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When Jackie travels to the South Downs in search of her childhood home, she uncovers a sinister secret lurking in the family closet. Her estranged brother, Chris, is her last remaining relative, but he has been transformed into something unrecognisable by the ghosts of the past. In her journey to discover the truth, Jackie enters a strange world of free-loving heathens, environmental warriors and sadistic priests, where dragons dwell beneath the streets of northern towns and demons prowl on the edge of Avebury's stone circle. A gothic tale of love, revenge and atonement, Of Bodies Changed is an odyssey through the ancient myths that illustrate the human experience.
Scott Macintosh, the kilted son of a Scots Guards hero soldier, is being hounded by his organic food wielding mother and bully boy Quentin - until his bacon is saved when he lands in Italy and discovers a world of delicious pasta. It's everywhere! - At the Chef school where he endeavours to decipher the Vegetable Quiz. On Acquasnack Day at the water park. But especially at the heart of his newly found home. He is having a feast of an adventure! So when a menace, lurking in his midst, is trying to eradicate at source what he has come to love, he can only but retaliate. It will be a battle! A very Scottish battle, in more ways than one, but with an eco-energy twist to flush out the adversary - and all on Italian soil. He hadn't reckoned on Fairground War Games either! So what will win the final playoff: Brain or Brawn?
If you've been irritated by Richard Dawkins, here's a skeptical look at his most provocative work. If you found his forthright denunciation of religion stimulating, here's an atheist who invites you to notice that The God Delusion isn't science, and that Dawkins' reasoning is weak. Dawkins is convinced that, as a scientist, he's pre-eminently qualified to understand the world, and that if you disagree with him it's probably because you're not smart enough. The author of this book is content to suppose you can think for yourself, and encourages you to do so. The Insulted Trilobite suggests non-believers can, ought to, and need to take a rational view of religion. This book sketches in the personal, psychological, historical and ideological frameworks Dawkins neglects. The tone is occasionally sharp, but it's not polemical. More than just another reply to The God Delusion, this is an entertaining sidelong glance at intellectual dishonesty, self-deception, belief, so-called rationalism, so-called religion, and how we think, talk and argue about the world in which we live.
The scandal that set the Sixties swinging... When Secretary of State for War John Profumo met night-club 'hostess' Christine Keeler, little did they know that their love affair would bring down a government. With a caste featuring high-class call-girls and corrupt politicians, Russian spies and Jamaican drug-dealers, and locations ranging from English country houses to Soho jazz-clubs, this is a tale of sex and espionage and political corruption, a saga of criminal trial, disgrace and suicide for Profumo and the circle that surrounded him. And all they'd ever wanted was a little harmless fun...
LIVING THE DREAM... A sly, sexy and scandalously satirical expose of the celebrity circus. She has been called a slut and a whore. A freak addicted to plastic surgery and self-mutilation. An attention-seeker, obsessed by fame. A gold-digger, a heartbreaker and, yes, the nation's sweetheart. She is both a dumb bimbo and an astute business woman. A female role-model and a national disgrace. Britannia in stilettos and a peephole bra. A Madonna for the new millenium. Pole dancer, glamour model and Britain's most envied WAG, Chastity is all this and more. From Page 3 to rehab to Woman of the Year, this is her story.
When Alan Benton's business falls victim to the recession, he seeks solace in a run-down little house overlooking a remote Cornish fishing village where life, far from the worries of the rest of the world, seems idyllic. Until one day he has to call the Coast Guard.
London, December 1892 - A mist drifts in from the river - on the streets there are gas lamps and Hansom cabs. But there are dirty doings at Sadler's Wells and even dirtier doings on the Royal Train. The Prince of Wales has designs on another man's wife, and visiting Royalty look like getting shot. One way or another, somebody is coming to a sticky, sticky end. The Freemasons are in there somewhere, but what's their interest? Then things really begin to fall apart. The constabulary turn out to be no use at all - and meanwhile the body count is rising - inexorably. Who's going to be the most help: young Charlie Chaplin, Sherlock Holmes, or Mr. Fowler the engine driver? "A Victorian railway caper in a snowstorm: gripping, ruthless, and very funny. An absolutely brilliant book, fantastic fun. Just Read It!"
This is the story of Cellachan, an actual 10th century Irish King and the first O'Callaghan. He fought many bloody and brutal battles to free his people from the grip of Viking oppression. Cellachan's great victories and achievements have lain silent and forgotten in history, but have now been brought to life in the pages of this book. Like all heroes of this world, he deserves to be remembered.
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