Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloveds affections. With the arrival of Violas brother & a trick played upon the countesss steward confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity. ...

Shakespeare turned a tale of unrequited love family dispute & fatal shipwreck into a miraculously evergreen Christmas favourite. At the beginning of the story everyone is alone; by the end everyone
- well almost everyone
- has found their other half.

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Over the years startling evidence has been unearthed challenging established notions of the origins of Earth & life on it & suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. The product of thirty years of intensive research The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's prophetic Earth Chronicles series--a revolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity's extraterrestrial forefathers. Travelers from the stars they arrived eons ago & planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species...called Man. The 12th Planet brings to life the Sumerian civilization presenting millennia-old evidence of the existence of Nibiru the home planet of the Anunnaki & of the landings of the Anunnaki on Earth every 3 600 years & reveals a complete history of the solar system as told by these early visitors from another planet. Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series with millions of copies sold worldwide deal with the history & prehistory of Earth & humankind. Each book in the series is based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. The series is offered here for the first time in highly readable hardbound collector's editions with enhanced maps & diagrams. ...

THE TWELVE Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts & no future. THE TWELVE Until they were selected for a secret experiment. THE TWELVE To create something more than human. THE TWELVE Now they are the future & humanity's worst nightmare has begun. THE TWELVE The epic sequel to THE PASSAGE ...

Sooner or later everybody pays
- & the dead will set the price... Gerry Fegan a former paramilitary contract killer is haunted
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Its 1957 & in a shattered post-war world life goes on. Dot a pupil midwife negotiates the streets on her trusty old bicycle
- come
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As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars" chronicles the public careers & private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar & Augustus to the decline into depravity & civil war under Nero & the recovery that came with his successors. A masterpiece of observation anecdote & detailed physical description " The Twelve Caesars" presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn
- & all too human
- individuals."

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One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother & fiddled while Rome burned; another earned the nickname sphincter artist. Six of their number were assassinated two committed suicide
- & five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come down to posterity as the twelve Caesars
- Julius Caesar Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero Galba Otho Vitellius Vespasian Titus & Domitian. Under their rule from 49 BC to AD 96 Rome was transformed from a republic to an empire whose model of regal autocracy would survive in the West for more than a thousand years. Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of colourful biographies of each emperor triumphantly evoking the luxury licence brutality & sophistication of imperial Rome at its zenith. But as well as vividly recreating the lives loves & vices of this motley group of despots psychopaths & perverts he paints a portrait of an erao of political & social revolution of the bloody overthrow of a proud 500-year-old political system & its replacement by a dictatorship which against all the odds succeeded more convincingly than oligarchic democracy in governing a vast international landmass.

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In The Twelve Caesars Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of colourful biographies of each emperor triumphantly evoking the luxury licence brutality & sophistication of imperial Rome at its zenith. But as well as vividly recreating the lives loves & vices of this motley group of despots psychopaths & perverts he paints a portrait of an erao of political & social revolution of the bloody overthrow of a proud 500-year-old political system & its replacement by a dictatorship which against all the odds succeeded more convincingly than oligarchic democracy in governing a vast international landmass. ...

Paris August 23rd 1572. What do you do when your wife disappears. In the middle of the bloodiest massacre in European history & you know she is about to give birth to your only child? Three wars of religion have turned Paris into a fetid cauldron of hatred intrigue & corruption. The Royal Wedding intended to heal the wounds has served only to further poison the fanatics of either creed. But Carla could not have known that when she accepted an invitation to the ceremony. When Mattias Tannhauser rides into town on Saint Bartholomew's Eve his only intention is to find her & take her home. But as the massacre of tens of thousands of Huguenots begins & the city plunges into anarchy Carla is abducted by Grymonde the grotesque gang leader of the Yards & Tannhauser finds himself imprisoned in the Louvre at the centre of a vicious conspiracy. Wanted by the law the assassins' guild & a militant army who call themselves the Pilgrims of Saint-Jacques Tannhauser must rise to pitiless extremes even he has never known before. With no one to help him but a stable boy he wades into a river of blood without knowing what lies on the other side. As he harrows Hell in search of his beloved His destiny is changed forever by The Twelve Children Of Paris. ...