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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You should have been a detective. If theres one thing the last year has proved its how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn peoples lives inside out once theyre exposed. Meet Tony Hills most twisted adversary
- a killer with a shopping list of victims a killer unmoved by youth & innocence a killer driven by the most perverted of desires. The murder & mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But its not long before Tony realises its just the start of a brutal & ruthless campaign thats targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Struggling with the newly-awakened ghosts of his own past & desperate for distraction in his work Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal & professional satisfaction in his most testing investigation yet.
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The critically acclaimed debut novel The Fever Tree" by Jennifer Mc Veigh. 1880 South Africa
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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. ...

' The whole thing was basically an experiment ' Richard Feynman looking back on the origins of these lectures said late in his career. It turned out to be a hugely successful one spawning books that have remained a definitive introduction to all physics for decades. & now ' Basic Books' is proud to publish the complete error-free & authorised collection of the late Richard P. Feynman's lectures. As a fundamental aspect of our knowledge of the physical world quantum mechanics remains a vital subject in physics. Feynman begins with the ideas of amplitudes & the abstract notion of a state in Volume I before moving on to the study of two-state systems in Volume II. The novel approach in Volume III rounds out & builds upon the material developed in the earlier lectures while remaining independent of the first two. Timeless & collectible the lectures are essential reading & listening not just for students of physics but for anyone seeking an introduction to the field from the inimitable Richard Feynman. ...