On the run from the redcoats the two young highwaymen Will & Bess find themselves in Galloway Scotland blamed for a murder they did not commit. Here they are captured by smugglers & become embroiled in a story of hatred & revenge that goes back for generations to the days of the Killing Times. Whose side will they take? Can anything they do end the cycle of religious hatred? & will their own friendship survive? ...

Young William de Lacey is high born the son of a gentleman. But he's on the run having stolen money & a horse & has taken up with a highwayman. It's enough to hang him three times over. Despite struggling with his conscience Will feels free for the first time in his life
- & it's all down to the mysterious Bess. Now can they survive the risks of the eighteenth-century highwayman's harsh life?
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Twenty-three years after the terrible Hinamizawa Disaster five strangers are drawn together to the abandoned mountain village by fate. One of them claims to be Mion Sonozaki who was supposed to have died in the incident that claimed the lives of all the villagers. But only one thing is certain: Oyashiro-samas curse did not die with the village. Will these five be able to survive the night? ...

The long-awaited answer arc to the Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY Cotton Drifting Arc: Youve already met Keiichi Maebara & his mischievous friends in the Abducted by Demons Arc. But Oyashiro-samas curse is poised to strike anew in Hinamizawa village. When Keiichi spots tomboy Mion working at a maid cafe he can hardly believe his eyes! But its not Mion after all
- its her identical twin sister Shion. Keiichis never heard of this twin sister before & suspects its just another one of Mions pranks. But through Shion Keiichi is able to see a quieter more feminine side of his best friend even if it is all an act. As Keiichi spends more time with Shion however Rena grows more accusatory...
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After a year at boarding school Shion Sonozaki flees the oppressive institution & secretly returns to her hometown in the mountains telling only her twin sister Mion of her arrival. Though the Sonozaki family has kept the sisters apart to prevent conflict over who would become the next family head Mion & Shion have remained close
- close enough that Shion can easily impersonate her identical twin. When Shion encounters Satoshi Hojo in town he is completely taken in by her Mion disguise. & Shion is quite taken with him... As she spends more time as Mion Shion learns that Satoshis kind face masks a terrible pain. His parents were one of the few couples in Hinamizawa to support the controversial dam project. When the construction was put on hold the Hojo family was seen as an enemy of the town & Satoshis parents were the second pair of victims claimed by Oyashiro-samas curse. Forced to move in with his abusive in-laws Satoshi & his sister Satoko are at the mercy of his aunts temper...
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When her parents are killed in a terrible train accident a young Miyo Takano is sent to live at an orphanage deep in the mountains. Little does she know that her parents deaths are just the beginning of her hell; the institution is run by a group of greedy cruel men who care nothing for the grief-stricken girl. Subjected to abuses beyond imagining Miyo & her roommates plan to escape despite rumors of the terrible punishments that befell past runaways.. . ...

After reliving the events leading up to the tragedy in Hinamizawa again & again Rika notices that things are strikingly different this time around. Key events that drove her friends to madness & self-destruction in earlier incarnations are resolved & Rika suspects that her classmates are beginning to remember the horrors that resulted from choices made in those previous lives. Though the change in her friends gives Rika hope some people in town will never change. When Satoko's uncle returns the bruises on the little girl's body are proof of his cruelty. Will a tragedy Rike did not forsee rekindle the madness in Hinamizawa? ...

Watching the people of Hinamizawa rally together to liberate her friend Satoko
- once shunned by the village now defended by it
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Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar & twenty men prepare for their most daring mission yet
- the hijack of a supertanker a five-storey superstructure laden with oil. Meanwhile in an Elizabethan country house SBS operative Stratton has been seconded to bodyguard work & is bored by the lack of challenge. Not for long. With the helter-skelter pace that defined Duncan Falconer's brilliant debut THE HOSTAGE Stratton has been whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring rescue. THE HIJACK ranges from London to the Gaza Strip from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem. With a rich cast of characters from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists & the Israeli military the authentic detail & heartstopping narrative will propel Duncan Falconer to the highest class of adventure writers.
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Freddy Phil & Don are three grumpy old men travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them. Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District come gale hail snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful & eccentric locals but their real passion is bickering among themselves. Not only about the right path to take but also about where theyre all going at the fag end of life. Phil likes to dash up hills trying to beat his personal best while Freddy plots how to sabotage him teasing him at leisure & asking deep & difficult questions. Stuck in the middle Dons only ambition is to stop the squabbling getting out of hand long enough to find a nice pub for lunch. As warm as the wind is cold as dry as the lashing rain is wet The Hike" is a hilarious tale of bum-warmers crayfish-fanciers East German Trabant enthusiasts bodger philosophers sticky ginger cake gorgeous countryside & the subtle art of onedownmanship." ...