The First Law trilogy was Joes take on the great epic fantasy tales. Then in BEST SERVED COLD he took on a fantasy version of a classic revenge story & we have a superb tale of war waged in the frozen north still to come. With this his next novel Joe Abercrombie is once again venturing in a new direction & on a new adventure with one of the most enduring powerful & popular characters of the First Law Trilogy. Its going to be their biggest challenge yet.. . ...

They burned her home. They stole her brother & sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past & ride away smiling but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back & she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen & her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own & out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever through feud duel & massacre high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca infamous soldier of fortune & his feckless lawyer Temple two men no one should ever have to trust... The past never stays buried... ...

Anna Travis & James Langton return & must work together to capture one of the most terrifying killers they have ever encountered. A young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames. Horrifically mutilated & drained of blood her death is an ominous mirror image of an unsolved 1940s case in Los Angeles known as ' The Black Dahlia'. Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this copycat killer dubbed ' The Red Dahlia' from the flower his victim wore in her hair. But there are no suspects & a media frenzy is spiralling out of control. Anna turns to her mentor the volatile Detective Chief Inspector James Langton but the frictions of their romantic relationship are complicating the case. As Anna & Langton close in on the prime suspect they uncover a shocking web of sadistic sexual evil
- & a family's murderous secrets...
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A phenomenally popular vampire romance sequence
- now showing on ITV2
- from the best selling author of Night World L. J. Smith.

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Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic
- the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of
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Like the best memoirs this one is written with novelistic & poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic probing & heart-warming read
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Here are the first two novels of the cult series Red Dwarf" in one volume
- " Red Dwarf" & " Better Than Life"
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Millie's cousin Geraldine is a show-off & a pain. So Millie plots revenge. She tells Geraldine about the ghost with red eyes who lives in the garden shed & comes out at night
- but manages to scare herself silly in the process! Everyone is furious but Millie & Geraldine end up the best of friends! This is a brilliant story about making friends with a funny slightly spooky twist.
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A novel of soldiers & spies in the Highlands of Vietnam Army cop Erik Rider is enjoying his war until hes sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote Highland province. Rider lands in Cheo Reo home to hard-pressed soldiers intelligence operatives & profiteers of all stripes. The tiny U.S. contingent & their unenthusiastic Vietnamese allies are hopelessly outnumbered by infiltrating enemy infantry. & theyre all surrounded by sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople who want their mountain homeland back. The Vietcong are onto Riders game & have placed a bounty on his head. As he hunts the opium fields skirmishes with enemy patrols & defends the undermanned US base Rider makes a disturbing discovery: someone close to home has a stake in the opium smuggling ring-and will kill to protect it. Written by a master & as authentic as Matterhorn or Dog Soldiers Red Flags is a riveting new addition to espionage fiction. ...

Railway Disasters are almost always the result of human fallibility
- a single mistake by an engine-driver guard or signalman or
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