A blizzard has hit Engl&. In the tiny village of Sittaford on the fringes of Dartmoor a party of six is gathered in Sittaford House home of Captain Trevelyan. He has rented the house out for the winter & is staying in a nearby village. As evening draws in a seance is proposed. But it reveals more than they had anticipated
- Trevelyan Dead spells out the board. Slowly the table begins to rock again spelling out the word M-U-R-D-E-R. Is it true? & who would kill a man who doesnt have an enemy in the world? John Moffatt & Stephen Tompkinson star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic from the Queen of Crime.
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An almost impossible puzzle with supernatural trappings. In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: ' Captain Trevelyan...dead...murder.' Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately his home is six miles away & with snow drifts blocking the roads someone will have to make the journey on foot... ...

This is a compelling portrait of the best-known yet most misrepresented Native American. Sitting Bulls name is still the best-known of any American Indian leader but his life & legacy remain shrouded with misinformation & half-truths. His life spanned the entire clash of cultures & ultimate destruction of the Plains Indian way of life. He was a powerful leader & a respected shaman but neither title fully captures the enigma of Sitting Bull. Drawing on research into rare contemporary records & Sitting Bulls own hieroglyphic autobiography this absorbing volume traces his life from a headstrong youth (named Jumping Badger) & first contact with White settlers through his election as spiritual & military leader of the Lakota Sioux his role in the major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn his subsequent flight to Canada & return as a performer in Buffalo Bills Wild West Show to his arrest & untimely death at the hands of the Indian Affairs police on the eve of the Battle of Wounded Knee. The first new biography of Sitting Bull (1831-1890) in over fifteen years Yennes work has set a benchmark for all future histories. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed & Paris was liberated. In this masterly & highly individual account of that struggle the reader is subjected to the gruelling ordeals confronted by the combatants
- each encounter related from the point of view of a different nationality. While transcending conventional military history it provides an intensely vivid picture of one of the Second World Wars most crucial campaigns.
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Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape they desperately need a writer to complete their story & release them. Intrigued by their situation the director invites them to act out the key events of their lives.. . Pirandello's best-known play & one of the most extraordinary & mysterious plays of the 20th century Six Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty: where do we come from where are we going how do we become what we want to be? ...

The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis & Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never been able to digest the land it swallowed in 1967. However big its army it will never be at peace or feel secure until the future of this land is settled. Thirty-six years after the end of the six days of fighting after thousands more deaths & the failure of years of negotiation to try to reach a political settlement Israelis & Palestinians are fighting once again on the streets in the West Bank & Gaza. It is still a low-level conflict but if another full-blown Middle East war breaks out its roots will lie in those six days in June 1967. Drawing on his experiences as the BBCs former Middle East correspondent & building on extensive original research & interviews with some of the key participants Jeremy Bowen uses his vast array of contacts to weave together a completely convincing & compelling account hour by hour of the 1967 war between Israel & Egypt Jordan & Syria. As insightful as the best modern history writing & as gripping as fiction this is a major debut by an author with superb media contacts. ...

Sid is a cat who is addicted to having six meals a day & glories in this lifestyle. Manipulative persuasive & a charmer he has wrapped everybody round his little paw
- each owner believes that Sid belongs to them only.. .until the day he is found out!
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Richard Feynman's Six Easy Pieces: The Fundamentals of Physics Explained" is an essential introduction to the world of physics by one of its greatest teachers & icons. Richard Feynman inspired people around the world with his scientific brilliance endless curiosity about the world & unorthodox outlook on life. Here he guides the reader through the very basics of physics including atoms energy force the relation of physics to other sciences the theory of gravitation & quantum behaviour. Presenting complex ideas in simplified understandable terms & using illustrations such as shooting bullets waves on a seashore & even Dennis the Menace's building blocks " Six Easy Pieces" gets to the heart of how the world works. " One of the very best introductions to physics for the uninitiated". (" Independent"). " If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be " Six Easy Pieces"". (John Gribbin). " With Feynman as a guide you can't help wondering why everyone is not turning to science". (" Guardian"). " The greatest physicist of the twentieth century". (" Sunday Times"). Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was one of this century's most brilliant & original thinkers. He taught at Cornell & the California Institute of Technology & received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics. Books by Feynman published by Penguin include "QED" & " The Character of Physical Law"." ...