Rebellion is brewing in Napoleonic Paris in the new action-packed novel from the author of the bestselling Ratcatcher October 1812: Britain & France are still at war. France is engaged on two battle fronts
- Spain & Russia
- & her civilians are growing weary of the fight. Rebellion is brewing. Since Napoleon Bonaparte appointed himself as First Consul there have been several attempts to either kill or overthrow him. All have failed so far! Meanwhile in London Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood has been seconded to the foreign arm of the Secret Service. There he meets the urbane Henry Brooke who tells him he's to join a colleague in Paris on a special mission. Brooke's agent has come up with a daring plan & he needs Hawkwood's help to put it into action. If the plan is successful it could lead to a negotiated peace treaty between France & the allies. Failure would mean prison torture & a meeting with the guillotine!

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Decimus Rex has escaped Arena Primus in the company of a fellow slave Olu Umbika. Together they manage to board a slave ship & sail away from the trials & Slavious Doom. But now their four friends are being used as bait to get them to return. Can Decimus & Olu get to the Suvius Tower in time to rescue them from Slavious Dooms devoted servants evil plans? ...

Athens 1936. General Metaxas is cracking down on rebetis & their way of life. A small group of friends
- Rebetiko musicians
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Tsuna is a failure at school sports & social life. He needs a mafia hit man mentor like he needs a hole in the head...and hes about to get both! Reborns gun will kill you & make you stronger! Tsunas old adversary Mukuro Rokudo has successfully fought on the side of Tsunas family" for possession of the Mist Ring. But his opponent the Varia known as Mammon has a highly developed sense of never-say-die! Later Tsuna finally completes his training & returns in time to confront one of the Varia who is running amok. The whole game changes however when he finds out who this Varia really is!" ...

Tsuna & his friends continue to train for the imminent confrontation with the Varia. Tsuna manages to complete the second stage of his training & Yamamoto has learned all he can from his father about swordplay but Gokudera has yet to master the fighting technique of Dr. Shamal. Meanwhile two members of the Varia have arrived ahead of schedule & are looking to take out anyone in possession of a Vongola ring! ...

When Reborn a fedora-wearing gun-toting toddler arrives & says hes come to groom Tsuna for his future as boss of an Italian organized crime family Tsuna is more than a little skeptical. But Reborn may have the magic bullet" necessary to turn Tsunas life around!" ...

Sue Townsend bestselling author of the Adrian Mole" series will have you laughing out loud with " Rebuilding Coventry"
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KNOTS & CROSSES: Two girls have been abducted & brutally murdered. Now a third is missing. Detective Sergeant John Rebus his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife is one of the policemen hunting the killer. & then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string & matchstick crosses
- taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve HIDE & SEEK: A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat. Just another addict until Inspector Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference treachery deceit & sleaze that lurk behind the facade of the city familiar to tourists. & only Rebus seems to care about a death that looks more like murder every day a death that appeals to the darkest corners of his mind. TOOTH & NAIL: Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to a supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers Inspector Rebus is on the trail of a man who due to his penchant for taking a bite from each of his victims is known as the Wolfman. When Rebus is offered a profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist it seems too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack
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DEAD SOULS
- A call from an old friend brings back memories & more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus. An old schoolfriends
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The story is expertly told skein by skein with a new knot to be untied just when you think everything is clear Sunday Telegraph 1963. It was the year of the Profumo Scandal the Great Train Robbery the Kennedy Assassination
- & the Mickeldore Hall Murder. The guests at the Hall that weekend had included a Tory minister a CIA officer specializing in dirty tricks a British diplomat with royal connections
- & Cissy Kohler a young American nanny who had come to England for love. & love kept her in England for nearly thirty years. In jail. For murder. Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel is convinced that Cissy Kohler was
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- guilty. But investigating further he soon finds his certainties being eroded. Not a state of affairs Dalziel can put up with for long particularly when his old mentors reputation is at stake. Not to mention his own...



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