From the international best-selling author of Longitude Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo & his daughter Virginia. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day 'the father of modern physics -- indeed of modern science altogether' in the words of Albert Einstein. Though he never left the Italy of his birth his inventions & discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal a new reality in the heavens & to defend the astounding proposition that the Earth actually moves around the Sun. For this belief he faced the Holy Office of the Inquisition & was subsequently tried for heresy & threatened with torture. Galileo is brought to life here as never before -- a man boldly compelled to explain the truths he discovered human in his frailties & faith devoted to family & especially to his daughter. Since there could be no hope of marriage for his illegitimate daughter Galileo placed her aged thirteen in a convent near him in Florence. She proved to be his greatest source of strength through his most difficult years. Through letters contemporary writings their voices are brought to vivid life & woven into Dava Sobel's compelling narrative. Galileo's Daughter tells the story of the most dramatic collision in history between science & religion. Dava Sobel illuminates an entire era when the flamboyant Medici Grand Dukes became Galileo's patrons when the Bubonic plague destroyed a generation & prayer was the most effective medicine when one man fought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through his telescope. Galileo's Daughter is a rich & unforgettable story. ...

This book concentrates on Gully Ravine & its immediate area on the western side of the Helles battlefield Gallipoli... . Death was at work there.. . Death lived there.. . Death wandered up & down there & fed on Life." (John Masefield). Here trench fighting raged throughout the campaign culminating in the Battle of Gully Ravine between 28 June & 5 July 1915. This attack was a successful piece of planning & execution enabling the British to capture five lines of Turkish trenches seriously threatening the Turkish hold on the southern tip of the peninsula. General de Lisle recalled in my nine years of war I have seen many thrilling sights but not one compared to the 28th June Its success was well nigh complete. After this attack the region fell into the deadlock of trench warfare which brought its horrors as well as its monotony. This beautiful & picturesque area of Gallipoli is seldom visited & its part in the campaign almost forgotten. The book is well researched & contains a high proportion of original photographs & maps which have never been published before." ...

Gallipoli. Virtually unheard of prior to 1915 the very name of the Turkish peninsula bordering the Dardanelles
- the narrow waterway
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The Ottoman Army won a historic victory over the Allied forces at Gallipoli in 1915. This was one of the most decisive & clear-cut campaigns of the Great War. Yet the performance of the Ottomans the victors has often received less attention than that of the Allied army they defeated. Edward Erickson in this perceptive new study concentrates on the Ottoman side of the campaign. He looks in detail at the Ottoman Army
- at its structure tactics & deployment
- & at the conduct of the commanders who served it so well. His pioneering work complements the extensive literature on other aspects of the Gallipoli battle in particular those accounts that have focused on the experience of the British Australians & New Zealanders. This highly original reassessment of the campaign will be essential reading for students of the Great War especially the conflict in the Middle East.

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Can you gallop like a horse? Can you strut like a rooster? Can you run like a dog? Can you spring like a cat? Can you soar like an eagle? Can you swing like a chimp? Can you flutter like a butterfly? Can you swim like a turtle? Then take a bow & smile: you twinkle like a star! Then take a bow & shine: a star is what you are! ...

The thirteenth-century is just begun & King John has fallen out with the Pope leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles & corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England the people are dying in sin. In the village of Gastmere this has shocking consequences for servant girl Elena. Unwittingly drawn into a macabre scheme to absolve dying Lord Gerard of his crimes death & betrayal haunt her dreams like a curse. & when Elena is threatened with hanging for a murder she did not commit it is certain that unnatural conspiracy lies behind these dark deeds. But where can she turn? For in every face lies wickedness & in every shadow lurks treachery... ...

Taking its title from the name of the road down which condemned Donegal criminals were once led Gallows Lane follows Inspector Benedict Devlin as he investigates a series of gruesome murders in & around the Irish borderlands. When a young woman is found beaten to death on a building site in what appears to be a sexually-motivated killing Devlin's enquiries soon point to a local body-builder & steroid addict. But days later born-again ex-con James Kerr is found nailed to a tree -- crucified -- having been released from prison & returned to his hometown to spread the word of God. Increasingly torn between his young family & his job Devlin is determined to apprehend those responsible for the murders be-fore they strike again even as the carnage begins to jeopardise those he cares about most. Gallows Lane is the heart-stopping follow-up to Brian Mc Gilloway's acclaimed debut Borderlands. ' Brian Mc Gilloway joins the roll-call of excellence in Irish crime fiction' Marcel Berlins The Times 'A satisfying mystery with an attractive central character' Sunday Telegraph ' Another masterly thriller' Irish News ...

1820s Britain: after the wars with France when unemployment was high & soldiers could be paid off when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest any crime was drastically punished & thousands were hung. But one could petition the King & an investigation might ensue! The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent -- but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man he said. But even in 1820 the Home Secretary could occasionally use his powers to grant mercy if his investigator found cause & Rider Sandman once of the First Foot Guards is given the job. Rider Sandman a hero of Waterloo has family debts to repay but when his first steps in the investigations produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way this only arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England a country which he & others in Wellingtons army had fought to preserve. Stepping between gentlemens clubs & taverns talking to aristocrats fashionable painters their models & their mistresses dodging professional cut-throats & deceptive swordsmen Sandman uncovers a conspiracy of silence a group whose proudest boast was that they would do anything for any one of them. Sandman is a wonderful character as yet undaunted by the sleazy streets dank jails or the looming scaffold & uncorrupted by politicians sneering gentlemen or frightening bruisers an investigator in the making & a brilliant but very different hero for all Bernard Cornwell fans. ...

A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes & robbing people; & an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks a perceptive curious & compassionate policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life. In addition to all this Banks has to deal with the local feminists & his attraction to a young psychologist Jenny Fuller. As the tension mounts both Jenny & Banks wife Sandra are drawn deeper into the events. The cases weave together as the story reaches a tense & surprising climax. The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative deeply nuanced works of art."
- Dennis Lehane. " If you havent encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before prepare for a crash course in taut clean writing & subtle psychology. & watch for those twists
- theyll get you every time."
- Ian Rankin."


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Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of the metropolis. But he soon finds that life in the country is not quite as idyllic as he had imagined.. .A peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale. Two glue-sniffing thugs are breaking into homes. An old woman may or may not have been murdered. In addition Banks has to deal with his attraction to a young psychologist Jenny Fuller. As the tension mounts both Jenny & Banks's wife are drawn deeper into events. & Banks realizes that his cases are weaving closer & closer together.. .' The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative deeply nuanced works of art' Dennis Lehane ' If you haven't encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before prepare for a crash course in taut clean writing & subtle psychology. & watch for those twists
- they'll get you every time' Ian Rankin ' An expert plotter with an eye for telling detail' New York Times
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