We will all rise Zoran warned while all around him burned. There will be other times other places
- a million other willing souls!
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For Miriam Gardiner at her engagement party at the London home of her fianc? Lucius Stourbridge it should have been one of the happiest days of her life. But leaving suddenly Miriam disappears without a trace. Reluctant to cause a scandal Lucius seeks out William Monk & tells him that the only lead concerns their coachman Treadwell who is also missing. Monk not usually a sentimental man is moved by Lucius's distress & assumes that his recent marriage to Hester Latterly is to blame. When Treadwell's murdered body is found Monk becomes convinced that his death is linked to a terrible secret in Miriam's past that someone desperate keep it hidden has killed for & may well do so again unless he can stop them. ...

It is 1914 & Eveleen Hardcastle now in her early thirties has married Richard. As the First World War breaks out Eveleen a sophisticated young woman is left to manage the factory while Richard goes off to fight for his country. Eveleens mother Mary has found happiness at last in her marriage to Josh. Her young granddaughter Bridie still lives at home & is beautiful but has a spirited strong will which her grandmother finds hard to control. Bridie is secretly besotted with her godfather Andrew whom she is convinced she will marry when she is older. While the war plays out Bridie becomes a nurse looking after wounded soldiers billeted in the local Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire stately homes & there finds a vocation that is both rewarding & gives her a maturity beyond her years... ...

Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley & senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons
- & travel to Paris with his family as an observer of the French armed forces. Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls & parties. But the return of Napoleon brings separation distrust & danger to the Poldarks & always for Demelza there is the shadow of the secret she does not even share with Ross. From the incomparable Winston Graham...who has everything that anyone else has then a whole lot more
- Guardian"."

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DCI John Handford & DI Khalid Ali are two of the most experienced
- & best
- investigators on the force. But nothing stays the

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Ben Tracy is on holiday in the Cayman Islands when a hurricane warning means he & his new friend the son of an oil billionaire must fly out of range. But as the plane heads for Miami an unfamiliar voice comes over the tannoy: the aircraft has been hijacked. If anyone tries to make their way into the cockpit they will be instantly shot... So begins this dramatic adventure the fifth in the exciting Code Red" series." ...

Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs & desolate lows. As lead singer of the Happy Mondays" he turned Manchester into Madchester combining all the excesses of a true rock'n'roll star with music & lyrics that led impresario Tony Wilson to describe him as 'the greatest poet since Yeats'. The young scally who left school at fifteen without ever learning his alphabet had come a very long way indeed. Huge chart success & a Glastonbury headline slot followed plus numerous arrests & world tours
- then Shaun's drug addiction reached its height Factory Records was brought to its knees & the Mondays split. But was this the end for Shaun Ryder? Not by a long shot. Two years later he was back with new band Black Grape & their groundbreaking debut album topped the charts in possibly the greatest comeback of all time. Even his continuing struggle with drugs did not stem the tide of critically acclaimed tracks & collaborations as he went on to prove his musical genius time & again. & then there was the jungle... Rock'n'roll legend reality TV star drug-dealer poet film star heroin addict son brother father husband foul-mouthed anthropologist & straight-talking survivor Shaun Ryder has been a cultural icon & a 24-hour party person for a quarter of a century. Told in his own words this is his story."
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The Twits" are possibly the nastiest & most digusting of all Roald Dahl's characters. Frogs in beds; Eyeballs in drinks; Worms in spaghetti Mr & Mrs Twit are really disgusting. They smell because they never wash they fight because they play tricks on each other & they hate children. But worst of all they keep monkeys in their back garden. In cages. It's time for the monkeys to get their revenge on these two most revolting creatures...meet the Muggle-Wump monkeys & the Roly-Poly bird! with a great new cover by Quentin Blake & a whole exciting section about Roald Dahl & his world. 'A true genius.. . Roald Dahl is my hero'
- David Walliams Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations."
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The Twits" are possibly the nastiest & most digusting of all Roald Dahl's characters. Now with Quentin Blake's illustrious illustrations in full magificent colour! Frogs in beds; Eyeballs in drinks; Worms in spaghetti Mr & Mrs Twit are really disgusting. They smell because they never wash they fight because they play tricks on each other & they hate children. But worst of all they keep monkeys in their back garden. In cages. It's time for the monkeys to get their revenge on these two most revolting creatures.. .meet the Muggle-Wump monkeys & the Roly-Poly bird! with a great new cover by Quentin Blake & a whole exciting section about Roald Dahl & his world. 'A true genius.. . Roald Dahl is my hero'
- David Walliams Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations."
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With filthy hair all over his face & horrid plots growing in his mind Mr Twit is one of the nastiest people you'll ever meet & Mrs Twit is just as bad & even uglier! But they don't stop at tricking each other: neighbouring children & even the local birds are in danger & that's where the Muggle-Wumps come in. This family of monkeys has had enough of the Twits' tricks & with the help of the handsome Roly-Poly Bird they decide it's time for sweet revenge... ...