Mason Mace" Perry was a maverick cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped & framed for a crime. She lost everything--her career her liberty--and spent two years in prison. Now back on the outside Mace is trying to rebuild her life & track down the people who set her up. But even with her police chief sister at her side she has to work in the shadows: theres a vindictive US attorney on her tail & shes just looking for a reason to send her back behind bars.. . Roy Kingman is a young lawyer still getting used to his high-paid job at a law firm in Washington. When Roy discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm his fate becomes entangled with Maces as the two team up to investigate. But as their enquiries gather pace Roy & Mace soon find themselves in unexpected territory; drawn into both the private & public world of the nations capital as dark secrets begin to emerge. For what began as a fairly routine homicide investigation will quickly turn into something far more complex. & possibly lethal.. ." ...

The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as their plaything travelling without borders & living lives of unimaginable luxury without fear or restraint. But when an assassin starts killing off some of the world's richest men an oligarch with friends in high places seeks the protection of MI5. & Spider Shepherd is placed in the firing line. But while Shepherd has to save the life of a man he neither likes nor respects he has to deal with a face from his past. The Taliban sniper who put a bullet in his shoulder turns up alive & well & living in London. & Shepherd is in no mood to forgive or forget. ...

My name is Peter Im 55 & Im a Spank Daddy. I offer a spanking & disciplining service to women... Discover an underworld of sex spanking & submission. A world where high-powered executives & cuddly mums go to be spanked caned & disciplined. In this powerful & compelling book Peter reveals how his fetish was kindled by corporal punishment while still at school. How he struggled to contain it until eventually he discovered he was far from alone in Londons vibrant active sex scene. What he learnt on the scene helped him to understand the psychology of women who wanted to submit to submissive discipline. Many were professional women often juggling a demanding job & family. They needed to occasionally relinquish all control to submit totally to the will of another. Others sought a father figure who could offer them the firm security they remembered from their childhood when Daddy had been very much in control. Chapter by chapter he reveals his clients stories as he turns their fantasies into reality. The writing is powerful the stories graphic & compelling. Discover an unknown world... ...

True Confessions of Adrian Mole Margaret Hilda Roberts & Susan Lilian Townsend" is the third book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny " Adrian Mole" series. Monday June 13th. I had a good proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever but at the age of twenty years & three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit ' Pinky' working as a paper pusher for the Do E & pining for the love of his life Pandora has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still without the slings & arrows of modern life what else would an intellectual poet have to write about... Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend & Margaret Hilda Roberts a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham. Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. " Essential reading for Mole followers". (" Times Educational Supplement"). " Wonderfully funny & sharp as knives". (" Sunday Times"). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight " Adrian Mole" books " The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 )" " Number Ten" " Ghost Children" " The Queen & I" " Queen Camilla" & " The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year" all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up." ...

16 fascinating profiles of cases of misdeeds committed by men & women of the Civil War The epic battles of the Civil War have become the stuff of legend & the subject of a vast amount of literature. Much less known is the war behind the lines
- a war carried out by merciless guerrillas bloodthirsty mobs murderous vigilantes & sinister secret agents. True Crime in the Civil War delves into the conflicts criminal history profiling 16 cases of misdeeds committed by men & women on both sides of the fight. Civil War buffs will find newly uncovered information on a pair of obscure incidents: the 1863 murder of a Tennessee family by freed slaves living in a Union camp & an 1865 killing in North Carolina that immediately tested the nations commitment to equality. Also included are fresh accounts of some of the wars most notorious crimes including the short & brutal life of Bloody Bill Anderson the evils perpetrated behind Andersonvilles walls & the still-controversial Lincoln assassination conspiracy
- providing a stark reminder that those on the wars front lines werent the only ones facing danger.

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Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling & curious individual since the idea was first invented in the twelfth century in the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouths History of the Kings of Britain". But although the Merlin of literature & Arthurian myth is well known Merlins historical impact & his relation to medieval magic are less familiar. In this book Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was thought to be & what he has meant to Britain. The twelfth-century Merlin was no folk soothsayer: he was a learned figure at the cutting edge of medieval science & adept in astrology cosmology prophecy & natural magic as well as being a seer & proto alchemist. He was a convincing & powerful figure & his famed prophecies helped to add credibility to the long lost history of Britain first revealed here to a European public. Merlins prophecies reassuringly foretold Britains path establishing an ancient ancestral line & linking biblical prediction with more recent times. Merlin helped to place British history within world history. Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlins magic across the centuries arguing that he embodied ancient Christian & pagan magical traditions recreated for a medieval court & adapted to fit a new moral climate. Linking Merlins perceived reality & power with the culture of the Middle Ages this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time." ...

From the acclaimed author of THE PIRATES DAUGHTER comes a story of three women born into the divided troubled paradise of Jamaica. Easter 1981. With Jamaica in a state of emergency the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own. For Monica Landing who had not spoken to her daughter for fifteen years the death of Lana is the cruellest kind of loss. For Lanas youngest sister Jean it is an imcomprehensible tragedy. All she knows is that her beloved homeland holds no future for her. But flight means crossing a landscape where soldiers turned executioners & armed gangs rule. It means making her way through the memories that engulf her with perhaps the only man she has ever loved by her side. THE TRUE HISTORY OF PARADISE captures the grace beauty & brutality that are indelible parts of the Jamaican experience. ...

British history as we know it is a cluttered patchwork of questionable stories which have been re-written re-evaluated & ridiculed & yet there is still an unquestioned narrative thread which runs through the nations historical record accepted as fact. But final editorial control has always belonged to the winners. & nobody likes winners... The True History of the Black Adder" is the very first in-depth examination of the creation of a British institution like no other
- arguably the greatest sitcom of all time
- not to mention the first historical investigation into the lives of the Blackadder family one of the nations most villified dynasties. Using existing archive footage & rare literature plus new revelations from personal interviews with the makers including John Lloyd Tony Robinson Richard Curtis Ben Elton Stephen Fry Brian Blessed; Rowan Atkinson & many more J. F. Roberts relates the full scope of the tale of how the 70s alumni of three great universities
- Oxford Cambridge & not Hull but Manchester
- discovered a unique chemistry that would see them build a timeless comic masterpiece. At last Blackadder enthusiasts can now uncover the cunning plan in all its hideous hilarity."



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'I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age & know what it is to be raised on lies & silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you & will contain no single lie may I burn in hell if I speak false.' In a dazzling act of ventriloquism Peter Carey gives the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly a voice so wild passionate & original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bush ranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan as Oedipus as horse thief farmer bush ranger reformer bank-robber police-killer & finally as his country's beloved Robin Hood. In 1878 Francis Harty a poor farmer said ' Ned Kelly is the best bloody man that has ever been in Benalla I would fight up to my knees in blood for him
- I have known him for years I would take his word sooner than another man's oath'. By the time of his hanging in 1880 a whole country would seem to agree
- & it is a measure of Peter Carey's achievement that he has not only made art from his country's great story but that he persuades us all to understand the true measure of that 'best bloody man'.

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Ford changed the face of the modern world. The incredible success of his motor car for the multitude transformed industry & society & made him the richest man on earth. His amazing story ranges from exhilarating success to personal tragedy & disappointment. Other titles in the series: Amelia Earhart Alexander the Great Captain Cook Cleopatra Eric the Red Galileo Gandhi Hans Christian Andersen Roald Dahl Thomas Edison & William Shakespeare. ...