In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that hes become incapable of all meaningful action letting his hunting dogs starve & his land go to ruin. Meanwhile his sister Audrun alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed Cevenol world comes Anthony Verey a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London. Now in his sixties Anthony hopes to remake his life in France & he begins looking at properties in the region. From the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel a frightening & unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion. Two worlds & two cultures collide. Ancient boundaries are crossed taboos are broken a violent crime is committed. & all the time the Cevennes hills remain as cruel & seductive as ever unforgettably captured in this powerful & unsettling novel which reveals yet another dimension to Rose Tremains extraordinary imagination. See Judys Review See Richards Review See Rose Tremain talk about her book Reading Group Questions Read our exclusive Q&A with Rose Tremain Write a Review for Trespass Judys Review Anthony Verey is a successful antiques dealer in his sixties & has become deeply disillusioned with his shallow glossy London life. His business once right at the top of the antique market tree is failing. He is conscious that his reputation & standing in his high society world is nosediving fast & he simply cannot stand to lose the carefully-acquired burnish of success. So unmarried & with no children gloomily aware that he is approaching old age he decides to visit his older sister who lives in the Cevennes region of France. Veronica is a moderately successful landscape gardener there; her partner Kitty a mediocre painter with dreams of artistic glory. Anthony decides to make a new start in France & falls in love with a beautiful old house which the owner has put up for sale. Here the story becomes very dark. For the owner
- an alcoholic old farmer who has let his land go to rack & ruin
- also has a sister; a proud & vengeful woman who is bitterly angry with her brother for wanting to sell their familys historic home to make money (which he refuses to share with her). What follows is a compelling murder mystery set in this ancient & mysterious part of France. Its themes of sibling love & hate family dysfunction ageing & bitter envy make it compulsive reading. Trespass is beautifully written with a terrific story & a wonderful sense of place. Richards Review "

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Tri-Rockets the tube launcher & screaming rockets provide extreme outdoor fun! Each rocket launches up to 40ft in the air screaming as it goes. Warning: not suitable for children under 3 years as the foam pieces may break off an cause a choking hazard. ...

When people use the adjective Kafkaesque it is The Trial they have in mind
- the nightmarish world of Joseph K. where the rules
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The terrifying tale of Joseph K a respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested & must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes. ...

At seventeen Bryn is has the usual schoolgirl worries: a new boyfriend a new school & a new home. But she has one major concern that her friends dont have: she is an alpha
- a human girl in charge of her own werewolf pack. When Bryn & her closest friends Dev & Lake broke from the werewolf Callums pack it had all felt right. Together with Chase Bryns new love they had rescued some newly made female werewolves from a despicable master & established their own pack with Bryn as leader. Yet Bryn has always resented the rules of Pack life
- the constant bowing to authority the submission to the alpha. & she is determined to live differently to run this pack openly & justly. Then one night a badly beaten werewolf shows up on her territory. He needs help sanctuary care. But taking him in could violate inter-pack rules & no one knows better than Bryn the costs of challenging those rules. Obedience is law in Pack life but Bryn is going to break the rules again.

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Trial of the Clone" is a choosable pathway gamebook that allows the reader to make choices interact with the world & otherwise navigate through over 500 scenes & thousands of potential pathways. Readers can choose to simply read through the story or interact more fully with the books game by keeping track of statistics items & battles. Readers are incentivized to reread the book many times to explore other pathways or to catch some of the many secrets the author has hidden throughout the book. The reader plays as a clone who sets out to find his place in the world solving challenging puzzles & fighting monsters along the way. Weinersmiths writing is characteristically irreverent & satirical painting a dystopian future world filled with comical colorful characters & clever surprises. " Trial of the Clone" is Zach Weinersmiths first full-length book & is evident of his sprawling understanding of literature science logic philosophy & technology. Weinersmith is the sole creator behind " Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal " a daily comic that boasts over 250 000 daily readers & served more than 500 000 000 comics in 2011. This book is published by Breadpig whose publisher profits will be donated to Fight for the Future." ...

Les Dawson more than any other comedian spoke for the phlegmatic pessimistic British way of life. A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an uncommonly brilliant mind he was always the underdog but his bark was funnier & more incisive than many comics who claimed to bite. Married twice in real life he had a third wife in his comic world
- a fictional ogre built from spare parts left by fleeing Nazis at the end of World War 2
- & an equally frightening mother-in-law. He was down to earth yet given to eloquent absurd flights of fancy. He was endlessly generous with his time but slow to buy a round of drinks. He was a mass of contradictions. In short he was human he was genuine & thats why audiences loved him. This is his story.

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Les Dawson: a comedian who more than any other spoke for the phlegmatic resigned sarcastic glorious British way of life. This is his story. A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an uncommonly brilliant mind Les Dawson was always the underdog but his bark was funnier & more incisive than many comics who claimed to bite. Married twice in real life he had a third wife in his comic world
- a fictional ogre built from spare parts left by fleeing Nazis at the end of World War II
- & an equally frightening mother-in-law. He was down to earth yet given to eloquent absurd flights of fancy. He was endlessly generous with his time but slow to buy a round of drinks. He was a mass of contradictions. In short he was human he was genuine & thats why audiences loved him.

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This is the fifth title in the compelling & chilling saga of Darren Shan but the second part in a new trilogy following Darren's initiation into the vampire clan. THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 5 Compelled by his loyalty to Mr Crepsley Darren Shan the vampire's assistant agrees to prove his worthiness to the vampire clan by undertaking a series of trials. Each Trial is set by the Vampire Princes to test agility cunning & intelligence. Failure means death. Whilst their attention is focused on Darren the vampire clan fail to notice that the vampaneze have infiltrated their mountain stronghold. Who is the traitor helping the vampaneze & will Darren survive the trials to oust the vampire's greatest foes? Another atmospheric & terrifying tale from the author of Cirque Du Freak. ...

The amazing manga retelling of Darren Shans international best-selling vampire saga with illustrations by Japanese artist Takahiro Arai. Compelled by his loyalty to Mr Crepsley Darren Shan the vampires assistant agrees to prove his worthiness to the vampire clan by undertaking a series of trials. Each Trial is set by the Vampire Princes to test agility cunning & intelligence. Failure means death. While their attention is focused on Darren the vampire clan fail to notice that the vampaneze have infiltrated their mountain stronghold. Who is the traitor helping the vampaneze & will Darren survive the trials to oust the vampires greatest foes? The stunning illustrations & manga format give a new dimension to this ever-popular vampire saga available for the first time in translation in the UK. This will be a must-have for Shan fans & manga aficionados alike. ...