This is the first biography in decades of the Father of Singapore. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic & persuasive founder of Singapore & Governor of Java. An English adventurer disobedient employee of the East India Company utopian imperialist linguist zoologist & civil servant he carved an extraordinary (though brief) life for himself in South East Asia. The tropical disease-ridden settings of his story are as dramatic as his own trajectory
- an obscure young man with no advantages other than talent & obsessive drive who changed history by establishing
- without authority
- on the wretchedly unpromising island of Singapore a settlement which has become a world city. After a turbulent time in the East Indies Raffles returned to the UK & turned to his other great interests
- botany & zoology. He founded London Zoo in 1825 a year before his death. Raffles remains a controversial figure & in the first biography for over forty years Victoria Glendinning charts his prodigious rise within the social & historical contexts of his world. His domestic & personal life was vivid & shot through with tragedy. His own end was sad though his fame immortal.



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Miriam Feuer Sorger spent World War II as a fugitive in her own l&. Barely escaping the Nazi-built ghetto in her hometown of Kolomyia when she was only fifteen Miriam ran for her life through the war-torn countryside of her native Galicia after her blind grandmother was shot to death & her mother & sister carted off to the Belzer concentration camp. Adopting a new identity Miriam found employment in the home of a Ukrainian priest as nanny to his children only to realise she had gone from the frying pan to the fire when the local Gestapo commandant turned up as a dinner guest
- & something more. It wasnt until 2006 & her eightieth birthday that she could finally bring herself to recount in full the events which had so brutally ripped her from her home & loved ones & tossed her adrift & alone onto a river of fear & suffering unequalled until then in the twentieth century.
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When Millie Forester's mother abandons her one late June afternoon in 1854 the girl bursts unexpectedly into Aggie Winkowski's life. Aggie known locally as ' Raggie Aggie' for her long-established business of trading rags & old clothes knows the dangers waiting for such a strikingly pretty girl left alone in this rough & vice-ridden quarter & sees no other option but to take her in. But what begins as a compassionate solution soon leads to the development of a new deepening relationship that is to mould Millie's destiny & give new meaning to the lift of Aggie Winkowski. The Rag Nymph" is a gripping historical novel embracing the good & evil of the Victorian era." ...

Its name describes this feline. When it's picked up it relaxes completely going as limp as a ragdoll. This volume is filled with handsome full-color photos instructive line art & easy-to-read tables & charts. It provides information on all aspects of pet care for new & prospective pet owners. ...

Winner of the 2012 Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel. Vincent Naylor is a professional thief as confident as he is reckless. Just ten days out of jail & hes preparing his next robbery. But his plan is already unravelling. While investigating the murder of a crooked banker Detective Sergeant Bob Tidey gets a call from an old acquaintance Maura Coady. The retired nun believes theres something suspicious happening in the Dublin backstreet where she lives alone. Mauras call inadvertently unleashes a storm of violence that will engulf Vincent Naylor & force Tidey to make a deadly choice. The Rage is a masterpiece of suspense told against the background of a countrys shameful past & its troubled present. ...

The fourth novel in Debra Webb's internationally bestselling FACES OF EVIL series for fans of Karen Rose Katia Lief & Mary Burton. Danger stalks Jess Harris. Still new to her Deputy Chief position at Birmingham Alabama's Major Crimes division she's rebuilding her life after losing everything. But messages from a notorious serial killer continue to haunt her... When the wife of a Birmingham detective is found dismembered in her home with writing streaked across the walls in blood Jess knows they are up against something truly evil. Is this gang related a personal vendetta or even more sinister? As two more victims are discovered & evidence points to a shocking suspect Jess realises the mother's autistic son could hold the key to the killer's identity. But who will protect them now they are next on the hit-list? & will Jess act in time to prevent one final horrifying act of rage? ...

The third novel in the besetselling Sepentwar series. Midkemia is once again under the terrible shadow of the Emerald Queen. Her demonic forces gathered at the distant land of Novindus she is ready to launch a devastating invasion against the Kingdom of the Isles. Two men stand in her way: Eric Von Darkmoor battle-hardened soldier & the Pug
- warrior of magical powers. But it soon becomes clear that deeper darker forces are at play than the Queens impending onslaught
- forces of an evil so great it could tear the whole world apart.

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The international bestseller from the master of suspense. Jennifer Parker is brilliant beautiful & bold.. She seems unbeatable
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After the earthquakes came the infectious rage turning friends into deadly enemies. For survivors Michael Aries Mason & Clementine the battle to stay alive is about to get even tougher. The new world is organising itself with camps that promise protection for the uninfected. But the reality of the sites is far more sinister. Besides nobody is safe from the rage within their own soul.. . For fans of GONE or 28 DAYS LATER -- not to be missed! ...

On a bitter winter's day an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital. When two coarse rough-speaking individuals come to claim her she can remember nothing of the events that brought her to her present state not even her name. According to the men she is their young sister Lucy. As her health improves & her memory gradually returns she realises she's been kidnapped. But she has no means of escaping the hideous confines of the filthy basement room in which they have imprisoned her in. They are hoping to claim her fortune as a ransom
- for she is really Lucetta Froy the daughter of a prosperous importer. Tragically her parents were drowned on the return voyage from Bali when their ship went down but Lucetta survived as did the two villains. She is unable to prove her identity especially when her uncle refuses to recognise her & claims her father's business for himself. But despite being virtually destitute & her spirit almost broken Lucetta is determined to reclaim what is rightfully hers...
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