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Talia is a Hero of Pregeor. Or is she? Why are they trying to kill
her? Who are her friends? Who are her enemies? Sunset in Silvana is
the first book in a Science Fiction saga of intrigue, horror and
adventure. Ruine is a devastated planet. Millennia ago, during the
war between the Forerunners and the Ancients, its moons were
pulverised to form rings, and most of its atmosphere was burnt off.
With a thin sulfurous atmosphere, it was not an attractive prospect
for colonisation, but eventually a hardy group of pioneers managed
to make its single remaining fertile continent habitable. Now,
tensions between the two major territories on this continent,
Zelyna and Telphania, are high. War seems inevitable. Talia
Milanova and her friends had, they had been told, helped to
evacuate refugees from Pregeor - not that they recalled it, the
trauma of the disaster having wiped their memories. Now, people
were trying to kill them, and strange memories were beginning to
surface. Who were they really?
Twelve tales of Victorian crime from the casebook of Inspector
Richard Thompson, a Scotland Yard detective, as recounted by his
Springer spaniel. The cases range from murder to a dognapping, and
are solved in some unconventional ways The cases are interspaced by
extracts from the journal of Isobel Fraser, a young American
heiress who is banished to Britain to prevent an unsuitable
marriage. Initially scathing about her relatives she gradually
becomes enamoured with the Thompsons, especially when she becomes
involved in one of Inspector Thompson's more dangerous cases, and a
romance blossoms.
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Let Him Have It (DVD)
Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay, Tom Bell, Eileen Atkins, …
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R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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Ships in 10 - 17 working days
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The true story of Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston), hanged,
aged 19, in the 1950s after a controversial decision holding him
responsible for the murder of a police officer. Despite a history
of mental illness, and with the court accepting that he did not
actually pull the trigger, Bentley was still sentenced to death -
on the basis that his ambiguous cry of 'let him have it!' caused
his young accomplice to fire the fatal shot. The release of this
film focused attention on the case once more, and Bentley
eventually received a posthumous pardon.
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