How far would a child go to rid himself of a despised parent? Or a man of the cloth to be elected pope? From murderous ministers & conniving cardinals to the dark imagination of a schoolboy & the suspicions of an ageing Mr Mozart this unique collection of Robert Barnards short stories takes you on a trail of murder mystery & intrigue with some of his finest
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- literary creations. Including the prizewinning Rogues Gallery" the haunting tale of a devilish portrait & " Sins of Scarlet" a story of sudden death in the Vatican this eclectic collection proves that whether reimagining the life of cultural icons or spying opportunity for morbid crimes amidst events grand & domestic novelist Robert Barnard is the master of the short story mystery."

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Demon Cynster has seen love bring his brethren to their knees & he's vowed that he will not share their fate until he spies Felicity Parteger sneaking around his country estate. Demon remembers Felicity as a mere chit of a girl but now she stands before him begging for his help all lush curves sparkling eyes & so temptingly worthy of the love he's vowed never to surrender to any woman. Felicity knew Demon was one of the ton's most eligible bachelors & a rogue of the worst sort but he was the only one capable of getting her friend out of trouble. Her fascination with him had nothing to do with the power lurking just beneath his devil-may-care facade or with the desire that flares when he takes her in his arms. She knows he'll never yield to her the love she desperately seeks but could a marriage with passion alone even with a man like Demon be enough? ...

Tom is on a quest to free the Mistress of the Beasts from an evil curse. But when he arrives in a mountain town devastated by terrible rockfalls he realises the destruction has been wreaked by a Beast as powerful as the mountain itself... Don't miss KRABB MASTER OF THE SEA
- HAWKITE ARROW OF THE AIR
- KOLDO THE ARCTIC WARRIOR
- TREMA THE EARTH LORD
- AMICTUS THE BUG QUEEN



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' People notice things & word around Whitehall is that Commander Bond is living a shade dangerously
- gambling the new Bentley
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Every sport has its definitive annual guide the book that those who are passionate about the sport use for reference & information. For golf The World of Professional Golf sponsored by Rolex is the bible the volume that everyone with an interest in what happened on every Tour golf course around the world each year wants to have on their bookshelf. & for the first time the 2013 edition of this major reference work is available to buy giving readers the chance not only to read up on every pro event but to access all the hard statistics. The first section concentrates on rankings prize money & Tour winners. This is followed by reports on the four men's & women's Majors the men's Tour events across five continents the Women's Tours the Senior Tours & the money lists. The book concludes with extensive scoring summaries of every pro tournament played in the world in 2012 providing enough information to satisfy even the most ardent statistician's hunger for figures. This magnificent volume contains an introduction by the legendary Arnold Palmer a foreword by the first great golf agent & founder of IMG Mark H. Mc Cormack whose brainchild this book was plus Approx. 90 photographs of the year in action. If it happened in professional golf in 2012 you will find everything you need to know in The World of Professional Golf 2013. IMG is the world's largest sports marketing agency. It was founded in the early 1960s by the late American Mark H. Mc Cormack who in 1999 was described as ' The Most Powerful Man in Sports' by Sports Illustrated magazine. A self-confessed golf fanatic this annual book was his brainchild. Rolex have been highly visible sponsors of golf for more than four decades. ...

Mildred D. Taylors much-loved classic for readers aged 12+ Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" follows a feisty African-American girl
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Barnes was born in 1850 into a shipowning family in St Johns Newfoundland & first went to sea while still a schoolboy. His career seemed predestined & by the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a Liverpool company serving in their sailing ships working a triangular passage to St Johns the Brazils & back to Liverpool. He tried to swallow the anchor when he married but running a grocery store was too mundane & he soon went back to sea transferring his skills to the now dominant steamships. Even though he was 64 on the outbreak of the First World War he promptly volunteered for service. He does not seem to have regretted it even after being mined or torpedoed three times; the last time he was badly injured & spent three days adrift in an open boat. Despite these disasters like many a sailor he was probably safer at sea
- while in one port he fell for a rather exotic woman only to discover she was a German spy. When he eventually retired to New York he got to know a couple called Hilda & Denys Wortman. Denys was a newspaper cartoonist who was rather taken with the gruff old sea-dog & based a character he dubbed Mopy Dick on him for a series of popular cartoons. Meanwhile Hilda encouraged Barnes to record his adventures & she eventually became the editor of the first edition of this book imbuing the story with far more narrative flair than usually found in unliterary memoirs.
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The Rolling Stones origins date back to the boyhood friendship of Mick Jagger & Keith Richards forged in 1951. Their acquaintance was interrupted when both families moved in the mid-Fifties but got rekindled in October 1960 when the two ran into each other at a train station & Richards noticed the imported R&B albums Jagger was carrying under his arm. Jagger a student at the London School of Economics was a hardcore blues aficionado while Richards interest leaned more toward Chuck Berry-style rock & roll. Richards soon joined Jaggers group Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys. Several years later Richards & Jagger met Brian Jones & the three clicked forming the Rolling Stones. Joined by drummer Charlie Watts & bassist Bill Wyman the band would come to epitomize the darker bluesier & more boldly sexual side of rock & roll in a kind of ongoing counterpoint with the Beatles sunnier more pop-oriented vistas. Five decades later no one has yet stripped the Rolling Stones of their title as the Worlds Greatest Rock & Roll B&. In a 2002 interview in USA Today Richards said: People thought it couldnt be done. We never thought of trying it. We are just here. Its a vague mission you cant give up until you keel over."" ...

This is our story of fifty fantastic years. We started out as a blues band playing the clubs & more recently we've filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago. Curated by us it features the very best photographs & ephemera from & beyond our archives." (Mick Keith Charlie & Ronnie). On Thursday 12 July 1962 the Rolling Stones went on stage at the Marquee Club in London's Oxford Street. In the intervening fifty years the Stones have performed live in front of more people than any b&...ever. They've played the smallest blues clubs & some of the biggest stadium tours of all time. They've had No.1 singles & albums in every country that has a popular music chart & have helped define global popular culture. A phenomenal half-century later they now look back at their astounding career. Curated introduced & narrated by the band themselves " The Rolling Stones 50" is the only officially authorized book to celebrate this milestone. With privileged access to a wealth of unseen & rare material it is packed with superb reportage photography contact sheets negative strips out-takes & so much more from every period in the bands history. With more than 1 000 illustrations it also features some of the most rare & interesting Stones memorabilia in existence: international posters draft record cover art bubblegum cards jigsaws & other previously unpublished treasures specially photographed for this volume. Additional contributions by photography legends Gered Mankowitz Jean-Marie Perier Dezo Hoffmann Michael Cooper Terry ONeill Bent Rej Philip Townsend & many others make this the definitive book to celebrate fifty years of the Rolling Stones. From Mick Keith Charlie & Ronnie here is one spectacular thank you to their fans all over the world." ...

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service) while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke & to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (whod been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft multiple impregnations & playing blues guitar) & the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman & Charlie Watts & the potential was obvious. During the 1960s & 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain admired in some quarters for their flamboyance creativity & salacious lifestyles & reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now approaching their seventies & in 2012 will have been together for 50 years. In The Rolling Stones Christopher Sandford tells the human drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has carried out interviews with those close to the Stones family members (including Micks parents) the groups fans & contemporaries
- even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stones will make sense of the rich brew of clever invention & opportunism of talent good fortune insecurity self-destructiveness & of drugs sex & other excess that made the Stones who they are.
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