The war to end all wars people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919 White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country & Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism strangled in its cradle. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron flying Sopwith Camels went there to duff up the Reds. Theres a splendid little war going on a British staff officer told them. Youll like it. Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big & it was brutal a grim conflict of attrition marked by incompetence & corruption. Before it ended the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke nobody was laughing. ...

Sylvie Davies is a ballerina who cant dance. A broken leg ended her career but what broke her heart was her fathers death & whats breaking her spirit is her mothers remarriage. Still reeling Sylvie is shipped off to stay with relatives in the back of beyond. Or so she thinks in fact she ends up in a town rich with her familys history.. .and as it turns out her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving though are the two guys she cant stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox the resident golden boy is the expected choice. But handsome & mysterious Rhys has a hold on her that she doesnt quite underst&. Then Sylvie starts seeing things
- a girl by the lake & a man with dark unseeing eyes peering in through the window.. . Sylvies lost nearly everything
- is she starting to lose her mind as well?

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In the labyrinths of an ancient city lies a Queen's treasure
- 1205
- the town of Chinon is beseiged by enemies of King John

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This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land as well as a girls pangs of first love & independence. ...

Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs & flowers precisely the problem that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. Surely she tells herself it has nothing to do with the fact that she is directly descended from Alice Liddell the real life inspiration for Alices Adventures In Wonderl&. But when her mother takes a turn for the worse & the whispers grow too strong to bear Alyssa learns that shes not mad but she must find the origins of a secret family curse. A series of clues leads her through a cracked mirror into the real Wonderland a place far darker & more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There she must decide whom to trust: Jeb her gorgeous best friend & secret crush or the sexy-but-suspicious Morpheus her guide through Wonderland who may have dark motives all of his own. A high-concept romantic YA with huge potential. ...

Splat the Cat makes waves at the pool in this hilarious new picture book
- perfect for children learning to swim! Splat does not
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A Gothic tale of suspense & submission set in the Yorkshire Dales A visit to Heddlestone a remote village in the Yorkshire moors changes librarian Kate Carters life forever. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge & when Kate is later offered a job in its puppet museum she leaves London & her boyfriend to take up the post. Jake the strange & beautiful curator & puppeteer draws her into his secluded sensual world & before long shes sharing his bed & discovering a new & frightening side of love & lust. But Heddlestone is a village with secrets & Kate is haunted by a surreal holiday memory of a cool handsome man dominating a woman dressed like a crazy ballerina. The man is Eddie Jakes brother & when Kate is seduced by him & his reckless Ukrainian wife she becomes involved in a second dark relationship. Split between the two men Kate moves closer to the truth of Heddlestone sensing danger but not knowing if the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality. ...

When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second it costs him his career & presidential candidate Clyde Ritter his life. But what stole his attention? & why was Ritter shot? Eight years later Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her career is stopped short: Presidential candidate John Bruno is abducted from a funeral home while under her protection. The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to re-open investigations into the Ritter fiasco & join forces with attractive ex-agent King. The pair are determined to get to the bottom of what happened in those critical moments. Meanwhile high-ranking members of the legal system & key witnesses from both cases are going missing. King is losing friends colleagues & clients fast & his ex-lover Joan Dillinger is playing curious games
- she wants Sean back but she also owes him for something...
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Tamara Sim a ruthlessly ambitious young journalist is thrilled when she is sent to interview veteran war correspondent Honor Tait. Finally
- a chance for Tamara to prove that theres more to her than forged expenses claims & the whats in/whats out column she churns out for her tabloid. But Honor isnt an easy subject; cold & evasive to the point of rudeness its almost as if she has something to hide. & when Tamara starts to do some digging (not all of it strictly legal) she makes a discovery which has devastating consequences for them both... In The Spoiler the former literary editor of the Financial Times & the Guardian offers a first hand glimpse into the world of British journalism.
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In Spoilt Rotten social commentator Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture or What is Left of It 2009) grinds his axe at our sentimentality-centric culture where feelings have become the yardstick of everything we do: safe driving education taking of responsibility (none) sentimentality (everywhere). In this forensic polemic of maudlin popular culture from X-factor to Super Nannies Dalrymple wields his scalpel at all our modern sacred cows. Children will be speechless for once parents will hang their heads in shame! ...