The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes & hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness
- the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama. This was the century of Julius Caesar the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon & beyond; of Cicero whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence; of Spartacus the slave who dared to challenge a superpower; of Cleopatra the queen who did the same. Tom Holland brings to life this strange & unsettling civilization with its extremes of ambition & self-sacrifice bloodshed & desire. Yet alien as it was the Republic still holds up a mirror to us. Its citizens were obsessed by celebrity chefs all-night dancing & exotic pets; they fought elections in law courts & were addicted to spin; they toppled foreign tyrants in the name of self-defence. Two thousand years may have passed but we remain the Romans heirs.
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Brilliant new features! Enjoy exciting new multi-level play. Now you can have a quick flash of fun with Rubik’s simpler side before you take on the challenge of solving the whole cube.

The enclosed booklet describes these fantastic games & also

Includes:: the simplest ever seven step solution to Rubik’s Cube!



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As a former evacuee feisty Ruby is forced to fend for herself when she returns to her family in London. Set in the aftermath of WW2 this gripping saga is richly evocative of the period & shows the true grit of our heroine Ruby. Home is where the heart is... After having lived peacefully in Cambridgeshire as an evacuee 15-year-old Ruby Blakeley is bought back to reality when her bully of a brother Ray comes to take her home to East London. Far from being welcomed back with open arms Ruby finds herself being treated as a skivvy by her widowed mother & subject to a tirade of taunts from her two brothers. Things get worse when she becomes pregnant. Unable to tackle her family Ruby runs away & makes a new start for herself in Southend. But she soon finds she can't escape her past. A hard-hitting gritty drama that will appeal to fans of Katie Flynn & Dilly Court. ...

The Mac Lean family has more than their fair share of secrets. They live in a close-knit community on Glasgows High Street & the men work on the railways. Theyre hard-working ordinary respectable people but behind the facade they are a family in crisis. Ruby Mac Lean has to face a personal crisis just as the Second World War is about to start. Shes seventeen pregnant & forced to marry Gerry Reilly a railway worker whose main aim in life is drinking heavily whenever he can. As their daughter is born Gerry joins up & heads off to war leaving Ruby to cope alone with a new baby & a family falling apart at the seams. & when her mother dies & the family secrets start to unravel Ruby has to find the strength to build a new life for herself & her daughter. Many years later retired & living quietly by the sea Ruby discovers there were more secrets in her family than she could ever have imagined. As she discovers the final pieces in her family jigsaw & uncovers a tale of secrets & lies that the could never have suspected shes left reeling from shock. ...

Brand new picture book from much-loved author/illustrator Jane Hissey. Ruby Blue & Blanket are playing dressing up but Ruby doesn't know what to be; a cowboy a witch or a ghost in a sheet? 'I just can't decide!' she cries. Luckily Blanket's idea makes everyone happy but who will win the glittering prize? ...

Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea she receives an anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's death Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London at the centre of which lies a deadly blood-soaked jewel. Philip Pullman's ever-popular action-packed Victorian melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012. ...

New cover reissue of Book Two of the classic ELENIUM trilogy by the greatest living fantasy writer. The quest for the jewel of life continues. Ehlana the young Queen of Elenia clings to life by a thread preserved within a crystalline tomb conjured by the sorceress Sephrenia. But theres a price to pay -- twelve Pandion Knights must sacrifice their lives to keep her alive for just one year. Only one thing is powerful enough to save Ehlana: the Bhelliom an exquisite & magical jewel that has been lost for centuries. Sparhawk the Queens Champion & his band of allies must set off on a perilous quest to locate the precious stone. But the evil God Azash has plans for it himself! The second of the Sparhawk books is epic fantasy at its best. ...

In Ruby Winters world colour opens some doors & slams others shut. Her opulent Johannesburg neighbourhood is a far cry from the streets of Soweto where anger & hatred simmer under the surface. Ruby cant resist the blue-eyed Afrikaans boy who brings her the exciting rush of first love but whose presence brings hushed whispers & disapproving glances. She might not see race colour or creed
- but it seems everybody else does... This dazzling novel will entrance teenage & adult readers alike.
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This is a contemporary tale about two friends
- one of whom Asra is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country.
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When Rachel & Kirsty meet on the ferry to Rainspell Island one summer holiday they have no idea that such incredible adventures with the fairies await them! in this first book in the series Rachel & Kirsty meet Ruby the Red Fairy at the end of the rainbow... ...