CAUGHT IN A MIDNIGHT TRYST! Can a reclusive & distrustful lord scarred by betrayal & raised without love learn to trust a pampered society beauty who seems to have the whole world at her elegantly shod feet? When Alexander Forthin Earl of Calvercombe clashes with Persephone Seaborne it seems not... But a series of mysterious disappearances links their two families forcing the embittered soldier & the toast of St James into an unlikely alliance
- one that starts the gossips' tongues wagging... Especially after they are caught in a secret midnight tryst!
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Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men in the terrible madness of the First World War. This the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years will come as a surprise to many. It shows for example that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon & that the view of the women at home ignorant & idealistic was quite false. Many of these poems come out of direct experiences of nursing the victims of trench warfare or the pain of lovers brothers sons lost. Poets include: Nancy Cunard Rose Macaulay Charlotte Mew Alice Meynell Edith Nesbit Edith Sitwell Marie Stopes Katharine Tynan. Here as elsewhere the poetry is in the pity
- a moving record of womens experience of war.
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Here comes another great title in the popular & successful Cozy" series. It presents 30 achievable projects suitable for knitters of all ages & abilities designed by the readers of " Knitting" magazine. Colourful scarves are easy & fast to knit & make great presents for friends & family. When the winter months are drawing in a huge soft scarf is ideal to snuggle into. But they don't all have to be chunky cables & thick yarn why not have a go at creating your own thin & slinky evening scarf or a light & lazy one for when summer breezes in. This new title is packed with colourful designs that are easy & fast to knit & detailed instructions explaining everything you need to know. Colourful scarves make fantastic gifts for friends & family & are an ideal way to use up odds & ends of yarn. This collection of fun & fabulous scarves will make you want to reach for your needles & get stitching right away. These original designs were created by the readers of popular " Knitting" magazine. Their great eye for design colour & their nifty skills with needles & hooks explain the brilliantly imaginative variety of scarves in this collection." ...

Dom Joly sets off round the world again but this time he's not looking to holiday in a danger zone
- he's monster hunting. Ever
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Each year 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities & regions in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labor contributes half of China's GDP but is an unorganized workforce
- scattered sand"
- & the most marginalized & impoverished group of workers in the country. For two years the award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai traveled across China to uncover the exploitation of workers at locations as diverse as Olympic construction sites & brick kilns in the Yellow River region the factories of the Pearl River Delta & the suicide-ridden Foxconn complex. She witnessed AIDS-afflicted families & towns; recorded acts of labor militancy; & was reunited with long-lost relatives estranged since her mother's family fled for Taiwan during the Civil War. What she finds is a peasantry expected to sacrifice itself for the sake of national glory
- just as it was under Mao."


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2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders was posted to Singapore in 1937 with their families. When the Japanese invaded Malaya in December 1941 the Battalion fought bravely until the surrender of Singapore on 14 February 1942. Those who were not killed became POWs. Of the 1000 men involved initially over 400 had died by their liberation in summer 1945. Despite the diverse background of the members of the Battalion all were bound by close regimental spirit. As POWs all suffered hard labour starvation brutality & tropical diseases. Rank was no protection from death. After initial incarceration in Singapore the Gordons were dispersed to work on the famous Thai-Burma railway in the mines of Taiwan & Japan & on other slave labour projects. Conditions defy modern comprehension. Others died trapped in hell-ships torpedoed by allied submarines. The author has researched the plight of these extraordinary men so many of whom never saw their native Scotland again. Despite the grim conditions he captures the strong collective regimental spirit & the humour & cooperation that saved so many who would have otherwise have perished
- as many did. This is an inspiring tale of courage & survival against appalling odds.
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Alex knows theres a way that she & Callum can be together. Catherine holds the key to unlocking the secret but shes disappeared. Olivia has answers too but theyre hidden deep inside her troubled mind & wont be found. It seems impossible but Alex cant give up. The question is how much will she risk to be with the one she loves? Could it be everything? ...

At the behest of his soon-to-be wife Adrian Tomine set out to create a wedding favor for their guests that would be funnier & more personal than the typical chocolate bars & picture frames. What started out as a simple illustrated card soon grew into a full-fledged comic book: a collection of short strips chronicling the often absurd process of getting married. A loose cartoony departure from Tomines previous work Scenes from an Impending Marriage" is a sweet-natured laugh out-loud skewering of the modern marriage process including hiring a DJ location scouting trips to the salon suit fittings dance lessons registering for gifts & managing familial demands. The most personal & autobiographical work of Tomines career " Scenes from an Impending Marriage" is a charming delightful document of the little moments leading up to the big day. Praise for Adrian Tomine: " Tomine is trust me superb". (Sam Leith " Daily Telegraph"). " Near perfection.. . Tomine is a superb graphic novelist". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Visually stunning.. .absolutely essential". (" Independent on Sunday"). " Rendered with uncluttered beauty the dialogue is so convincing that you can almost hear the characters speak & it is alight with truth". (Neel Mukherjee " The Times")." ...

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when Scenes of Clerical Life" appeared in " Blackwoods Magazine" in 1857. These stories contain Eliots earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her great novels: the impact of religious controversy & social change in provincial life & the power of love to transform the lives of individual men & women. " Adam Bede" was soon to appear & bring George Eliot fame & fortune. In the meantime the " Scenes" won acclaim from a discerning readership including Charles Dickens: I hope you will excuse my writing to you to express my admiration... The exquisite truth & delicacy both of the humour & the pathos of those stories I have never seen the like of." ...

In this book After the Battle" have explored entirely new ground to investigate 150 years of murder & present it through our then & now theme of comparison photographs. It

Includes:: scene of crime plans photographs from police files as well as from the Press focus on a wide variety of murders committed between 1812 when a Prime Minister was shot in the House of Commons to killings on the streets of London in the 1960s. Included are many of the headline murderers like Jack the Ripper Dr Crippen Kennedy & Browne the Black-out Ripper John Haigh John Christie Donald Hume Ruth Ellis Ronald Marwood Guenther Podola & the Roberts Gang along with other less notorious
- but equally important
- murders. Extracts from eyewitnesses & investigating officers original statements taken by police including from the murderers newspaper articles published at the time pathologist accounts & even descriptions given by executioners are all blended with photographs of the murder scenes as they appear today. Homicide is not a subject for the faint-hearted & many of the photographs are distressing which is why the book is made available with that warning. Far too often it is the perpetrator who is remembered while their victims many lying in unmarked graves remain lost to history. So this book sets out to redress the balance by tracking down the last resting places even going as far as to mark two wartime graves of taxi drivers killed by American servicemen. Research also resulted in achieving formal recognition by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for one of the victims of Neville Heath murdered while she was serving her country yet omitted from the commemorative records until now. Controversially comes the revelation that 17 murderers who served in the Army during the war & who were executed for their crimes now have their names commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial to the Missing in Surrey. Murders covered... May 11 1812
- The Death Of A Prime Minister December 13 1867
- The Last Public Execution December 1887-September 1889
- Jack The Ripper February 1 1910
- Dr Hawley Crippen December 16 1910
- The Houndsditch Murders January 1 1911
- The Murder Of Leon Beron June 17 1919
- Riot By Canadian Troops At Epsom June 22 1922
- The Assassination Of Sir Henry Wilson October 4 1922
- The Bywaters/ Thompson Affair September 27 1927
- Police Constable George Gutteridge November 6 1930
- The Strange Case Of Alfred Rouse August 7 1934
- Death At The Palace Cinema July 14 1938
- The Lovers Lane Murder March 13 1940
- The Shooting Of Sir Michael Odwyer February 1942
- The Black-Out Ripper April 30 1942
- Double Execution For Murder October 7 1942
- The Wigwam Murder December 27 1942
- The First American Execution In Britain September 28 1943
- Rape & Murder At Marlborough & December 8 1943
- The Birch Taxi-Cab Murder. It also
Includes:: March 5 1944
- Execution By Firing Squad February 14 1944
- The Cabbage Patch Murder August 22 1944
- The Killing Of Betty Green October 7 1944
- Us Deserter Tried In A British Court December 3 1944
- The Murder Of Sir Eric Teichman December 8 1944
- Captain Ralph Binney R.N. June 21 1946
- Wanted For Murder: Neville Heath April 29 1947
- The Killing Of Alec De Antiquis February 18 1949
- John Haigh & The Acid-Bath Murders October 4 1949
- Donald Hume: I Got Away With Murder! June 4 1951
- Gun-Battle At Chatham 1943-1953
- 10 Rillington Place London W11 November 2 1952
- Christopher Craig & Derek Bentley July 2 1953
- The Teddy Boy Murder April 8 1955
- Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman To Be Hanged May 24 1957
- The Slaying Of Countess Teresa Lubienska December 14 1958
- The Murder Of Police Constable Ray Summers July 13 1959
- The Death Of Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy & June 3 1961
- Police Murders In West Ham. It also

Features: August 23 1961
- Rape & Murder On The A6 Aug"














































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