Stan Nicholls Orcs have found an army of followers. These are Orcs who have fought a vicious battle for survival against the encroaching plague of humanity as it has poured across their world & the worlds of others. Now in this the sixth volume the battle reaches a bloody conclusion where the Orcs will need all their legendary martial prowess & their notorious brutality to survive. ...

Stryke & the Wolverines returned in 2008 in ORCS BAD BLOOD 1: WEAPONS OF MAGICAL DESTRUCTION taking their quest to save the Orc race from both man & the sorceress Jennesta across the

Dimensions. Now they are back in another volume of frenetic action nail-biting adventure & black humour. Orcs warband the Wolverines are stranded in a parallel world. Their only means of escape the mysterious instrumentalities have been seized by their nemesis the depraved sorceress Jennesta. But regaining the artefacts is only one of their problems. To ignite an uprising in the face of ruthless human oppressors commanding magic Stryke & his band must reawaken the lost martial spirit of the worlds indigenous orcs. Youll never look at an Orc again in the same way.

...

The original Orcs trilogy ended with Stryke & his band of Orcs finding the ancestral Orc home hidden in another dimension. Orcs Bad Blood will tell the story of their hectic adventures in the other

Dimensions as they attempt to find peace for their race & escape the ever greedy savage expansion of mankind. Fast moving tongue-in-cheek & full of sorcery & bloodshed these are the perfect reads for the fantasy reader who wants a little fresh perspective on the endless war between good & evil.

...

Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life
- so who did
...

The Argyle family is far from pleased to discover one of its number has been posthumously pardoned for murder
- if Jacko Argyle
...

The third instalment of Jack Whyte's templar trilogy. The Order
- a secret society of men from ancient noble families drawn together
...

During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945 the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty & a system of absolute power built on extreme violence starvation terror labor " & the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents & the reports of survivors the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror & routine violence destroyed personal identity & social solidarity disrupted the very ideas of time & space perverted human work into torture & unleashed innumerable atrocities. As a result daily life was reduced to a permanent struggle for survival even as the meaning of self-preservation was extinguished. Sofsky takes us from the searing unforgettable image of the Muselmann
- Auschwitz jargon for the "walking dead"
- to chronicles of epidemics terror punishments selections & torture. The society of the camp was dominated by the S.S. & a system of graduated & forced collaboration which turned selected victims into accomplices of terror. Sofsky shows that the S. S. was not a rigid bureaucracy but a system with ample room for autonomy. The S.S. demanded individual initiative of its members. Consequently although they were not required to torment or murder prisoners officers & guards often exploited their freedom to do so
- in passing or on a whim with cause or without. The order of terror described by Sofsky culminated in the organized murder of millions of European Jews & Gypsies in the death-factories of Auschwitz & Treblinka. By the end of this book Sofsky shows that the German concentration camp system cannot be seen as a temporary lapse into barbarism. Instead it must be conceived as a product of modern civilization where institutionalized state-run human cruelty became possible with or without the mobilizing feelings of hatred."


...

An ingenious thriller in which young Detective Constable Trave uncovers a sophisticated plot at the heart of MI6 to assassinate Churchill & bring the Second World War & the whole Allied effort to an untimely end. It's 1940 & Bill Trave is a Detective Constable in his early thirties working in West London. France has fallen & the capital is being bombed both day & night
- it seems against all odds that Britain can survive the onslaught. Almost single-handedly Winston Churchill maintains the country's morale with the German enemy convinced that his removal would win them the War. Albert Morrison a rich widower forced into early retirement by failing eyesight is stabbed to death in his Chelsea flat. His only daughter Ava tells Trave that she would read the newspapers to him every evening & the night before his death he had become suddenly excited when she read him an obscure obituary notice. At Morrison's funeral Ava learns from an old colleague that her father worked for MI6 before the War. The obituary notice was a coded message preparing for an assassination although it does not specify the target. Trave realizes that there is a Nazi double agent within MI6 with a plan to assassinate Churchill & to set up another agent to take the blame. He is in a race against time to save Churchill for if he fails Britain's entire war effort could be at stake...
...

An ingenious thriller in which young Detective Constable Trave uncovers a sophisticated plot at the heart of MI6 to assassinate Churchill & bring the Second World War & the whole Allied effort to an untimely end. It's 1940 & Bill Trave is a Detective Constable in his early thirties working in West London. France has fallen & the capital is being bombed both day & night
- it seems against all odds that Britain can survive the onslaught. Almost single-handedly Winston Churchill maintains the country's morale with the German enemy convinced that his removal would win them the War. Albert Morrison a rich widower forced into early retirement by failing eyesight is stabbed to death in his Chelsea flat. His only daughter Ava tells Trave that she would read the newspapers to him every evening & the night before his death he had become suddenly excited when she read him an obscure obituary notice. At Morrison's funeral Ava learns from an old colleague that her father worked for MI6 before the War. The obituary notice was a coded message preparing for an assassination although it does not specify the target. Trave realizes that there is a Nazi double agent within MI6 with a plan to assassinate Churchill & to set up another agent to take the blame. He is in a race against time to save Churchill for if he fails Britain's entire war effort could be at stake...
...

Eileen Battersby is the chief literature critic of The Irish Times" & is in the words of John Banville the finest fiction critic we have. But her first full-length book is not about international literature or the state of the novel. It is about dogs. Two dogs in particular with the unlikely names of Bilbo & Frodo. She adopted the first from a horrible dog pound & the second decided he liked her & moved in to join the family. She was in her very early twenties an intensely serious student & runner who had just moved to Ireland from California. The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years witnesses to an often difficult human life & more important to her than most other humans. This book is about two animals with personalities emotions & prejudices. It is unlike any other book ever written about dogs. It is not sentimental or twee. Battersby became intimately involved in the lives of these intelligent shrewd creatures & brings them to life with rare passion & insight. She writes honestly & movingly about the reasons why for certain people
- especially women
- there is more integrity in the mysterious relationship with a mammal who cannot speak than there is in most of the relationships that human society has to offer."

...