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... living far from the frontline, as a historian of war and how societies respond to them, ... and of his death. Deeply moving and thoughtful, The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister ...

... death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first five ... tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England. (Word count ...

... thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that the end of the world has always ... to the modern day, it's a tale of weird cults, failed prophets and bored suburbanites ...

... offers an authentic and multi-faceted presentation of the exceedingly complex and varied history of the Palace of Buda Castle. Are you interested in ...

... secret, learning to dance with his grandmother. In these pages King ... of dancing when every move feels perfect; a serendipitous meeting. King's ability to describe pure joy rivals his ...

... work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming ... adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn ...

... shade, often placing some of his earlier photos in the context of new compositions and thus reinterpreting certain parts of his past. His greatest strength, however ...

... as 'The Valley of Fear'. This is Conan Doyle's last Holmes novel and in the opinion of many of his fans, it is ...

... his new family - his queen, Nadiya, their daughter Ren, and his consort, Alucard.But his ... worlds of The Shades of Magic, The Fragile Threads of Power continues the stories of fan- ...

... be 'a bit of plaster coming off the ceilings of Europe's Chanceries'.Harry Mount has updated his edited collection of the Prime Minister ...

... is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and ...

... . . unless the woman in question is his publicist.Nothing brings him more joy than riling ... ever, he must grapple with the uncertainty of his future - and the realization that the ...

... Ruritania to see the coronation of the new King. His distinctive red hair and long sharp ... the ancestral indiscretion that links his blood with that of the ruling monarchy. There he ...

... Lucia pursues her dream of stardom, Nicky finds his calling in the violent underbelly of the city of dreams. Torn between his love for Lucia ...

... while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succes ...

... as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack.The story records the 'decivilisation ...

... and shrouded the opera house in fear with the legend of his disfigured face. When Christine joins the company, a young woman ...

... dead over the living and psychological explorations of darker human emotion, the collection features some of his most popular tales. 'The Gold-Bug ...

... they win races, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for ... the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his stables, and someone kills his trainer. The ...

... , Jacob Portman returned to Florida, back where his story began. But the discovery of his grandfather's subterranean bunker led to a journey ...

... Mount Olympus. That is until an innocent game of dodgeball turns monstrously ugly. . .Now Camp ... be destroyed.Percy and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their ...

... just an ordinary young man trying to find his own way. But he may yet have ... joins forces with Taishi, his grumpy grandmaster, who instructs him in the ways of her family's powerful ...

... A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get ... pull the strongest man down to his death.A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous ...

... name - and promises to spend the rest of his life searching for her.As Saint's heart ... and the man he becomes - she will shadow his journey, to uncover the truth behind who took him ...

... A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get ... pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an ...