Hill s readers met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in "The Various Haunts of Men" and got to know him better in "The Pure in Heart" and "The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence," the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors. A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What, if anything, links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun?With the complexity and character study that earned raves for "The Pure in Heart" and the relentless pacing and plot twists of "The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence" is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form."

The Vows of Silence

Literature & Fiction

HILL, Susan

Contemporary

Overlook

What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome's northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell. Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and British history, in an entirely fresh way: as indelibly marked by how the Romans first imagined and wrote, these strange and exotic islands, perched on the edge of the known world, into existence.

Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain

History

Charlotte Higgins

Ancient Civilizations

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. TRAITOR'S KISS, hardcover, Good, A good, clean and sound copy in dust jacket.

Traitor's Kiss

Seymour,Gerald

Genre Fiction

U.S. reprint of 1938 edition. "Nothing but trouble can ensue when Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia instructs him to stael a silver jug from Totleight Towers, home of magistrate and hell-hound, Sir Watkyn Bassett....." (back cover)

The Code of the Woosters

Wodehouse,P.G.

Humor & Satire

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, A photographic biography of Rand's life. Very good copy.

Ayn Rand

Jeff Britting

The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world. Yet they remain poorly represented in libraries and mainstream media. Since their political inception during the rule of Joseph Stalin, they have experienced tremendous socio-political change. But despite this, the growth of oil wealth, the arrival of Western tourists and businessmen, and the competition for influence by the U.S., China and Russia, the spirit of Central Asia has remained untouched at its core. In this comprehensive up-to-date survey, renowned political writer and historian Dilip Hiro offers a lucid analytical narrative that places the present-day politics, economics and peoples of Central Asia and neighbouring Turkey and Iran into an international context. Given the strategic location of this region, its predominantly Muslim population, and its hydrocarbon and other valuable resources, it is not surprising that this vast expanse of Eurasia is emerging as one of the most potentially influential - and coveted - areas of the globe.

Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran

Dilip Hiro

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Looking beyond the image of the almost superhuman swordsmen promoted in modern film and literature, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors. Through his translations of original samurai tales, laws, dicta, reports and arguments, accompanied by insightful commentary, Sato chronicles the changing ethos of the Japanese warrior from the samurai's historical origins to his rise to political power in the 18th century.

Legends of the Samurai

Sato, Hiroaki

Robin Neillands examines every detail of the bomber campaign against Germany during World War II. He looks at the strengths and fundamental flaws in doctrine; the technical difficulties and developments; and the day-by-day, night-by-night endurance of the crews, flying to the limit in discomfort and danger. The book includes oral history in the shape of personal accounts not only of the British but of Americans, Australians, Canadians and other Allied fliers, and also of German aircrews and civilians.

The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-1945

NEILLANDS, Robin

A novel, together with two novellas, reveals Roth's skill in minute observation and his sensitivity to the tragedy of human life

Hotel Savoy

Joseph-Roth

Literary

A collection of parables--stories with implicit morals--includes the work of Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jerzy Kosinski, Elie Wiesel, Dostoyevski, and Bob Dylan

Imperial Messages: One Hundred Modern Parables

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