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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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. ...

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. ...

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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As a direct result of the capture of the British steamer City of Baghdads secret code books by the German surface raider Atlantis in July 1940 the Nazis were able to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect. Admiral Doenitz aware of the movements of the Allied convoys marshalled as many of his U-boats as possible. This book describes the resulting appalling Allied losses suffered by four convoys during the Autumn of 1940. The first convoy SC2 consisting of fifty-three merchantmen was attacked in early September by four U-boats. Due to poor weather only five ships were lost. Shortly afterwards HX72 sailing from Nova Scotia lost eleven of its forty-one ships to five Type VIIC U-boats. Top Aces Otto Kretschremer & Joachim Schepke who penetrated inside the columns accounted for nine. No less than nine U-boats attacked SC7 in October 1940. Of thirty-five merchantmen a staggering twenty were lost. Despite being a fast convoy with ten escorts HX79 also fared terribly losing twelve ships. In total forty-eight merchantmen were sunk & seven more damaged without any U-boat losses at all.A superbly researched & authoritative account of the darkest hours of the Battle of the Atlantic The Wolf Packs Gather is a tragic account of unprecedented losses of seamen ships & cargo from these merciless attacks on the four convoys. The Author a much published & distinguished historian & Merchant Navy captain is well qualified to describe not only the German tactics but the inadequacies of the Allied counter-measures. ...

Alone in the world Sophie dreams of being someone special but she could never have imagined this. On a school trip to Russia Sophie & her two friends find themselves on the wrong train. They are rescued by the beautiful Princess Anna Volkonskaya who takes them to her winter palace & mesmerises them with stories of lost diamonds & a tragic past. But as night falls & wolves prowl Sophie discovers more than dreams in the crumbling palace of secrets. ...