During one long hot summer five-year-old Pea & her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital along with the baby. Peas father has died in an accident & Maman burdened by her double grief & isolated from the village by her Englishness has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach her
- although she tries desperately to do so. Then Pea meets Claude a man who seems to love the meadow as she does & who always has time to play. Pea believes that she & Margot have found a friend & maybe even a new papa. But why do the villagers view Claude with suspicion? & what secret is he keeping in his strange empty house? Elegantly written haunting & gripping The Night Rainbow is a novel about innocence & experience grief & compassion & the dangers of an overactive imagination.
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Cimmeria Academy has been more than a school for Allie it's been a safe haven. But no longer. The school
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Cimmeria Academy has been more than a school for Allie it's been a safe haven. But no longer. The school
- her friends her teachers
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I'm going to make you pay. When I'm finished you're going to thank me for killing you." In the dead of night he calls her making ugly whispered threats. Late-night DJ Cilla O' Roarke tries to pretend that her stalker is harmless but her boss ignores her claim that she isn't in need of protection. It's time to call in the cops. When the threats start to escalate Cilla has to set aside her pride & work with Detective Boyd Fletcher to find out the truth. But the answer leads them into a terrifying situation
- one that they might not both walk away from..."
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A collection of tales to invade & paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night. As you read the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck reach round from behind to clutch & lock themselves white-knuckled around the throat. This is the horror of ordinary people & everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems where the familiar & the friendly lure & deceive. A world where madness & blind panic become the only reality. ...

This is an exciting title in this informative series of books containing over 100 full-colour stickers that children can match to the illustrations. These beautifully illustrated sticker books double as spotters guides with accurate & simple descriptions that allow children to seek out constellations planets comets & other features of the night sky. Small size allows the books to fit neatly into a pocket so children can spot on the go. ...

Bulgaria 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother Khristo Stoianev is recruited into the NKVD the Soviet secret intelligence service & sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalins purges Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany & Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris & guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel a work on a grand scale. ...

This is a wonderfully colourful & deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end'
- one room in a Glasgow tenement
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Twenty-five years after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead paralysing the city of Los Angeles his name is still synonymous with fear torture & sadistic murder. Philip Carlos US bestseller The Night Stalker based on three years of meticulous research & extensive interviews with Ramirez revealed the killer & his horrifying crimes to be even more chilling than anyone could have imagined. From watching his cousin commit murder at age eleven to his nineteen death sentences to the juror who fell in love with him the story of Ramirez is a bizarre & spellbinding descent into the very heart of human evil. Incredibly after The Night Stalker was first published thousands of women from all over the world started to contact Carlo begging to be put in touch with the killer. Carlo began to interview them & in this compelling new edition presents their disturbing stories & the dark sexual desires that would drive them towards a brutal murderer. Also in an exclusive death-row interview the killer himself gives his thoughts on the Ramirez Groupies
- & what he thinks they really want.
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When an unidentified female body is discovered laid out on a slab in an abandoned butcher's shop the cause of death is unclear. Her body bares no marks; except for the fact that her lips have been carefully stitched shut. It is only when the full autopsy gets underway at the Los Angeles County morgue that the pathologist will reveal the true horror of the situation
- a discovery so devastating that Detective Robert Hunter of the Los Angeles Homicide Special Section has to be pulled off a different case to take over the investigation But when his inquiry collides with a missing persons' case being investigated by the razor-sharp Whitney Meyers Hunter suspects the killer might be keeping several women hostage. Soon Robert finds himself on the hunt for a murderer with a warped obsession a stalker for whom love has become hate.
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