Between Sidmouth & Beer lies one of Englands most attractive coastlines. This book uses pairs of historic & modern photographs to explore this coast & four settlements along it
- the popular tourist town of Sidmouth & some of its hinterland Salcombe Regis hidden in its little valley the dispersed Branscombe which is really a series of several villages & Beer with its little sheltered cove that was an ideal base for fishermen. The varied geology from the red sandstone around Sidmouth to the white chalk of Beer Head is part of Englands only Natural World Heritage Site & has given rise to a spectacular variety of cliffs coves & beaches. The old views are still recognisable but there has been a fascinating variety of smaller changes that make these pairs of pictures worth a close look & they will be of interest to locals & visitors alike.
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Sidney Chambers the Vicar of Grantchester is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall with dark brown hair eyes the colour of hazelnuts & a reassuringly gentle manner Sidney is an unconventional clergyman & can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Years Eve dinner party the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter & a shocking art forgery the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective like being a clergyman means that you are never off duty. Nonetheless he manages to find time for a keen interest in cricket warm beer hot jazz & the works of Tolstoy & Shakespeare
- as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his junior. From the son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury this is the first of The Grantchester Mysteries six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history
- from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 to the wedding of Charles & Diana in 1981
- featuring the unforgettable vicar & sleuth Sidney Chambers.


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Sidney Chambers the Vicar of Grantchester is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional clergyman & can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter & a shocking art forgery the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective like being a clergyman means that you are never off duty... ...

Glamour & suspense in the bestselling Sidney Sheldon novel from the international superstar Tilly Bagshawe. Grace Brookstein is the beautiful young & naive wife of financial superstar Leonard Brookstein. In 2009 the US stock market goes into a terrifying freefall & the public want someone to blame. Oblivious & seemingly unscathed Grace continues her charmed life until the death of Lenny in a tragic accident forces her to face reality. His financial affairs unravel revealing expensive crimes & now Grace is in the frame. Exposing a spiralling web of vicious lies & well-planned deceit she soon puts her own life in danger. Grace is alone angry & desperate for revenge. ...

The master storyteller's legacy continues. An elusive & shadowy killer is on the prowl codenamed the Angel of Death. When an elderly multimillionaire is found brutally murdered in Hollywood & his young wife raped & beaten the police assume the motive is robbery. A decade later in different cities around the globe
- St Tropez London & Hong Kong
- three almost identical killings take place within 5 years of each other. In all cases the victim is male wealthy elderly & newly married & his wife is found at the scene either raped or assaulted. It soon becomes clear that this is one killer. Codenamed Angel of Death by the police is she avenging some long-forgotten misdeed or does she have other motives? Who will be her next victim & how can the Angel of Death be prevented from striking again?

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Sidneys got a secret. He cant ride a bicycle. All his friends can do it how hard can it be? But when he tries its Crash! Thump! Splosh! all the way. Just when Sidneys ready to give up his friends come running to his rescue & soon he discovers that with their help even an elephant can ride a bicycle! This first book in the popular Sidney the Little Blue Elephant" series is now available as a board book." ...

Helen Dunmore follows the lives of four ordinary people united by love trying to survive the siege of Leningrad in her powerful historical novel The Siege". Leningrad September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers
- Anna & Andrei Anna's novelist father & banned actress Marina
- the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup so cold you burn furniture & books. But this is not just a struggle to exist it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive..." The Siege" is a brilliantly imagined novel of war & the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives & a profoundly moving celebration of love life & survival. " Remarkable affecting.. .there are few more interesting stories than this; & few writers who could have told it better". (Rachel Cusk " Daily Telegraph"). " Literary writing of the highest order set against a background if suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there". (Richard Overy " Sunday Telegraph"). " Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple as all great literature should.. .a world-class novel". (Antony Beevor " The Times"). Novelist & poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel the Mc Kitterick Prize winning " Zennor in Darkness". Her novels " Counting the Stars" " Your Blue-Eyed Boy" " With Your Crooked Heart" " Burning Bright" " House of Orphans" " Mourning Ruby" "A Spell of Winter" & " Talking to the Dead" & her collection of short stories " Love of Fat Men" are all published by Penguin. This edition

Includes:: the first chapter of " Betrayal" the sequel to " The Siege"."



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Who will survive? This title is the new bestseller from the master of the race-against-time thriller. London. The Stanhope Hotel Park Lane. 16.00 A normal afternoon. The Manager
- Newly engaged Elena Serenko has just made the life-changing decision to quit her job & start a new life in Australia. The Guests
- Upstairs a young woman waits for her lover; a visiting family prepare for an evening out; & a sick man contemplates his own mortality. The Assassin
- High up amongst the penthouse suites a skilled & dangerous killer is hunting a quarry who's eluded him for far too long. The Siege
- What none of them know is that a group of ruthless gunmen are about to burst into the Stanhope shooting indiscriminately & seizing hostages. As darkness falls & the gunmen become increasingly violent only one thing matters. Who will survive?



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The year is 1453. For more than a thousand years the mighty walls of Constantinople have protected the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire the furthest outpost of Christianity. But now endless ranks of Turkish warriors cover the plains before them their massive cannons trained on the ramparts. It is the most fearsome force the world has ever seen. No European army will help: the last crusaders were cut to pieces by the Turks on the plains of Kosovo. Constantinople is on its own. & treachery is in the air. Three people will struggle to determine the fate of an empire: the young Turkish Sultan returned from exile & desperate to prove his greatness; a stubborn Byzantine princess sworn to protect her city; & a mercenary captain with a personal score to settle. But of them it is the hardened soldier Giovanni Longo who will face the worst choice: just as he prepares to make his final stand he finds he has something to live for after all. From the intrigues within the Emperors household to the Sultans harem & the savage fights on the battlements Siege is a full-blooded historical adventure novel in the tradition of Warrior of Rome Pilgim or Crusade. ...

Simon Snowlock & Prince Josua's band of allies gather at the Stone of Farewell. King Elias is drawn ever deeper into the dark sorceries of Ineluki the Storm King. The badly depleted League of the Scroll searches for age-old knowledge with which to aid Josua's much-outnumbered army. Across the face of Osten Ard lines are drawn as the final battle approaches & the struggle between Light & Dark reaches a climax. SIEGE is the first half of TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER
- an international hardback bestseller
- the final volume of Tad Williams' highly acclaimed trilogy Memory Sorrow & Thorn.

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