The first two editions of the Hornby Magazine Yearbook published November 2008 & 2009 were a huge success. This third edition is certain to take the modelling market by storm & will be eagerly awaited by modellers nationwide. This volume follows on with this successful blend of practical features for a wide range of modelling skills. The illustrations are vital to the success of the book & this new edition is packed full of high quality photographs plans layouts to illustrate the practical nature of many of the features. Mike Wild editor of the magazine of the same name has compiled a selection of new material to complement the magazine making this an attractive end-of-year purchase for all modellers. The features will inform & guide & include how-to features fantastic images of the best layouts modelling tips articles about the history of the railways etc appropriate for all the popular scales. ...

Hornby Magazine No 1" published November 2008 was a huge success was instantly in high demand & sold out within weeks of publication. The second edition follows on with this successful blend of practical features for a wide range of modelling skills. The illustrations are vital to the success of the book & this new edition is packed full of high quality photographs plans layouts to illustrate the practical nature of many of the features. Mike Wild editor of the magazine of the same name has compiled a selection of new material to complement the magazine making this an attractive end-of-year purchase for all modellers. The features will inform & guide & include how-to features fantastic images of the best layouts modelling tips articles about the history of the railways etc appropriate for all the popular scales." ...

The Horned Viper is the second in a new series of four books set in Ancient Egypt. The Spitting Cobra the first in the series was published in August 2009. Two further instalments will be released in 2010. Each book is a well researched & atmospheric evocation of Egyptian life encased in an exciting adventure story. The boy & girl characters Hopi & Isis feature in each book & readers will be intrigued to follow their struggles for existence & adventure in Egypt circa 1150 BC. In this story The Horned Viper Isis & Hopi find themselves on the banks of the River Nile pitting their wits against dangerous servants. ...

From the master storyteller this is a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance. It is June 1941 & Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark two brothers Harald & Arne Olufsen are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their elderly parents. Meanwhile a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gert
- a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arnes relationship with Hermia Mount an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces
- & by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall. It is only a matter of time before the brothers paths converge in a united effortto overcome the Nazis. A disused Hornet Moth biplane is their only means of getting a vital message to the British.

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Deputy Chief Virginia West likes & respects her boss Hammer but with an increasing number of visiting businessmen being murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange she finds it hard to accept Hammer's edict that a rookie reporter should ride on patrol with her to better relations with their citizens. Her worst fears are confirmed when the reporter Brazil presses the button to activate the boot-release rather than the siren on their first outing. He's not the only blight on her life right now: her cat's angsty her hormones are misbehaving her opposite number in the uniformed division is behaving like a jackass the radio despatcher is determined to trip her up the D.A. is in the middle of a hot battle with the trial schedule. & orange coloured corpses keep turning up on her patch. ...

The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then youre philogrobolized. Pretending to work? Thats fudgelling which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth author of the bestselling The Etymologicon this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide & wamblecropt at last you can say with utter accuracy exactly what you mean. ...

It's a world where everything seems pretty normal. But the weird the sinister & the truly terrifying are lurking just out of sight. Like an ordinary-looking camera with evil powers a bus ride home that turns into your worst nightmare & a mysterious computer game that nobody would play...if they knew the rules! Each story has a shocking sting in its tale... ...

Welcome to a strange & twisted world where the spooky the shocking & the positively petrifying are lurking just out of sight. A bus ride home.. .turns into your worst nightmare. A quaint country cottage.. .has a grisly secret. A man returns from holiday.. .with bubbling skin & bloodshot eyes. Horowitz Horror. Its all around you. Alive. Waiting. Enter if you dare. ...

History with the nasty bits left in! Horrible Christmas tells you all the festive facts you ever wanted to find out but were too stuffed full of mince pies to ask. Want to know: * a very rude pantomime song? * why making Christmas pudding used to be a crime? * how to get rid of carol singers? Read on for foul but festive food seasonal stories to send shivers down your spine & cruel yule disasters. History has never been so horrible! ...

Geography with the gritty bits left in! Inside youll find out what happens when a volcano turns nasty whether youd survive at the frozen poles & how a frog can help you get a drink in the desert. Hold on tight as you embark on a whistle-stop trip around the globe taking in everything from the perishing poles to desperate deserts stormy weather to earth-shattering earthquakes. Crammed full of far-out facts its the ultimate Horrible Geography" guide to the planet. Geography has never been so horrible!" ...