Dying InsideNewly promoted DCI Nick Dixon is stuck behind a desk when the peace of the Somerset countryside is shattered by a spate of sheep killings. Dixon recognises a sinister pattern: the animals have all been slaughtered with a crossbow, the power increasing with each kill. It seems whoever is responsible is practising, but for what? Then the owner of a yacht that capsized on a suspected drug run is found dead, pinned to a tree by four crossbow bolts.

mental and emotional state in the comfort of your own home

Preston weaves the very best writing about birds into a personal and eccentric narrative that is as much about the joy of reading and writing as it is about the thrill of wildlife

It relies on 'validated learning

there are profiles of 50 key fossils

At the beginning of a stifling

Aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe towards Constantinople

children will be kept busy learning all the different techniques of how to tell the time

From Waterloo to Whitby

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This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore

Her wanderings reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war

And that Bailey might hold the key to discovering Owen's true identity