Darkness falls on the Great Green & the Ancient World is fiercely divided. On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus fabled storyteller & reluctant ally to the Mykene who knows that he must soon face his former friends in deadly combat. Within the city the Trojan king waits. Ailing & bitter his hope is pinned on two heroes: his favourite son Hektor & the dread Helikaon who will wreak terrible vengeance for the death of his wife at Mykene hands. War has been declared. As enemies who are also kinsmen are filled with bloodlust they know that many of them will die & that some will become heroes: heroes who will live for ever in a story that will echo down the centuries. ...

The war of Troy is looming & all the kings of the Great Green are gathering friends & enemies each with their own dark plans of conquest & plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery & deceit come three travellers; Piria a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret Kalliades a warrior with a legendary sword & Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come. Shield of Thunder" takes the reader back into the glories & tragedies of Bronze Age Greece reuniting the characters from Lord of the Silver Bow; the dread Helikaon & his great love the fiery Andromache the mighty Hektor & the fabled storyteller Odysseus." ...

Three lives will change the destiny of nations. Helikaon the young prince of Dardania haunted by a scarred & traumatic childhood. The priestess Andromache whose fiery spirit & fierce independence threatens the might of kings. & the legendary warrior Argurios cloaked in loneliness & driven only by thoughts of revenge. In Troy they find a city torn apart by destructive rivalries
- a maelstrom of jealousy deceit & murderous treachery. & beyond its fabled walls blood-hungry enemies eye its riches & plot its downfall. It is a time of bravery & betrayal; a time of bloodshed & fear. A time for heroes.
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Outside! What's it like?' Masklin looked blank. ' Well ' he said. ' It's sort of big-' To the thousands of the tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store there is no Outside. Things like Day & Night Sun & Rain are just daft old legends. Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store
- their whole world
- is to be demolished. & it's up to Maskin one of the last nomes to come into the Store to mastermind an unbelievable escape plan that will take all the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside.. . The first title in the magnificent trilogy The Bromeliad.

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In the late 1940s Shay leaves school as soon as he can to become a trailer-boy on a Gardner truck that is noisy cold & limited in speed. The driver Fred is one of the old school a transport man through & through who knows the best cafes & pubs & all the tricks of the trade. Shay soon comes to love this life on the road despite long hours & frequent absences from his home in Kent. In those days lorries were less able to cope with bad weather. Truckers North"

Includes:: a vivid account of the terrible winter of 1947 when twenty miles an hour was an achievement & the powerful vehicles were dangerous to handle. Shay encountered some lively characters: the drivers who worked played & joked hard; the kindly landladies who provide a home from home; Rosy who awoke the man in the boy. Shay progressed in his career moving on to become a driver himself & finally the proud owner of his own HGV."

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This is a simple colouring book ideal for introducing very young children to trucks & diggers. Large clear spaces make the scenes easy for children to colour including two pages of stickers encourage creativity. Busy scenes include a building site motorway farm & town. This title is designed to be treasured rather than discarded when finished. ...

Snap is every child's much-loved first card game & these large colourful & high quality cards will delight very young children. Match as many animals or trucks & diggers as you can to win the game. The cards are durable & robust to survive repeated use. Snap is an easy & fun game which is a great way for young children to develop important sorting matching & reading skills. ...

This is a wonderful new truck book with endearing illustrations & delightful touch & feel textures. Watch the amazing trucks do all their hard work. Listen to the sounds they make & touch their shiny wheels & the scratchy sand they dump. This is a wonderfully tactic book with endearing dynamic illustrations. It is one of twenty new exciting books in the Baby Walker" series featuring the best quality art & design for babies. It features fresh contemporary artwork & fun tactile features to stimulate your baby's imagination. This is a perfect introduction to trucks & building." ...

Following the harrowing events of Elixir & Devoted-and the ceremony that almost killed Sage-Clea faces a new reality: With Sage's soul in Nico's body the love of her life looks an awful lot like her best friend's boyfriend. Can Clea & Sage really be happy under these circumstances? Clea wants to try to enjoy their new life together but Sage is acting different-angry-and she struggles to keep her friends from finding out what has happened to him. Something is clearly haunting Sage & Clea is losing control. Can she trust her friends with the dangerous truth or will she have to risk losing Sage to madness? ...

Sounding like one instrument a wild whirling bagpipe the Stones chugged to a halt. But the crowd didnt stop we could see Hells Angels spinning like madmen swinging at people. By stage right a tall white boy with a black cloud of electric hair was dancing shaking infuriating the Angels by having too good a time. The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is not just the greatest book about the greatest rock n roll band it is one of the most important books about the 1960s capturing its zeitgeist
- that uneasy mix of excess violence & idealism
- in a way no other book does. Stanley Booth was with the Rolling Stones on their 1969 U.S. tour which culminated in the notorious free concert at Altamont. But this book is much more than a brilliant piece of journalism. It gives a history of the Rolling Stones from their early rhythm n blues days in west London clubs to the end of the 1960s; & it interweaves with mastery the two tragic stories of the decline & death of Brian Jones & the terrifying Altamont concert itself where the Hells Angels supposedly providing security ran amok & murdered a member of the audience. Although it took nearly fifteen years to write the book that emerged has been rightly acclaimed as the one authentic masterpiece of rock n writing.

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