Rich in detail & atmosphere & told in vivid prose Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome & his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife & the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king Edward VI gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicism & the stench of bonfires under ' Bloody Mary'. It tells too of the long reign of Elizabeth I which though marked by civil strife plots against the queen & even an invasion force finally brought stability. Above all however it is the story of the English Reformation & the making of the Anglican Church. At the beginning of the sixteenth century England was still largely feudal & looked to Rome for direction; at its end it was a country where good governance was the duty of the state not the church & where men & women began to look to themselves for answers rather than to those who ruled them. ...

In this ingenious & imaginative
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Nicci French the bestselling author of What to do When Someone Dies & " Losing You" returns with the second book in the gripping new series that began with Top Ten Bestseller " Blue Monday". Fans of Peter James " Roy Grace" series & Peter Robinsons "DCI Banks" series will love central character psychotherapist Frieda Klein who is consulted on a grisly & seemingly unsolvable crime. For Frieda Klein the days get longer the cases darker... Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is knocking at her door. A mans decomposed body has been found in the flat of Michelle Doyce a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police dont know who it is how he got there or what happened
- & Michelle cant tell them. But Karlsson hopes Frieda can get access to the truths buried beneath her confusion. Painstakingly Frieda uncovers a possible identity for the corpse: Robert Poole a jack of all trades & master conman. But the deeper Frieda & Karlsson dig into Pooles past the more of his victims they encounter
- & the more motives they find for murder. Meanwhile violent ghosts from Friedas own past are returning to threaten her. Unable to discover quite who is telling the truth & who is lying they know they are getting closer to a killer. But whoever murdered Poole is determined to stay free
- & anyone that gets too close will meet the same fate. A gritty heroine a gruesome crime & a terrifying hunt for a psychotic killer " Tuesdays Gone" is not to be missed by fans of psychological thrillers. " Nicci French knows just how to play on our worst fears". (" Daily Mail"). Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written twelve other bestselling novels including " Beneath the Skin" & " Blue Monday" the first thrilling instalment in the Frieda Klein series."


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Nicci French the bestselling author of What to do When Someone Dies" & " Losing You" returns with the second book in the gripping new series that began with Top Ten Bestseller " Blue Monday". Fans of Peter James' " Roy Grace" series & Peter Robinson's "DCI Banks" series will love central character psychotherapist Frieda Klein who is consulted on a grisly & seemingly unsolvable crime. For Frieda Klein the days get longer the cases darker... Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is knocking at her door. A man's decomposed body has been found in the flat of Michelle Doyce a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police don't know who it is how he got there or what happened
- & Michelle can't tell them. But Karlsson hopes Frieda can get access to the truths buried beneath her confusion. Painstakingly Frieda uncovers a possible identity for the corpse: Robert Poole a jack of all trades & master conman. But the deeper Frieda & Karlsson dig into Poole's past the more of his victims they encounter
- & the more motives they find for murder. Meanwhile violent ghosts from Frieda's own past are returning to threaten her. Unable to discover quite who is telling the truth & who is lying they know they are getting closer to a killer. But whoever murdered Poole is determined to stay free
- & anyone that gets too close will meet the same fate. A gritty heroine a gruesome crime & a terrifying hunt for a psychotic killer " Tuesday's Gone" is not to be missed by fans of psychological thrillers. " Nicci French knows just how to play on our worst fears." (" Daily Mail"). Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written twelve other bestselling novels including " Beneath the Skin" & " Blue Monday" the first thrilling installment in the Frieda Klein series."


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Tuesday is Princess Celie's favourite day. Castle Glower magically grows a new room a turret or sometimes an entire wing! No one quite knows how or why but luckily Princess Celie has mapped out the Castle's many twists & turns. When the king & queen disappear & Councillors from neighbouring kingdoms arrive to advise Celie a new tower & a secret passageway appear just as Celie needs them. The Castle is definitely trying to tell her something. But it's down to Celie to find her parents hold on to the kingdom & protect her home before it's too late. This page-turning adventure marks the launch of a series sure to delight fans of Jessica Day George & win her countless new ones. ...

Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader (one of the few) & he likes cats. So how is it that despite being up against the worst villains in the universe he has become the proud owner of the last working seedship pride of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps? We'll leave that aside for now
- just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in space is in good hands hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. With his unique equipment & powerful spacecraft Tuf is set to tackle the myriad problems that human settlers have created during their colonisation of far flung worlds. Hosts of hostile monsters a population addicted to procreation a dictator who is willing to unleash plagues to get his own way
- & all that stands between the colonists & disaster is Tuf's ingenuity & his reputation as an honest dealer in a universe of rogues...

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Phil Tufnell aka Tuffers" is the much-loved English cricketer from the 1990s who has now become one of this country's favourite broadcasters. Not cast from the same mould as other players of his generation Tufnell became a cult figure for his unorthodox approach to the game.. .and to life in general. " Tuffers' Cricket Tales" is a deliciously eccentric collection of the great man's favourite cricket stories that will amuse & inform in equal measure. Tufnell's unmistakably distinctive voice as heard to such good effect on " Test Match Special" steers fans through dozens & dozens of terrifically entertaining & insightful anecdotes garnered from his 25-year playing & broadcasting career. He introduces a cast of genuinely colourful characters found in dressing-rooms & commentary boxes from around the world & in the process offers a uniquely warm & quirky homage to his sport. A perfect Father's Day gift for all cricket fans." ...

A deliciously eccentric series of anecdotes Tuffers' Cricket Tales was a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback. Phil Tufnell aka ' Tuffers' is the much-loved English cricketer from the 1990s who has now become one of this country's favourite broadcasters. Not cast from the same mould as other players of his generation Tufnell became a cult figure for his unorthodox approach to the game.. .and to life in general. ' Tuffers' Cricket Tales' is a collection of the great man's favourite cricket stories that will amuse & inform in equal measure. Tufnell's unmistakably distinctive voice as heard to such good effect on ' Test Match Special' steers fans through dozens & dozens of terrifically entertaining & insightful anecdotes garnered from his 25-year playing & broadcasting career. He introduces a cast of genuinely colourful characters found in dressing-rooms & commentary boxes from around the world & in the process offers a uniquely warm & quirky homage to his sport. A perfect Father's Day gift for all cricket fans. ...

The Tulip" is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed desire anguish & devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into the world-wide phenomenon it is today. No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts political upheavals illuminates social behaviour mirrors economic booms & busts plots the ebb & flow of religious persecution. Pavord tells how the tulip arrived from Turkey & took the whole of Western Europe by storm. Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources this beautifully produced & irresistible volume will become a bible a unique source book a universal gift book & a joy to all who possess it." ...

Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania basking in the wealth it has generated. Sophias husband Cornelis an ageing merchant is among those grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his young bride. But as the portrait grows so does the passion between Sophia & the painter; & as ambitions desires & dreams breed an intricate deception their reckless gamble propels their lives towards a thrilling & tragic conclusion. ...