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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only childnothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crimeits blend of a page-turning story, evocative tokyo setting and utterly surprising ending make it a must-read for anyone interested in international fictionbut when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shatteredone of the biggest-selling japanese thrillers ever, and the inspiration for a cult film, the devotion of suspect x is now being discovered across the worldwhen detective kusanagi of the tokyo police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigatedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square jane harper's new novel, the survivors, now available for pre-orderonly four come out the other sidefive women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy trackfederal police agent aaron falk has a particularly keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing bushwalkerthe hike through the rugged landscape is meant to take the office colleagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and teach resilience and team buildinglater, when everything got worse, each would insist it had been themalice russell is the whistleblower in his latest case - and alice knew secretsand as he delves into the disappearance, it seems some dangers may run far deeper than anyone knewat least that is what the corporate retreat website advertisesfar from the hike encouraging teamwork, the women tell falk a tale of suspicion, violence and disintegrating trustsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreis alice here? did she make it? is she safe? in the chaos, in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four had asked after alice's welfarefrom the author of the sunday times top ten bestseller, sunday times crime book of the year and cwa gold dagger winner, the dryabout the company she worked for and the people she worked with
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square after the sudden loss of his wife, michael turner moves to london to start againliving on a quiet street in hampstead, he develops a close bond with the nelson family next door: josh, samantha and their two young daughterssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe friendship at first seems to offer the prospect of healing, but then a devastating event changes all their lives, and michael finds himself bearing the burden of grief and a terrible secret
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square as this riveting tour-de-force opens, the police already want to talk to the photographer cass neary about a mysterious death she was involved with previously, but before they can bring her in, cass accepts a job offer from overseas and hops on a planepaid off by her shady employer, she buys a one-way ticket to reykjavik, in search of a lover from her own dark pastin helsinki, she authenticates a series of disturbing but stunning images taken by a famous fashion photographer who has cut himself off from the violent nordic music scene where he first made his reputationbut when the fashion photographer's mutilated corpse is discovered back in finland, cass finds herself sucked into a vortex of ancient myth and betrayal, vengeance and serial murder, set against a bone-splintering soundtrack of black metal and the terrifying beauty of the sunless icelandic wildernessin this eagerly awaited sequel to the award-winning generation loss, cass neary finds her own worst fears confirmed: it's always darkest before it turns completely blacksee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a powerful and atmospheric thriller set during the cold war, from the internationally acclaimed author of 'the bridge of sighsbut in a world where no good deed goes unpunished, loyalty can be the biggest crime of alltwice - and it's a conspiracyto be wrongly accused of murder once is a misfortuneor is it? exiled suddenly to vienna, treacherous city of spies, sev finds himself caught up in a cat-and-mouse game where survival is the only prizeit is the height of the cold warbeing framed for a murder should just be part of his cover storysee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen a defector mysteriously returns to the eastern european village of his birth, it's a chance for disgraced detective brano sev to redeem himself
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square meet fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs outbut however heinous the crime, the narrator shows how the human circumstances behind events can tell a different storymeet patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts a small piece out of her back, just to see what she tastes likeall the crimes have one thing in common: the guilty have never been convicted in a court of lawa nameless lawyer invites us to read an extraordinary dossier of violent and unspeakable actssee oxfam website for delivery information read moremeet the silent assassin who calmly despatches two neo-nazi thugs on a railway platform
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square in ha'penny, england has completed its slide into fascist dictatorshipthe last hopes of democracy seem extinguishedthen a bomb explodes in a london suburbagainst a background of domestic espionage and suppression, a band of idealists blackmails an actress who holds the key to the fuhrer's deathwhat he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists - of staunch king-and-country patriots and hardened ira gunmen - to murder the prime minister and his ally, adolf hitlersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe brilliant but compromised inspector carmichael of scotland yard is assigned the casefrom the ha'penny seats in the theatre to the ha'pennys that cover dead men's eyes, the conspiracy and the investigation swirl inexorably to a stunning conclusion
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square from the trenches in afghanistan to the occupied territories, israel to baghdad and beyond, this is a poignant account from one of australia's most respected foreign correspondents, of the international fallout from september 11th and informative meditation on what our future holdssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square an eagerly awaited collection of brand new, specially commissioned short stories from the master of historical crime fiction edward marston, featuring his quick-witted railway detective, inspector robert colbeckwith a new suspect at every turn, can the duo unearth the real villains? including 'the end of the line' and 'the barber of ravenglass', jealousy, vengeance and duplicity all collide in this supercharged anthology, proving once again, that inspector colbeck is the master of mysteriesas colbeck and his trusty aide sergeant victor leeming begin to piece together clues and motives for each crime, it becomes clear the pair must stay a step ahead of the culprits to solve the casessee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this thrilling selection of stories, a young porter is found dead in a coal tub; colbeck devises a trap to catch a thief; and a burnt train carriage holds a gruesome secret in a small coastal village
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square first edition, good conditionthe book is enlivened by chinese anecdotes, poetry and illustrations, 68 line and 20 colour in the textchiang lee, the silent traveller exiled from china for 40 years, looks at edinburgh through chinese eyes and takes the reader with him on many excursions through the scottish city of miststhose who know edinburgh will be fascinated by his unusual approach at landmarks such as the castle and arthur's seatsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square in this comprehensive history, john keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all timehe focuses on five crucial battles and offers new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfarein knowledgable, perceptive analysis of the airborne battle of crete, the carrier battle of midway, the tank battle of falaise, the city battle of berlin, and the amphibious battle of okinawa, keegan illuminates the strategic dilemmas faced by the leaders and the consequences of their decisions on the fighting men and the course of the war as a wholesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square from the author of half of the human race (channel 4 tv book club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and conspiracy in victorian londonthe misery and squalor surprise him, but more shocking still is the realisation that someone is profiting from this destitutiondavid wildeblood, an idealistic young journalist, pounds the streets of camden reporting on the notorious slumswildeblood's urge to uncover the truth draws him into mortal danger as his investigations reveal a trail of corruption that leads to the very highest levels of society'powerful and heartfeltms eliot and mr dickens would surely approve' sunday telegraph'quinn blends his history, his political concerns, his ideals, his plot and his characters elegantly, with a light hand and the pace of a thriller' daily telegraph see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square according to the geneva convention, red crosses on a ship guarantee immunity from enemy attackthe san andreas is a hospital ship but the crew do not trust the lights that beam at night or the red crosses on her sides to keep them safewithout any warning, the lights of san andreas died the hour before dawnthis is no ordinary power cutsomebody aboard the ship patrolling the norwegian seas is intent on sabotagesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreabove all they do not trust the enemy u-boatssilently, undramatically
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square octoberas an autumnal evening draws to a close, crowds of passengers rush onto the soon to depart london to brighton expressbut digging deep to discover the target of the accident takes time, something colbeck doesn't have as the killer prepares to strike againa man watches from shadows nearby, grimly satisfied when the train pulls out of the stationwhat led to such devastation, and could it simply be a case of driver error? detective inspector colbeck, dubbed the 'railway detective' thinks notsee oxfam website for delivery information read morechaos, fatalities and unbelievable destruction are the scene soon after when the train derails on the last leg of its journey
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square published in , good condition body building training book with illustrations and photossee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square londonhowever, the further he delves into the case, the more mysterious it becomeson the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the great western railway excursion train, detective inspector robert colbeck and his assistant, sergeant victor leeming, are dispatched to the scenesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner, colbeck realizes that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weaponfaced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noosewhen a second man is strangled by a noose on a train, colbeck knows that he must act quickly; can he catch the murderer before more lives are lost? the memorable characters, first featured in the railway detective, again lead you down unexpected paths in their quest to solve the mystery of the noose murders
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square york, winter, - two brothers have been shot to deathbut then in a tiny, one-room pub with a badly smoking fire he enters the orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villain who is playing for much higher stakesmeanwhile, jim stringer meets the lost luggage porter, humblest among the employees of the north eastern railway companyhe tells jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always walk in twossee oxfam website for delivery information read morejim is off on the trail of pickpockets, 'station loungers' and other small fry of the york underworld
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square norman mailer portrays the monumental artist in the vital, intimate and formative days of his youthat the heart of mailer's interpretation is picasso's relationship with his first great love, fernande olivier, conducted over a seven year period that included revolutionary works such as les demoiselles d'avignon, the mysteries of cubism and picasso's friendships with apollinaire and gertrude steinsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square what is singular about audubon the artist is the strength of his initiative in exploring and expressing nature by focusing on birds as examples of the life processlife itself is art, if we savour it all see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square there are no secrets in ireland, it is said, but there is a sinister presence in this collection of stories who is prepared to wreck lives in the pursuit of these secretsmary beckett also wrote a collection of stories called "a belfast woman" and a novel called "give them stones"see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square 'incredibly honestsearingly honest, warm, bursting with humanitysuch brave and inspiring writinghis travels have taken him across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world' telegraph praise for simon reeve'tv's most interesting globetrotter' independent'the craziest (or bravest) man on tv' mail on sunday'like all the best travellers, reeve carries out his investigations with infectious relish, and in the realisation that trying to understand the country you're in is not just fascinating, but also hugely enjoyable' daily telegraph'simon might just be the best tour guide in the world' the sun* * * * * * * * *in tv adventurer simon reeve's bestselling memoir he describes how he has journeyed across epic landscapes, dodged bullets on frontlines, walked through minefields and been detained for spying by the kgbin this revelatory account of his life simon gives the full story behind some of his favourite expeditions, and traces his own inspiring personal journey back to leaving school without qualifications, teetering on a bridge, and then overcoming his challenges by climbing to a 'lost valley' and changing his life' kate humble' simon begins to fill in the gaps in his life story that until recently he has never publicly revealedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more' daily mail'my goodness, it is brilliantone of the best autobiographies i've ever read' the sun - best books of shortlisted for the edward stanford travel memoir of the year award 'his story reads like a fast-paced thriller
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square the gchq team's second puzzle book - full of both harder and easier brain teasers - is the perfect companion for anyone who loves a challengetrain your brain to compete with the smartest in the country with this stimulating book of puzzlesnow, they are back with a new collection of head-scratching, mind-boggling and brain-bending puzzles that will leave you pondering for hours'fiendishly tricky' daily mailwith their first bestselling book, the gchq puzzle book, the uk's intelligence and security experts tested us with puzzles, codes and real-life entrance tests from their archivesfor those who often found themselves stumped with the first book, the gchq puzzle book 2 offers even more starter puzzles to get those brains warmed upif you haven't yet tested yourself with the first instalment of the gchq puzzle book, check it out now!'this is the perfect gift to fuel his ludicrous presumption that he could have definitely been a spy - even better if he's already dog-eared the first version' huffington post see oxfam website for delivery information read morenot only that, but in celebration of gchq's centenary, the puzzles in this new book sit alongside stories, facts and photos from the organisation's first 100 years at the heart of the nation's securitywith this book, you get exclusive snapshots into the organisation that keeps us all safefrom the government code & cipher school, to bletchley park, through to protecting against cyberattacks, the security of our country is in the hands of gchqpuzzle aficionados needn't worry though, as there is also an 'even harder' section to test everyone to their limits
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square the coast road presents an idiosyncratic and illuminating snapshot of england and what is to be english todayin this, his second travelogue, the award-winning writer paul gogarty travels miles in motorhome, exploring intimate coastal communities and the pondering future of the english coast see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square when constance barrington dies, she leaves behind a wealthy estate and a complex family networkit is a paltry inheritance and one that comes to symbolise the inequity at the heart of the barrington familyconstance's granddaughter, louise, is bequeathed the copyright for her late grandfather's novels (barely remembered, long-since out of print and valuable only as a reminder of the man she loved)constance - possessed of a long memory and a spiteful disposition - altered her will shortly before her deaththe new provisions are far from fair; some benefit hugely and others hardly at allbut it is through louise's inheritance - those dusty, long-forgotten books - that the most explosive secret of all will come to light, bringing with it a very different future for her and the rest of the familysoon, old family feuds and long-hidden resentments come to the surface - and with them, secrets start to emergesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut when the whole family gathers to hear her last will and testament, they are in for a terrible shock
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square in this book, in sparkling, spring-heeled prose, kapka kassabova takes us inside the esoteric world of tango to tell the story of the dance, from its african roots to its sequined stars and backsee oxfam website for delivery information read more'twelve minutes of longing' is a timeless tale of exile and longing, death and desire, love and belonging
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a humorous book looking at the etiquette rules for women planning social engagements in the ssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square in george borrow set out on his tour of waleshis impression of the country and its people are vividly presented in this booksee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is a classic travel bookthis new paperback will make it possible for a wider readership to enjoy and appreciate a portrait of wales which remains unsurpassed
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square *the sunday times bestseller* how does a pit crew change four wheels in 19 seconds? and what does that mean for a company like blackberry? what is ron dennis' secret to good time management? and how can that help tv producers? why is f1 the perfect example for leadership, motivation and strategy? and what can we learn from it? in the winning formula, driver, commentator and entrepreneur david coulthard opens the doors to the secretive world of f1 and reveals in simple, entertaining and utterly compelling terms how he has been able to master this mind-boggling variety of disciplines by applying the skills honed from his years at the top of the world's most demanding motorsportsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreby recounting his own stories, and combining them with first-hand experience of stellar individuals such as lewis hamilton, ron dennis, sir frank williams, christian horner and sebastian vettel, coulthard provides a fascinating fly-on-the-wall insight into f1 but at the same time offers an invaluable guide to the business of sport and the sport of business
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square tie-in edition of ian rankin's bestselling stand-alone thriller, which became a major drama adaptation for itvbut of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committedmike mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soulhe is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the national gallery of scotlandso, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to lift some of the most valuable artwork aroundsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square not one step back tells the dramatic stories of history's greatest siegesfrom the dusty plains of texas to the great walls of constantinople, and from the trenches of vicksburg to the jungles of vietnam, martin windrow, author of the 'last valley' details 20 remarkable episodes of heroism and defiancesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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