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It is now 120 years after the first modern Olympic Games, and the tradition is as strong as ever. Over 200 countries and 10,000 athletes will gather in Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Games. The ancient host city of Olympia may have crumbled to dust, but the Olympics capture the attention of the world like no other event. But how much do you know about this esteemed affair - both its ancient origin and its modern incarnation - and the downright disaster it has sometimes turned out to be?

Using Sun Tzu's revered The Art of War as a point of inspiration and reference, Michael Waddington offers up bite-size pieces of advice, snippets of strategy, and countless nuggets of wisdom he's accumulated over hundreds of trials. Instead of dwelling on the logistics and technicalities of trial practice, The Art of Trial Warfare illustrates the habits of a successful trial attorney. It speaks eloquently to the art of attack, of exploiting weaknesses, and of leveraging each success.

It is March 1483, and surgeon Thomas Berrington is making a reluctant journey to Qurtuba at the request of his master. He expects only to operate on a Spanish prince and return home to Moorish al-Andalus. But fate has something else in store for him and his companion, the eunuch Jorge. A warped killer has been murdering young women and creating twisted creatures from their bodies.

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’. When word reaches 'The...

In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician, he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom. When bodies start to turn up, each showing the marks of a savage attack, Thomas is asked to investigate.

This is a gritty sword and sorcery tale in the tradition of Fritz Leiber and Robert Howard. A dark twisted youth and his voluptuous lover tackle the one thing they sought to avoid, responsibility. In the dangerous streets of Kingspoint, they play at thievery, love making, and adventure seeking.

A new adventure with the First Doctor as told by his companion, Ian Chesterton. The year is 1770, and daring explorer Captain James Cook and his crew on the Endeavour are navigating the Pacific Ocean. Into their midst come strangers: the Doctor and Ian Chesterton, who are believed to have come from Venus. But the TARDIS is lost to them - along with both Susan and Barbara - and Ian makes an enemy of the ship's chief scientist, Joseph Banks. Why is Banks acting strangely?

After a frightening encounter with a cigar-chomping biker gang, young sisters Mae and Isla Donaldson investigate a mysterious fire that has left no trace. The mystery deepens when a beautiful visitor speaks of buried treasure and a hooded stranger is overheard bragging in the local pub. Curiosity turns to terror when Isla disappears on the trail of clues left by a fell-walking eccentric, who has also vanished. Mae’s powers of deduction and Isla’s emotional insight are stretched to the limit by an audacious fraud.

Boisterous Uncle Bill comes to town, bringing trouble with him in the form of a brutal mercenary tracking a diamond smuggler. With their ESP and deduction skills, Mae and Isla find themselves caught up in an international terrorist plot involving their parents’ workplace, risking a nuclear catastrophe that could destroy them all. Can they work out the purpose of a peculiar device they found before it’s too late? Meet the Donaldson girls – primary schoolers and detectives. Mae, clever and very, very proper.

When curious blue rays light up the sky over Cockermouth in a mysterious pattern, young sisters Mae and Isla Donaldson face shape-shifting adversaries. With the help of their irascible Granddad, the girls discover how to break a secret code and unlock the truth about a group of special agents who disappeared from a Lake District beauty spot while investigating UFOs. The girls must prove their suspicions about the glamorous new people in town before it’s too late.

After the arrival of monstrous Aunt Mary, much of Cockermouth falls ill with a mysterious stomach bug. On a hunch from one of their aunt’s crazy drawings, telepathic sisters Mae and Isla Donaldson follow a trail of ambition and despair that leads to the door of a famous family, exposing the darkness within. Is this one secret too many?

If clairvoyant Mae and Isla are the only ones who can see a boy from the past, is he really there? And what does he want? This cold case of ancient family feuds and stolen deeds calls on all the mind-blending sisters’ powers of observation and deduction. If they fail, their beloved Nana will lose her home.