Fever Crumb" is a stunning st&-alone prequel to Philip Reeve's brilliant science fantasy quartet. It is set many generations ...

FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is visiting the old family home in Louisiana. Surrounded by ghosts of the past he cant help but think of Helen
- his wife who tragically died twelve years ago. But whilst examining her possessions he makes a startling discovery
- one that leads him to believe Helens death was not accidental... With the help of his trusted friend Lieutenant Vincent DAgosta Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wifes final days. Its a journey that takes him deep into the dark heart of her past to a hidden obsession & secrets that some people would do anything to protect. But as the hunt for Helens murderer ventures into the Bayou Pendergast find himself faced with a killer question: just who was the woman he married?

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This is the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. As a young boy growing up in London & watching his parents' marriage fall apart Nick Hornby
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The critically acclaimed debut novel The Fever Tree" by Jennifer Mc Veigh. 1880 South Africa
- a land torn apart by greed...
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The critically acclaimed debut novel The Fever Tree by Jennifer Mc Veigh a Richard & Judy bookclub pick. 1880 South Africa
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Abner Marsh has had his dearest wish come true
- he has built the Fevre Dream the finest steamship ever to sail the Mississippi.
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A Few Kind Words & a Loaded Gun is the autobiography of convicted felon Noel Razor Smith. An extraordinarily vivid account of how a tearaway kid from South London became a career criminal it is both a searing indictment of a system that determinedly brutalized young offenders & a frank unsentimental acknowledgement of the thrills of the criminal life. Shocking fascinating & frightening by turns it also reveals Razor Smith to be a remarkably talented writer. ...