Puppets In Yorkshire

Author: Walter Wilkinson
Hardback: 245 pages


During the 1920's and 1930's Walter Wilkinson toured his Punch and Judy show throughout England and the wider world. In this delightful little book he recounts his travels one summer through Yorkshire. After having journeyed from London via train he alights at Gainsborough before pulling his show north to Hull, then East to York and North to Richmond. Whenever a village green presents itself out comes the show to entertain the locals. A fascinating window onto a long forgotten past.

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The Maul And The Pear Tree

Author: P. D. James and T. A. Critchley
Paperback: 372 pages
ISBN: 9780571258086


P.D. James is best known as a writer of crime fiction. In this interesting book, along with T.A. Critchley, she turns her eye to solving a real murder case. During December of 1811 two households were rocked by violent murders. With the public baying for blood the police arrested seaman John Williams. Williams was convicted of the murders and executed. While no other murders occurred the evidence against Williams was circumstantial at best. Was he the killer, or just another victim?

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The Cobra Event

Author:Richard Preston
Paperback: 440 pages
ISBN: 0752817124


When Kate left home to go to school she thought she was getting the flu. Four hours later she is racked by convulsions and starts to chew on her own fingers. Fortunately, within minutes she is dead. Shortly afterwards a dead homeless man is discovered who also seems to have bitten himself. Before long it is clear that a new and deadly virus is at large. Alice Austen, has never seen such an efficient killer, but can she, and the rest of the CDC task force, unravel it's secrets and track down it's source before it is too late?

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Germs: The Ultimate Weapon

Author: Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William J. Broad
Paperback: 384 pages
ISBN: 074323071X


A fascinating yet terrifying look into the history of germ warfare. From small scale trials by terrorist cults to large scale manufacture by rogue states and Cold War adversaries this book details what has, until recently, been classified work into one germ based Weapons of mass destruction. Some of the examples would seem more at home in a thriller novel, but all have been proved to have happened at some point or another in the worlds recent past.

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Night Fall

Author: Nelson DeMille
Series: John Corey, Book 3
Paperback: 577 pages
ISBN: 0751531804


The official report into the loss of TWA flight 880 was mechanical failure. After attending a memorial service for the victims, John Corey is introduced to a number of people who refuse to believe the official explanation. It doesn't take Corey long to start digging into the accident, especially after he is warned off by his superiors. One clue leads to another and before long Corey is, as usual, neck deep in a trouble!

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The Lion's Game

Author: Nelson DeMille
Series: John Corey, Book 2
Paperback: 850 pages
ISBN: 0751528234


Having been forcibly retired from the NYPD, John Corey is now working for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force. When a routine assignment to meet a defector goes tragically wrong Corey and his boss Kate Mayfield set of across America on the bloody trail of the Lion, an international terrorist with a score to settle.

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Plum Island

Author: Nelson DeMille
Series: John Corey, Book 1
Paperback: 574 pages
ISBN: 075152185X


NYPD homicide detective John Corey is recovering at his uncles waterfront house on Long Island having been shot in the line of duty. When his new friends Tom and Judy are found shot dead on their patio Corey is pulled into the investigation. What starts out looking like a bungled burglary quickly turns into an issue of national security.

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