Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere
- from Pearl Harbour to 9/11 from the assassination of Kennedy
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Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor an actress in a hit TV show Elvis leaves his native Los Angeles to head for Louisiana in search of Jodis biological parents. But before he can tackle the mystery of the actresss background he is up against a whole host of eccentrics including a crazed Raid-spraying housewife a Cajun thug who looks like hes been made out of spare parts & a menacing hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther. As Elvis learns about the enigmatic actresss origins he also discovers the real reason hes been sent to Louisiana... ...

Cool & eye-catching this Voodoodle multipocket pencil case is a great way of storing & organising all of your pens & school stationery. Features include black zip & inner lining material main compartment with zip rear pocket & front zipped pocket with Velcro fastening flap. ...

This Leading Edge work by Esther & Jerry Hicks who present The Teachings of Abraham[registered]" will help you understand every relationship you are currently involved in as well as every relationship you have ever experienced. This book uncovers a myriad of false premises that are at the heart of every uncomfortable relationship issue & guides you to a clear understanding of the powerful creative Vortex that has already assembled the relationships that you have desired. Abraham will show you how to enter that Vortex where you will rendezvous with everything & everyone you have been looking for." ...

When Ben Tracey sets out with his cousin to spot hen harriers
- a protected bird of prey
- he doesn't expect to stumble upon

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Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of womens rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor sex is bent
- 1870 It was a bloody & dangerous war lasting several decades won finally by sheer will & determination in 1928. Drawing on extracts from diaries newspapers letters journals & books Joyce Marlow has pieced together this inspiring poignant & exciting history using the voices of the women themselves. Some of the people & events are well-known but Marlow has gone beyond the obvious particularly beyond London to show us the ordinary women
- middle & working-class who had the breathtaking courage to stand up & be counted
- or just as likely hectored or pelted with eggs. These women were clever & determined knew the power of humour & surprise & exhibited unladylike passion & bravery. Joyce Marlows anthology is lively comprehensive surprising & triumphant.


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In the peaceful cathedral city of Lafferton a gunman is terrorising young women. What
- if anything
- links the attacks? Is

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Already a classic among sailors Nichols tell the true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe sailing race: the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world. One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read." (Sebastian Junger). It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone & non-stop. No one had ever done it no one knew if it could be done. In 1968 nine men
- six Englishmen two Frenchmen & an Italian
- set out to try a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didnt even know how to sail. They had more in common with Captain Cook or Ferdinand Magellan than with the high-tech extreme sailors of today a mere forty years later. It was not the sea or the weather that determined the nature of their voyages but the men they were & they were as different from one another as Scott from Amundsen. Only one of the nine crossed the finishing line after ten months at sea. The rest encountered despair sublimity madness & even death."

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Brought to life with startling autobiographical detail Jean Rhys Good Morning Midnight" is a poignant portrait of a woman fighting to retain her integrity after being set adrift in a foreign country. This " Penguin Classics" edition

Includes:: an introduction by Carole Angier. It was as if a curtain had fallen hiding everything I had ever known says Anna Morgan eighteen years old & catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there dismayed by the unfamiliar cold & greyness she is absolutely alone & unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a mans world where all charity has its price " Voyage in the Dark" was first published in 1934 but it could have been written today. It is the story of an unhappy love affair a portrait of a hypocritical society & an exploration of exile & breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys hauntingly simple & beautiful style. Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica. Coming to England aged 16 she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris where she began writing & was discovered by Ford Madox Ford. Her novels often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time & only modestly successful. From 1939 (when " Good Morning Midnight" was written) onwards she lived reclusively & was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of " Jane Eyres" Bertha Rochester " Wide Sargasso Sea" in 1966. If you enjoyed " Voyage in the Dark" you might like James Joyces "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" also available in " Penguin Classics". "A wonderful bitter-sweet book written with disarming simplicity" (Esther Freud " Express"). " Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling cynical & surprisingly moving". (A.L. Kennedy)."

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Charles Darwins travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 & 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural worlds beauty & sublimity which language could barely capture. Words he said were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts & interiors of South America to South Sea Islands Darwins descriptive powers are constantly challenged but never once overcome. In addition The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwins powerful speculative mind at work posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earths structure animal forms anthropology & the origins of life itself. ...