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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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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When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim -- a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death. Yet this is no desperate act of anguish but the work of a cold & calculating killer. As Perez investigates he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community. Then another body is found. Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs. But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day & nothing is quite as it seems.. . ...

First published in 1985 White Noise won the National Book Award. It is now regarded as a classic of postmodern literature. Jack Gladney is a pioneering professor in the field of Hitler Studies at the bucolic Midwestern College-on-the-Hill. Married five times he has a brood of children & stepchildren with his current wife Babette. Over the course of an absurd tragic year Jack & Babette will each be forced to confront the question that keeps them awake at night: who will die first? In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning & bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis & Cormac Mc Carthy Alice Sebold & Helen Fielding Graham Swift & Alan Hollinghurst. Years later Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction non-fiction & poetry from across the globe. Discover more at http://www.picador.com/40 ...