As a child Robin Bayley was enchanted by his grandmothers stories of Mexican adventures: of bandits wild jungle journeys hidden bags of silver & a narrow escape from the bloody Mexican Revolution. But Robin sensed there was more to these stories than anyone knew & so he set out to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather. The Mango Orchard" is the story of parallel journeys a hundred years apart into the heart of Latin America. Undaunted by the passage of time & a paucity of information Robin seeks out the places where his great grandfather Arthur Arturo Greenhalgh travelled & lived determined to uncover his legacy. Along the road Robin encounters witches drug dealers a gun-toting Tasmanian Devil & an ex-Nazi diamond trader. He is threatened with deportation offered the protection of Colombian guerrilla fighters & is comforted by the blessings of los santos. He falls in love with a beautiful Guatemalan girl with mystical powers & almost gives up his quest until a sense of destiny drives him on to western Mexico & the discovery of much much more than he had bargained for." ...

A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels John Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer"



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Most men dont have a life is the dramatic opening to Steve Biddulphs bestseller Manhood. Exploring two critical social issues: establishing a healthy masculinity & how men can release themselves from suffocating & outdated social moulds Biddulph addresses the problems & possibilities confronting men in their daily life. Women have found the book to be a profoundly moving & revealing read; while men acquire recognition & a sense of hope that life can be different. Topics include:--Seven steps to manhood--You & your father
- breaking down the defences--Sex & spirit
- coming alive--Being a real father
- turning your love into action--Real male friends
- be proud of being male & much more-This edition has been revised & updated to meet the needs of younger men who are struggling with these issues in the twenty-first century. Steve Biddulph should be in the UK what he is in Australia the household name in the business of raising boys & being a man Dorothy Rowe psychologist & writer



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Al Qaeda expert & CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade as well as the recent campaign that gradually tightened the noose around him. Other key elements of the book will include: A careful account of Obamas decision-making process in the final weeks & days as the raid was planned as well as what NSC cabinet members were advising him; the fascinating story of a group of mostly women analysts at the CIA in the HVT (high value target) section who never gave up assembling the tiniest clues about OBLs whereabouts; the untold & action-packed history of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) & the SEALs which accounts for the confidence Obama had in tasking them with the mission; & an analysis of what the death of OBL means for al Qaeda for the wider jihadist movement that looked to him for inspiration & strategic guidance & for Obamas legacy. Just as Hugh Trevor-Ropers The Last Days of Hitler" was the definitive account of the death of the Nazi dictator so too is " Manhunt" the authoritative immersive account of the operation that killed the man who organized the largest mass murder in American history." ...

Egypt 528 BC. Kel a young scribe recently hired by the prestigious Guild of Interpreter arrives at work one morning to find the entire staff slaughtered. He flees in panic taking with him the mysterious coded papyrus his colleagues had been deciphering. Thus he becomes prime suspect at the centre of an intrigue of State. For Egypt is at a turning point in her history. The throne has been usurped by Pharaoh Amasis an idle drunkard interested only in forging an alliance with Greece blind to the disturbing shadow of the Persians taking shape on the countrys borders. The court is riven by intrigues & betrayals. Alone pursued both by the conspirators who have framed him & the Egyptian police Kel realizes that if he is to prove his innocence he must uncover the secrets of the papyrus. But can he survive long enough to crack the code? ...

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani one of Europe's wildest & most isolated regions cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range & hemmed in by the Aegean & Ionian seas we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe. Bad communications only heightening the remoteness this Greece
- south of ancient Sparta
- is one that maintains perhaps a stronger relationship with the ancient past than with the present. Myth becomes history & vice versa... Leigh Fermor's hallmark descriptive writing & capture of unexpected detail have made this book first published in 1958 a classic
- together with its Northern Greece counterpart Roumeli.


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Telling the story of humankind as never before this book based on a major new History Channel series follows the journey of mans first steps out of Africa through the creation of empires to the globalized society of the twenty-first century. Focusing on pivotal moments that changed the course of history the History Channel series & book jumps back & forth through the millennia & across the globe to bring to life our shared human narrative in vibrant & unexpected ways. Much like a Hollywood action movie Mankind" is a fast-moving adventurous history of key events from each major historical epoch. More than just dates more than the melding of biology anthropology & archaeology this is history the way it is meant to be experienced- as the single story of humanity. With more than 300 colour photographs & maps " Mankind" is a fast-moving adventurous overview of the broad story of civilization but also

Includes:: illustrated pop-out side-bars explaining distinctions between science & history. Why is there 700 times more iron than bronze buried in the earth? Why is pepper the only food we can taste with our skin? How did a wobble in the earths axis help bring down the Egyptian empire? This is the most exciting & entertaining history of mankind ever produced. History is the TV channel that connects history with viewers in an informative immersive & entertaining manner across many platforms. It is the winner of multiple awards including 11 Primetime Emmy Awards & 12 News & Documentary Emmy Awards. It has strong international potential. " Mankind" the television series will air in 130 different countries. It has strong international support. It

Includes:: more than 300 full-colour photos. It has wide audience appeal. Written in an accessible & adventurous tone the book brings history to life with plenty of sidebars illustrations & charts. It covers key events in history from all over the globe."



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Eleanor Trewynn recently widowed returns home from years of working overseas to retire to the cozy village of Port Maybn in Cornwall Engl&. Even in retirement though she continues her charity work leasing out the first floor of her house to a charity shop. One morning as she opens the shop she finds both a particularly valuable donation & a corpse stuffed into the storeroom. The donation is linked to a violent robbery in London but the corpse looks nothing like the robbers being sought by the police. With the help of her niece Detective Sergeant Megan Pencarrow & begrudgingly Detective Inspector Scumble Eleanor is determined to unscramble this confounding case of daring theft double cross & murder most foul. ...

In June 1944 an elite unit of British paratroopers was sent on a daring & highly risky behind-the-lines mission which was deemed vital to the success of D-Day. Dropping ahead of the main Allied invasion 9 PARA were tasked with destroying an impregnable German gun battery. If they failed thousands of British troops landing on the beaches were expected to die. But their mission was flawed & started to go wrong from the moment they jumped from their aircraft above Normandy. Only twenty per cent of the unit made it to the objective & half of them were killed or wounded during the attack. Undermanned & lacking equipment & ammunition the survivors then held a critical part of the invasion beachhead. For six bloody days they defended the Breville Ridge against vastly superior German forces & bore the brunt of Rommel's attempt to turn the left flank of the Allied invasion. The Manner of Men is an epic account of courage beyond the limits of human endurance where paratroopers prevailed despite intelligence failures & higher command blunders in what has been described as one of the most remarkable feat of arms of the British Army & the Parachute Regiment during the Second World War. ...

Rich Manning & Jamie Warren have always been friends--and nothing but friends. However that changes when she asks him to father the child she so desperately wants. Rich agrees--if she'll marry him. Because he thinks their Marriage of Inconvenience could become a real marriage instead. Paul Manning a grieving widower with three small children turns to Leah Baker for help & comfort. When that comfort begins to grow into something else Paul discovers that he wants more than a St&-In Wife. ...