It is 1881 & General George Pomeroy-Colley commander of the British forces in Natal is planning to stamp out a rebellion. He is convinced the Transvaal Boers can pose no serious threat but he needs reliable information. He calls on former army captain Simon Fonthill. A veteran of the recent Zulu & Sekukuni campaigns Fonthill knows to never underestimate the enemy. He & his servant 352 Jenkins agree to carry out a covert diplomatic assignment. But the greatest test is yet to come. As the two armies converge on the heights of Majuba Hill Fonthill & Jenkins are first into the fray. If they are to break the enemy Colleys men must hold the summit at all costs... ...

Set in the tumultuous last year of Leo Tolstoy's life The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife & his leading disciple. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty & chastity on the one hand & the reality of his life of hedonism on the other Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo he believes he is dying alone while outside over one hundred newspapermen are awaiting hourly reports on his condition. Narrated in six different voices The Last Station is a richly inventive novel that dances bewitchingly between fact & fiction. ...

A sweepingly epic & gloriously intimate commercial debut
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Kids favourite super hero comics turned into easy-to-read chapter books. New stories with original art by DC illustrators these books are colourful attractive & accessible. Green Lantern": A green ring from another world offers test pilot Hal Jordan incredible powers to fight crime. The excitement & adventure in these never-before-told stories is out-of-this world." ...

1291 AD Acre. As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men the Falcon Temple sets sail carrying a small band of knights & a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace... Present day New York. At the Metropolitan Museum four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures & in a brutal & bloody attack steal an arcane medieval decoder. For FBI agent Sean Reilly & archaeologist Tess Chaykin this is just the start of a deadly game of cat & mouse as they race across three continents in search of the ruthless killers
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Paris: The Knights Templar has been destroyed by Pope Clement having been persuaded by a jealous king that they are corrupt devil worshippers. There is one survivor
- a knight who swears vengeance. Devon: A charred body is discovered in a burned-out building
- general consensus is that it is an accidental death. However Sir Baldwin de Furnshill believes differently. As he & Simon Puttock the bailiff piece together the evidence they hear of a gruesome murder in a nearby village where the victim was clearly burned alive…

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The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill hero of TV's Wire in the Blood written by the award-winning Val Mc Dermid. The hunt for a serial killer leads from Britain through Europe in this terrifying psychological thriller. A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill expert at mapping the minds of murderers is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home... Meanwhile his former partner DCI Carol Jordan is working undercover in Berlin on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire trafficker. When the game turns nasty Tony is the only person she can call on for help. Confronting a cruelty that has its roots in Nazi atrocities Tony & Carol are thrown together in a world of violence & corruption where they have no one to trust but each other. ...

Darrell & her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new students to induct sporting matches to be won tempers to control & tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers. ...

Do you envy the suicide bombers their firm faith in life after death? Probably not: you think they are deluded. People in the west have quite recently lost all their old ideas about a Better World Hereafter. We now accept that we are already in the Last World the world with no further reality beyond it & that wed better live our life to the full while we have it. If so then what happens to the traditional problem of Christian origins? Jesus preached the arrival of the Last World & urged us to begin a new solar kind of living. His message was one of secular fulfilment. But the Apostolic Faith by raising him to the supernatural world took us all a whole dispensation back to the Penultimate World a world dominated by supernatural fears & hopes a world of watching & waiting under strict discipline. The new era announced by Jesus was thus aborted probably during the late 40s. But today we need not the New Testament message but a Last Testament for the Last World which is our world. Don Cupitt attempts some midwifery. It is time for the faith to be born properly & to become public property not a clerical monopoly. ...