In 1812 Francisco Manoel da Silva escaping a life of poverty in Brazil sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will he became a man of substance in Ouidah & the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His one remaining ambition is to return to Brazil in triumph but his friendship with the mad mercurial king of Dahomey is fraught with danger & threatens his dream. ...

Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after the case of the Bonnington Archive ghost convinced him that he really can do some good with his abilities ('good' of course being a relative term when dealing with the undead). But his friend Rafi is still possessed; the succubus Ajulutsikael (Juliet to her friends) still technically has a contract on him; & he's still
- let's not beat around the bush
- dirt poor. Doing some consulting for the local constabulary helps pay the bills but Castor needs a big private job to really fill the hole in his overdraft. That's what he needs. What he gets good fortune & Castor not being on speaking terms is a seemingly insignificant 'missing ghost' case that inexorably drags himself & his loved ones into the middle of a horrific plot to raise one of Hell's fiercest demons. When Satanists sacrifice farms stolen spirits & possessed churches all appear on the same police report the name of Felix Castor can't be too far behind.. .

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Sail back to a vicious time with fearsome seafaring Viking warriors with big boats big shields & enormous ginger beards. Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings including Viking Gods in wedding dresses corpses on trial & Death by booby-trapped statues. History with the nasty bits left in! 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...

Readers can learn what life was really like in the Measly Middle Ages
- in days of old when knights were bold women wore tall pointy
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The twin-engine Vickers Wellington was one of the outstanding RAF bomber aircraft of the Second World War as well as a capable maritime patrol aircraft & submarine hunter with Coastal Comm&. Centrepiece of this manual is Wellington Mk Ia N2980 'R' for Robert one of only two surviving examples of the Wellington in the world & restored to display condition at the Brooklands Museum Weybridge Surrey. Iain Murray gives a fascinating insight into operating flying & maintaining Barnes Wallis' geodetic wonder with the help of many rarely seen photographs & technical illustrations. ...

You look as if you've seen a ghost!' Jade is so used to living in the shadow of Vicky her loud confident best friend that when a tragic accident occurs she can hardly believe that Vicky's no longer around. But Vicky's a sparky girl who's not going to let a small thing like being dead stop her from living life to the full! Whether Jade is in lessons out running or tentatively trying to make new friends Vicky is determined to make her presence felt.. . ...

Life is looking bleak for Frankie Mitchell
- not only has she lost custody of her two children to their sadistic gypsy-bred father
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Suicide? Or murder? Marilyn Monroe's death in August 1962 apparently a suicide shocked the world. A Hollywood star a global icon why would she have killed herself? Yet the coroner's report stated her death was due to a massive overdose of 47 Nembutal capsules. But what about the discrepancies between the official report & the scene of her death? What about the forensic evidence that went missing shortly after she died? Matthew Smith has constructed a startling new version of events. His interpretation is based not only on the full & true forensic evidence from the time but also on the tapes that Marilyn made for her psychiatrist in the days & weeks before her death tapes that portray a woman in full charge of her life & looking forward to a bright busy successful future. Forty years after her death Marilyn remains an icon & a mystery. Matthew Smith's investigation into her death will lead to a new understanding of what really happened on the night of August 5th 1962 & in the weeks leading up to it. ...

The bodies are found in towns & cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common
- except the
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The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers & the most long lasting serving in the RAF until 1993 & still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. Moreover in 1982 it was only the Victor tanker fleet based on Ascension Island that made possible the Vulcan Black Buck bombing of Port Stanley airfield & the long-range reconnaissance of Argentina by Nimrods. Victor Boys" tells the story of all the great things that were achieved recounted first hand by the operators themselves aircrew & ground crew. Starting with accounts by test pilot Johnny Allam who undertook the major development of the aircraft through its work as a nuclear bomber during the cold war testing Blue Steel in Australia to its superb work during the Falklands war & later as a first class air-to-air refuelling tanker & vital support tool for fighters & other aircraft. Published to co-incide with the Victors 60th anniversary the gripping text is superbly illustrated with photographs from the operators themselves never released before. The stories are collated & set in context by Tony Blackman ex chief test pilot of Avros who helped develop the Vulcan & initiated the development of the Victor K2 tanker. For him initially the Victor seemed a competitor but he now readily admits what a wonderful aircraft the Victor became." ...