' Real life' or the death defying adventures of the Greek myths with their heroes & monsters daring deeds & narrow escapes
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M.M. Kaye author of The Far Pavilions" sweeps her readers back to the vast glittering sunbaked continent of India. " Shadow of the Moon" is the story of Winter de Ballesteros a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married. It is also the tale of Captain Alex Randall her escort & protector who knows that Winters husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man. When India bursts into flaming hatreds & bitter bloodshed during the dark days of the Mutiny Alex & Winter are thrown unwillingly together in the brutal & urgent struggle for survival." ...

The first in the Mc Levy series this is wonderfully evocative detective fiction based in dark violent Victorian Edinburgh. Its 1880 & the city is gripped by election fever. But while the rich & educated argue about politics in the dank wynds of the city its a struggle just to stay alive especially when a murderous madman seems to have resurfaced after 30 years. Mc Levy is lured into a world of politics perversion deception & mystery & into the shadow of the serpent. ...

On buses donkey carts trains jeeps & camels Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia across northern Afghanistan & the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts extraordinary adventures
- a near-miss with a drunk-driver incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran
- in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road" is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment."

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Evil Pharaoh Oba has imprisoned the gods who protect Egypt & now bloodthirsty monsters roam the l&. Only one boy can stop them: Akori an orphaned farm-boy with a huge destiny. The battle to end all battles has begun. Akori must fight Set the dark Lord of Storms himself & beat Oba the evil Pharaoh to claim his rightful throne. But can Egypts young hero finally win the crown? Dont miss a single battle in this huge new adventure series! ...

First published in 1964 The Shadow of the Sun is the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father Henry Severell a famous English novelist. In the introduction to this edition the 1990 Booker Prize winning author looks back at the novel's genesis & the problems she faced as a woman writing her first novel. ...

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books' a labyrinthine library of obscure & forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves & pulls out ' La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then one night as he is wandering the old streets once more Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from La Sombra del Viento a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life & death of Julian Carax & to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature & love & the places that obsession can lead. ...

Ligea Gayed has been lied to once too often. Now she has turned against her former employer the secretive Brotherhood of the Tyrans Empire & must evade Favonius & his Jackals while also recruiting others to fight with her. Yet despite her best efforts a rebellion is hard to come by. Except within her own family of course. Ligea's son Arrant is prey to feelings of inadequacy & is angry about his mother's relationship with a man who is not his father. Unable to accept what is happening to him he becomes susceptible to the blandishments of his mother's enemies. Worse still in the middle of a war he is a Magoroth unable to control or use his power in a constructive way. In seeking to punish Ligea for her relationship with Brand Arrant & those around him might well lose everything.. . ...

Set in England when Vikings are on the brink of invasion this is an epic tale of seduction war & unrequited love from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction The year is 1001 & England is under threat. The air off the southern coast hangs heavy thick with the fear of Viking sea raids. For England's King Aethelred the night sky is heavy with a dark portent. England's future hangs in the balance its path determined by a struggle for the King's own heart. Two women
- Emma his Norman bride & Elgiva his Anglo Saxon mistress
- will stop at nothing in their battle for the King's favour & the Queen's Coronet. But the sky speaks of a royal death & ahead of all three is a journey fraught with danger & deception. Patricia Bracewell an outstanding new voice in historical fiction weaves together a tale of war & betrayal to extraordinary dramatic effect.

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Once there were three worlds each with their own people. Then fleeing out of the void on the edge of extinction came the Charon. & the balance changed for ever. With A SHADOW ON THE GLASS Book One of A View from the Mirror a major new fantasy epic begins. Karan a sensitive with a troubled past is forced to steal an ancient relic in payment for a debt. But she is not told that the relic is in fact the Mirror of Aachan a twisted deceitful thing that remembers everything it has seen. Llian meanwhile a brilliant chronicler is expelled from his college for uncovering a perilous mystery. Thrown together by fate Karan & Llian are hunted across a world at war for the Mirror contains a secret of incredible power. More information on this book & others can be found on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk ...