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  • Cormac Reilly 2. When DS Cormac Reilly’s girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morning, he is first on the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID, that of Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland’s most successful pharmaceutical company. Darcy Therapeutics has a finger in every pie, from sponsoring university research facilities to funding political parties to philanthropy – it has funded Emma’s own ground-breaking research. The investigation into Carline’s death promises to be high profile and high pressure. As Cormac investigates, evidence mounts that the death is linked to a Darcy laboratory and, increasingly, to Emma herself. Cormac is sure she couldn’t be involved, but how well does he really know her? After all, this isn’t the first time Emma’s been accused of murder...
  • Frank and Allison just wanted a place to settle, a refuge from the memories of their little boy Joey dying so young.  So they bought the old schoolhouse in a small American town, feeling that their need for security, stability and something good and wholesome was satisfied.  Until the ghosts from another time started to invade their daily loves, and the visions from a hundred bizarre and twisted childhoods threatened to turn their lives inside out. Cover art by Danny Flynn.
  • An authoritative  survey and analysis of Asimov's science fiction, offering a unique insight into the themes, stories, characters and settings that have enthralled millions of fans for over thirty years.  Every aspect of Asimov's works is investigated, from the very early shorts, through the Robot series, the Foundation series and the Lucky Starr novels, right up to and including the Gods Themselves.
  • First published in 1910. The author explains that the 'universal mind' underlies and permeates all creation. Through he process of visualisation we can engage the law of attraction - impressing our thoughts on formless substance and bringing the desired object into material form.  To achieve this, it is important that we align ourselves with the positive forces of natural law.  Economic and emotional security can be achieved in a practical and non-competitive way while maintaining a harmonious and loving relationship with all of life. Mr Wattles died in 1911, a very prosperous man.
  • Book IV of Shannara. Three hundred years have passed since the events in The Wishsong of Shannara. The Federation now controls the SOuthland; in the West the Elves have vanished; in the East, the Dwarves are enslaved. Par Ohmsford, descendant of Shea, Wil and Brin has retained some of his magical powers which work in a manner he does not entirely comprehend. Travelling the Southlands with his brother Coll he is troubled by dreams in which Allanon, the mysterious Druid who died during Brin's search for the Ildatch, is calling him. Escaping the Federations Head Seekar, Rimmer Dall, in the city of Varfleet, Par and Coll are taken to safety by a green-clad outlaw who has connections with the Ohmsfords. They fall foul of a malevolent witch-woman who is driven off by an old man named Cogline, another name from the Ohmsfords' past. Cogline tells them of the Shadowen, a deadly peril which now haunts the Four Lands and may lead to their destruction. He summons Par to Hadeshorn to meet the shade of Allanon. Cover art by Keith Parkinson.

  • Book IV of Shannara. Three hundred years have passed since the events in The Wishsong of Shannara. The Federation now controls the Southland; in the West the Elves have vanished; in the East, the Dwarves are enslaved. Par Ohmsford, descendant of Shea, Wil and Brin has retained some of his magical powers which work in a manner he does not entirely comprehend. Travelling the Southlands with his brother Coll he is troubled by dreams in which Allanon, the mysterious Druid who died during Brin's search for the Ildatch, is calling him. Escaping the Federations Head Seekar, Rimmer Dall, in the city of Varfleet, Par and Coll are taken to safety by a green-clad outlaw who has connections with the Ohmsfords. They fall foul of a malevolent witch-woman who is driven off by an old man named Cogline, another name from the Ohmsfords' past. Cogline tells them of the Shadowen, a deadly peril which now haunts the Four Lands and may lead to their destruction. He summons Par to Hadeshorn to meet the shade of Allanon. Cover art by Keith Parkinson.
  • Mean, bitter Mathilda Gillespie has been dead for days: wrists slashed, pills spilled, body in the bath.  It all shouts 'suicide!' but would even mad Mathilda have been crazy enough to force over her own head a scold's bridle - an instrument of punishment, an iron framework that enclosed the head, having a sharp metal bit or gag which entered the mouth and restrained the tongue? That was bad enough but for it to be grotesquely laced with nettles and daisies as well?  A brilliant psycho thriller. Cover shows Miranda Richardson in the BBC-TV series of the same name.
  • Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer - one of the best - until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play. Now Hawthorne has been called out of retirement for one last assignment. For he is the only man alive who can track down the world's most dangerous terrorist. Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly - and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. With the life of the president hanging in the balance, Hawthorne must follow Amaya's serpentine trail to uncover the sinister network who exist to help this consummate killer. And Hawthorne must discover the shattering truth behind the Scorpio Illusion...
  • For centuries, changes in science, historical thinking and philosophy have eroded traditional religious dogma and there was the chance that man could find himself quite alone and without resources except that which he can muster from within.  But there has also been  a new flow of thought as religion breaks free of the outworn, supernatural beliefs that presently stifle it. Based  on a BBC television series.