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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The spellbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon's MASTER OF THE GAME one of the most glamorous & suspenseful tales ever told... It began with Jamie Mac Gregor stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter the powerful Kate Blackwell who grew her father's company into a world wide conglomerate. Now the story passes to the next generation. Spanning the decades & picking up exactly where Sidney Sheldon's bestselling Master of the Game finished Mistress of the Game follows the Blackwell family as they love lose scheme & murder through the 80s up until the present day. Heart-stopping & glamorous tense & provocative Mistress of the Game is the sequel that Sheldon fans have been waiting for... ...

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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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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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 Emperor's household to the Sultan's 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. ...

In the Spring of 1857 with India on the brink of a violent & bloody mutiny Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there life is orderly & genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt & the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As food & ammunition grow short the Residency its defences battered by shot & shell & eroded by the rains becomes ever more vulnerable. The Siege of Krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation & life. ...

The unexpected arrival of Soviet troops at the end of January 1945 at the ancient fortress & garrison town of Kustrin came as a tremendous shock to the German High Command
- the Soviets were now only 50 miles from Berlin itself. The Red Army needed the vital road & rail bridges passing through Kustrin for their forthcoming assault on the capital but flooding & their own high command's strategic blunders resulted in a sixty-day siege by two Soviet armies which totally destroyed the town. The delay in the Soviet advance also gave the Germans time to consolidate the defences shielding Berlin west of the Oder River. Despite Hitler's orders to fight on to the last bullet the Kustrin garrison commander & 1 000 of the defenders managed a dramatic break-out to the German lines. The protracted siege had an appalling human cost
- about 5 000 Germans were killed 9 000 wounded & 6 000 captured & the Russians lost 5 000 killed & 15 000 wounded. Tony Le Tissier in this graphic & painstakingly researched account has recorded events in extraordinary detail using the vivid eyewitness testimony of survivors to bring the story of the siege to life.

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