The Holborn Scroll

974403112 ZaYkF S The Holborn ScrollIf you’re looking for a great historical thriller based on The Dead Sea Scrolls this book from the pen of  James Fitzsimons may fit the bill.

In a multi million prestigious London property development, work is brought to an expensive stop when a scroll is dug up. It looks real, but  it could

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Think Of A Number

959272453 SjKvX S Think Of A NumberI have always had an aversion to books over three hundred pages long.

On reflection that’s probably why I’ve never completed ‘Lord of the Rings’ or ‘War and Peace’.

In my younger days however I was absolutely hooked on Agatha Christie and her detective escapades with Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

One

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The Genius Gene

952452558 Dot5o S The Genius GeneThis novel contains big money, Frankenstein babies and genius on demand!

In an age of Dolly the sheep and the possibility of cloning human beings this novel is a timely warning of what the future may hold for all of us.

We are all made up from genes, the building blocks of life.

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Brassy Women

923588888 mFczc S Brassy WomenBrassy Ladies’ Band on The Run.

Set in the sixties in a parallel world to the swinging one, a family of sisters set out in a great big adventure in the exclusively alpha-male domain of brass band competitions .

All of the girls have what we now call issues – useless boyfriends, a headbanger father,

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Many A Flower by Ron Dixon

937441783 Kd44U S Many A Flower by Ron DixonMemoir of a Sunderland coalfield, childhood, and adventures in flowers.
Ron Dixon was born the son of a Sunderland miner and grew up to the sights and sounds of a World at War, dreading a full moon because that meant that the German bombers would come and that he would be

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Is that cat dead

830154210 WLVFq S Is that cat deadAs a youngster I can remember tramping through woods, climbing trees and inevitably getting stung by nettles.

I can also remember the advice given by fellow adventurers,”find a docken leaf and rub it over the sting, it’ll make it go away”.

I can also remember trying the remedy and eleviating the pain, but never knew whether it was

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The most notorious lady?

778468503 nL99X S The most notorious lady?A novel originally published in 1928 was not published here in Britain until thirty two years later, and then it caused a storm throughout the courts.

It has been later revealed the that the story came from events in the authors own unhappy domestic life from which he took inspiration from happenings that occurred in a village in

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The Real Story Of The Clash Passion is a Fashion

The Real Story Of The Clash – Passion is a Fashion

One of my greatest passions has always been music. I have always been eclectic in taste and over the years have met some of its greatest contributors.

Never thinking as a teenager that I would ever meet meet with heroes of the musical world when I was growing up (The Crickets) I can now proudly relate that one of the founder members Sonny Curtis has

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Living Dinosaurs

If you’re a budding photographer and also have a great interest in wildlife, then a brand new publication by an expert in both fields could keep you fascinated for hours. Heather Angel is a British biologist and award-winning wildlife photographer who travel from the poles to the tropics taking wildlife images, although in recent years she has concentrated on China.Her passion for nature culminated in a zoology degree at Bristol University.Whilst working as a marine biologist

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Loving Gazza

476103300 NqbNf M Loving GazzaAs a working journalist for many years I was probably one of the first to take pictures of a then virtually unknown Paul Gascoigne as he leaned out of a Mercedes car window.

He was making a name for himself at Newcastle United and it was probably the first thrilling promotional ‘freebie’ he had been given. Gazza was a warm, friendly and

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