Daphne du Mauriers haunting classic read by Emilia Fox Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Mauriers finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley
- an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea its owner Max de Winter & his new young wife...and of course Rebecca.
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Rebecca Randall is one of seven fatherless children but is full of fun & strange ideas. She leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm & goes to live with her two aunts in Riverboro. There she goes to school for the first time embarks on a madcap scheme to sell soap nearly runs away befriends the kindly stagecoach driver Jeremiah Cobb & with ' Mr Aladdin' helps repair her family's fortunes. ...

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- & two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child & a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt she warned she'd come back to haunt him. Now it seems she has finally kept her promise. Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death. Was Rebecca the manipulative promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story the 'truth' has only had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change.. . ...

The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series on the American Civil War. It is summer 1861. The armies of North & South stand on the brink of America's civil war. Nathanial Starbuck jilted by his girl & estranged from his family arrives in the capital of the Confederate South where he enlists in an elite regiment being raised by rich eccentric Washington Faulconer. Pledged to the Faulconer Legion Starbuck becomes a northern boy fighting for the southern cause. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking violence to follow in the war which broke America in two. ...

A.D. 1305. An hour before dawn. Londons Smithfield prison. In a dank cell the outlaw William Wallace waits to be executed at first light. He is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last confession
- the confession of a life even more exciting violent & astonishing than the legend that survived. From internationally bestselling author Jack Whyte comes a story of brutal battles & high adventure of heroism & redemption
- the story of William Wallace as the world has never heard it before.

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The Rebel" is Camuss attempt to understand the time I live in & a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951 it makes a daring critique of communism how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain & the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing the French Revolution of 1789 & the Russian Revolution of 1917 that had resulted he believed in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice & a chance to achieve change without giving up collective & intellectual freedom." ...

In this thrilling sequel Gemma continues to pursue her destiny to bind the magic of the Realms & restore it to the Order. Gemma & her friends from Spence use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their corseted world of Victorian London (at the height of the Christmas season) to the visionary country of the Realms with its strange beauty & menace. There they search for the lost Temple the key to Gemmas mission & comfort Pippa their friend who has been left behind in the Realms. After these visits they bring back magical power for a short time to use in their own world. Meanwhile Gemma is torn between her attraction to the exotic Kartik the messenger from the opposing forces of the Rakshana & the handsome but clueless Simon a young man of good family who is courting her. This is the second book in Libba Brays engrossing trilogy set in a time of strict morality & barely repressed sensuality about a girl who saw another way. ...

Ricky Rocket loves flying through the Canyons & Spin Tubes in the park. But whos that zooming past in the Rebel 250 Flyer with the Evil Lord Vorg badge? & will Rickys little sister just keep quiet? Join Ricky on his exciting space adventures! ...

Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders the rebel girls demanded new freedoms & new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales & fishing harbours to win Edwardian hearts & minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as Baby Suffragette. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday
- then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.
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Danger. Betrayal. Destiny. Passion. The superb sequel to BLOOD RED ROAD winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2011. Saba ...