Daizys finally found her star quality
- modelling! Will Dads latest crazy scheme ruin her big break? Can Daizy save her family
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Two soldiers: Britains most celebrated military hero & a broken veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago. Now amidst a hostage crisis in the Middle East their lives are about to collide again. & the Strike Back is about to begin. John Porter was involved in a hostage raid in Lebanon in 1989. The raid went disastrously wrong several Regiment men died John spared the life of a Lebanese fighter & blames himself for the deaths. Struggling to come to terms with the past John has hit the bottle & is sleeping rough. Colonel Peregrine Collinson was involved in the same raid. He was awarded a Military Cross & is heralded as a military hero. After the disastrous raid their lives couldnt have been further apart. Until now. A hostage crisis in the Middle East draws the enemies back together for the first time. Who will be the hero this time? ...

This title is now an explosive television series on Sky 1. Listen to the audiobook for the full story of how ex-SAS hard-man John Porter strikes back against ruthless terrorists on the streets of Iraq. Two Soldiers. Sir Peregrine Collinson Britains most decorated military hero. & John Porter
- once one of the SAS most promising young soldiers now a broken man living rough on the streets of London. In Beirut TV reporter Katie Dartmouth has been captured by a gang of terrorists. She is to be executed unless British troops are withdrawn from Iraq. A nation holds its breath & the Government is on the edge of collapse. Both men believe they can save her. But only one of them can reach her... This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the authors work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed.
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In November 1942 the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended & seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germanys vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a series sea/air battles at close quarters fought with increasing ferocity until the last days of the war. The Germans tried everything against the Beaufighters & Mosquitos of the Strike Wings
- fighters intense flak parachute mines & even flame-throwers
- & the casualties were appallingly heavy on both sides. rn In this classic account of one of the neglected yet crucial theatres of the air war Roy Nesbit himself a survivor of strike aircraft of Coastal Command describes these complex battles from British & German records assisted by first-hand accounts from some of the brave airmen who took part. He also analyzes the effects of the tactics employed on the German war economy with some startling conclusions. The result is a fascinating clearly written & vivid history of events that were little publicized during the war for reasons of security. rn His book

Includes:: detailed diagrams of some of the key attacks & features some astonishing photographs taken in action.



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The Striker is the sixth novel in Clive Cussler's Isaac Bell series. It is 1902 & a bright inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines he is witness to a terrible accident. & it begins to become clear that the trouble doesn't stop with the men he's looking for. Much bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big. Given exactly one week to prove his case Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known men of staggering ambition & cold-bloodedness.. .who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way. In The Striker we meet Isaac Bell early in his career in an adventure that would show him just how dangerous & exciting his chosen profession would turn out to be. From the master of adventure & action & creator of the Dirk Pitt Adventure series comes The Striker the sixth exciting installment in the Isaac Bell detective series. Following The Thief & The Race The Striker is another nail-biting action-packed historical thriller from Top 10 bestselling author Clive Cussler. Praise for Clive Cussler: Cussler is hard to beat". (Daily Mail). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). " The Adventure King". (Daily Express). Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers including the famous Dirk Pitt[registered] adventures such as Arctic Drift; the NUMA[registered] Files adventures most recently Medusa; the Oregon Files such as The Silent Sea; the highly successful Fargo adventures; & the Isaac Bell series which begins with The Chase. This is the sixth book in The Isaac Bell Adventures; other titles include The Wrecker The Spy The Race & The Thief all of which are available from Penguin." ...

Yunis can't believe that he's United leading scorer. It should be the happiest time of his life but his father wants him to give up football & work hard at school. Can Yunis convince his dad that he can do both or will he have to hang up his boots forever? Stay on the ball this season with all the action from Football Academy. ...

Novelist satirist poet photographer painter alchemist & hellraiser
- August Strindberg was all these & yet he is principally known
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Taklamakan desert 1895: a new Pompeii has come to light & with it two remarkable artefacts found in a hidden burial chamber. A metal ankh & star
- covered in strange inscriptions feather-light & cool to the touch. Svalbard 1897: on the skerried islands of Svalbard a hydrogen balloon is readied for a polar voyage. Publicly it is a patriotic attempt to put Sweden in the lead of the race to the North Pole. Privately the three men on board have another objective. But S. A Andree Knut Frankel & Nils Strindberg will never be seen alive again. Falun Sweden 2011: 260 meters under the earth in a long-flooded mineshaft a divers torchbeam plays over a mouldering corpse with a fist-sized hole in its forehead. Skeletal fingers clutch a metal amulet. It is the key to the annals of a secret history so deeply buried that the few who knew of it though it lost forever. Until now...
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An imaginative tight edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller which follows an historical mystery through to its nail-biting contemporary conclusion. Present Day: Cadair Idris Snowdonia. Hannah Wilde flees to Llyn Gwyr a remote mountain farmhouse her husband bleeding to death on the passenger seat beside her. In the back of the car sits their seven year old daughter. Hannah's father is missing. Her mother is already dead. Mysterious strangers are converging on the mountain. & Hannah must decide who to trust
- & who to sacrifice
- if she's to defeat the predator who has stalked five generations of her family. 1979: Balliol College Oxford. Charles Meredith a brilliant obsessive professor clashes with a beautiful French woman in Balliol's library. When the woman disappears & her identity is exposed as a sham Charles is dragged into a terrifying pursuit. 1873: Godollo Hungary. Lukas Balazs prepares for his vegzet night the celebration that symbolises his entry into adulthood. But the festivities are about to go horribly wrong & only Lukas knows why. A centuries-old secret is about to unravel.. . Jakab is coming.

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John Williams is indisputably one of the most accomplished & celebrated musicians of his generation. A master of the classical genre he has been pivotal in bringing the guitar to a wider audience with the group SKY & through collaborations involving the music of South America Africa & jazz. The product of unprecedented cooperation from Williams his family friends & professional associates Without Strings is the first telling of the fascinating life of a world-renowned musician & equally the story of a man & the making of his identity. John Williams might never have come to the guitar allowing his extraordinary talent to blossom without the foresight ambition & subtle discipline of his father & teacher Len Williams & to a lesser extent his mother Melaan. Williams has almost certainly exceeded any dream his father dared have for him as a classical guitarist. But while fulfilling that ambition did he also in his own quiet way rebel against the authoritarian nature of his father? As it tells Johns story this book challenges its readers to consider the influence of his father for good & ill as it contributed to making John Williams the successful complex & compassionate man he was to become. ...