Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? & why are they always male well-built & alone? An utterly unpredictable & macabre mystery Michel Fabers debut novel is an outstanding piece of fiction that will stay with you long after you have turned the last page. ...

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Under the Walnut Tree is an inspiring cookbook by mother & daughter team Anna & Fanny Bergenstrom. Combining international & Scandinavian flavours recipes are organised by ingredient such as coconut ginger chillies chocolate & vanilla. There are also menu suggestions covering everything from small intimate dinners to large parties. Filled to the brim with 400 recipes & over 300 colour photographs this is a cookbook to be used & relished year after year. Anna & Fanny Bergenstrom have previously collaborated on a number of best-selling titles in their native Sweden. ...

Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent & the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians veteran photographer Paul Conroy & Marie Colvin one of the foremost war correspondents of her generation decided to smuggle themselves across enemy lines & into the blood & terror of Homs. But tragedy struck before the pair could finish documenting the slaughter. A rocket killed Colvin & ripped a hole in Conroy's leg. As Syrian ground forces closed in on his position Conroy was forced to make a terrifying last-ditch attempt to escape from a regime that appeared determined to murder him. Under the Wire is the epic untold account of Conroy & Colvin's last tragic assignment together. A rare & touching portrait of an extraordinary woman driven by an unquenchable desire to 'bear witness' it is as much a tale of courage & survival as it is the poignant account of a friendship forged amid the carnage of war. ...

' Whenever two Russians come together the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.' First published in 1911 Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions
- by his conscience & his ambitions by powerful opposed political forces but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress. Set in St Petersburg & Geneva the novel is in part a critical response to Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment but it is also a startlingly modern book. Viewed through the ' Western eyes' of Conrad's English narrator Razumov's story forces the reader to confront the same moral issues: the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society & the demands thrown up by the interplay of power & knowledge. This new edition is based on the first English edition text & has a new chronology & bibliography. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
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Hill is an instinctive & complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift Frances Fyfield Mail on Sunday When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide
- though others wondered about the last man to see her alive & his fatal plunge into the disused mine shaft. Returning to a town he left in anger Colin Farrs homecoming is ready for trouble & when a university course brings him into contact with Ellie Pascoe trouble starts... Meanwhile Andy Daziel mutters imprecations on the sidelines until a murder in Burrthorpe mine forces him to take action that brings him up against a hostile & frightened community...
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This morning I found a body. Soon the police will arrest me for murder. & after that my life will fall apart. Gaby Mortimer is the woman who has it all. But everything changes when she finds a body on the common near her home. Because the evidence keeps leading back to her. & the police seem sure she's guilty...UNDER YOUR SKIN is an unpredictable exquisitely twisty story which proves that there are only three rules in life that mean anything: Assume nothing Believe no one Check everything ...

As the world goes about its daily business criminals & cops engage in a deadly battle of wits. This incisive book delves intriguingly into the crimes that police have to deal with day after day. Murderers hitmen kidnappers drug dealers
- they all feature in this collection of true crime stories that come to you straight from the streets. Take the drug dealer who walked out of a restaurant bragging that hes killed a man with his bare-hands
- unaware that his fellow diner was an undercover policeman. Or the young mother whose death was written of as suicide but further investigation proved to be something much more sinister...

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John Moran & Carl Williams were the two biggest rival drug barons in Australia. They certainly werent partners but they werent sworn enemies. One day they had a meeting to end a dispute over drug money. Thinking he could scare his rival into submission Moran pulled the trigger on Carl but decided not to finish the job off. It turned out to be the biggest mistake of his life. Carl was hell bent on revenge. Within months most of the Moran family & a host of underworld figures would die in an astonishing spate of revenge killings which shook the public & the police to the core. Murder greed drugs sex & corruption abound in a story that reads like a piece of gangster fiction. But in Underbelly the bullets & the blood are grippingly real. This is true crime of the highest order
- the amazing story of a powerful man who did things his way & eventually orchestrated his own terrible downfall.
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