Every one of us knows the moment when the simple act of putting one foot in front of another stops being a method of propulsion & becomes an adventure. In this hilarious & heart-warming collection of essays writer & broadcaster Stuart Maconie reflects on a life spent exploring the British countryside on foot. From the splendour of the Pennines & the Lake District to the drama of the Dorset coast; from the canals of the Midlands to wildest Scotland this book is an attempt to explain a passion for walking & the delights it can bring. Never Mind the Quantocks features over 50 insightful witty & entertaining articles including festive walks Lakeland favourites & pub treks. Culled from his monthly column in Country Walking magazine this collection is full of the beautiful places magical moments & wonderful characters that Stuart has encountered on his travels. It describes such intrepid adventures as taking on the famous Wainwright Fells of the Lake District walking Hadrians Wall with colleague Mark Radcliffe & why the most important things to carry in a rucksack are a transistor radio & a small bottle of wine. ...

Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least that's what it says on her business card. What Keisha actually does for a living is she watches the news for stories about people who have gone missing. She gives it a few days then makes her move
- telling the distraught family that she's had a vision about their missing loved one & may just have a clue to where they could be found. Which she'd be happy to reveal
- for a modest fee of course. Keisha's latest mark is a man who's wife disappeared a week ago. She's seen him on TV pleading for his wife to come home or for whoever took her to let her go
- & right away she can see dollar signs too. But when she pays Wendell Garfield a visit to give him the good news things don't go exactly according to plan. At first he's sceptical hostile even. But once she starts telling him about her visions visions that might just explain why his wife of twenty-one years had been missing for four straight nights she can tell she's got him hooked. The trouble is unbeknownst to her Keisha's 'vision' is uncomfortably close to the truth. & advertising it may be the last thing she wants to do... Never Saw it Coming is based on the novella Clouded Vision which was published as part of the Quick Reads programme in 2011.


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Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia Willy Jane Maitland was finally tracking his last moves. She recognised the dangers but her search for the truth about that fateful flight was the only thing that mattered. Closing in on the events of that night Willy realises that she is investigating secrets that people would kill to protect. & without knowing who to trust the truth can be far from clear cut... ...

Sometimes hopes & dreams don't go according to plan
- sometimes real life gets in the way. On a mild May evening a group of friends
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The little princess wants everything now or else
- shell cry! But what happens when she wants her very own dragon? Its time for
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In Never Surrender Robert Kershaw captures the authentic voices of the ordinary heroes of the Second World War from the soldiers ...

A nail biting thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. When prep school junior Julia Whitmire is found dead in the bathtub of her familys Upper East Side apartment her left wrist slashed & suicide note resting on her dresser Ellie Hatcher & her partner J.J. Rogan initially write the case off as a suicide. Julias parents insist that their daughter would never take her own life but Ellie knows all too well that family members can be the last to accept the truth. But when Julias mother appeals to her with the evidence
- including a h&-written suicide note she believes her internet-obsessed daughter would never have composed
- Hatcher is confronted with the possibility of a troubled young girls murder.

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Your past will always find you! With her three beautiful children millionaire husband & Cotswolds mansion former investigative journalist Rose Miller has an enviable life. But behind the domestic bliss lies a secret past! As Oxford students in the early nineties Rose & James belonged to Society X an elite clique that knew no boundaries. Led by the enigmatic Dalziel the group were hell bent on breaking down societys norms
- until an unimaginable tragedy occurs. With the subsequent scandal covered up Rose has settled into family life
- but is afraid to admit her feelings of boredom. So when her ex-editor asks Rose to dig the dirt on a wealthy businessman new to the area adrenaline enlivens her. But as Roses investigation begins to threaten her family she backs away
- & then a tragedy at her home begins to widen the cracks in her domestic facade. As their world crumbles around them is Rose about to atone for the sins of her past? An utterly gripping novel that will captivate fans of Sophie Hannah & Nicci French.


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Brenda has had a long & eventful life & she has come to Whitby to run a B&B & enjoy some peace & quiet. She & her best friend Effie like nothing better than going out for tea & keeping their eyes open for mysterious goings on in town. & what with satanic beauty salons roving psychic investigators & the frankly terrifying owner of the Christmas Hotel theres plenty to watch. But the oddest thing in Whitby may well be Brenda herself. With her terrible scars her strange lack of a surname & the fact that she takes two different shoe sizes Brenda should know that people as well unique as she is just arent destined for a quiet life. ...

Wounded firefighter Connor Mac Kenzie has come to rebuild the 100-year-old Mac Kenzie family cabin
- & to be alone. A horrific
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