The ' Scanners' series of books have been consistent bestsellers being the UK's leading guides to receiving equipment employed by enthusiasts to monitor the short wave & VHF/UHF wavebands used by airfields maritime & rescue services & analogue & digital two-way private mobile radio systems. This new (seventh) edition covers the rapidly increasing trend towards digital two-way radio communications & the latest handheld & mobile/base scanners with some digital modes fitted. It has been fully re-written & updated to include the latest UK radio frequency listings & call signs for airports maritime & emergency services & other professional organisations. The book covers the latest shifts in the hobby towards digital & PC- & tablet-controlled radio technology & illustrates the very latest commercial radio scanning equipment & accessories. Included are details of an increasing number of 'apps' for smartphones specifically for radio data decoding including programs for digital scanner communications decoding for which a smartphone can be linked to an existing scanner radio to decode. Other innovations include TETRA as used by police ambulance fire & rescue services & DMR modes such as Mototrbo. It is predicted that by 2016 fifty per cent of two-way radio communication in the UK will use digital modes. ...

This is the story of Margaret Catchpole born into a smugglers world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family & a friend of criminals Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall & she is sentenced to hang not once but twice. But she escapes the gallows & is transported with other convicts to Australia. A wonderful adventure story Scapegallows takes inspiration from the life of the real Margaret Catchpole. A woman who lived by her wits she was a slip-gibbet a scapegallows. ...

By chance two men
- one English the other French
- meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny

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At all costs avoid blame. Such is the creed of dictators & politicians tycoons & company chairmen media celebrities & spin doctors the world over. But what about men at war where the penalties for errors of judgement can be devastating? History is full of tales of those who have been wrongly castigated in the rush to find a culprit; only later sometimes much later when the real truth comes out is the scapegoat exonerated. ...

A colossal fantasy of incredible diversity & spellbinding imagination. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile.. .A pirate city hauled across the oceans.. .A hidden miracle about be revealed.. . These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoners journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people for the most astonishing beast in the seas & ultimately for a fabled place
- a massive wound in reality a source of unthinkable power & danger.
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1593. Queen Elizabeths trusted spymaster Walsingham has been dead for two years... As plague sweeps through the streets & stews of London so suspicion & mistrust sweep through the court & government. No one feels safe. Even the celebrated swordsman adventurer & philanderer Will Swyfte must watch his back. It is when his best friend & colleague the playwright Christopher Marlowe is killed in a pub brawl that Will decides he must act. The murder has all the hallmarks of an assassination. But in going in search of Kits killer he discovers that there are those in positions of power & influence who are not what they seem... Against a backcloth of growing paranoia & terror Will detects the malign machinations of Englands hidden enemy the Unseelie Court. With these devils at his back the countrys greatest spy may find that even his vaunted skills are no match for the supernatural powers arrayed against him. The choice is simple: uncover the true nature & intention of this vile conspiracy
- or face the executioners axe...
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BOOK FIVE: SHADOWS OF THE APT The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate & Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease. The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities that refused to bow the knee to her but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies & war machines. Only her consort the former spymaster Thalric knows the truth & now the assassins are coming & he finds his life & his loyalties under threat once again. Out beyond the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones. Praise for Shadows of the Apt: ' The Shadows of the Apt series is quite distinct mainly due to the insect-kinden & Tchaikovsky's fertile imagination' Sci Fi Now ' Epic fantasy at its best. Gripping original & multi-layered storytelling from a writer bursting with lots of fascinating ideas' Walker of Worlds ...

Khepri meets the Pharaoh Prince of Egypt for the first time one morning in the shadow of the temple walls & a friendship springs up between them. When Khepri discovers a terrible trap in the Pharaohs newly-built tomb designed to kill he knows he must warn the Prince. But how? For Khepri is just a small scarab beetle who scuttles along floors among roots & into baskets of figs. How Khepri saves the Pharaohs life & receives the highest honour of all is hauntingly told & dramatically illustrated in an original tale of ancient Egypt which

Includes:: an historical end note on tomb-building & the Pharaohs.

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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...