The twenty-second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford. Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short muscular figure. & yet there he was back in Kingsmarkham still with that cocky strutting walk. Years earlier when Wexford was a young police officer a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty of her violent murder no one was convicted. Another woman was strangled shortly afterwards & every personal & professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. & that it was Eric Targo. A psychopathic murderer who would kill again... As the Chief Inspector investigates a new case Ruth Rendell looks back to the beginning of Wexford's career as a detective even to his courtship of the woman who would become his wife. The villainous Targo is not the only ghost from Wexford's past who has re-emerged to haunt him in the here & now... ...

In New York City the dead walk the streets driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One among their hordes is different: though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world. From the other side of the planet a small but heavily-armed group of young girls turned soldiers has come in search of desperately needed medicine. Dekalb a former UN weapons inspector will lead them as their local guide. Ayaan a crack shot at the age of sixteen will stop at nothing to complete her mission. They think they are prepared for anything. On Monster Island" they will find that there is something worse even than undeath.. .while Gary learns the true price of survival." ...

* Great fun with hilarious monsters & a message about working together * Vibrantly illustrated with masses to look out for on every page by the illustrator of Jasper Ffordes The Last Dragonslayer * Wonderful text to read aloud When a boy & his Dad build an amazing monster-making machine all sorts of monsters come tumbling out
- big ones small ones funny ones & even ever-so-slightly scary ones. The monsters love to have fun & spend the days playing until they discover that other monsters live in an amazing land far away. Once again it is time to make an amazing machine this time a flying one to take them to the land of the monsters. Approx. 400 words/ Age range: 3-6 years.
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Saving the world isnt going very well for Elf Girl & Raven Boy. Theyve left Fright Forest & crossed a huge plain to the worryingly named Monster Mountains where they find a sign telling them to Turn Back. They really shouldnt have ignored it! Its not the strange wailing noises they hear in the dark or the gigantic yeti who wants to eat them for breakfast that they find alarming so much as the crazy wizard Jeremy who seems intent on adding Elf Girl & Raven Boy not to mention Rat to his collection of all too life-like stone statues. ...

The Monster of Florence which was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non Fiction in 2010 is a true account of brutal serial murder in idyllic Florence. After settling in Italy in 2000 Douglas Preston discovered that the olive grove in front of his family's new home had been the scene of one of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history committed by a serial killer who had never been found & was known only as the Monster of Florence. Preston intrigued met Italian journalist Mario Spezi who had followed the case since the first murders in 1974 to learn more. This is the true story of their search for
- & identification of
- the man they believe committed the crimes & their chilling interview with him. It's also the story of how Preston & Spezi themselves became embroiled in the case. Like one of Preston's bestselling thrillers The Monster of Florence tells a gripping & harrowing story of murder mutilation suspicion & ruined lives
- & at the centre of it two brave writers trying to uncover the truth at all costs. This latest edition

Includes:: an explosive afterword about the much-publicised murder of a British student Meredith Kercher & its connection to the monster case.




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This is a collection of poems about one of children's favourite subjects
- monsters. Korky Paul's lively illustrations to life
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This series uses cartoon style illustrations & humorous narrative text to make key topics in Science & Geography both accessible & engaging. This approach encourages children to read about & understand complex ideas. This book takes the reader back millions of years to tell the story of a dinosaurs death. Through this story we discover how fossils are formed. We also learn how they are discovered removed researched & preserved in museums. This book also contains an experiment more great facts to know useful websites & an index. ...

One morning at school Natalie is very bored. Then she has a big surprise
- there is a tiny monster at the window waving at her!
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The preferred method of torture of Vlad Dracul 15th-century prince of Wallachia was to attach a horse to each of the victim's legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into his body; Vlad also enjoyed scalping skinning & boiling alive. The 14th-century Mongol warlord Tamerlane once ordered the building of a pyramid of 70 000 human skulls from those that his army had beheaded... In 101 World Heroes Simon Sebag Montefiore selected his ultimate heroes & heroines. Now he offers his readers the other
- darker
- side of the coin. Monsters presents in chronological order grimly fascinating profiles of 101 notorious & profoundly sinister individuals whose actions have one thing in common
- they have had a baleful & blood-soaked impact on the annals of world history. From Attila the Hun to Basil the Bulgar Slayer from Pedro the Cruel to Ivan the Terrible & from Richard III to Saddam Hussein Monsters is a devilishly compelling gallery of history's greatest ghouls including: Caligula Richard III Adolf Eichmann Joseph Stalin Pol Pot Charles Manson Herman Cortes Adolf Hitler Al Capone Laventi Beria Lucrezia Borgia Nicolae Ceausescu Vlad the Impaler Saddam Hussein Simon de Montfort Pablo Escobar Ivan the Terrible Genghis Khan Idi Amin Attila Josef Mengele Heinrich Himmler Mao Zedong Osama bin Laden Kim Il Sung Slobodan Milosevic Empress Cixi Tomas de Torquemeda.


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This book explores monsters through the ages & throughout the world. With a brilliant set of bizarre & fantastical illustrations Monsters" provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of fearsome beasts from every age & culture. Christopher Dell investigates what the existence of monsters even if only in our heads says about humankind & explores such questions as how monsters have survived the millennia; why they are universal; & why we find the same one-eyed giants in Japan & in ancient Greece or the same dragons in Europe & China." ...