By the spring of 1645 civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon Engl&. Disease was rife apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies & idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women suspected of witchcraft triggering the most brutal witch-hunt in English history. Witchfinders is a spellbinding study of how Matthew Hopkins the Witchfinder General & John Stearne extended their campaign across East Anglia driven by godly zeal. Exploiting the anxiety & lawlessness of the times & cheered on by ordinary folk they extracted confessions of satanic pacts resulting in scores of executions. ...

On the veranda of a great New Orleans house now faded a mute & fragile woman sits rocking. & the witching hour begins... Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling & the creation of legend Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches
- a family given to poetry & incest to murder & philosophy a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful dangerous & seductive being. A hypnotic novel of witchcraft & the occult across four centuries by the spellbinding bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles.
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A troubled peace with France means that in the harbours & estuaries around England the royal fleet has been left to rot. Even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his pride & visit the Admiralty daily to plead for a ship. As the clouds of war begin to rise once more over the Channel he has no choice but to accept an appointment to the Nore. With his small flotilla of three topsail cutters Bolitho sets out to search the coast for seamen who have fled the harsh discipline of His Majesty's Navy for the more tempting rewards of smuggling. But the ' Brotherhood' he comes up against are brutal & dangerous with a secret sinister trade in human misery. Treason is never far distant & murder commonplace. So when a King's ransom is in peril & Bolitho is ordered to proceed 'with all despatch' to recover it he will need all the loyalty & courage of his three gallant cutters if he is to fulfil his mission. ...

On a crystal clear Mediterranean day Briony Mc Allister sits playing with her four-year-old daughter Katie while she waits for her mother Valerie to join them. Valerie has recently moved to a picturesque town in southern Spain to finally leave behind her turbulent past & find a peace that has always eluded her. Briony has no idea that in a few moments' time her relationship with her mother will change irrevocably. As Katie plays Briony pulls from her bag an old photo album found in a box in her mother's new home. As she begins to study the faded photos a letter falls to the ground. It is addressed to her. My Darling Briony it begins. As Briony reads the words with mounting shock realisation dawns. Her mother lied to her about what happened with her beloved grandmother Tessa all those years ago
- & denied Briony that most precious of relationships the type of relationship Valerie now enjoys with Katie. The lives of three generations of women are set to change forever as the past is revisited & the truth unfolds through the undelivered letters Tessa wrote to Briony over the years. Secrets lies betrayals & sacrifices
- the complex bonds between mothers daughters & granddaughters are intricately explored as Patricia Scanlan takes us into the hearts & homes of a family at war.

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KAYLEE CAVANAUGH's Taking her final STAND! After spending the last year undead Kaylee has had enough of the paranormal creatures who have plagued her ever since she came into her banshee powers. Now she's ready to take her school back from the evil hellions once & forever. To protect her friends Kaylee will need to find a way to turn the living incarnations of Avarice Envy & Vanity against one another. Yet when one more person close to her is taken Kaylee realises she can't save everyone she loves without making some powerful sacrifices...' Vincent is a welcome addition to the genre' Kelley Armstrong SOUL SCREAMERS The last thing you hear before you die ...

This delicately decorated single card has the message &8216; With Deepest Sympathy at this sad time Thinking of you With Love&8217; in silver on a white background next to an illustration of flowers in silver pink & blue with sparkles. This card is blank inside for your own message & comes with a cream envelope ready for posting Approximate dimensions: 14 x 14cm Not suitable for children under 3 years contains small parts which may cause a choking hazard. ...

A sparkling novel about the BBC ' Songs of Praise' team recording a Palm Sunday broadcast from a small idyllic Suffolk village. As the outside broadcast vehicles roll in ambitions & emotions run high. Producer Jan Harding finds the vicar Clive Linton hopelessly absent-minded. His practical wife Helen gets on well with the television team
- perhaps a little too well where the charming enigmatic Michael is concerned. Charles the Parish Council chairman is deeply opposed & resents the enthusiasm of other villagers
- including his wife Betty. Bunty Maddocks queen of every local committee plots to get round the ban on church flowers during Lent; retired accountant Jack Diggens finds purpose faith & friendship as he plans tickets & seating; & teenage soloist Anna surprises herself with her success. This delightful story will make you laugh & cry.

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Heinz Linge worked with Adolf Hitler for a ten-year period from 1935 until the Fuhrer's death in the Berlin bunker in May 1945. He was one of the last to leave the bunker & was responsible for guarding the door while Hitler killed himself. During his years of service Linge was responsible for all aspects of Hitler's household & was constantly by his side. He claims that only Eva Braun stood closer to Hitler over these years. Through a host of anecdotes & observations Linge recounts the daily routine in Hitler's household; his eating habits his foibles his preferences his sense of humour & his private life with Eva Braun. In fact Linge believed Hitler's closest companion was his dog Blondi. After the war Linge said in an interview 'it was easier for him to sign a death warrant for an officer on the front than to swallow bad news about the health of his dog'. Linge also charts the changes in Hitler's character & his fading health from around 1942. During his last days Hitler's right eye began to hurt intensely & Linge was responsible for administering cocaine drops to kill the pain. In a number of instances
- such as with the Stauffenberg bomb plot of July 1944
- Linge gives an excellent eyewitness account of events. He also gives thumbnail profiles of the prominent members of Hitler's 'court': Hess Speer Bormann & Ribbentrop amongst them.

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Can the imperfect family really have the perfect Christmas? Juliet Joyce adores Christmas. She loves the presents the tree the turkey the tinsel everything. Already the festive spirit is upon her which is just as well as this Christmas things are starting to get out of h&. Her son Tom is out of work & bringing home a slew of unsuitable partners; pregnant daughter Chloe & her little boy have moved back in; Juliets father Frank is getting over a heartbreak of his own & Rita her eccentric mother is behaving more erratically each day. & has the chaos got too much for Juliets husband Rick? With the big day fast approaching Juliet hopes that she can stop everything spiralling out of control because the only thing she wants is her family all around her & her home to be filled WITH LOVE AT CHRISTMAS. ...

This beautifully decorated card has the message ‘ With love on Our Anniversary in gold lettering above a 3D illustration of love birds & a silver heart embellished with ribbons & sparkles. Greeting inside reads ‘ All my love on our Special day’ & the card

Includes:: an envelope for posting.

Approximate dimensions: 11.5 x 22.5cm

Not suitable for children under 3 years contains small parts which may cause a choking hazard.





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