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Book Synopsis The Rame Head Deck by : Robin Herbert
Download or read book The Rame Head Deck written by Robin Herbert and published by Robin Herbert. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We had never been on the side of good. In the battle between Good and Evil, Good simply hadn't shown up, or if it had, it turned up too late and without a plan and slunk off, seeing how dangerous things had become. But we did feel that our brand of evil was a better option than Thomas Halyard's. That was the day of Morgan's ninth birthday and the day when the epic battle between Evil and Not-So-Evil began." Thomas Halyard has taken control of the world and nobody seems to mind much. His rule is good and just because there is no good but the good of Thomas Halyard and no evil but for disobedience to Thomas Halyard. He is beginning to remake the world in his own image. Now the Magi who were his loyal lieutenants, Malcolm, Cyril and Serena, who helped him take control, find they must lead the resistance and thwart his evil plans for his granddaughter, Morgan. They must struggle with the contradictions between their evil natures and the love they feel that compels them to do good. And what is the secret of Thomas Halyard's last cursed deck, the Rame Head Deck?
Book Synopsis The Portland Deck by : Robin Herbert
Download or read book The Portland Deck written by Robin Herbert and published by Robin Herbert. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Sitter, an arrogant young right wing Christian, member of a very conservative sect, manages to recruit an up and coming gay activist, Cyril Baughan to his cause, and convert him to Catholicism to boot, by manipulating him over his loneliness. Cyril's complete reversal is a feather in Malcolm's cap and Cyril proves an enthusiastic and invaluable asset to his side. Malcolm finds he has a strange psychic connection with Cyril that neither of them can explain. Malcolm soon comes to realise that the ostensibly religious organisation he belongs to, the Advent Chapel, is the front for a sinister scheme and that he has been played just as much as Cyril has and that he doesn't really know who anyone really is, including himself. Malcolm and Cyril develop a real friendship and eventually fall in love. But they also discover they are the losers in a war that they never even knew about and that they are about to become enmeshed in a plot involving dark magic and political intrigue. And what is the secret of the Portland Deck and the curse attached to it by Thomas Halyard?
Book Synopsis The Hastings Deck by : Robin Herbert
Download or read book The Hastings Deck written by Robin Herbert and published by Robin Herbert. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and journalist Merle Thornton is researching a story on a rich man who purchased a pack of cards for a million dollars and then burned the pack in a church yard. Merle is after an easy story about the gullibility of people and the dangers of believing in superstitions. The problem is that the curse of the Hastings Tarot Deck has started to take its toll. Is it really a cursed pack or is the creator of the pack, Thomas Halyard murdering people to make it seem so? Merle must uncover the mystery as he may be the next victim of the curse.
Book Synopsis Empires: Infiltration by : Gavin Deas
Download or read book Empires: Infiltration written by Gavin Deas and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collaboration between two Gollancz authors tells of the invasion of Earth by two different alien races - at the same time. Two men become aware of the threat, and must work to sabotage the invasion plans and see off the aliens. Each book follows one hero, uncovering the threat to humanity and the world from their point of view. Each book can be read on its own, and will give the reader a complete, kinetic, fast-paced military SF story. But read both books and the reader gets something else - another view of (some of) the same events and crossover points, culminating in a bloody battle at Canary Wharf. The two books can be read in any order, but together they tell the story of humanity caught in the crossfire between two deadly alien races, who have made Earth their battleground...
Book Synopsis Empires: The First Battle by : Gavin Deas
Download or read book Empires: The First Battle written by Gavin Deas and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two alien invasions. Two heroes. One Story. Collects EMPIRES: EXTRACTION and EMPIRES: INFILTRATION in one volume! This groundbreaking collaboration between two Gollancz authors tells of the invasion of Earth by two different alien races - at the same time. Two men become aware of the threat, and must work to sabotage the invasion plans and see off the aliens. Each book follows one hero, uncovering the threat to humanity and the world from their point of view. Each book can be read on its own, and will give the reader a complete, kinetic, fast-paced military SF story. But read both books and the reader gets something else - another view of (some of) the same events and crossover points, culminating in a bloody battle at Canary Wharf. The two books can be read in any order, but together they tell the story of humanity caught in the crossfire between two deadly alien races, who have made Earth their battleground...
Book Synopsis Marching, Fighting, Dying by : Gareth Glover
Download or read book Marching, Fighting, Dying written by Gareth Glover and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gareth Glover, who has established a reputation as a leading authority on the Napoleonic Wars, uses letters sent home from the Peninsular War by British soldiers to give a candid account of what it was like to serve in the army during the long campaign against the French. The vivid excerpts, which are set in their historical context by the author’s expert commentary, are largely drawn from the correspondence of the other ranks, and they fully explore the everyday experience of these men through their own words. Only extracts from letters written during the campaigns are quoted – journals written much later for publication are discounted – so a true picture of life in the army at war comes out directly, as it was perceived at the time. Every aspect of the soldiers’ experience is covered, from the fatigue and discomfort of existence on military service to the reality of combat and their feelings when a comrade was wounded or killed. The letters reveal so much about their attitude to the enemy, civilians and the men who served alongside them. Since this was the first war in history where regular postal services operated – and since a rising number of soldiers were able to read and write – their letters offer us an insight into men at war that has never been recorded before.
Download or read book Syren and Shipping Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Swallows & Amazons - Boxed Set by : Arthur Ransome
Download or read book Swallows & Amazons - Boxed Set written by Arthur Ransome and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 2717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swallows and Amazons series includes twelve adventure novels by English author Arthur Ransome. Set in the interwar period, it involves group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England. They revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. The series begins with the Walker children from London, who stay at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates. Contents: Swallows and Amazons Swallowdale Peter Duck Winter Holiday Coot Club Pigeon Post We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Secret Water The Big Six Missee Lee The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome At All Great Northern?
Book Synopsis Swallows & Amazons (ALL 12 Adventure Novels) by : Arthur Ransome
Download or read book Swallows & Amazons (ALL 12 Adventure Novels) written by Arthur Ransome and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 2716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swallows and Amazons is a series of twelve adventure novels set in the interwar period, involving group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England. They revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. The series begins with the Walker children from London, who stay at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates. They clash on an island in the lake, make friends, and have a series of adventures that weave tales of pirates and exploration into everyday life in rural England. Table of Contents: Swallows and Amazons Swallowdale Peter Duck Winter Holiday Coot Club Pigeon Post We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Secret Water The Big Six Missee Lee The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome At All Great Northern?
Book Synopsis Arthur Ransome - Ultimate Collection by : Arthur Ransome
Download or read book Arthur Ransome - Ultimate Collection written by Arthur Ransome and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 3117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited Arthur Ransome collection includes his best known "Swallows and Amazons" series of children's adventure novels, as well as other children's books, his literary studies and historical writings. This unique collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Swallows and Amazons Series: Swallows and Amazons Swallowdale Peter Duck Winter Holiday Coot Club Pigeon Post We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Secret Water The Big Six Missee Lee The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome At All Great Northern? Children's Books: Old Peter's Russian Tales The Soldier and Death Pond and Stream The Child's Book of the Seasons Other Writings: Russia in 1919 The Crisis in Russia Oscar Wilde – A Critical Study Open Letter to America
Book Synopsis British Battleships 1889-1904 by : R A Burt
Download or read book British Battleships 1889-1904 written by R A Burt and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings to completion the reissue of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships, and it covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following.??The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about the Royal Navy's ability to fight a modern war at sea resulted in the Naval Defence Act of 1889 and a vast programme of warship construction. Over the next twenty years a fleet of 52 battleships was built, construction finally interrupted by the revolutionary Dreadnought design. In this new volume, the author presents full details of design and construction, armament, protection, machinery and performance, all backed up with accurate data tables listing design figures, trials results, and full particulars at different stages in the ships' careers. The history of each battleship is chronicled and the reader is reminded of their major contribution in the First World War. They bore the brunt of the action at the Dardenelles, bombarded the Belgium coast, patrolled the North Sea and the Channel, reinforced the Italian Fleet, and served in East Africa, the East Indies and the White Sea. Most were extensively modified during the War and this variety has made them of special interest to the historian, enthusiast and ship modeller.??With the addition of many new photographs from the author's massive collection, this new edition is simply a 'must-have' addition to every naval library.
Book Synopsis Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Ransome (Illustrated) by : Arthur Ransome
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Ransome (Illustrated) written by Arthur Ransome and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 5490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English interwar writer Arthur Ransome, best known for the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ children’s books, is noted for popularising the pattern for “holiday adventure” stories. A writer of various genres, his first success, ‘Bohemia in London’, is a partly autobiographical account of his early days. He also published a noted general ‘History of Story-Telling’, as well as landmark critical works on Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde. During the Great War, Ransome worked as a war correspondent in Russia, where he studied native folktales, which he retold for children. He also wrote extensively about his passion of angling, producing the seminal work in its field, ‘Rod and Line’. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Ransome’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ransome’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * All the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ novels, with individual contents tables * Includes Ransome’s original illustrations to the novels * Many rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories available in no other collection * Includes Ransome’s rare non-fiction works * Features the celebrated autobiography – discover Ransome’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Swallows and Amazons Books Swallows and Amazons (1930) Swallowdale (1931) Peter Duck (1932) Winter Holiday (1933) Coot Club (1934) Pigeon Post (1936) We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea (1937) Secret Water (1939) The Big Six (1940) Missee Lee (1941) The Picts and the Martyrs (1943) Great Northern? (1947) Other Children’s Books The Child’s Book of the Seasons (1906) Pond and Stream (1906) The Things in our Garden (1906) The Hoofmarks of the Faun (1911) Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1916) Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme (1920) The Soldier and Death (1922) The Horror Novel The Elixir of Life (1915) The Short Stories Miscellaneous Stories The Non-Fiction The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers (1904) Bohemia in London (1907) A History of Story-telling (1909) Edgar Allan Poe (1910) Oscar Wilde (1912) Portraits and Speculations (1913) Six Weeks in Russia (1919) The Crisis in Russia (1921) Racundra’s First Cruise (1923) Rod and Line (1929) Racundra’s Third Cruise (1972) The Autobiography The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome (1976)
Download or read book Pepys's Navy written by J. D. Davies and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensively illustrated reference covering four tumultuous decades that gave birth to the modern Royal Navy. Winner of the Samuel Pepys Prize and Latham Medal This reference book describes every aspect of the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era that witnessed the creation of a permanent naval service, in essence the birth of today’s Royal Navy. Samuel Pepys, whose thirty years of service did so much to replace the ad hoc processes of the past with systems for construction and administration, is one of the most significant players, and the navy that was, by 1690, ready for a century of global struggle with the French owed much to his tireless work. This major reference for historians, naval enthusiasts, and, anyone with an interest in this colorful era of the seventeenth century covers: naval administration ship types and shipbuilding naval recruitment and crews seamanship and gunnery shipboard life dockyards and bases the foreign navies of the period the three major wars fought against the Dutch in the Channel and the North Sea “Davies writes clearly, knows his subject extremely well, organizes the material effectively, and covers each topic thoroughly . . . there’s some new piece of revelatory detail on pretty much every page. If you’re at all interested in seventeenth century sailing ships—especially English ships—this is a truly fascinating and rewarding book.” —Corsairs and Captives
Download or read book Armada written by Charles Gidley Wheeler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by his father to drown off the coast of Spain, Tristram Pascoe's life is saved by Sara, who is in a marriage of convenience to a Portuguese nobleman. Suspected of heresy, Sara is brought before the Grand Inquisitor and risks being burnt as a witch to help Tristram escape. Tristram is pressed into service as an English spy, and travels to Cadiz and Lisbon, where the Spanish invasion force is assembling. From the first rumors of a Spanish invasion to the horrors of the Channel firefights, Armada is a story of the triumph of human love over religious conflict.
Download or read book Sea Breezes written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sea of Gold written by Julian Stockwin and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tension surges through A Sea of Gold . . . In this rousing yarn, Stockwin again raises naval fiction to a new level' - Quarterdeck 'Stockwin has surpassed himself with A Sea of Gold . . . a fine, filly favoured vintage yarn' - Warships 1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to first glory, then ruin. The French fleet is massing in the Basque Roads in a near impregnatable position. The Admiralty orders Cochrane to command an attack, to the chagrin of more senior officers who object to being overlooked and Cochrane's reputation for daring. Cochrane insists that his new friend, Kydd, is in the forefront of the assault armada, a motley collection of rocket, bomb and fire ships that will set the anchorage ablaze - this despite Kydd's almost pathological fear of fire. The fallout from what follows will see Kydd financially ruined, with only his former shipmates, his oldest friend of all, Nicholas Renzi, and the whisper of hidden Spanish treasure promising the sea of gold that he needs to save himself. ******************** Praise for Julian Stockwin's Kydd series 'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - Guardian 'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line' Daily Express 'This heady adventure blends fact and fiction in rich, authoritative detail' Nautical Magazine 'Fans of fast-paced adventure will get their fill with this book' Historical Naval Society
Book Synopsis Salt on the Midnight Fire by : Liz Williams
Download or read book Salt on the Midnight Fire written by Liz Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The coolest sisters in contemporary fantasy” get caught up in an otherworldly battle on the Cornish coast in this thrilling series finale (Locus). The Fallow Sisters are used to straddling the line between their ordinary lives and the magical realms where history and fairytales spin new realities. But now they face new dangers as they leave the family home in Somerset for the rugged coastline of Cornwall. Their summer holiday is cut short when Bee, Stella, Serena, and Luna find themselves embroiled in a deadly struggle between the mystical Wild Hunt and the pirates of Cornwall’s past. Meanwhile, their mother, Alys, claims amnesia after being thrown from a horse; the sinister Morlaker chills them to the bone with his very presence; a mysterious woman bears an uncanny resemblance to their deceased nemesis, Miranda; and the Good Queen Bess is sure to be involved somehow. It’s more than enough magic and mayhem to navigate on top of a new baby, extended family, and avoiding certain topics—like Brexit.
