In 2011 nine years after being on the brink of obscurity Swansea City made it to the Premier League following their defeat of Reading in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. Wales at last had a premier club in the Premier League. This no-holds-barred account graphically describes that first year in the Premier League & the dramas of one football fan's journey. Written off by pundits at the beginning of the season this turned out to be an explosive year in the history of Swansea City FC. ...

Danny is only five years old but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner' aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel Danny's visions grow out of control. As winter closes in & blizzards cut them off the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 & who are the masked guests going up & down in the elevator? & why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive? Somewhere somehow there is an evil force in the hotel
- & that too is beginning to shine.. .
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The girl who wouldnt die hunting a killer who shouldnt exist...A terrifying & original serial-killer thriller from award-winning author Lauren Beukes. If youve got a Gone Girl-shaped hole in your life try this Evening Standard Its not my fault. Its yours. You shouldnt shine. You shouldnt make me do this." Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis a violent drifter stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature
- it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen shining girls through the decades
- & cut the spark out of them. Hes the perfect killer. Unstoppable. Untraceable. He thinks... Chicago 1992. They say what doesnt kill you makes you stronger. Tell that to Kirby Mazrachi whose life was shattered after a brutal attempt to murder her. Still struggling to find her attacker her only ally is Dan an ex-homicide reporter who covered her case & now might be falling in love with her. As Kirby investigates she finds the other girls
- the ones who didnt make it. The evidence is.. .impossible. But for a girl who should be dead impossible doesnt mean it didnt happen..."


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The Shining Ones A were members of an advanced culture that was almost lost; but their wisdom & their power survived. They preserved the secrets of their advanced knowledge in mythology & legend; they embedded their secret codes in symbolism in art architecture the mystery traditions & literary works
- including the Bible. The authors have found traces of the influence of The Shining Ones A" in all the major religions with roots in the ancient world. Gardiner & Osborn have discovered that their secrets & rituals have been hidden & preserved through the centuries by the Knights Templar the Rosicrucians & the Freemasons to the present day. Furthermore they believe that the evolution of civilization has been manipulated by a secret & powerful group of initiates descended from The Shining Ones A". They can identify their influence behind science religion mysticism & philosophy
- & of course in the arena of powerful politics. This is an extraordinary story of intrigue & power play at a very human & political level. But it is also the revelation that the A" Shining Ones A" had knowledge of the deep spiritual truth that lies at the heart of mankinds yearning for an understanding of the meaning of life & to achieve salvation."

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Little Marcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 & when he never returned home his grieving family assumed the worst. Then thirty years later teenage singing star Leah Wakefield disappears & DI Wesley Peterson has reason to suspect that the same kidnapper is responsible. & another abductor is at work in the area
- a man who tricks blonde women into a bogus taxi & cuts off their hair. Has Leah fallen prey to the man the newspapers call ' The Barber' or has she suffered a more sinister fate? But then Marcus Fallbrook returns from the dead. & when DNA evidence confirms his identity the investigation takes a new twist. Meanwhile archaeologist Neil Watson's gruesome task of exhuming the dead from a local churchyard yields a mystery of its own when a coffin is found to contain one corpse too many
- a corpse that may be linked to a strange religious sect dating back to Regency times. Wesley has his hands full elsewhere
- slowly Marcus Fallbrook begins to recover memories that Wesley hopes will lead him to cunning & dangerous murderer. But he is about to discover that the past can be a very dangerous place indeed.


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After her years in domestic service Winifred Foley married & started a family. But while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean & the cherished relatives she had left behind. Determined to give their children the rural upbringing she had enjoyed the young couple moved to an isolated crumbling cottage not far from the Forest. But even in the 1950s they lacked heating or running water & money was tight. Food was begged borrowed or home-grown & their clothes were h&-me-downs. It was a primitive life of hard work on the land struggling to make ends meet & finding strength in the embrace of a loving family. ...

An extraordinary account of one womans single-minded campaign to restore a Victorian steamship to her former glory & make her an Andean attraction Here is a vivid account of Meriel Larkens incredible quest to restore the Yavari" steamship against the odds--a ship that is now celebrating its 150 year anniversary in 2012. In 1862 the English-built " Yavari" was taken to bits & shipped to South America. In an epic logistical feat it was carried in thousands of pieces by mule up the Andes to Lake Titicaca 12 500 feet above sea level the worlds highest navigable waterway. She was reconstructed & for more than a century plied her trade up & down the lake but by 1985 she was a sad rotting hulk--until she was found by Larken who led the quest to project to restore & preserve the ship. The oldest single screw iron passenger ship in the world this nautical & engineering jewel is now a major Peruvian tourist attraction." ...

An illustrated A-Z directory of the visible fixtures superstructure fittings & machinery of small merchant ships tugs & fishing vessels such as you would find in coastal & off-shore waters
- each no bigger than 76 metres long. The key to the book is the incredible amount of fine detail shown in the photographs & line drawings
- details essential for scale modelling which makes this a resource which will be very much sought after by enthusiasts who do not get the opportunity to compile their own detail archives firsth&. From anchors to winches & windlasses each feature is illustrated in two or three photographs with a supporting text providing technical detail. The book is fully illustrated with 250 detailed photographs & line drawings of the details of ships involved in cargo fishing pilotage & oil rig support.

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In the past thirty years the world of model kits has undergone a veritable revolution. New techniques in injection moulding have enhanced the scale accuracy & surface detail of the humble plastic kit while many specialist companies now produce finest top quality resin models vastly broadening the range of subjects on the market. However the really radical change has been the advent of photo-etched brass fret which allows the finest detail to be reproduced to scale. In ship modelling this has resulted in a new form of the hobby mid-way between traditional build-from-the-box simplicity & the time-consuming demands of fabricating everything from scratch. These new materials have prompted innovative techniques which are comprehensively demonstrated in this new manual. Designed for those wishing to achieve the best results from their ship kits in the 1:700 to 1:350 range of scales it uses step by step photographs to take the reader through the building of two models one in plastic & one in resin from basic construction fittings & detailing to painting finishing & display. Written by a highly experienced award-winning ship modeller the book is a showcase for the contemporary approach to the hobby. ...

An amazing voyage around the beautiful Greek islands becomes an exciting quest to find the lost treasure of the Andra! Philip Dinah Lucy-Ann & Jack are plunged into a search for hidden riches -- with some ruthless villains hot on their trail! Will they find the treasure before it's too late? ...