Old ghosts of different kinds come back to haunt Fix in the fourth gripping Felix Castor novel. Names & faces he thought he'd left behind in Liverpool resurface in London bringing Castor far more trouble than he'd anticipated. Childhood memories family traumas sins old & new & a council estate that was meant to be a modern utopia until it turned into something like hell.. .these are just some of the sticks life uses to beat Felix Castor with as things go from bad to worse for London's favourite freelance exorcist. See Castor's stepped over the line this time & he knows he'll have to pay; the only question is: how much? Not the best of times then for an unwelcome confrontation with his holier-than-thou brother Matthew. & just when he thinks things can't possibly get any worse along comes Father Gwillam & the Anathemata. Oh joy.. . ...

Bestseller Clive Cussler
- author of the Dirk Pitt" novels " Crescent Dawn" & " Atlantis Found"
- &

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The Thief" is Clive Cusslers fifth historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell. A bold kidnapping aboard an ocean liner sends detective Isaac Bell across America in a deadly game of cat & mouse... Leaving England aboard the liner Mauretania Isaac Bell chief investigator at the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency stumbles on & thwarts a kidnapping. The two victims who have fled Europe carrying a secret invention fear that a foreign power wishes to steal it before they can bring it to America. Bell & the Van Dorn Agency offer to protect them. & it isnt long before Bell is fighting skullduggery in the middle of the Atlantic. In New York City as well as across the country as he & the inventors head for California the deadly chase is on. On their trail is the murderous agent known only as the Acrobat instructed to steal this world-changing invention
- & kill anyone in his way... Bestseller Clive Cussler
- author of the " Dirk Pitt" novels " Crescent Dawn" & " Atlantis Found"
- has legendary super-sleuth Isaac Bell protect a top-secret invention with the power to shape the course of history. " The Thief" is the fifth novel in the " Isaac Bell" series following " The Race". Praise for Clive Cussler: " The Adventure King". (" Daily Express"). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as " The Isaac Bell Adventures" there are also the "NUMA" & " Oregon Files" series the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) & the " Fargo" series. Other titles in Cusslers first historical series
- " The Isaac Bell Adventures"
- include " The Chase" " The Spy" " The Race" & " The Thief" which are all available from Penguin. Justin Scott is the author of twenty-seven novels including " The Shipkiller" & " Normandie Triangle"."




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Every day hapless hopefuls
- or coneys as the locals call them
- come to dirty & dangerous London town trying to seek their

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In 1876 a man named Henry Wickham smuggled seventy thousand rubber tree seeds out of the rain forests of Brazil & delivered them to Victorian Englands most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens. Those seeds planted around the world in Englands colonial outposts gave rise to the great rubber boom of the early twentieth century
- an explosion of entrepreneurial & scientific industry that would change the world. The story of how Wickham got his hands on those seeds
- a sought-after prize for many suffered & died
- is the stuff of legend. In this lively account of obsession greed bravery & betrayal author & journalist Joe Jackson brings to life a classic Victorian fortune-hunter & the empire that fueled then abandoned him. The Thief at the End of the World" is a thrilling true story of reckless courage & ambition."


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When society widow Lady Isabel Beckinhall becomes involved with the Home for Unfortunate Infants & Foundling Children she soon clashes with its manager Winter Makepeace whom she finds severely monastic terribly solemn.. .and quite distractingly intriguing. & Winter does have a secret: at night he transforms into the masked avenger the Ghost of St Giles. After the infamous Ghost of St Giles is wounded while rescuing a notorious pirate from the gallows Isabel has no choice but to hide him from a ravenous mob though doesn't discover his identity. Winter is haunted by this glimpse of the tender
- & sensuous
- side of Lady Beckinhall though he knows that they are too far apart socially to ever be together. But when a relentless dragoon captain begins hunting the Ghost of St Giles Winter must decide if he can trust his secret his life
- & his heart
- to Isabel's hands.



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Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. & on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History who store it & pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater
- how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against well time for Lu Tze & his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. & that will only be the start of everyone's problems. THIEF OF TIME comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes villains yetis martial artists & Ronnie the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).
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Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. & on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History who store it & pump it from the places where its wasted (like the underwater
- how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where theres never enough time. But the construction of the worlds first truly accurate clock starts a race against well time for Lu Tze & his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. & that will only be the start of everyones problems. Thief Of Time" comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes villains yetis martial artists & Ronnie the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous)."
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Time isn't a toy to be played with. It's bigger than all of us. It exists outside the artificial & arbitrary divisions into which humankind has presumptuously shoehorned it. It needs to elastic. To understand truly you have to see time as the most important resource we have. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. Because when time stands still everything stops with it. Then there really is no future. & where would we be without one of those? ...

You're the new girl in school. You're just trying to fit in
- & it's not working. Then someone accuses you of theft & you think
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