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 ...

There is an old joke among skiers usually put to other fans of the sport as a question: whats better sex or skiing? The answer is a given but the hesitation in answering that moment of serious consideration is cause for humour. Extreme skiers get it. They know skiing isnt just a sport; its a lifestyle one inextricably bound up in the notion of adventure. This book is all about that adventure that call to some of the worlds best known & unknown slopes. Its about downhill racing & the sophisticated international club of competitors & the upstarts who occasionally beat them. Throughout this book are skiings stars such as Bode Miller Stein Erickson & Jean-Claude Killy. This is a book about riding on the edge of danger & surviving it about the thrill & focus of competition & the thrill of rescue. It is a book of people; some quirky some delightful some strange some just plain crazy but all of them drawn to White Heat the extreme skiing life. ...

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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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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Told with Lemmy's indomitable charisma & humour this is the autobiography of a rock icon who over the past thirty years in the industry has stayed true to his music his fans & his pleasures. Lemmy was born Ian Fraser Kilmister in 1945 the son of a vicar who walked out on his mother when Lemmy was just three months old. Having been inspired to play the guitar by Chicks Little Richard & Buddy Holly Lemmy formed what would become the ultimate metal group in 1975 & christened them Motorhead. The group went on to embrace a rock-&-roll lifestyle fuelled by drink drugs & women & in the process released twenty-one albums & attracted a huge following. WHITE LINE FEVER is a truly headbanging tour through the last few decades of speedmetal offering a sometimes hilarious often outrageous but highly entertaining trip with the frontman of the loudest rock band in the world. ...

In 1992 in peaceful Southern Sweden a young housewife a pillar of the Methodist church disappears & Inspector Kurt Wallander & his team are called in to investigate. But he soon discovers that the chain of events leading to her disappearance began far away in South African where Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom setting in train South Africas painful journey towards the end of Apartheid. Wallanders team find themselves caught up in a complex web involving renegade members of the South African secret service & a ruthless ex-KGB agent all determined to halt Nelson Mandelas rise to power. Faced with an increasingly globalised world in which international terrorism knows no national borders Wallander & his South African colleagues must prevent a crime that would change the face of history. ...

Just before 3am on January 24th 1941 when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz the body of Josslyn Hay Earl of Erroll was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenyas colonial community the Earl had recently been appointed Military Secretary but he was primarily a seducer of other mens wives. Sir Henry Delves Broughton whose wife was Errolls current conquest had an obvious motive for the murder but no one was ever convicted & the question of who killed him became a classic mystery a scandal & cause celebre. Among those who became fascinated with the Erroll case was Cyril Connolly who joined up with James Fox for a major investigation of the case in 1969 for the Sunday Times magazine. After his death James Fox inherited the obsession & a commitment to continue in pursuit of the story both in England & Kenya in the late 1970s. One day on a veranda overlooking the Indian Ocean Fox came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments & pieces together & convinced him that he saw a complete picture... ...

White Mughals is the romantic & ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural religious & political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa
- Most Excellent among Women
- the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. He fell in love with her & overcame many obstacles to marry her converting to Islam & according to Indian sources becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company. It is a remarkable story but such things were not unknown: from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny the white Mughals who wore local dress & adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations. Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as Hindoo Stuart who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols & Sir David Auchterlony who took all 13 of his Indian wives out for evening promenades each on the back of her own elephant. In White Mughals William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history & places at its centre a compelling tale of seduction & betrayal.

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