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17 Oct 2012, 08:35 AM | Post: #11

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A Place of Strangers by Geoffrey Seed- Free 17 and 18 October

When a successful TV journalist returns for Christmas to the decaying Tudor mansion where his step-parents live something is not right. Approaching death, they are reserved and enigmatic, as if they are determined to take one last secret with them to the grave.

He suspects that they have lied to him about who his real parents were – and what happened to them.

And so begins an investigation that will reveal his past – and determine his future.

As he digs deeper, he starts to uncover a terrifying conspiracy – one of murder and revenge, with its roots in the greatest crime in history, the Holocaust.

Inspired by a story Geoffrey Seed investigated as a journalist, ‘A Place of Strangers’ is a stunning, literary thriller that combines history and suspense. It will appeal to followers of writers such as Robert Harris, Alan Furst and Alan Judd.

"Intelligent, seamless and satisfyingly complex with a whiff of Le Carré." - Patrick Malahide.

Geoffrey Seed is a journalist who worked for the Daily Mail and then specialised in producing major TV investigations for programmes such as World In Action and Panorama. ‘A Place of Strangers’ is his first novel.

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17 Oct 2012, 08:36 AM | Post: #12

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Hacked to Death by James Robinson- Free 17 + 18 October

“McIntosh needs to be rubbed out.”

After hacking thousands of private phone messages, it was the one message Dan McIntosh never expected to hear. The order for his own execution.

The trouble is this.

McIntosh can think of a lot of people who'd like to see him die.

Preferably very nastily.

A former footballer, turned phone hacker for the tabloids, McIntosh is caught up in a corrupt world of ruthless hacks, bent coppers, fading celebrities and brutal gangsters. Lies are traded like banknotes, and nobody is what they appear to be.

With his own life on the line, he will need all his wiles to survive - otherwise he will be literally Hacked To Death.

'A gritty and relevant thriller that gets as painfully close to the truth as it dares' - Scott Griffin, best-selling author of The Donor and The Benefactor.

James Robinson covered the phone-hacking story for The Guardian, and has used his knowledge of the technology and techniques of eves-dropping on mobile phones to create a compelling crime story inspired by real events.

James Robinson is a journalist and author.

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17 Oct 2012, 08:37 AM | Post: #13

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The Instant Guide to Windows 8 by Ian Barker- Free 17 + 18 October

Windows 8 is the biggest overhaul of the world's most popular operating system since Windows 95. Everyone who uses a personal computer will have to get to grips with it.

But should you invest time and money in an upgrade?

And if you are faced with the system pre-installed, how will you navigate your way around new commands, or make the best of its new features?

The Instant Guide to Windows 8 is a simple accessible guide that tells you everything you need to know about how to get the best out of your software.

Leading technology writer Ian Barker details the changes and updates in the new system, explaining how Windows 8 operates differently from earlier versions of Windows - and how it works alongside existing software.

You can use the book both as a step-by-step guide taking you right from the installation to how to make the most of multimedia, and also as a useful resource for more specific questions. The chapter breakdowns make the answers to every question easy to find.

The Instant Guide to Windows 8 includes chapters on:

What’s new?
Installing Windows 8
Start menu and apps
Charms and settings
The desktop
Ease of access
Power management
Networks and Internet
Safety and security
System maintenance
Multimedia
Hints and tips
Useful keyboard short cuts

It is the easy, one-stop guide every Windows user needs, whether they are an IT Professional or a home user.

Ian Barker spent almost 20 years in IT before he discovered that writing about computers was easier than fixing them. He is a former editor of PC Tools and PC Utilities magazines and has contributed to many other titles and websites.

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24 Oct 2012, 08:42 AM | Post: #14

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The War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front by Nigel Jones- FREE 24/25-

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At the battle of Ypres in 1915, Nigel Jones's uncle - Rifleman Ernest David Jones - was killed in action. His father - Frank Hazell Jones - served on Field Marshal Haig's staff. As a boy, he grew up with stories of the horrors and triumphs of the First World War. And a determination to know more about the places where his family fought and died.

'The War Walk' describes his pilgrimage to the battlefields of the Western Front. In a compelling blend of history, travel and personal anecdotes from some of the last surviving veterans of the First World War, he follows the old trench networks from the Belgian coast to the Swiss frontier, bringing each battlefield to life with vivid eyewitness testimony.

'The War Walk' is the essential guide to the battlefields, both for those who have family buried there, or for anyone finding out more about the most momentous conflict of European history.

Nigel Jones is a British historian, journalist and biographer.

Praise for Nigel's book 'The Tower':

In writing about the Tower's glory days, Nigel Jones has produced a wonderfully rollicking history of England itself. Told with relish, it should be a godsend to any history teacher who needs to hold the attention of his pupils (Daily Mail )

A breezy account of the Tower's past is full of surprises . . . Nigel Jones knows how to tell a tale with just enough detail to make the story work in any period since the 11th century . . . thrilling history (Sunday Telegraph )

Much as I love books on Britain's past, it is a long time since I found one which enthralled me as much as the 400 pages of this volume. Jones tells the colourful story in an equally lively fashion, and the two sections of black and white plates, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the Krays, are well chosen. An epic history - and an epic read indeed (Bookbag )

In the hands of Nigel Jones we have an excellent contemporary guide, providing the right mix of scholarship and storytelling, insight and narrative pace, to offer a cracking history of the Tower. (Sunday Express )

Jones weaves yarns from the Tower's past into the familiar tapestry of English history. His prose is dashing (Times Literary Supplement )

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24 Oct 2012, 08:47 AM | Post: #15

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Blue Murder (A Classic Cold War Thriller)- FREE 24/25 OCT

“Our line of work? If it was a department store, you’d go straight through Military, turn left at Espionage, and you’d find us on the right, just past Crime.”

Meet Yokel and Kit, the two most maverick spies ever to work on the payroll of British intelligence. Members of the Unit, a top-secret, black-ops team working behind the most dangerous lines of the Cold War, they are sent into East Germany, at the height of mid-1980s hostilities between the mighty powers of East and West.

But the mission goes horribly wrong and they find themselves thrown into a conspiracy of terrifying proportions. Abandoned and alone, they must fight, not only to finish the job, but also for their own survival.

Stretching from Germany's Harz Mountains, to the brothels of Bangkok, to the mean streets of London's East End, the two men race into a hair-raising global journey that will keep the reader gripped from the first page to the last.

Colin Dunne’s classic Cold War thriller is a master-class of light-touch thriller writing that combines the pace and tension of Jack Higgins with the wit and intelligence of Len Deighton and the sophistication and style of Ian Fleming.

Colin Dunne’s writing has been widely praised.

'Cleverly plotted and genuinely witty’ (Jack Higgins)

‘Crisp characters, amazing pace, every low punch in the book on target’
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‘Sharp, funny and stylish’ (Yorkshire Post)

Colin Dunne is a leading journalist for papers such as the Daily Mail and author of the best-selling Black Ice and Red Alert.

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24 Oct 2012, 08:48 AM | Post: #16

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Ceremony of Innocence by Humphrey Hawksley- FREE 24/25- THRILLER

Mike McKillop was once a respected Hong Kong policeman. But now, living alone after his Chinese wife disappeared to the mainland with their two children, he is a pen-pusher, wallowing in alcoholic self-pity.

He thinks the glory days are long over.

But the past is about to catch up with him.

In Beijing for an international conference on corruption, McKillop receives a call from Clem Watkins, a CIA pal he hasn't seen since the night his best friend was murdered years earlier.

Watkins warns him that there is something is happening at Heshui, a secret missile base near the Korean border.

McKillop is suddenly thrown into a vast conspiracy, involving the British, Chinese and US intelligence agencies. A deadly game of geo-political chess is about to unfold - in which no one is innocent.

And McKillop will have to learn how to be a policeman again - if he is to stay alive, and save the family he lost years ago.

'Ceremony of Innocence' is a stunning, thought-provoking, action-packed thriller that draws on Humphrey Hawksley's years of experience as an Asian correspondent for the BBC to draw a terrifying portrait of Chinese power politics.

It is perfect for fans of Lee Child, Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth and Robert Harris.

Ceremony of Innocence has been brilliantly reviewed.

'A gripping story, told with great imagination, but also with the knowledge and authority that one rarely sees in such thrillers.' - Jon Swain, Sunday Times

'Provocative and topical' -- The Daily Telegraph

'Exotic settings...exciting thriller fare...a tense climax.' - Phillip Knightley, The Mail-on-Sunday

'A complex and convincing thriller ....an intriguing, if violent, vision of the near future.' - The New Scientist

'The scariest milieu since the Cold War washed out.' - Kirkus Associates

'Packed with authentic details... keeps suspense levels high.' - Publisher's Weekly

'Humphrey Hawksley is one of only a handful of writers taking the thriller in important new directions.' - Craig Thomas

Humphrey Hawksley has been a BBC correspondent specialising in Asia for many years, and has reported from troublespots such as Kosovo and Iraq. In the 19980s he was in India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka - from where he was expelled while covering the Tamil war. From 1990 he was based in Hong Kong and in 1994 moved to Beijing to open the BBC's first television bureau in China.

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24 Oct 2012, 08:49 AM | Post: #17

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Adele: To Make You Feel Her Love- Neil Simpson- FREE 24/25

Adele is the greatest singer of our times. Her album 21 is the biggest selling record of the century so far clocking up an incredible 24 million sales globally.

From a cramped flat in London to the Grammys in Los Angeles, Adele's golden voice, her catchy hits, and her irrepressible personality have taken the world by storm.

But who is the woman behind the songs?

What struggles and heartbreaks inspired the music that moved the world to tears - and bought it to its feet?

And now that she seems to have finally found happiness with her new partner, and with the baby boy she gave birth to in October 2012, can she still find the passion that made her the artist who conquered the entertainment industry?

In this brilliant, insightful biography Neil Simpson takes the reader inside Adele's world. He details her childhood, her early attempts to break into the music business, the tempestuous relationships that inspired some of her greatest songs and the months of painstaking work that went into the albums the defined her.

This is the real Adele - unvarnished and close-up.

And the book has been updated to include the birth of her baby boy - and to examine what kind of mother Adele will be, and what impact it will have on her incredible creativity.

'Adele: To Make You Feel Her Love' is the one book every Adele fan will want to read.

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31 Oct 2012, 09:26 AM | Post: #18

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Dazzling romantic comedy, Life as a modern-day actor : A Distant Prospect FREE 31st

It is spring at London's National Theatre. Riley Johnson, a charismatic young actor, is rehearsing a role in a challenging play.

But Riley's life is falling apart.

His debts are crippling.

His relationship is a mess.

And the production is in trouble.

As the play’s opening night approaches, happiness and success seem a distant prospect. But when he’s offered the leading role in a new film Riley senses this, at last, might be his big break...

‘A Distant Prospect’ is an eye-opening and entertaining depiction of the harsh realities of life as a modern-day professional actor. A dazzling romantic comedy, as well as a dark tale of the challenges of theatrical life, 'A Distant Prospect' is a must-read for all aspiring actors and theatre-fans alike.

Sean Chapman is the author of the acclaimed ‘Ms Derby Requires’ and an experienced actor, who has starred in films such as Hellraiser and Joy Division, appeared in leading roles at the National Theatre and in the West End, and has appeared frequently on television in programmes such as Midsommer Murders, Kavannagh QC and Absolutely Fabulous.

'A Distant Prospect' has been widely praised by leading figures in the British theatre.

“I found it took me over and once I’d started reading it I hardly stopped.” – Sir Alan Bennett

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“Lovely stuff: accurate, sharp, painful.” – Simon Callow.

“The best writing about acting and the actor’s life I’ve ever come across.” – Julian Sands.

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31 Oct 2012, 09:27 AM | Post: #19

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Meet Rupert Hood. Every day he joins the wage slaves commuting to Putney, in south-west London, to one more apparently dull job in a high street estate agents.

But the company is a front -- for the UK's intelligence service.

And Rupert Hood isn’t an estate agent. He’s a secret agent.

In the second of Andrew Cartmel's brilliant re-imaginings of the classic 1960s spy caper, Rupert Hood is thrown back into action -- and facing the deadliest challenge of his career.

Someone has been scavenging waste plutonium and using it to create a bomb.

A deadly terror attack is planned on the City of London -- one that could ruin the global financial system.

But who? And why?

Hunting down the terrorists means Rupert going undercover in one of the world's most sophisticated and wealthiest 'event-driven' hedge funds to learn more about the likely target.

But as Rupert gets to grips with the world of high finance, events are about to be driven out of control -- with catastrophic consequences.

And in a nerve-shredding chase he must confront the deadliest -- and strangest -- opponent of his life.

'Event Driven' is a brilliantly fast-paced, gripping action thriller in the style of the great masters of the genre - Ian Fleming, Len Deighton and Jack Higgins.

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31 Oct 2012, 09:29 AM | Post: #20

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Retirement Planning-Golden Years:How To Enjoy Your Retirement In Style FREE 31st

Your working life has come to an end. Your children may have grown up. Suddenly a life that was busy and hectic may start to feel empty.

Many people go into retirement with a sense of loss.

But this should be one of the happiest phases of your life – and with the right attitude certainly will be.

In this invaluable guide, Michael Davenport shows you how to make the most of your retirement.

He looks at how to come up with new goals and ambitions.

He explains how to manage your finances.

And how to make time for children and grandchildren – but also for yourself.

This is the one-stop, complete guide to making sure your Golden Years are just that – Golden.

Michael Davenport is an accomplishing comedy writer and script-editor who has contributed to several classic comedy shows. He is the author of an acclaimed series of wedding speech and business presentation guides.

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