Jack's family are Shian 'otherworld' creatures who have crept in & out of human affairs throughout history. & Jack's family are special: working for the Shian Congress they have been watching over the Stone of Destiny
- one of the great Shian treasures
- for seven hundred years. Its homecoming has energised the dormant Shian folk giving renewed strength to their ancient powers & gifts. However the prospect of the Stone's power causes different factions to quarrel as they did centuries ago & when Jack's parents disappear separately under mysterious circumstances the trouble is just beginning.

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Secret Agent Jack Stalwart is about to decipher a code from his missing brother Max when he's called on a mission to Kenya. Someone has been killing precious African elephants for their tusks. Can Jack find the poachers & stop them before they strike again? ...

Off the coast of Australia a diver has vanished & along with him an unknown treasure from the wreck of the HMS Pandora. Can Secret Agent Jack Stalwart find the diver & defeat a deadly band of pirates before they sail away with the treasure for-ever? ...

The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors & marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain & beyond often unwillingly these ordinary men made the navy invincible through skill courage & sheer determination. They cast a long shadow with millions of their descendants alive today & many of their everyday expressions such as skyscraper & loose cannon continuing to enrich our language. Yet their contribution is frequently overlooked while the officers became celebrities. JACK TAR gives these forgotten men a voice in an exciting enthralling often unexpected & always entertaining picture of what their life was really like during this age of sail. Through personal letters diaries & other manuscripts the emotions & experiences of these people are explored from the dread of press-gangs shipwreck & disease to the exhilaration of battle grog prize money & prostitutes. JACK TAR is an authoritative & gripping account that will be compulsive reading for anyone wanting to discover the vibrant & sometimes stark realities of this wooden world at war. ...

Earth stands on the brink of acceptance into the Galactic Milieu a benevolent political & telepathic alliance of alien races. But some are wary as their new supervisors have introduced stringent new laws. Leading humanity is the powerful Remillard family but a ruthless entity known only as the Fury has its own agenda for the Galactic Milieu. It starts to murder those with metapsychic talents triggering a chaos that could delay Earths inclusion. At this delicate juncture Teresa wife of clan leader Paul Remillard conceives a child who could represent humanitys future. But Jacks birth is illegal under Milieu law & she will need the formidable mental abilities of Uncle Rogi & Jacks older brother Marc to cover her tracks. Young Jack promises to be the most powerful mental talent ever seen. But hes destined to be destroyed by his own DNA unless the Fury gets to him first. Galactic-scale intrigue.. .engaging Publishers Weekly A compelling vision of humanitys future.. . Highly recommended Library Journal ...

Horrific horrendous unspeakable The Whitechapel Murderer Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of East London in 1888 slaughtering prostitutes & bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him & to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But he did leave clues to his identity & numerous theories have been entertained throughout the one hundred & twenty years since he held Londons East End in his grip of terror. This book looks at the evidence left by the murderer & the reports & investigative papers which recorded the atrocities that the Ripper performed. It takes time to analyse the existing information & evaluate the letters sent to the police. It is the strongest & most powerful book ever written on the murders. It dispels a lot of myths attached to the Ripper & eliminates a lot of the previously conjectured perpetrators leaving only those who realistically could have been... Jack the Ripper. ...

There have been countless attempts to solve the brutal murders committed by Jack the Ripper more than a hundred years ago. It seems that almost everyone has their own theory & their own suspect ranging from the reasonably likely to the entirely preposterous. What this most famous of British criminal cases has always required is a professional eye to analyse with all the benefits of modern investigate techniques. Now that has been provided in the shape of the man most qualified to solve the case: former British murder squad detective Trevor Marriott. His long & arduous investigation dispels the rumours fantasies & urban legends which have for so long stalked through the shadowy world of this vile killer. The results are startling: for many years it has been accepted that Jack the Ripper killed only five but now it can be revealed that up to nine were victims. & most astonishing of all a new prime suspect never previously considered has emerged with evidence linking him not only to the Whitechapel cases but to murders all over the world. Jack the Ripper: the 21st Century Investigations" reveals the Rippers true identity at last & the fate that befell him." ...

Ripper Murders From Old Photographs is not a standard retelling of the story of the Whitechapel Murders but the tale of historically important photographs connected to the case discovered by the author in 2007. Half of the book deals with The Whitby Collection. This is a surviving series of 27 images taken by the amateur criminologist John Gordon Whitby in 1961. They show many of the murder locations & related streets as they looked at that time. The book will not only tell the known facts about the photographer but will
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- reproduce every one of the photographs along with modern comparison shots in colour. The second half of the book deals with an image that some have described as the most important photographic discovery in the Jack the Ripper case for quarter of a century. Before the discovery of a unique image purchased on e Bay for less than $5 no photographic image was known to exist of the murder location of supposed Ripper victim Elizabeth Stride. Not only will this book present the photograph to the world for the first time it will also discuss in detail the vast amount of research that has been undertaken to authenticate & date the image & with frequent reference to the photo album it came from will try to close in on identifying the photographer.

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In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano a coalminer's son met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame
- emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields unknown & untutored he has become Scotland's most successful & controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters & cards mugs & umbrellas prints of his work outsell Van Gogh Dali & Monet & his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. ' The Singing Butler' Britain's most reproduced painting fetched a record GBP744 800 at auction in April 2004. Vettriano's images have an often mysterious narrative & are a gateway to an alluring yet sinister world. Daylight scenes of heady optimism painted against backdrops of beaches & racetracks are counterbalanced by more disquieting canvases of complex night-time liaisons in bars & clubs bedrooms & ballrooms. Both sexes are clearly styled
- the men hard-edged & mysterious the women seductive & enigmatic. Yet beneath the confident posturing Vettriano recognizes our inherent human frailty that there is no victor in the struggle between duplicity & desire. Men & women are ultimately trapped by the machinations of intense love & passion with little control over their destiny. ' Jack Vettriano' presents about thirty new images as well as some recently surfaced works plus the best of the paintings previously published in ' Lovers & Other Strangers' & ' Fallen Angels' also by Pavilion. In March 2004 Melvin Bragg's The South Bank Show broadcast a programme dedicated to Jack entitled Jack Vettriano: The People's Painter. Now reissued in smaller user-friendly format.

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Jack is one of the UKs most popular & yet most controversial contemporary artists. His pictures sell for a record amount of money the paintings in his exhibitions are always sold out before the opening & The Singing Butler made history for being the most expensive painting by a Scottish living artist ever to be sold at auction. (And surely the same painting is one of the worlds most replicated fine art images?) Here for the first time we get up close & personal with Jack in the studio. We see how he works in his studios in Scotland London & Nice & we see how these locations influence his paintings. The book also

Includes:: brand new paintings never before seen. We analyse Jacks own cultural influences & the influences his work has come to have on popular culture in turn. With outstanding & revealing photography by Jillian Edelstein & a foreword from friend & fellow son of Fife author Ian Rankin this is a book to delight Jack Vettrianos fans.

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