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Being the ruler of England has always been fraught with danger. In Kill the King! you will see that many people wanted to assassinate you! At least two plots were aimed at Henry VII and George III, four against Elizabeth I, and more than three against James I. Queen Victoria survived eight plots while the present Queen Elizabeth II has survived three. William II was accidentally (?) killed hunting while two Anglo-Saxon kings were also murdered - one of them while he was in the loo!Several of these stories such as the Gunpowder Plot are well-known, but how many people know about the Ridolphi or Babington plots? Would history have changed if Guy Fawkes had succeeded?D. Lawrence-Young, a retired English and history lecturer, has written over twenty historical novels which have been published in the UK, USA and Israel. Kill the King! describes over thirty murderous plots in a serious but light-hearted way, and this book should shed much light on your understanding of England''s murderous history.

Because Japan , is a truly unabashed account of the less publicised side of life in Tokyo for a 'foreigner'. The book offers a witty, vivid and honest insight into the daily life of a British Expat over the course of two years.

Athletes Who Rock! shares the inspiring backstories of 15 individuals who have achieved the near-impossible: success in the ultra-competitive worlds of pro sports and music.

This diverse collection of short stories, all relating to aviation during WWII, is written from the perspectives of a group of disparate individuals.

Steven Mason, a young career villain, needs to find his boss's girlfriend Dominique. Straightaway, he knows things are not going to be easy when he finds a dead hand in Mickey Finn's old fridge.

The modern male ego...fallible yet ultimately malleable. Douglas Perfors is pretty damn close to perfect...

Joy's Playground promotes resilience in children though practising and teaching important skills. Now more than ever anxiety, stress and change-management is crucial for young children.

Luke Raven, a suspended Detective Inspector, is working a private missing persons case when he stumbles upon the mystery of five unsolved murders on Westhampton Beach. Raven, however, is different - he has clairvoyant abilities that even he doesn't fully understand.

Alexander (Sandy) McFarlane has just secured his new role as a DCI working for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London. Before long, he is asked to investigate the death of Robert Smythe, an accountant who has been auditing an aid grant to build a solar panel farm in Vadodara, India.

It''s 1984. Patricia Vickers returns like a phantom to deliver an unwelcome revelation. Jayne Thornhill is reminded of those spiteful 1960s'' schooldays: bullying, Charlie the skeleton, s├⌐ances, strip poker and sexual encounters with the school''s handymen. Jayne''s confessions have now been whitewashed from lavatory walls, only to be unearthed in a third school friend''s 1969 diary. A cloud of sadness is now cast over the three women''s lives and only by revealing their own stories in later life can they move the stubborn hands of the undertaker''s clock forward. In doing so, something shockingly out of line is revealed ...

Colonel Blood - Soldier, Robber and Trickster has it all: royalty, love-affairs, lusty wenches, war and fighting. But above all, an incredible robbery. This is the life of self-styled 'Colonel' Thomas Blood, the 17th century dashing Anglo-Irish adventurer who achieved fame by (almost) succeeding in stealing the Crown Jewels in 1671.

A love that bridges time itself and a struggle for self-acceptance blended with elements of the unexpected. A journey... Between dusk and dawn.

The Earth is cold and desolate. All life struggles to survive in the post-eruption world shaped by the Immortals. Even humans are a threatened species. Two decades of genocide orchestrated by the Zurvan Sisterhood has nearly eradicated all males, with Queen Shakti and her infamous Aradian sisters Tala and Mayari at its nucleus.

"I know I frighten you, Mister Grey, but don''t be afraid of me. Be afraid of the man who wants the truth buried."It should all have been so simple: travel to the kingdom of Larence, learn more about the rumours of a war about to break out, and get back home to report on it. But Erasmus Grey is finding that his job is anything but simple in a place where newspapers are unheard of, and where the first thoughtin people''s minds when he goes around asking awkward questions is spy. And that suspicion is just the beginning. Because there are people with a lot invested in this war, and the last thing they want is someone reporting what''s really going on.

Autumn in London, Thatcher's Britain. As the rooms of the National Gallery echo to strange footsteps, and a bomb explodes in distant Brighton, a young painter receives a bizarre commission from his ailing and obsessive uncle. Gradually the past returns to engulf him, freighted by scenes and personalities he has long hoped to forget.

Greenbank Primary: First Aid Brought to Life is a narrative non-fiction that tells a story. It tells a story of a town called Humphrington, a school called Greenbank Primary and the Matthews family engaging with family, friends and teachers.

You never know who's living in your house. I see you. You're casually naming your family members, mentally ticking them off one by one. I want to stop you right there. I want to ask...who's the person living in your house that you don't know about?

When Andy and Jack walk away from their successful careers, leaving family, friends and Manchester to move to the Canary Islands, they hope to find a new adventure and quality time together in the sun

One day a little girl looked out of her window and saw an owl sitting on the branch of a tree

It is Christmas Eve night and the Little Brown Moth finds himself lost in a blanket of fog. He spies a distant red light and realises that - yes! - it is Rudolph and the other reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh!

Ronan Bell is a placid, unimaginative antiques restorer whose humdrum life is suddenly turned on its head. He finds himself drawn into a world of Satanism and witchcraft, compounded when his long estranged wife, Estelle, comes back into his life.

Take some twenty wicked British villains. Add their dastardly crimes. Then include their miserable backgrounds. Mix in some nefarious conversations and combine all this together to produce an exciting collection of stories: Villains of Yore.

A secret school hidden in the deep forests of Northern Ireland is protected by an ancient powerful magick. But an evil presence lurks in the forest. A portal to another dark realm was cracked and sinister energy is leaking through, killing everything that surrounds it.

Knowledge is Survival. More than a motto, it is the principle that compels the Knowledge Reclamators to venture forth into the dangerous wilds of the post-Luddite Tyranny world, braving mutated Altered and cunning death traps, in search of precious information creches.

As the world's beloved Alpha Spike, Colman Cai is a god. He was transformed into a lethal weapon, an emotionless assassin, by Keepers and it makes him a celebrity.

Fed-up with her mundane existence, Penelope Jane Wigglesworth decides to enter a magazine competition ... with repercussions beyond imagination. Albert, her husband, is bird-napped by the Supreme Winged Anarchists against Liberty and Order Worldwide (S.W.A.L.O.W). Can Penelope rescue him?

On a mission deep in the Peruvian jungle, mercenary Ezra Beller's life is radically changed as a mysterious plant alters his genetic code.

This is a coming of age, just flown the nest, tell all comedy memoir about the ups and downs of working on-board a cruise ship as an entertainer. If you have doubts about going on a cruise, then this book might encourage you. If you have ambitions to go and work on a cruise, then this book won't dissuade you...probably.