Zig-zagging between prehistoric stone tools & Tudor theatre primal wildwood & mass-produced cars TIMES ANVIL is a book like no other. Richard Morris brilliantly weaves a series of interconnecting studies of apparently unrelated things & periods that are normally considered in isolation. In the process he re-examines aspects of Englands story from the end of the last glacial period 12 500 years ago to the present touching upon such things as Britains apparent emptiness for long stretches of deep prehistory battlefields & the human element of the Industrial Revolution. Morris not only describes the evolution of archaeologys craft but also explores an awakening curiosity & an open embrace of the mystery of the identity of the early inhabitants of our land who have disappeared & left little trace of themselves but were more like us than we think. Combining the personal with the academic amalgamating literature & myth with science & reflecting on how & why archaeology goes about its business the result is a fresh account of who we are & our relationship with Nature. Humanitys achievement writes Morris is to be the one animal out of one & a half million currently living on the planet to have discovered this story; its weakness is to suppose itself to be the storys subject. TIMES ANVIL challenges some popular assumptions of history such as Domesday Books comprehensiveness or the Romans as civilising colonists. The threads come seamlessly together a mile from where the book began at the graveside of Cardinal Newman. The result is provocative compelling & salutary. ...

A Sunday Times top 10 hardback bestseller. Ancient secrets buried deep in Glastonburys past. & one womans quest to finally set them free. Cambridge present day: Following the death of her mother Abi Rutherford receives a mysterious bequest -- a misshapen sphere of crystal known as the Serpents Stone which seems to hold echoes of concealed mysteries long covered up by the church. Western England 25AD: A stranger has come to the chilly Somerset wetlands with a story of hope & reconciliation. But he is being followed by powerful forces determined that he will not undermine Roman rule in Britain. What connects these ancient events & Abis gift? & why do so many people seem desperate to hide the truth? A strange shadow has fallen across the centuries & a woman is in fear of her life. But is it danger that awaits her or the final truth so long whispered across the echoes of time? ...

York 1577: Hawise Aske smiles at a stranger in the market & sets in train a story of obsession & sibling jealousy of love & hate & warped desire. Drowned as a witch Hawise pays a high price for that smile but for a girl like her in Elizabethan York there is nowhere to go & nowhere to hide. Four & a half centuries later Grace Trewe who has travelled the world is trying to outrun the memories of being caught up in the Boxing Day tsunami. Her stay in York is meant to be a brief one. But in York Grace discovers that time can twist & turn in ways she never imagined. Drawn inexorably into Hawise's life Grace finds that this time she cannot move on. Will she too be engulfed in the power of the past? ...

In The Time-Crunched Cyclist: Fit Fast & Powerful in 6 Hours a Week" Lance Armstrongs personal coach Chris Carmichael presents a revolutionary new approach to cycling training. " The Time-Crunched Cyclist" reveals the quickest way to get faster so that busy cyclists can build competitive cycling fitness on a realistic schedule. Complete with training plans case studies nutritional guidelines & success stories " The Time-Crunched Cyclist" is the book busy working professionals have been waiting for. Its proven concepts & training programmes enable cyclists to push the pace in the local group ride have fun & perform well in local races or tackle a challenging 100-mile fundraiser ride without committing to a high-volume training programme. Carmichaels popular time-crunched training programme shows cyclists how to build fitness fast by tapping the power of high-intensity interval workouts. Through 8 proven training plans beginning & experienced cyclists will take a low-mileage route to new speed. Each plan

Includes:: effective time-crunched workouts nutrition guidelines & supplemental strength training. " The Time-Crunched Cyclist" will help former racers bicycle commuters cross fans & mountain bikers capture their best performance
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Topher Hope is distraught when Ka his devoted cat disappears leaving a word on his computer: TENOCHT*I*TLa N. Wasnt that the home of the blood thirsty Aztecs? Then she must be in dreadful danger. But when Topher travels back to the time of the Aztecs he finds trouble from another source. The Aztecs think Ka is one of their gods but El Sol a piratical Spanish conquistador thinks she is a witch. Can Topher save Ka from El Sol rescue Pima a girl the Aztecs want to Sacrifice & escape from the wondrous floating city of Tenochtitlan before it is destroyed? ...

Ka the time-travelling cat has disappeared leaving just one clue
- a word on Tophers computer screen: R*iche mou*nt. When Topher
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Topher is planning a trip to London to visit his friend Ellie
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Alexia Tarabotti Lady Maccon has settled into domestic bliss. Of course being Alexia such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society living in a vampire's second best closet & coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Even Ivy Tunstell's acting troupe's latest play disastrous to say the least cannot put a dampener on Alexia's enjoyment of her new London lifestyle. Until that is she receives a summons from Alexandria that cannot be ignored. With husband child & Tunstells in tow Alexia boards a steamer to cross the Mediterranean. But Egypt may hold more mysteries than even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. What does the vampire Queen of the Alexandria Hive really want from her? Why is the God-Breaker Plague suddenly expanding? & how has Ivy Tunstell suddenly become the most popular actress in all the British Empire? *** Also available as a manga adaptation*** ...

An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation & has no memory of how he got to be there or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of Timeline a story that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages & into the heart of the Hundred Years War. Timeline cements Michael Crichtons place as the king of the high-concept thriller & a master storyteller to boot. ...

This is the first book in Alex Scarrow's exciting Time Riders series. Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Yet moments before death someone mysteriously appeared & said ' Take my hand.. .' But Liam Maddy & Sal aren't rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists with only one purpose
- to fix broken history. Because time travel is here & there are those who would go back in time & change the past. That's why the Time Riders exist: to protect us. To stop time travel from destroying the world... Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist then he became a graphic artist then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally he grew up & became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers & several screenplays but it's YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas & concepts he was playing around with when designing games. He lives in Norwich with his son Jacob his wife Frances & two very fat rats. The Time Riders series: Time Riders; Day of the Predator; The Doomsday Code; The Eternal War; Gates of Rome; City of Shadows; The Pirate Kings Alex's thrillers for adults: A Thousand Suns; Last Light; october Skies; Afterlight; The Candle Man.
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