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A classic of modern true crime: the whirlwind adventures in the drug trade of the extraordinary Howard Marks

"Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wassim promises Hussam his protection, but ten years into the future, he has failed to keep his promise. Wassim is on the streets, seeking shelter from both the city and the civil war storming his country. Meanwhile Hussam, now on the other side of the world, remains haunted by his own ghosts, doing his utmost to drown them out with every vice imaginable. Split between war-torn Damascus and Vancouver, The Foghorn Echoes is a tragic love story about coping with shared traumatic experience and devastating separation. As Hussam and Wassim come to terms with the past, they begin to realise the secret that haunts them is not the only secret that formed them."--Publisher.

Shockwaves are running through Hernia with the disastrousnews that a huge, biblical-themed amusement park is to be built on itsdoorstep. At a public demonstration to showcase his plans for the new park, Aaron Miller, bites into a homemade tart - with fatalconsequences. It's clear the tart was poisoned, but who baked it?

A young woman is pushing a child in a stroller dangerouslyclose to the edge of a rock face. She has blood on her clothes. Is she a victimor a would-be killer? DI Joanna Piercy takes on the case, but the young womanis mute. As the questions mount, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget iscalled in to help. Can she persuade the woman to talk?

The poetry of the Makars marked an extraordinary flowering of Scottish culture and the Scots language in the 15th and early 16th centuries. This magnificent anthology, introduced, edited and annotated by J.A. Tasioulas, makes available for the modern reader the complete poems of both Henryson and Dunbar, as well as Gavin Douglas's The Palis of Honoure. Old Scots words are glossed and medieval and classical references are explained to make this the most approachable collection of major poems in a period which forged a nation's cultural and political sense of itself, from the moral subtlety of Henryson, to the wild flytings of Dunbar, to the democratic humanism of Gavin Douglas.

This indispensable anthology contains selections of the best work by Scotland's most acclaimed modern Gaelic poets: Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Iain Crichton Smith, Derick Thomson and Donald MacAulay. Designed as much for English readers throughout the world as for readers of Gaelic, the poems are presented with line-for-line translations.

The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. This volume takes up the story after she arrives in Ireland, following her marriage to Colonel Smith of Baltiboys.

What if going back means you could begin again?Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the city streets of Glasgow. Maybe she doesn't believe in serendipity, but a rare moment of kindness and a lost ring conspire to call her home. As Kelly vows to reunite the lost ring with its owner, she must return to the small town she fled so many years ago. On her journey from Glasgow to the south-west tip of Scotland, Kelly encounters ancient pilgrim routes, hostile humans, hippies, book lovers and a friendly dog, as memories stir and the people she thought she'd left behind for ever move closer with every step. Full of compassion and hope, Paper Cup is a novel about how easy it can be to fall through the cracks, and what it takes to turn around a life that has run off course.

After stepping back from his civilian investigator role with Lancashire police, Henry Christie is drawn into investigating two vicious murders in the local village - and the villagers' wartime secrets, including an unsolved murder eighty years ago. Can he uncover the truth behind the killings and resolve a dark question in Kendleton's history?

Mayoral elections are looming in Artemis, and one candidate's proposal to build a racetrack has divided the town. Tensions rise as dogs are stolen from a greyhound breeder - she vows vengeance, only to be found dead herself. Josie Gray, Chief of Police, must discover who is willing to kill for their cause before others get caught in the crossfire.

All ex-cop Holt Bradford wanted was some peace. That was until single mom Suzanna invaded his solitude to search for the missing Calhoun emeralds. The last time they crossed paths was in high school, and now he's the only man who can help her. Could he resist her or the challenge of finally solving the Calhoun family's biggest mystery?

1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother's Christmas Day festivities are shattered by the terrible news of two suspicious deaths at St Fin Barre's Cathedral. When it is revealed that both the deceased were poisoned, the Reverend Mother is drawn into another puzzling mystery. Can she uncover the truth behind these heinous crimes?

As so many give their lives in the trenches, Deputy Chief Constable Tom Harper and his men are working harder than ever to catch a saboteur running loose on the streets of Leeds - and their investigation takes a dark twist with two shootings. With his back against the wall and the war effort at stake, Harper can't afford to fail.