This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans snatched from their homes & taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments & forced to endure the harshest of conditions very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale & grandeur built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of he imperial court as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping immaculately researched & brilliantly realised WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history told with all the pace & verve of one of our finest historians. ...

Drawing closely on Bulgakovs personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor The White Guard" takes place in Kiev 1918 a time of turmoil & suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks Socialists & Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins a once-wealthy Russian family as they are forced to come to terms with revolution & a new regime." ...

There will be days when you wonder at & question some of the risks you had to take the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death. In Kiel Harbour 1945
- the war in Europe is at an end. But for Lieutenant Vere Marriott & the men of MGB 801 moored amid a nightmare of devastation it is an uneasy unsettled peace. New assignments ashore & afloat mean fresh tensions & conflicting emotions. For some glory now takes second place to profit. For others revenge at last seems within their grasp. No one is shooting at Marriott now. But dangers come thick & fast
- from confrontation with the Russians to his feelings for Fraulein Geghim. There is more to victory than survival.. .

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Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories images & colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops & mini-skirts strikes & demonstrations Carnaby Street & Kings Road Harold Wilson & Edward Heath Mary Quant & Jean Shrimpton Enoch Powell & Mary Whitehouse Marianne Faithfull & Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich & readable historical narrative Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism & decline. ...

Nothing on the tundra rotted.. . The whole history of human settlement lay exposed there under that big northern sky. There was nowhere here for bones to hide. On Craig Island a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is expert Inuit hunter & guide Edie Kiglatuk; a woman born of this harsh beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists experiencing Arctic life in the raw but when one of the men is shot dead in mysterious circumstances the local Council of Elders in the tiny settlement of Autisaq is keen to dismiss it as an accident. Then two adventurers arrive in Autisaq hoping to search for the remains of the legendary Victorian explorer Sir James Fairfax. The men hire Edie -- whose ancestor Welatok guided Fairfax -- along with Edie's stepson Joe & two parties set off in different directions. Four days later Joe returns to Autisaq frostbitten hypothermic & disoriented to report his man missing. & when things take an even darker turn Edie finds herself heartbroken & facing the greatest challenge of her life.. .'A blazing star of a thriller: vivid tightly-sprung & satisfying on all levels. Encountering Edie Kiglatuk the toughest smartest Arctic heroine since Miss Smilla left me with that rare feeling of privilege you get on meeting extraordinary people in real life. A huge achievement' Liz Jensen author of The Rapture ' Edie is an ingenious & original creation but the most addictive character is the Arctic itself' Sunday Telegraph ...

Since the beginning of time strange & mysterious things have happened here.. . At the furthest edge of Britain where the sea gently washes over the land & myths brush against reality lies Zennor. Set in a churchtown where men become beats & ghosts roam freely these are haunting & unforgettable tales where magic lies around every corner. ...

The Irish Peace Process is about to be blown sky-high & the fates of two governments hang in the balance as the crack team of the THE PRESIDENTS DAUGHTER is reunited in this explosive thriller. New York: a woman waits in the shadows a Colt. 25 in her elegant h&. Her target: Senator Michael Cohan member of an extremist organization dedicated to destroying the peace talks. Run by Britains most wanted terrorist Jack Barry its secret links stretch all the way to the Oval Office. Washington: The President calls Blake Johnson head of secret White House department the Basement. He needs to see him now. London: Brigadier Ferguson of Special Forces brings in the only man who can hold it together & stop all hell breaking loose
- ex-IRA enforcer Sean Dillon their most lethal operative & Jack Barrys deadliest enemy...
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The extraordinary history of the Mediterraneans capital of hedonism
- Ibiza Received wisdom has it that Ibiza is an island of Union
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Los Angeles 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer bagman slum landlord mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence & death will intersect. ...

On a hot summers afternoon Ursula Salter runs sobbing from the loch on her parents Scottish estate & confesses distraught that she has killed Michael her 19-year old-nephew. But what really happened? No body can be found & Ursulas story is full of contradictions. In order to protect her the Salters come up with another version of events a decision that some of them will come to regret. Years later at a family gathering a witness speaks up & the web of deceit begins to unravel. What is the white lie? Only one person knows the whole truth. Narrating from beyond the grave Michael takes us to key moments in the past looping back & back until
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- we see what he sees.

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