We know what happens to the body when we die but what happens to the soul? The answer may remain a great unknown but the question has shaped centuries of tradition folklore & religious belief. In this vivid history of the macabre Carl Watkins goes in search of the ancient customs local characters & compelling tales that illuminate how people over the years have come to terms with our ultimate fate. He discovers what a small Norfolk church has to tell us about the apocalypse; why the greatest minds of the seventeenth century were embroiled in debate over the phantom Drummer of Tedworth; & how a nineteenth-century Welsh Druid completely changed the national view of cremation. The result is an enthralling journey into Britain's past from medieval hauntings on the Yorkshire moors & eccentric memorials on the Cornish coast to seances in Victorian kitchens & gallows tales from a Bristol gaol. Impeccably researched & elegantly told The Undiscovered Country ventures beyond the veil to bring the dead back to life. ...

Even while rambling in the most rugged & remote parts of Wales one is liable to stumble upon some mysterious link with the past
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This title is an impassioned controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of writing history
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Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours has no home life & cares only about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure & adrenalin. Until one day...she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge it'll wreck her career. She walks right out of the office gets on the first train she sees & finds herself in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big beautiful house she is mistaken for the interviewee housekeeper & finds herself being offered the job. They have no idea they've hired a Cambridge-educated lawyer with an IQ of 158
- Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. Disaster ensues. It's chaos as Samantha battles with the washing machine...the ironing board...and attempts to cook a cordon bleu dinner. But gradually she falls in love with her new life in a wholly unexpected way. Will her employers ever discover the truth? Will Samantha's old life ever catch up with her? & if it does...will she want it back?
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Jem Halliday is in love with her gay best friend. Not exactly ideal but she's learning to live with it. Then the unspeakable happens. Kai is outed online.. .and he kills himself. Jem knows nothing she can say or do will bring him back. But she wants to know who was responsible. & she wants to take them down. A searing story of love revenge & betrayal from a bestselling author. ...

Its the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses ghosts good & bad patrol the streets & librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once & for all quickly ensues. Only Teo the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby can go between the linings to subvert evil & restore order. ...

Recently widowed attorney Paul Madriani is struggling to hold on to what is left of his family when he & his young daughter are caught up in yet another family tragedy. Pauls sister-in-law Laurel Vega is involved in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband Jack who wants to take their children to Washington DC. When her case disintegrates Jacks new wife is found dead in the family home. Laurel is arrested & charged with murder. Madriani takes on her defence but the evidence against Laurel is daunting & her own failure to cooperate
- in particular to tell Paul where she was on the night of the murder
- leaves the reader wondering if perhaps he is defending a guilty woman. But what actually happened that night is more tragic than anything revealed so far. & it is up to Paul to uncover the shattering piece of evidence that will lead to the terrible truth.

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The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War its activities cloaked in mystery & intrigue. The fate therefore of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones & memorials of those courageous individuals. Then in 2003 the first batch of SOE personal files was released by the National Archive. Over the course of the following years more & more files were made available. Now at last it is possible to tell the stories of all those agents that died in action. These are stories of bravery & betrayal incompetence & misfortune of brutal torture & ultimately death. Some died when their parachutes failed to open others swallowed their cyanide capsules rather than fall into the hands of the Gestapo many died in combat with the enemy most though were executed by hanging by shooting & even by lethal injection. The bodies of many of the lost agents were never found destroyed in the crematoria of such places as Buckenwald Mauthausen & Natzweiler others were buried where they fell. All of them should be remembered as having undertaken missions behind enemy lines in the knowledge that they might never return. ...

Angelic powers forbidden romance & the choice between fulfiling your destiny or following your hearts desire. Clara has known she is part-angel since she turned fourteen two years ago. But only now through fragmented visions of a terrifying bush fire is her Purpose
- the crucial rite of passage for every part-angel
- becoming clear to her. When Clara meets Christian the boy in her visions he is everything she could wish for
- so why does she also have feelings for her enigmatic classmate Tucker? Clara discovers that her Purpose is only a small part of a titanic struggle between angels & their destructive counterparts the Black Wings. & when the fire of her vision erupts & both Christian & Tucker are in danger who will she choose to save?


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Unearthly Disclosure is a story of alien bases alien contacts & abductions genetic mutants animal mutilations & government paranoia. Here Timothy Good one of the worlds most respected authorities on the alien phenomenon reveals for the first time sensational information provided to him by high-level military & scientific sources who confirm that aliens have established subterranean & submarine bases on Earth & that extra-terrestrial contact has been made with a select group in the US military & scientific intelligence community. Among numerous revelations in this book are those involving the alien creature photographed by Filiberto Caponi in Italy. The author spent several years investigating this controversial case & commissioned an Expert Witness checked by the Law Society to analyse Caponis astonishing photographs. Published for the first time this unique story forms the central section of Unearthly Disclosure. ...