This hauntingly vivid novel, which takes Andrea Badenoch to a new level of Writing .

'There is a talented writer on show here' Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph

It is 1962. The Beatles have released 'Love Me Do' and John Glenn has orbited the Earth. But in this pit village in County Durham everyone is looking back towards the traditions of the past...
Except, that is, for Gloria, the local hair stylist. With her low block heels and her Mini Cooper, Gloria is a modern woman -until she's found dead, floating in the coal-polluted shallows of a nearby pond.
Gloria's young niece, Kathleen, finds the body but refuses to accept the suicide explanation embraced by the village. Gloria was optimistic and strong - she had everything to live for. So twelve-year-old Kathleen keeps her eyes open, takes photographs with her Box Brownie camera and tries to work out what has happened...
And in doing so embarks upon her own journey of discovery.

The second novel in the Fethering Mysteries series, following The Body on the Beach (Pan paperback).

It wasn't the rain that upset during Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. It wasn't the dilapidated barn in which she was forced to seek shelter. No, what upset her was the human skeleton she discovered there, neatly packed into two blue fertiliser bags . . .
So begins the second investigation for strait-laced Carole and her more laid-back neighbour Jude. This time their enquires take them away from their seaside village of Fethering to the small downland hamlet of Weldisham.
There gossips quickly identify the corpse as Tamsin Lutteridge, a young woman who disappeared from the village months before. Detective Sergeant Baylis will confirm nothing. So why is Tamsin's mother, a friend of Jude's, so certain her daughter is still alive? Why is village elder statesman Graham Forbes suddenly taking an interest in Carole? And why is the decidedly unstable Brian Helling so keen to announce that there is a serial killer on the loose . . . ?
As Jude sets out to find Tamsin - either dead or alive - Carole digs deeper into Weldisham's history and the bitter relationships simmering beneath the village's gentle facade.

"Women, Murder and Justice" examines from a feminist perspective, the legal treatment of women who kill their partners in England. Through an exploration of Crown Prosecution Service files, an in-depth comparative examination of the circumstances in which women and men kill is provided. The book highlights gender differences in the act of murder, the criminal justice system's negotiation of these differences, and the development of feminist strategies to alter the legal structure for women who kill.

A terrorist group comes to England to wage war. Secretly funded by Moscow, trained in subversion and assassination in Italy, its leader is the beautiful Gabriele Schroeder. Nick Ryder of Special Branch is drawn slowly but inexorably into a tangled web of sex, drugs, murder and intrigue.

It's three days before Christmas and the Malworth Amateur Dramatic Society's rehearsal of "Cinderella", scripted by local GP Carl Bignall, is struggling. Then police discover the body of Carl's wife, Estelle. Is Carl a murderer? DCI Lloyd takes charge of the investigation.

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For Rev. Merrily Watkins, as diocesan exorcist, her latest spiritual challenge will unfold in Radnor Forest, a place of ancient mystery and primeval ritual. The trouble starts when Betty and Robin Thorogood buy a farmhouse with a partly ruined church on its land. For their pagan religious practices provoke reaction from the local minister. The scene is now set for a modern witchhunt, and Merrily must tread very carefully in order to keep a lid on this cauldron. It also brings her up against an unexpected psychotic killer, as spiritual and physical conflict threaten to explode at Candlemas -the festival when the witch queen dons her crown of lights to celebrate the end of winter. Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire and lives on the Welsh Border. This is his third novel featuring Rev. Merrily Watkins.

The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanizes anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail of bullets which follows, he knows this is the beginning of a nightmare.

Set in Egypt and following on from River God and The Seventh Scroll, Warlock marks the return of the world's finest adventure writer
The new Egyptian epic . .

Hidden away in the vast and forbidding deserts of North Africa, Taita has passed the years since the death of his beloved Queen Lostris in prayer and study. He has become the Warlock, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods, an adept of magic and the supernatural. Now Taita answers the summons from the beyond. He leaves the desert vastness and returns to the world of men, to find himself plunged into a terrible conflict against the forces of evil which threaten to overwhelm the throne and the realm of Egypt, and to destroy the young prince Nefer, who is the grandson of Queen Lostris. With vivid depictions of battle and intrigue, of love and passion, with fascinating characters both good and evil, Wilbur Smith brings to life in colourful detail the world of ancient Egypt. This is a masterful feat of storytelling by one of the world's bestselling authors. It is Wilbur Smith at the peak of his formidable powers.

Wilbur Smith became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of his first novel, When the Lion Feeds. He is now a critically acclaimed international bestseller having since written twenty-seven novels, meticulously researched on his expeditions across the world. His books are translated into twenty-six languages and published worldwide.

Into the wilds of Natal in the 1870s are born Sean and Garrick Courtney, twin brothers who could not be more different. Fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is promise.

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