The Wandering Falcon" is Jamil Ahmads harsh & beautiful portrait of a tribal landscape. It is shortlisted for the man Asian prize 2011. It is longlisted for the dsc South Asian prize 2013. The boy known as Tor Baz
- the black falcon
- wanders the tribal landscape of Pakistan Iran & Afghanistan. He meets men who fight under different flags & women who risk everything if they break their societys code of honour. Where has he come from & where will fate take him? " Striking. One of the finest collections of short stories to come out of south Asia in decades. Rarely has a writer shown greater empathy for its people or brought such wisdom & knowledge to writing about a terrain largely inaccessible. The power & beauty of these stories are unparalleled in most fiction to come out of south Asia". (" Guardian"). " Astonishing". (" Independent"). " Remarkable. Written in a style that has about it the reverberant clarity of fables but their intention is realist uncovering a largely neglected world & their cumulative effect is deeply moving". (" Sunday Times"). " Its setting alone in the cruel & punishing highlands deserts & rocky altitudes where the borders of Pakistan Afghanistan & Iran meet is worth the price of admission. Here is a book to my knowledge the first in fiction that gives an insiders account of the hard-bitten lives of the scores of tribes collectively known as the Pawindas or foot-people. The result is mesmerising". (" The Times"). " Brilliantly evokes the harshness of nomadic life. Chilling". (" Metro"). Jamil Ahmad was born in Jalandhar in 1933. As a member of the Civil Service of Pakistan he served mainly in the Frontier Province & in Balochistan. He was Political Agent in Quetta Chaghi Khyber & Malakand & later commissioner in Dera Ismail Khan & Swat. He was posted as minister in Pakistans embassy in Kabul at a critical time before & during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 & his last assignment in the government was Chief Secretary Balochistan. He lives in Islamabad with his wife Helga Ahmad."

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The Wombles live in a beautifully snug well-ordered & cosy burrow underneath Wimbledon Common
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Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce Rosemary Sutcliffs The Wanderings of Odysseus now in an exciting new format. For this dramatic sequel to her Kate Greenaway Award-winning Black Ships Before Troy Rosemary Sutcliff has transformed Homers magnificent epic poem The Odyssey into an enthralling travellers tale with a spectacular cast of men magicians & monsters. Majestically retold in this challenging & captivating version of Homers epic poem
- booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk Sutcliffs prose proves that no computer game or television cartoon surpasses Homer for drama & suspense
- The Sunday Times

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This hilarious informative guide to getting into print is a must-have for anyone who's ever thought they've got a book in them. Where do you start? How do you finish? & will anyone ever publish it when you have? Drawing on her own experiences as a novelist & journalist Writing Magazine's" agony aunt Jane Wenham-Jones takes you through the minefield of the writing process giving advice on everything from how to avoid writer's bottom to what to wear to your launch party. Including hot tips from authors agents & publishers at the sharp end of the industry " Wannabe a Writer?" tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the book world
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A mob of 1000 skinheads running along a road is a frightening sight. Into the tube gates we rushed. On the tube there was the usual knees up mother brown with the whole carriage full of skinheads jumping up & down the train rocking from side to side. Mile End & all out...want some aggro? Its the 1970s a time of skinheads Doctor Martens violence & trouble on the terraces. The Mile End Mob rule Upton Park. Long before the days of the ruthless Inter City Firm casuals they were the first guvnors of the terraces striking fear into the other West Ham mobs & fans. Micky Smith die-hard Hammers fan was there in the thick of the action he saw it all as it happened. Here he teams up with bestselling author ex-ICF face & West Ham authority Cass Pennant to recall these action-packed & turbulent times. Indeed it was the reputation & respect commanded by the East End Bovver Boys that drove a hardcore of hooligans to create the notorious Inter City Firm & establish their rule over the terraces up & down the country in the 1980s. Here is the story of what came before the ICF. Thrilling dramatic & brutally honest it will fascinate any football fan or social historian. ...

In Rosewood not all that glitters is gold & the town harbors secrets darker than anyone could imagine-like the truth about what really happened the night Alison Di Laurentis went missing... Back in middle school Ali plucked Emily Hanna Aria & Spencer from obscurity & turned them into the beautiful popular girls everyone wanted to be. Ali was the best friend they ever had. But she also made them do terrible things & taunted them with their worst secrets. Now three years later all their questions about Ali have finally been answered & they can put this awful chapter of their lives behind them. Or so they think. Not every story has a happy ending especially when four pretty little liars have done so many wicked things. In the dramatic conclusion of Sara Shepard's bestselling Pretty Little Liars series Emily Hanna Aria & Spencer could get everything they've ever wanted-unless A has one more horrifying twist in store. ...

Wesley Gibson is one of life's losers. His job sucks; his girlfriend's cheating on him; his life's going nowhere. Then he finds out everything he believed about his life was a lie... For Wesley is actually the son of the Killer the world's most deadly assassin! Now the Fox
- his father's former lover
- offers to train Wesley as the new Killer & bring him into a powerful society of super-villains. But does Wesley really have what it takes? & can he avoid his father's fate when a coup inside the society puts him in the firing linesuperstar creators Mark Millar (The Authority") & J. G. Jones (cover artist for 52) present an explosive tale of action villainy & good old-fashioned sex & violence!"

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Featuring Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. When you're as big & rough as Jack Reacher
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When you're as big & rough as Jack Reacher
- & you have a badly-set freshly-busted nose patched with silver duct tape
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When you're as big & rough as Jack Reacher
- & you have a badly set freshly busted nose
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