An epic tale of magic & mystery duty & betrayal Tad Williams SHADOWMARCH trilogy is destined to become a classic of modern fantasy. At the uppermost edge of the northern kingdoms towers shrouded in mist lies Southmarch Castle. For hundreds of years it has remained hidden from the affairs of empire. Now its isolation can protect it no more. Southmarch is under siege; from both its neighbours without & the more insidious enemies who would destroy it from within. Even further to the north within the ancient walls of Qul-na-Qar in a land of silence & gloom the Twilight People gather to hear Ynnir the blind king pronounce the dark fate of human kind. In the south the Autarch the god-king who has already conquered an entire continent now looks to extend his domain once more. It is upon Southmarch that the armies advance & to its people that darkness will speed. ...

Darkness has fallen on the lands of the sun as an army of misshapen fey spill out from beyond the Shadowline. At their head is Yasammez dark creature of nightmare. A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch & the castle was spared but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased. Meanwhile Barrick heir to Southmarch & cursed with madness has crossed the Shadowline into the realm of his peoples ancient enemy. There are stranger things than death here
- stranger & older. Much further south shadow is also falling over the reign of the Autarch god-king & supreme ruler. Quinnitan junior wife must flee the royal household or die her greatest secret as yet hidden even from herself. Ancient blood flows through her veins & she will become a unique weapon in the fight against her greatest terror. & beyond the ken of all but a chosen few the gods are awakening & the world is changing.. .
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You are a police officer. This is what you do. You speak for the dead & the desperate living. When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector & moved to a new division it should be a turning point for her. But if she thought having a female boss would make things easier shed reckoned without the fearsome JC Hamilton. Then her mother goes into a coma in a foreign country & an old woman disappears from a Glasgow care home under suspicious circumstances & Annas career & personal life both threaten to implode. The gang-related murder of a young Asian boy & an assault on one of her officers only serve to turn the screws tighter
- can Anna be both a good cop & a good person?
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Photographer Christabel is drawn to psychic phenomena & dark liasons. When she is persuaded by her husband to take a holiday at a mysterious mansion house in the country she foresees only long days of boredom. But Nicholas her deviously sensual husband has a hand in the unexpected events that begin to unravel. He is keen to ensure that Christabel's holiday is eventful & erotic & she is soon drawn into a web of eroticism with Nicholas's young male PA. Within this unusual & kinky threesome Christabel learns some lessons the jaded city could never teach her. ...

In 1978 a ' Factory for Sale' sign gave Alan Erasmus & Tony Wilson a name for their fledgling Manchester club night. Though they couldn't have known it at the time this was the launch of one of the most significant musical & cultural legacies of the late twentieth century. The club's electrifying live scene soon translated to vinyl & Factory Records went on to become the most innovative & celebrated record label of the next thirty years. Always breaking new musical ground Factory introduced the listening public to bands such as Joy Division whose Unknown Pleasures was the label's first album release New Order Durutti Column & Happy Mondays. Propelled onwards by the inspirational cultural entrepreneur Tony Wilson Factory always sought new ways to energise the popular consciousness such as the infamous Hacienda nightclub which enjoyed a chequered 15-year history after opening in 1982. Shadowplayers is the most complete authoritative & thoroughly researched account of how a group of provincial anarchists & entrepreneurs saw off bankers journalists & gun-toting gangsters to create the most influential record label of modern times. Based on both archive & contemporary sources the book tells the full story of Factory's heroic struggles its complex web of inventive idiosyncratic & tragic personalities & ultimately the acclaimed & much-loved music it produced. ...

Alex has escaped from Rule
- but what new horrors face her in the ravaged world outside? Tom is safe
- but what will he risk

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In book two of this addictive quartet Kimi & her sister Hana have disguised themselves as boys to study at Master Gokus dojo. They prepare themselves to take revenge on the uncle who murdered their father & older brothers by becoming masters of the sword & their combat skills are deadly. But after their uncles unexpected arrival & Master Gokus untimely death the sisters future is uncertain. Kimi & Hana are forced to go on the run once more but word has come that their mother & younger brother are alive & waiting for them. Can Kimi Hana & their friend Tatsuya survive the perils that lie ahead & defeat their uncle once & for all? ...

An awkward misfit nine-year-old Fulke Fitz Warin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan Lord of Ludlow. Once there he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelin's youngest daughter Hawise befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass an enemy to Ludlow changes their friendship unalterably forcing them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide. When the menace to Ludlow intensifies Fulke must confront the future head on or fail on all counts all the while desperate to know if Hawise stands with or against him. ...

Somethings lying patiently in wait until the time is right... Thirteen years have passed since Yul fought for his life at the quarry & Stonewylde has flourished in a new golden age. But now the shadows are gathering. Wild & disobedient Leveret is the bad girl who disappears at night time & would rather roam the woods than sit in school. Only Clip recognises the girls magical sensitivity & believes she may be the one to lead Stonewylde out of the approaching darkness. The shadows thicken as Yul & Sylvie find that something-- or someone-- is tearing their beautiful relationship apart. As Stonewylde starts to disintegrate a sinister alliance is forming but they have no idea what evil theyre really up against.. . ...

Rome AD 71. Against his better judgement Marcus Didius Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian then heads for the beautiful Bay of Naples with his best friend Petronius. He conveniently forgets to mention to his companion that this will be no holiday. They have been sent to investigate the murderous members of a failed coup now sunning themselves in luxurious villas & on fancy yachts. Nor does the idyllic seaside location help his doomed romance with Helena Justina. The deeper he probes the more it seems Helena is inextricably connected to the elite plotters in ways that the smitten Falco cannot bear to contemplate.. . ...