\'At first glance it could have been anything - a stone, a knotted root - until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand...\'. It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk\'s teenage victims. Which left just

Frankenstein

Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.A thousand-storey tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible - if you want it enough.A hundred years in the future, New York\'s elite of the super-tower lie, backstab and betray each other to find their place at the top of the world. Everyone wants something... and everyone has something to lose.As the privileged inhabitants

Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Lady of the Rivers (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory\'s Cousins\' War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two historians, leading experts in their field who helped Philippa to research the novels, tell the

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures

*Imagine scuba diving near the Florida coast and suddenly getting sucked into the huge pump of a nuclear power plant! *Or picking up a newspaper and seeing a photograph of a pair of twins who look exactly like you! *Or writing love letters to someone every day for a year only to see that person marry the mail carrier? These stories and more -- humorous, poignant, astounding -- and all true! True Stories

By night, Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl, by day, she raises peacocks. Despite being faced by fewer and fewer job opportunities, she maintains a calm cheerfulness. But while Harmony\'s star is fading, her daughter Pepper\'s is on the rise.

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The cliches of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara,

From stopwatches and alarms, to world clocks and calendar functions, to tourbillons that counter the effects of gravity, these so-called complications have been the crowning glory of fine watchmaking for centuries. The Watch Book - More than Time is an illustrated compendium of watchmaking that explores these most intricate elements of the horologist\'s craft through timing, astronomy, and striking.

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The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - \'A first-class storyteller\' The Times Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome - English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose\'s calm, organized lifeis shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects,could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose\'s beloved scientific rationalism, threaten

Due to the functions it houses, the bathroom must respond to a set of highly specific characteristics, making it one of the most complex spaces in the home. The layout options of this space are infinite and this book presents a vast selection of bathrooms chosen for their quality and originality, and designed by prestigious architects and interior designers. They are showcased through seven different

Classic favorites get a modern Latino twist The itsy aranita climbed up the water spout. Down came la lluvia and washed la arana out. Classic Mother Goose rhymes get a Latino twist in this cozy collection. From young Juan Ramon sitting in el rincon to three little gatitos who lost their mitoncitos, readers will be delighted to see familiar characters in vibrant, luminous scenes brimming with fanciful

For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it \'the keystone of European art\', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic \'miracle\'. Ross King\'s Leonardo and the Last Supper is both a \'biography\'

Comment le Pre Noël donnerait-il le sein l\'Enfant Jésus ? L\'Ogre du Petit Poucet était-il un hippie ? Un nain peut-il devenir un surhomme ? Est-il possible de tuer avec un appareil de photographie ? Le citron donne-t-il un avant-got du néant ? A ces questions - et bien d\'autres plus graves et plus folles encore - ce livre répond par des histoires drôles, navrantes, exaltantes et toujours exempl

Wisdom comes with living a long life, full of rich experiences and can\'t be learnt, right? Wrong. In the Textbook of Wisdom bestselling author Edward De Bono (Lateral Thinking, Serious Creativity) explains how you do not have to have lived forever to benefit from the experience of those who have. Full of thinking tools guidelines and principles this `textbook\' encourages the use of values and emotions

Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers. A blind intruder visits a dying man - and saves his life, with a kiss. A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her late husband. In the emotional aftermath of her baby\'s sudden death,