Dan Starkey the ducking & diving hapless investigator takes centre stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime. Radio shock-jock & self-styled peoples champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy
- but when his four-year-old son is kidnapped for just one hour & then sent back with a warning note he knows he may have finally gone too far. Jack has no choice but to turn to Dan Starkey for help. Recently chucked by his long-suffering wife Patricia Dan has finally given up on journalism & is now providing a boutique bespoke service for important people with difficult problems. Dan resolves to catch whoever kidnapped Jacks son
- & very soon finds himself in the middle of a violent feud between rival drug gangs pursued by jealous husbands unscrupulous property developers & vicious killers as the case spirals ever more out of his control...

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Nine lives is a tale of this magnetic figures progression from hunter to filmmaker to conservationist. It is also the remarkable story of a lifelong affair with nature. In Nine lives Varty narrates the adventures trials mishaps & triumphs of his extraordinary life from hunting lions at the age of twelve & teaching the orphaned lion cub Shingalana how to hunt for food to spending last moments with the badly mauled Mother Leopard
- whom he had been following & filming for years
- before she crawled into a termite mound to die. He reveals the secrets behind his close relationships with certain big cats & invokes the terror of his own narrow escapes from death including a dangerous encounter with crocodiles & a near-fatal helicopter crash. Captivating often humorous & deeply moving Nine Lives is a passionate account of a life lived to the full by a man driven by an intense love of the wild.

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A cats nine lives are full of adventure & excitement & none more so than Montezuma the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat he is cunning & proud while establishing his kingdom but to Matthew hes always loving & adorable. ...

Youll want to decorate & gift these unique nine patch projects! Great for gifts fund raising or to keep all for yourself this variety of designs will allow you to customize each project using your personal color palette. Make a table topper set for your next party or get together with your quilting group & create a bed quilt to give as a fund raiser to your favorite charity. Quilters of all experience levels will love this book. Nine Patch Panache takes the traditional nine patch block & gives it a twist a turn & shakes it up to create table toppers bed quilts wall quilts & lap quilts in a variety of styles from folk art to modern. The 176 pages are filled with projects step-by-step instructions full color photos & drawings. The quilter can select their favorite fabric combine it with a nine patch design follow the easy to read instructions & will complete a unique project suitable for display or gifting. ...

When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was & how he came to be there. The lore of bell-ringing & a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime & its violent unravelling twenty years later. I admire her novels.. .she has great fertility of invention ingenuity & a wonderful eye for detail Ruth Rendell ...

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One of Britain's most popular novels George Orwell's dystopian tale Nineteen Eighty-Four" is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. ' It was a bright cold day in April & the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia he discovers that life does not have to be dull & deadening & awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover & circle overhead Winston & Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent
- even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101..." Nineteen Eighty-Four" is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything & everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. The novel also coined many new words & phrases which regular appear in popular culture such as ' Big Brother' 'thoughtcrime' 'doublethink' & ' Newspeak'. " More relevant to today that almost any other book that you can think of". (Jo Brand). " Right up there among my favourite books...I read it again & again". (Margaret Atwood). George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was an accomplished social political & literary commentator & essayist known for his non-fiction works " The Road to Wigan Pier" & " Homage to Catalonia". His most famous novels " Animal Farm" & "1984" have influenced a generation of twentieth century political satirists & dystopian novelists. This edition of Orwell's seminal novel is introduced by Professor Peter Davidson."
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Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
- Akasha Classics Akasha Publishing. Com
- It was a bright cold day in April & the clocks

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Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in which demands absolute obedience & controls him through the all-seeing telescreens & the watchful eye of Big Brother symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth & liberty Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. ...

George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century making famous Big Brother newspeak & Room 101. ' Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in which demands absolute obedience & controls him through the all-seeing telescreens & the watchful eye of Big Brother symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth & liberty Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) better known by his pen-name George Orwell was born in India where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author & journalist Orwell was one of the most prominent & influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945 & it was this novel together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels & non-fiction including Burmese Days (1934) Down & Out in Paris & London (1933) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) & Homage to Catalonia (1938) are published in Penguin Modern Classics. If you enjoyed Nineteen Eighty-Four you might like Orwell's Animal Farm also available in Penguin Great Orwell. His final masterpiece.. .enthralling & indispensible for understanding modern history". (Timothy Garton-Ash New York Review of Books). " The book of the twentieth century.. .haunts us with an ever-darker relevance". (Independent)." ...