Britannia has been subdued
- & an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquilas life begins. The murderous Roman agents who nearly
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Renard heir to Ravenstow is a crusader in Antioch a place far removed from the cold Welsh Marches of his birth. Summoned home to his ailing father Renard brings Olwen with him an exotic dancing girl whose sensuous beauty & wild ways have ensnared him. Yet in a political match made by their families Renard is already betrothed to the innocent Elene & he knows he is also returning to the duty of marriage. Torn between Olwen & Elene Renards personal dilemma is set against a background of increasing civil strife as Ranulf of Chester his greedy neighbour strives to snatch his lands. When Renard is taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln his fate is placed in the hands of the two women
- his former mistress now in the bed of his deadliest enemy & his determined yet inexperienced wife protecting his lands against terrible odds.. .
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Osebo the leopard has a fine drum a huge drum a magnificent" drum. All the animals covet Osebo's drum but he won't let anyone else have it not even Nyame the Sky-God. So Nyame offers a big reward to the animal that brings him the drum. All try
- the monkey the elephant even the python
- & all fail. Can a very small tortoise succeed in outwitting the boastful leopard? Jessica Souhami's vibrant collage illustrations full of movement & humor add additional appeal to this delightful story. The short rhythmic text is perfect for reading aloud."

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No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is back
- & the New Orleans nights have never felt so torrid or so dangerous..
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Brother Cadfael sets out to visit the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury knowing that a grand wedding is due to take place at the Abbey of Saint Peter & Saint Paul. As he arrives at Saint Giles the nuptial party passes the colony's gates. He sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians & the groom an arrogant fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather. With his usual astuteness he suspects that this union may be more damned than blessed. He is horrifically proved right when a savage murder disrupts the May-December marriage leaving Brother Cadfael with a dark & terrible mystery to solve. For the key to the killing
- & a secret
- are hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles & Brother Cadfael's skills must diagnose a sickness not of the body but of a twisted soul.

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Refreshes the parts other history books cant reach...A bit ropy on the Renaissance? In the dark about the Enlightenment? Or in fact do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world & want to read a witty irreverent definitely not boring romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth
- from 15 billion years BC to the present day? Good. A Less Boring History of the World" tells you everything you need to know from the Big Bang to Barack Obama taking in the Byzantines the " Black Death" the " Boston Tea Party" Bonaparte & Bin Laden along the way. Each historical episode is boiled down to edible bite size chunks so that you can finally piece together all the different bits of history
- & see how on earth we ended up in the mess we are today. Whipping through the chaotic journey of man past ancient civilisations the rise of empires & the fall of bankers A " Less Boring History" refreshes your memory & broadens your mind. & if thats not enough it will also make you laugh. A lot."

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Brian Draper was tired of feeling tired; life in its fullness" felt like a life crammed full of stuff & no more. "I dont want to be the kind of father who turns up late & exhausted for his childrens school concert & sits at the back fiddling with a Blackberry distracted vacant. I want to be THERE in the front row fully present." Drawing on the guidance of Christian wisdom he began to notice opportunities day to day to reduce the quantity & increase the quality of life
- to make room for his soul. LESS IS MORE distils a wonderful spiritual principle which is especially significant at this point in history when time is limited & money is in short supply. Chapters include: Clearing the loft
- literally & spiritually; Using your senses to savour what is free; Finding rhythm; Giving freely; Expressing yourself."

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For the last two centuries Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will the social process of production or the contingency of individual existence. Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy obscuring the fact that he is the dominant philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity; a period with which our own time shares startling similarities. Today as global capitalism comes apart at the seams we are entering a new transition. In Less Than Nothing" the pinnacle publication of a distinguished career Slavoj Zizek argues that it is imperative that we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat & exceed his triumphs overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Zizek to diagnose our present condition but also to engage in a critical dialogue with the key strands of contemporary thought
- Heidegger Badiou speculative realism quantum physics & cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin & end with Hegel."
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In 1985 Bret Easton Ellis shocked stunned & disturbed with his debut novel Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one this extraordinary & instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre it has become a rare thing: a cult classic & a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. It continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars & glamorous nightclubs wild drug-fuelled parties & dispassionate sexual encounters Less Than Zero -- narrated by Clay an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas -- is a fierce coming-of-age story justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity & its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour. ' An extraordinarily accomplished first novel' New Yorker ' The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation' USA Today ' One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality' Michiko Kakutani New York Times ...