When Reuben otherwise known as Sunshine Boy was sent to write a piece about the uncertain future of the giant house on the cliff he wasnt expecting to warm so instantly to elegant heiress Marchent Nideck. Nor was he expecting to get caught up in a violent attack which will leave him changed in ways he could never have imagined.. . Anne Rices Vampire Chronicles" defined a genre but now she has another age-old story in her sights: the terrifying werewolf legend. The classic monster of horror fiction is here reimagined & reinvented with all Rices supernatural sympathy & inventiveness as a romantic being a potentially tragic figure bestowed with the gift of transformation & transcendence. " The Wolf Gift" is a glorious celebration
- of storytelling of possibility of truths revealed in the half-light. & in " The Wolf Gifts" Reuben we have a brand new hero for a brand new Anne Rice world."
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Man or Monster? Anne Rice reinvented the vampire legend. Discover what she's done with the werewolf myth. After a brutal attack Reuben finds himself changing. His hair is longer his skin is more sensitive & her can hear things he never could before. Now he must confront the beast within him or lose himself completely. ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 ' Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning ' says Thomas More 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues & all the gaolers will owe him money.' England the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust & need comes Thomas Cromwell first as Wolsey's clerk & later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith a political genius a briber a charmer a bully a man with a delicate & deadly expertise in manipulating people & events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament & a king who fluctuates between romantic passions & murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers ' Wolf Hall' is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel one that explores the intersection of individual psychology & wider politics. With a vast array of characters & richly overflowing with incident it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society moulding itself with great passion suffering & courage. ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 & read by Dan Stevens star of TVs Downton Abbey. Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning says Thomas More and when you come back that night hell be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks tongues & all the gaolers will owe him money. England the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust & need comes Thomas Cromwell first as Wolseys clerk & later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith a political genius a briber a charmer a bully a man with a delicate & deadly expertise in manipulating people & events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament & a king who fluctuates between romantic passions & murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel one that explores the intersection of individual psychology & wider politics. With a vast array of characters & richly overflowing with incident it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society moulding itself with great passion & suffering & courage. ...

This title is a winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009. It is a special Edition featuring Exclusive Author Interview on Bonus CD. Tudor Engl&. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell
- a man as ruthlessly ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament & a king who fluctuates between romantic passions & murderous rages. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed.
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Winners of the Man Booker Prize in 2009 & 2012. This elegantly presented double-hardback slipcased set is available for a limited time only. The perfect gift for any book lover. ' Wolf Hall' & ' Bring Up the Bodies' both winners of The Man Booker Prize in 2009 & 2012 respectively are the first two instalments in Hilary Mantel's Tudor trilogy. They have gathered readers & praise in equal & enormous measure. They have been credited with elevating historical fiction to new heights & animating a period of history many thought too well known to be made fresh. Through the eyes & ears of Thomas Cromwell the books' narrative prism we are shown Tudor England the court of King Henry VIII. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith a political genius a briber a charmer a bully a man with a delicate & deadly expertise in manipulating people & events. In ' Wolf Hall' we witness Cromwell's rise beginning as clerk to Cardinal Wolsey Henry's chief advisor charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. He is soon to become his successor. By 1535 when the action of ' Bring Up the Bodies' begins Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn Henry's second wife. Anne's days though are marked. Cromwell watches as the king falls in love with silent plain Jane Seymour sensing what Henry's affection will mean for his queen for England & for himself. ...

It is three hundred years since the world toppled on its axis & civilisation was destroyed. In this savagely reshaped world ruled by brigands & war-makers a rider seeks a lost city. Pursuing a dream to calm the violence in his soul Jon Shannow the brigand slayer desires only peace. But from the Plague Lands emerges a fresh terror. The Lord of the Pit & his hellborn army seek to plunge mankind into a new satanic era. Seemingly invincible they make a fatal mistake. They take Shannows woman for blood sacrifice. & find themselves facing the deadliest warrior of the new age. Jon Shannow
- The Jerusalem Man.
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Grubbs Grady treads new ground in this the eighth dramatic title in the Demonata. But beware
- Trespassers will be eaten! We spot
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The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan & his descendants. 'I am the land & the bones of the hills. I am the winter.' Temujin the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe was only eleven when his father died in an ambush. His family were thrown out of the tribe & left alone without food or shelter to starve to death on the harsh Mongolian plains. It was a rough introduction to his life to a sudden adult world but Temujin survived learning to combat natural & human threats. A man a small family without a tribe was always at risk but he gathered other outsiders to him creating a new tribal identity. It was during some of his worst times that the image of uniting the warring tribes & bringing the silver people together came to him. He will become the khan of the sea of grass Genghis. ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO (The Great Gatsby The Aviator) MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY (Mud Magic Mike) JONAH HILL (Moneyball) JEAN DUJARDIN (The Artist) KYLE CHANDLER (Friday Night Lights Zero Dark Thirty) & JOANNA LUMLEY (Absolutely Fabulous) & ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN BY TERENCE WINTER (Boardwalk Empire). By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could on drugs sex & international globe-trotting. From the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht crashed a Gulfstream jet & ran up a $700 000 hotel tab to the wife & kids who waited for him for at home & the fast-talking hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king & did his bidding here in his own inimitable words is the story of the ill-fated genius they called...THE WOLF OF WALL STREET In the 1990s Jordan Belfort former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street & into a massive office on Long Isl&. In this astounding & hilarious tell-all autobiography Belfort narrates a story of greed power & excess no one could invent
- the story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down.
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