In Rome, 110BC, upstart military genius Gaius Marius marries the daughter of aristocrat Gaius Julius. Three years later her wayward sister marries the attractive, ambitious but unsuitable Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This book unfolds a tale of intrigue and ambition interwoven with passion. View More...
Connie Brockway "draws readers into the breathtaking love story of a dashing Scotsman who is duty bound to protect the one woman who incites in him a wild passion. How exactly can he save her from himself?" By day, celebrated beauty Helena Nash works as a proper companion to one of London's most disagreeable ladies. By night she acts as an illicit messenger between two separated lovers. Masked and disguised, she falls into the path of a shadowy stalker. Fearing for her safety but unwilling to halt her nocturnal forays, Helena seeks out Ramsey Munro -- one of three men who pledged years earlier... View More...
"Ye cannot kill the devil", whispered the throng at the hanging of the notorious Diablo. Moments later the pirate had escaped the noose and abducted Lady Devon, whisking her aboard his ship. Infuriated, Devon swears she will have nothing to do with her captor. But long days at sea and even longer nights beneath the stars bring Devon ever closer to surrender. View More...
He rode into Chirk Castle on his pure black destrier. Clad in black from his gleaming helm to the tips of his toes, he was all battle-honed muscles and rippling tendons. In his stark black armor he looked lethal and sinister, every bit as dangerous as his name implied. He was a man renowned for his courage and strength, for his prowess with women, for his ruthless skill in combat.But when he saw Raven of Chirk, with her long, chestnut tresses and womanly curves, he could barely contain his embroiled emotions. For it was her betrayal twelve years before that had turned him from chivalrous youth... View More...
Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major new introduction to the study of categorization, looking especially at links between categorization in cognitive and social psychology.In a highly readable and accessible style, the author covers all the main approaches to categorization in social psychology that a student might come across, including: biased stimulus processing, construct activiation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation//contrast approaches. It is a wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social psyc... View More...
Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed. If DS Rachel Narey could only work out the key to the seemingly random murders, how and why the killer selects his victims, she would be well on her way to catching him. But as the police, the press and a thr... View More...
The new international bestselling thriller from the master of the genre explores the threat of organised crime in Russia. Craig Thomas is the author of the huge bestsellers Firefox, Firefox Down, and Winter Hawk. A thriller set in America and Siberia, about the corrupting power of the gangsters and the foreign investors who rule the new Russia. View More...
The new international bestselling thriller from the master of the genre explores the threat of organised crime in Russia. Craig Thomas is the author of the huge bestsellers Firefox, Firefox Down, and Winter Hawk. A thriller set in America and Siberia, about the corrupting power of the gangsters and the foreign investors who rule the new Russia. View More...
Many dubbed "The Blair Witch Project" as the most frightening film they had ever seen. The text is a dossier containing newspaper cuttings about the students' disappearance, police notes, notes found with the film and extracts from their journal. View More...
Disaster has struck Fairyland! Jack Frost has stolen all the jewels from Queen Titania's crown. Without them, the fairies are losing their magical powers. Rachel and Kirsty have to help India the Moonstone Fairy, Scarlett the Garnet Fairy, Emily the Emerald Fairy, Chloe the Topaz Fairy, Amy the Amethyst Fairy, Sophie the Sapphire Fairy, and Lucy the Diamond Fairy to get the jewels back, before it's too late...in this exciting adventure Amy's amethyst needs to be found, but can Rachel and Kirsty reach it before the pesky goblins get their warty hands on it...? View More...
Mean Jack Frost has stolen the seven Fairyland Fun Day Flags from the Fun Day Fairies! In this book, Rachel and Kirsty must make sure that the naughty goblins don't get their hands on Freya's flag, or Fridays will be ruined forever... View More...
The Dance Fairies must rescue their magic dance ribbons - otherwise dancing everywhere will be ruined for ever! It's the day of Kirsty's school disco! But Jade the Disco Fairy's magic ribbon is still missing, and without it the disco is going to be a complete disaster. Kirsty and Rachel need a plan, and fast! About the Author Daisy Meadows is the pseudonym used for the four writers of the Rainbow Magic children's series: Narinder Dhami, Sue Bentley, Linda Chapman, and Sue Mongredien. Rainbow Magic features differing groups of fairies as main characters, including the Jewel fairies, Weath... View More...
Rachel and Kirsty and their families meet on the ferry, on the way to Rainspell Island for a holiday. The girls are sure they'll have lots of adventures together, especially as Rainspell Island seems almost magical. But when they go on a hunt, the first day, for the end of a rainbow neither of them really expects for find a pot at the end of it. Especially not one with a ruby red fairy trapped inside! And so begin Rachel and Kirsty's adventure to find the seven Rainbow Fairies, banished by the evil Jack Frost, and restore colour to Fairyland. About the Author: Daisy Meadows is the pseudony... View More...
Stella the Star Fairy is all in a flutter, trying to put the sparkle into Christmas. Stella looks after all the special Christmas lights - from the overhead illuminations,to the Christmas tree fairy lights, right through to the twinkling stars. Three magic Christmas baubles control all of these elements but now Jack Frost's goblins have stolen them. There's not going to be any Christmas atmosphere and Santa won't even be able to guide his sleigh through the night sky. Stella the Star Fairy needs Rachel and Kirsty's help to get the baubles back. View More...
Naughty Jack Frost has stolen the seven Fairyland Fun Day Flags! In this book, Thea the Thursday Fairy needs Kirsty's and Rachel's help to rescue her flag from an aquarium...but the girls must watch out for the sharks! View More...
Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire of the bitch eat bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected romantic heart. Welcome to the noughties. Can you take it? She's at the top of her profession, but Jo's social life is as much a game of survival as her work. This is London in 2001, where if you call your boyfriend on his mobile, you have to disguise your number or he won't pick up -- he's always expecting someone more important to ring. Where your best friends think nothing of cancelling at the last minute, ten times in a row. Where commitment is a 'pencilled opt... View More...
Following on from the author's previous novel "Shadows of Steel", this thriller tells of a US secret strike force being sent to newly independent Taiwan to protect it from the invading Chinese. View More...
CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. In a breathtaking race against time, Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decipher a labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols if he is to defeat those responsible - the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years, reborn to continue their deadly vendetta aga... View More...
CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. In a breathtaking race against time, Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decipher a labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols if he is to defeat those responsible - the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years, reborn to continue their deadly vendetta aga... View More...
Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father's main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack the huge amount of NASA funding. Rachel is barely on speaking terms with her father, believing him to be totally corrupt, but is still worried she is being used by the President when he asks her to verify an amazing find by NASA, a find which will settle the arguments about NASA funding for ever. Reluctantly agreeing to view the find Rachel i... View More...