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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Ian Stewarts Galois Theory has been in print for 30 years. Resoundingly popular it still serves its purpose exceedingly well. Yet mathematics education has changed considerably since 1973 when theory took precedence over examples & the time has come to bring this presentation in line with more modern approaches. To this end the story now begins with polynomials over the complex numbers & the central quest is to understand when such polynomials have solutions that can be expressed by radicals. Reorganization of the material places the concrete before the abstract thus motivating the general theory but the substance of the book remains the same. ...

Twenty years ago Anthony Galton vanished along with his streetwise bride & several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found & Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere happy & eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds
- a headless skeleton a clever con & a terrified blonde
- reveals a game whose stakes are so high that someone is willing to kill. The Galton Case" is a wonderfully devious & poetic look at poverty greed murder & identity. Ross Macdonald's " Lew Archer" mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible humane hero & with Macdonald's insight & moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman Jonathan Kellerman Eudora Welty & Elmore Leonard."

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From Britains favourite Michelin-starred chefs comes Galvin: A Cookbook de Luxe in which brothers Chris & Jeff Galvin provide their singular take on the worlds favourite cuisine
- the much-loved & ever-popular brasserie de luxe food of France. A publishing event destined to do for French food what The River Cafe Cookbook did for Italian! With mouthwatering classics such as Cassoulet of Toulouse Sausage Crisp Confit of Duck Leg Black Pudding & Salad Lyonnaise & Apple Tatin with Creme Normande this beautiful book comprises 150 recipes & is richly illustrated throughout.
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Gamble" is the latest Dick Francis novel & the first solo novel by Felix Francis. Nick Foxton once won the Grand National but a terrible accident cut his racing career short. Years later he is returning to Aintree
- as a spectator
- when he once more finds himself the centre of attention. Minutes before the big race Nick's colleague financial adviser Herb Kovak is shot dead & the gunman vanishes into the crowd. The police want answers but Nick can't explain why anyone would want Herb dead. Yet when he finds a threatening message crumpled in Herb's coat Nick begins questioning all he knows about his friend. & on learning that he is the benefactor of Herb's will Nick is certain that something is not right. A fact confirmed when Nick discovers he's next in the killer's firing line. From Felix Francis the bestselling co-author (with Dick Francis) of " Dead Heat" & " Even Money" comes " Gamble" the latest Dick Francis novel. Set in the cut-throat world of horse racing " Gamble" is an enthralling thriller packed full of suspense mystery & intrigue. Packed with all the hair-raising suspense & excitement readers know & love from Dick Francis " Gamble" is Felix Francis's most heart-pounding thriller yet. Praise for the Dick Francis novels: " The Francis flair is clear for all to see". (" Daily Mail"). " Spare efficient & unflashy.. .inexorably draws you in". (" Daily Telegraph"). " The master of suspense & intrigue". (" Country Life"). " Still the master". (" Racing Post"). Felix Francis is the younger son of thriller-writing legend Dick Francis with whom he co-wrote the four most recent Dick Francis Novels " Dead Heat" " Silks" " Even Money' & " Crossfire" with Felix taking an increasingly greater role in the writing Sadly Dick died in February 2010 but his work will live on through Felix. " Gamble" is Felix's first solo Dick Francis Novel. Felix trained as a physicist & spent seventeen years teaching A level physics before taking on the role as manager to his father & then as author. He lives in Oxfordshire."

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The Gambler & Other Stories" is Fyodor Dostoyevskys collection of one novella & six short stories reflecting his own life
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The funniest book I have read this year." Tony Parson's " The Game" recounts the incredible adventures of an everyday man who transforms himself from a shy awkward writer into the quick-witted smooth-talking Style a character irresistible to women. But just when life is better than he could have ever dreamed (he uses his techniques on Britney Spears receives life coaching from Tom Cruise moves into a mansion with Courtney Love & is officially voted the World's Number One Pickup Artist) he falls head over heels for a woman who can beat him at his own game." ...

New Year 1924. Mary Russell is drawn into a new intrigue when she & her husband Sherlock Holmes pay a visit to Holmes gravely ill brother Mycroft. Mycroft has received a strange package that contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball OHara the hero of Rudyard Kiplings Kim who is feared to have been taken hostage
- or even killed. Mary & Sherlock embark on a search for the missing operative which takes them on a perilous journey through sun-drenched India. But when a twist of fate forces the couple to part ways Russell learns that in this faraway place its often impossible to tell friend from foe & that some games must be played out until their deadly end.
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Two of the best food writers working today tackle a subject that has been in need of a definitive & fresh guide for many years. Game: The Cookbook" features game in all its forms
- furred feathered & fish
- & will surely establish itself as the new benchmark on the subject. In this book the authors share a knowledge on game cooking that is unrivalled in print form. They show how game offers many wonderful & affordable choices for the home cook & just how easy it is to source prepare & cook
- something that precious few people seem to realise. They set out to completely demystify their subject & offer expert advice on how to joint prepare cook & enjoy every possible aspect of the foods that are hunted from the lands skies & waters of Britain. Written with extreme clarity insight & passion & divided into chapters on four legs two legs & no legs this book really does explore every possible part of the world of game that you could ever wish to know. It is a true tour de force from a writing team at the height of their powers. Fully illustrated throughout Jason Lowes stunning photography is fittingly all-encompassing & informative."


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