WHEN TRUTH & JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK & WHITE ISSUES.. . Sephy is a Cross one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father.. . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered.. . Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced once again to take sides? A razor-sharp & intensely moving novel the second in the Noughts & Crosses sequence. ...

This will be the fifth in the Blackwood Royal Marines" series. The setting is fifties Malaya & Singapore at the height of the new terrorist attempts to subvert the creation of the new federation. The Royal Marines the Commandoes were used in coastal & jungle operations at a time when it was said that the post-war promise of a stable & successful Malaya was on a knife-edge. There will be two Blackwoods in this story
- a senior officer & a ranker!"
...

This title is the winner of the Medical Journalists Open Book Award 2005. Revered & feared in equal measure John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. Rich or poor aristocrat or human freak suffering Georgians knew that Hunters skills might well save their lives but if he failed their corpses could end up on his dissecting table their bones & organs destined for display in his remarkable macabre museum. Maverick medical pioneer adored teacher brilliant naturalist Hunter was a key figure of the Enlightenment who transformed surgery advanced biological understanding & even anticipated the evolutionary theories of Darwin. He provided inspiration both for Dr Jekyll & Dr Dolittle. But the extremes to which he went to pursue his scientific mission raised question marks then as now. John Hunters extraordinary world comes to life in this remarkable award-winning biography written by a wonderful new talent. ...

As the very fabric of reality wears thin all portents indicate that Tarmon Gai'don the Last Battle is imminent
- & Rand al' Thor
...

This is an unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up by an award-winning writer. Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. & you can hear everything they think. & they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run... ...

He is coming to kill me. Now would be a good time to run. I cannot run. I am too afraid to run. Paul Varderman could be at any normal school
- bullies girls & annoying teachers are just a part of life. Unfortunately normal doesnt apply when it comes to the schools most evil bully Roth a twisted & threatening thug with an agenda quite unlike anyone else. When Paul ends up delivering a message from Roth to the leader of a gang at a nearby school it fuels a rivalry with immediate consequences. Paul attempts to distance himself from the feud but when Roth hands him a knife it both empowers him & scares him at the same time.. . This thought-provoking & original novel highlights the terrible consequences of peer pressure & violence & casts a spotlight on the worrying rise in knife crime among teenagers.
...

Drug addiction. Criminal behaviour. Murder...and all before his sixteenth birthday. From foster home to childrens home to living rough on the streets Cain never had a normal childhood. By the age of 8 he was carrying a knife. Seven years later he was serving time for killing someone. Based on real events ex-prison officer Ronnie Thompson tells Cains shocking story & reveals what really happens to teenage offenders both on the streets & once theyre behind bars. Prison riots assaults on officers roof-top protests & brutal acts of violence
- this is an inside account of life in a young offenders institute & of an angry young man spiralling dangerously out of control.
...

Ian Anderson is a mature & beautiful new voice on the literary scene. Knight is breathtaking in its scope exquisite in its tenderness & uplifting in its refusal to succumb to the despair which fate sometimes prepares for us. It is a story of love & valour; a story of one man's refusal to capitulate when all the world seemed to conspire against him. Set in the early fifteenth century in the last days of the Age of Chivalry this is the story of a king's champion who robbed of the love & beauty of the woman who had made his life complete & stripped of all he had worked for & achieved still somehow found the will & the strength to pick himself up & move forward again & in the process carry a king to victory on the battlefields of France. This gripping work of historical fiction weaving together strands of romance tragedy & drama reflects the real pain & suffering associated with loss. It exemplifies the ongoing struggle of the grieving process; between the need to retreat into the memories of the world which has been lost & the need to find a way to move forward again. It is ultimately a book of hope written by an author who has made the journey. ...

Philip d Aubigny is a young knight in the kingdom of Outremer & cant wait to prove himself. His chance comes when he rides into battle to defend his home from attack by Saracen leader Saladin & his army. But after a disastrous campaign Philip is taken prisoner by the Turks & must work as a servant-and all the while he is plotting his escape. At last his opportunity arrives & Philip flees joining Richard the Lionheart in his victorious Third Crusade before finally travelling to Britain to claim his familys estate. Only when he arrives he finds he must once again go into battle.. . This exciting tale has captured the hearts & imaginations of young readers for many years & was the winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal. This edition features the original black & white illustrations throughout which perfectly evoke the atmosphere of the story. ...

The fourteenth title in the new Usborne Very First Reading" series designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together with their parents. Parents & children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) & as the books progress in the series the adults read less & less & the child more & more. There are puzzles at the end to check the childs understanding of the text & guidance notes for the parents. Beautiful illustrations help to motivate beginner readers." ...