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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Following his adventures in THE DARK MOON THE JASPER FOREST & THE CRYSTAL DESERT Terrel travels ever onwards hoping that each step will take him closer to his homeland of Vadanis. Now Terrel finds himself in the war-torn land of Takkuk where no one can remember a time before conflict & no one but the powerful sorcerers know the cause of it. Horrified to learn that the powers of nature are being harnessed for use as weapons Terrel discovers that a volcano among the glaciers is home to a deadly presence.. . Look out for more information on this book & others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk ...

Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal' 'load of old codswallop' 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this irreverent journey through the most fascinating & richest regions of the English language. In a book that takes you all over the world from nautical origins to food & drink terms once you have learnt one phrase you will be eager to learn them all! From the drop of a hat to the bitter end
- you'll be surprised & intrigued & you'll never speak English in the same way again.
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Trees Cant Dance began over 4 years ago at the worlds most northerly chilli farm. Against all conventional horticultural wisdom Dan May began growing chillies in the wilds of Northumberl&. It wasnt long before Dan had to find something to do with all the produce. Disappointed with the quality of the chilli sauce brands available in the UK he hit on the idea of filling a gap in the market by producing his own sauces using home-grown ingredients. In this fabulous book chilli guru Dan shares more than 70 recipes celebrating chillies in all their varieties & strengths. Acquaint yourself with the history of chillies how to grow them at home & how to identify the key varieties. There are ideas here for every kind of dish: soups & salads; nibbles & sharing plates; mains; side dishes; sauces salsas & marinades; sweet things & drinks. Mouthwatering recipes include Thai Beef Noodle Soup; Moroccan Spiced Lamb Burgers; Texas Marinated Steak with Stuffed Mushrooms; Sweet Chilli-glazed Ham; Quick Chilli Lime Mayonnaise; three fiery pasta sauces; Chilli Pecan Brownies; & Chilli Hot Chocolate. ...

Family that slippery word a star to every wandering bark & everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mothers death Richard a newly remarried hospital consultant decides to build bridges with his estranged sister inviting Angela & her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults & four children a single family & all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals log fires card games & wet walks. But in the quiet & stillness of the valley ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past & present lovers. Friends enemies victims saviours. & watching over all of them from high on the dark hill Karen Angelas stillborn daughter. The Red House is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary weaving the words & thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter stranger voices
- of books & letters & music of the dead who once inhabited these rooms of the ageing house itself & the landscape in which it sits. Once again Mark Haddon bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time & A Spot of Bother has written a novel that is funny poignant & deeply insightful about human lives.
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BBC Radio 4 Extra Book at beachtime. Joan's voice is almost a whisper. ' Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren't allowed to.' Joan Stanley has a secret. She is a loving mother a doting grandmother & leads a quiet unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door & suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world. Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas & idealists yet unworldly Joan feels better suited to a science lecture & a cup of cocoa. But a chance meeting with the glamorous Russian-born Sonya & her charismatic cousin Leo blurs the edges of the things Joan thought she knew about the world & about herself. In the post-War world of smoke & mirrors allegiance is a slippery thing. Working in a government ministry with access to top-secret information Joan is suddenly faced with the most difficult question of all: what price would you pay to remain true to what you believe? Would you betray your country your family even the man you love? ...

Red Kite Country" is a celebration of the wildlife & landscape of Mid Wales. Through their superb photographs & beautiful ...

This is a world dominated by The Wild. Man lives in pockets of civilisation claimed from The Wild. Within mens walls life is civilised the peace punctuated by tournaments politicking courtly love & canny business. Beyond those walls men are prey
- vulnerable to the exceptionally powerful & dangerous creatures which populate the land & even more vulnerable to those creatures schemes. So when one of those creatures breaks out of The Wild & begins preying on people in their homes it takes a specialist to hunt it down or drive it out.. .and even then its a long difficult & extremely dangerous job. The Black Captain & his men are one such group of specialists. They have no idea what theyre about to face.. . Forget George & the Dragon. Forget Sir Lancelot & tales of Knightly exploits. This is dirty bloody work. This is violent visceral action. This is a mercenary knight as youve never seen one before.
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