To all appearances Jack Swann is a typical gentleman of the Regency period; educated cultured & affl uent. In his early thirties he is an attractive & eligible bachelor with all the resources needed to live a privileged life. Haunted by the murder of his father twenty years earlier
- the perpetrators of which have never been caught
- Swann has however turned his back on this world & chosen instead to fi ght crime as ' The Regency Detective' an unoffi cial consulting detective to the Bow Street Runners in London. Arriving in Bath for a family funeral Swann finds several reasons for staying in the city: to protect Mary his sister from the mysterious Lockhart; to fi nd the ' Scarred Man' who might lead him to his father's killer; & to end the reign of terror by Wicks the local underworld boss who in turn sets out to have Swann assassinated.

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Regeneration is Pat Barker's classic Booker-nominated novel of World War I & trauma. Craiglockhart War Hospital Scotland 1917 & army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen as well as mute Billy Prior who is only able to communicate by means of pencil & paper. Rivers' job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. A brilliant novel. Intense & subtle". (Peter Kemp Sunday Times). "A vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War & a multi-layered exploration of all wars. A fine anthem for doomed youth". (Time Out). "A novel of tremendous power". (Margaret Forster). " Unforgettable". (Sunday Telegraph). " One of the strongest & most interesting novelists of her generation". (Guardian). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy comprising Regeneration which has been filmed The Eye in the Door which won the Guardian Fiction Prize & The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class & Toby's Room. She lives in Durham." ...

The name Reggie Kray remains synonymous with London's East End to this day & yet although much is known about Reg & his brother Ronnie's life of crime in the '50s & '60s to date precious little has been revealed about their formative years. Reggie wrote his EAST END STORIES in the early 1990s but they haven't seen the light of day until now. In the book he recalls the close-knit East End community in which he & his brother grew up the characters in his family & neighbourhood & of course the many villains he worked with. Filled with anecdotes about the area's most outlandish personalities & notorious criminals & offering a fascinating journey around the Krays' 'manor' including their favourite haunts & business enterprises the book paints a vivid portrait of a London that has long since disappeared. ...

Welcome to the second instalment from the annals of Liverpools Walton Jail. Here we bring the next twenty cases resulting in murder & subsequently death by hanging to the perpetrators of some of the most gruesome crimes on record. Each case has been carefully researched to bring you as comprehensive a description of the circumstances prior during & after a murder as is possible. What we cannot describe is the torment distress & anxiety the victims any witnesses & the investigating police officers must have suffered. This era covered by the second instalment saw the end of a number of noted executioners tenure such as John Ellis & the beginning of the most famous of all Albert Pierrepoint. Also at this time the winds of abolition began to blow. I hope you enjoy this second instalment of recorded hangings at Liverpools Walton Jail as I have done in presenting it to you. Hopefully this book will prepare you for the third & final instalment of cases which many readers will still remember to this day. ...

Poplar Street is just an ordinary street in an ordinary town except theres something strange about Audrey Wylers nephew. When the strange-looking vans arrive a surreal nightmare begins which threatens to turn the familiar street into a wasteland of devastation & desperation. ...

In Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie & discover how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance. You will meet a husband who values a televised Hibs v Hearts game more than his wife's life & see two guys fighting over a beautiful girl agree
- after a few pills & pints of lager
- that their friendship is actually more important. & you will be delighted to welcome back ' Juice' Terry Lawson & to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub.

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Within days of the D-Day lanings the ' Das Reich' 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest fighting of the Russion Front 15 000 men with their tanks & artillery they were hounded for every mile of their march by saboteurs of the Resistance & agents of the Allied Special Forces. Along their route they took reporisals so savage they will live for ever in the chronicles of the most appalling atrocities of war. Max Hasting's powerful account of their progress is a true military classic. ...

In February 1945 the US Air Force launched the largest day time bombing offensive against Berlin dropping over 2 250 tons of bombs on the German capital. The Reichsbank Germanys state bank received 21 direct hits. This left the building badly damaged its vaults unsafe & meant that most of its contents were at risk. The German authorities made the decision to take most of the Reichsbanks treasure away & hide it for safekeeping. Some $200 million US in gold bars weighing around 100 tons plus much of the paper currency reserves as well as a great deal of foreign currency (approximately $4 million in US currency alone) was sent in trains from Berlin. All this loot was placed in a salt mine at a place called Merkers. This was captured intact by the US Army. After this disaster the Germans spent the next six weeks transferring their remaining bullion & currency reserves around what remained of the Reich in armoured trains an area that included parts of northern Italy Czechoslovakia Austria & Germany looking for somewhere safe. Much of the treasure actually either ended up back in Berlin was stolen disappeared or was captured mainly by American troops & the SS. This novel by Colin Roderick Fulton imagines one plot which could have been enacted around this time. The mystery surrounding the locations & ultimate destiny of the liberated treasures provides fertile ground on which to impose such a fiction. Secrecy intrigue & fast paced action combine to create a well paced novel sure to appeal to fans of wartime fiction. ...

Henry VIII was almost never alone. He was surrounded twenty four hours a day by the small group of intimates & personal attendants who made up the staff of his Privy Chamber. They organised his daily life kept him amused & acted as the landline between the king & the formal machinery of government. These men intermarried interbred & close knit even in their mutual feuding were supremely well placed to rig politics & patronage for their own benefit. Their influence was important & sometimes decisive: factions in the Privy Chamber destroyed Anne Boleyn they frustrated the Catholic reaction of the 1540s & by doctoring Henrys will prepared the way for the full blooded Protestantism of his sons reign. The Reign of Henry VIII" is not so much a book about Henry VIII. It is about the great game of politics over which he presided." ...

This comprehensive & authoritative look at reiki explains how this ancient spiritual practice can treat a wide range of ailments. You will discover its history & development how it works & the everyday benefits it can yield. The book also features practical easy to understand diagrams & pictures on how to fully utilise the healing & soothing potential of reiki. A detailed directory provides information on treatments to combat a large number of afflictions. These include digestive problems skin complaints mood changes & muscle pains. There are also hints & tips on how to give reiki treatments for your friends & family & at different life stages. ...