ARTHUR C. CLARKE"S A-Z OF MYSTERIES: From Atlantis to Zombies

Religion & Spirituality

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Simon Welfare

John Fairley

Occult & Paranormal

HARPERCOLLINS PUB.

On the planet of Elsewhere, the Council had  always enforced the governing of each province in  the manner the people had chosen, so long as each  respected its neighbors' local customs--and so long  as the people remained within their homelands.  Generations later, inhabitants have begun to question  this tradition. The Council has received  mysterious messages and reports of strange manifestations  across the planet. Now, Enforcer Fringe Owldark has  been sent with a small crew of seven, each  possessing an unusual talent, to investigate their worst  fear--the arrival of the Hobbs Land gods. Free will  and the reality of God are just too of the  timeless issues this courageous band of humans must  confront as they strive to decide if complete tolerance  and leaving others alone is evil. . .and what they  should do if it is. Vividly imagined and  exquisitely rendered, Sideshow is Sheri S. Tepper's most  controversial novel yet.

Sideshow

Science Fiction & Fantasy

TEPPER, Sheri S.

Fantasy

Where You Belong - 2000 publication.

Literature & Fiction

BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORT

Contemporary

A powerful biography of Spain's great king, Juan Carlos. How did a playful, moody young prince, educated to sustain Franco's dicatorship, mature into the skilful, calm and brave king who defended Spain's infant democracy from siege and then nurtured it into health? It's a fascinating story, given definitively here in this gripping portrait. There are two central mysteries in the life of Juan Carlos, one personal, the other political. How to explain the apparent serenity with which he accepted that his father had surrendered him, to all intents and purposes, into the safekeeping of the Franco regime? In any normal family, this would have been considered a kind of cruelty or, at the very least, baleful negligence. But a royal family can never be normal, and the decision to send the young Juan Carlos away from Spain was governed by a certain 'superior' dynastic logic. The second mystery lies in how a prince raised in a family with the strictest authoritarian tradtiions, obliged to conform to the Francoist norms during his youth and early manhood, and educated to be a cornerstone of the plans for the reinforcement of the dictatorship, sided, when he had to, so emphatically and courageously with democratic principles. Paul Preston -- who has thrown more light onto the sometimes inspiring, often shameful, always eventful history of Spain in the twentieth century than any other living commentator -- has set out to address these mysteries and in so doing written perhaps the definitive biography of King Juan Carlos. He tackles the king's turbulent relationship with his father, his cloistered education and his resistance to it, his bravery in opposing the attempt to overthrow the infant democracy a few years after Franco's death, and his immense hard work in consolidating parliamentary democracy in Spain. The resultant biography is both rigorous and riveting, its vibrant prose doing justice to its vibrant subject. It is a book fit for a king.

Juan Carlos

PAUL PRESTON

Biographies & Memoirs

A guide to the House of Lords which offers an architectural and historical appreciation of the Upper House. It looks at its design and its traditions and procedures such as the Lord Chancellor's Procession, the Woolsack. It also views the history as the Victorians saw it.

Inside the House of Lords

Politics & Social Sciences

DERRY MOORE

Politics & Government

Forbidden Knowledge

1st edition 1st printing paperback, vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Stephen R. Donaldson

High in mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. It is not the historic castle, however, that intrigues Roderick Alleyn, on holiday with his family, but the suspicion that a huge drugs ring operates from within its ancient portals.  But before the holiday is over, someone else has stumbled upon the secret. And Mr Oberon decides his strange and terrible rituals require a human sacrifice

Spinsters in Jeopardy

NGAIO MARSH

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

This is a critical biography of one of the 20th century's greatest architects. At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial masterpieces of modern architecture, that were as exotic as they were outrageous. A precurser to the other great Catalan artists such as Picasso, Dali and Bunuel, Gaudi created dramatically original and daring art that was to surpass and reinvent all that had gone before.

Gaudi

Arts & Photography

GIJS VAN HENSBERGEN

History & Criticism

THE HIDDEN CONNECTIONS: A SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING

The Hidden Connections : A Science for Sustainable Living

Business & Money

FRITJOF CAPRA

Economics

C. S. LewisAll seven stories from The Chronicles of Narnia together in one slipcase. The illustrations in these books have been coloured by the original artist, Paulinbe Baynes. The slipcase uses 2 covers from the original designs by Pauline Baynes. The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain

The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set

Children's Books

C.S.LEWIS

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