When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge's guilty verdict he quietly hopes that a long & arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he'll be seeing Trent again much sooner than he'd ever imagined. Setting aside his barrister's wig Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a thoroughbred pounding the turf. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered -- a pitchfork driven through his chest -- the prime suspect is champion jockey Steve Mitchell & the evidence is overwhelming. Mason reluctant to heed Mitchell's pleas for legal advice soon finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat & intimidation & is left fighting a battle of right & wrong & more immediately a battle of life & death...his own. ...

Billy is a bit of a worrier. He worries about hats & shoes. He worries about clouds & rain & giant birds. Most of all he worries about staying at other people's houses. His mum & dad try to help but still Billy worries...until a visit to his grandma's shows him how to overcome his fears with the aid of his imagination
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Charming funny beautifully illustrated this is an hilarious picture book that will resonate with dog lovers both adults & children as they read it together. It is full of visual jokes & it comes complete with a fold-out poster When Lily looks out of her bedroom window she gets the best surprise ever
- a doggy! But this is no normal doggy this is actually an escaped bear. Lilys adventure with doggy is told through a poster Lily has made advertising that shes found a lost dog. Sadly a zookeeper comes to collect Doggy. But the next day Lily has another fantastic surprise & Lilys sadness turns to joy as she seeskitty an escaped tiger in her garden.
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Our Solar Systems a wonderful place A collection of planets rotating through Space With the Sun at its heart its own glowing star; Its so far away we cant reach it by car. If we want to visit then heres what well need A spaceship which moves at incredible speed. Imagine weve built one of just the right kind Blast off from the centre & what will we find?" Join the famous astronomer Patrick Mc Fuddy & his son Jacob on their poetic journey through our Solar System. With artwork supplied by Robin Carter (Horrible Histories Horrible Science) & a wealth of useful information packed inside The Silly Solar System is an ideal way to introduce children from 6
- 12 years to our nearest neighbours in Space."
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Silly Verse for Kids"
- a hilarious collection of silly poems by Spike Milligan! A collection of the absurd ridiculous sublime
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of first publication a new de luxe edition of The Silmarillion featuring the revised reset text a colour frontispiece illustration bound in special materials & presented in a matching slipcase. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days of the First Age of Tolkiens world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back & in whose events some of them such as Elrond & Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwelt in Middle-Earth & the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation & in the Valaquenta the nature & powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age & Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. For the first time we are publishing a deluxe edition of this pivotal work featuring the revised corrected text & including by way of an introduction a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951 in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early Ages of Middle-earth. Quarter-bound & set in a matching slipcase this attractive edition will prove a fine addition to any Tolkien collection. ...

A new hardback edition with a cover design by Tolkien himself to complement the popular Hobbit & Lord of the Rings hardbacks.



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For the first time in paperback a fully illustrated edition of The Silmarillion with colour plates by the celebrated artist Ted Nasmith
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At the foot of a chalk hill a stream rises in a silent copse & is soon lost under the car parks & streets of the town its waters once gave life to. Captivated by the fate of this forgotten stream Charles Rangeley-Wilson sets out one winter's day to uncover its story. Distilled into the timeless passage of the river's flow buried under the pavements that cover meadow marsh & hill he finds dreamers & visionaries a chronicle of paradises lost or never found men who shaped the land & its history: the Jacobean maverick with an Arcadian irrigation dream the sanitary inspector planning social emancipation the libertine aristocrat who drew naked women in ornate lakes & flower beds. In Silt Road" miller's riot chairmakers die of fever men dream of fish. In this moving elegy to a disappearing natural world Charles Rangeley-Wilson brings the history of the English landscape vividly to life." ...

It is July 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola an inn kept by Jim Hawkins & his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries running errands for his father & listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas of curses murder & revenge black spots & buried treasure
- & of a man with a wooden leg. Late one night a mysterious girl named Natty arrives on the river with a request for Jim from her father
- Long John Silver. Aged & weak but still possessing a strange power the pirate proposes that Jim & Natty sail to Treasure Island in search of Captain Flints hidden bounty the beautiful bar silver left behind many years before. Silver has chartered a ship & a hardy crew for this purpose whose captain is waiting only for the map now locked away at the Hispaniola. Making haste from London Jim & Natty set off in the footsteps of their fathers their tentative friendship growing stronger day by day. But the thrill of the ocean odyssey gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination for it seems that Treasure Island is not as uninhabited as it once was... Featuring a cast of noble seamen murderous pirates & stories of love valour & terrible cruelty Silver" is a worthy sequel to " Treasure Island"
- one of the greatest adventure stories ever told
- & a work of extraordinary authenticity & imaginative power from one of Englands greatest writers."



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