In St. Peter Port Harbour on the Channel Island of Guernsey Detective Inspector Ed Moretti & his partner Detective Sergeant Liz Falla are called in to investigate the shooting death of arms dealer Bernard Masterson on the Just Desserts his luxury yacht. Why are Masterson his glamorous partner in crime Adele Letourneau & his thuggish bodyguard here on the island? & how are an ex-Folies Bergere dancer a former espionage agent & a wealthy sax-playing financier involved -- or are they? With the knowledge that theres nowhere to hide in a world now as small as his island & not knowing whom to trust in a mystery involving money & international intrigue Moretti goes to London in search of answers returning to Guernsey for a violent showdown on the Just Desserts. ...

Just because Grave Witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead doesnt mean she has to like what they have to say... As a private investigator & consultant for the police Alex has seen a lot of dark magic. But even though shes on good terms with Death himself nothing has prepared her for her latest case. Alex is investigating a high-profile murder when shes attacked by the ghost she is raising
- which should be impossible. Then someone makes a serious attempt on her life thwarted only by Deaths intervention. You know youre having a bad day when Death is saving your life... To solve this case Alex will have to team up with tough homicide detective Falin Andrews. Andrews seems to be hiding something although its certainly not his dislike of Alex. Despite all that Alex is going to need his help to navigate the tangled webs of real-world & paranormal politics & to track down a killer wielding a magic so malevolent it may cost Alex not just her life but also her soul...
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From the author of Blonde The Falls & We Were the Mulvaneys this new novel takes in the themes of race immigration family & social mobility & is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. The Gravedigger s Daughter tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small bleak town in upstate New York where the only job the father can get is as the town gravedigger & caretaker of the cemetery. Soon the towns prejudice & the familys own emotional frailty results in unspeakable tragedy. In the wake of this loss & in an attempt to put her past behind her young Rebecca Schwart moves on across America & through a series of listless marriages in search of somewhere & someone to whom she can belong. ...

The Irish famine that began in 1845 was one of the nineteenth centurys greatest disasters. By its end the islands population of eight million had shrunk by a third through starvation disease & emigration. This is a brilliant compassionate retelling of that awful story for a new generation
- the first account for the general reader for many years & a triumphant example of narrative non-fiction at its best. The immediate cause of the famine was a bacterial infection of the potato crop on which too many the Irish poor depended. What turned a natural disaster into a human disaster was the determination of senior British officials to use relief policy as an instrument of nation
- building in their oldest & most recalcitrant colony. Well-meaning civil servants were eager to modernise Irish agriculture & to improve the Irish moral character which was utterly lacking in the virtues of the new age of triumphant capitalism. The result was a relief programme more concerned with fostering change than of saving lives. This is history that resonates powerfully with our own times.

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During the last hundred years or so Gravesend has grown from a small community with a population of 22 000 in 1881 to the present Borough of Gravesham with a population of over 90 000. Robert H. Hiscocks book illustrates this development of a small but busy waterside town dependent on the Thames for much of its wealth growing into a vast commercial & residential area with many of its inhabitants commuting to London & elsewhere. This book celebrates the area from the chalk cliffs along the waterside from Botany Marsh & the Creek at Northfleet to the marshes at Denton. It is split into accessible sections devoted to the river the main road including Rochester Road East Milton Road Milton Road King Street New Road Overcliffe London Road The Hill Northfleet High Street & Stonebridge Hill & Old Road Gravesend from the Lion Garage which continues as Dover Road to Northfleet to where it joins the main road at the Leather Bottle. It is a journey that will delight anyone who is familiar with the area. ...

If you explore Englands churchyards & cemeteries you will be astonished at how much you can discover not only about the people who are buried there & their standing in the local community but also about the history of the area. Trevor Yorke explains burial practices down the ages & details the development of the churchyard & the cemetery. He looks at the period styles of gravestones & tombs & the shapes & features that help to date them. Using a wide range of photographs & line illustrations he examines the carvings & symbols that can be found & offers clues to their possible meanings. ...

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family who would have thought it would find safety & security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts ghouls & spectres Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him
- after all he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters featuring every second year of Bod's life from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?
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The first of two classic police thrillers featuring detective Nick Miller set in Londons seedy underworld. Ben Garvald is out of prison. After nine years in prison hes coming back to the old neighbourhood. Back to his remarried ex-wfie. Back for revenge. Thats what the cops think. But Detective Sergeant Nick Miller isnt worried. His highly unorthodox methods are perfectly suited for the graveyard shift
- the midnight hours when the driven & desperate come out to play. Tonight Nick Millers toughest opponent will be Ben Garvald... And only one of them will live to see the dawn.
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Gravity & Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker & activist Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance & wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition
- by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952
- this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of the controversial chapter on Israel. Also previously untranslated is Gustave Thibons postscript of 1990 which reminds us how privileged we are to be able to read a work which offers each reader such light for the spirit & nourishment for the soul. This is a book that no one with a serious interest in the spiritual life can afford to be without.

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Tyrone Slothrop a GI in London in 1944 has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited & then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence) a screaming comes across the sky " heralding an angel of death a V-2 rocket. The novels title " Gravitys Rainbow" refers to the rockets vapor arc a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. " Gravitys Rainbow" however doesnt follow such a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice Teddy Bloat Tantivy Mucker-Maffick Saure Bummer & more) & events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. " Gravitys Rainbow" is a blizzard of references to science history high culture & the lowest of jokes." ...