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More outrageous and high-intensity action from teen rebel and social-media star Robin Hood and friends as they continue their campaign against the brutal and corrupt powers that be. The sixth episode in the latest bulls-eye hit series from the bestselling author of Cherub.Robin is pleased to hear from his old school friend Alan Adale, not least because Alan's father is Guy Gisborne's top henchman. Now that Gisborne is in the running to be elected Sheriff of Nottingham, he needs to keep his criminal activities under wraps. So when Alan tips off Robin and the rebels at Sherwood Castle that Gisborne's waste disposal business is costing its workers lives, the stakes become very high. Robin is soon literally digging the dirt on his arch enemy to finally bring him down in this latest high-octane adventure.

Growing up in Birmingham, Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When the Second World War breaks out, Sylvia is still dreaming of her forthcoming marriage to fiance Ian while Audrey jumps at the career opportunities the WAAF throws her way.Audrey joins the ranks at RAF Cardington but soon finds that her new freedom also brings temptation. When she goes too far, the consequences ripple through the Whitehouse family. Meanwhile, Sylvia is doing her bit as a railway porter, much to Ian's dismay. Ian thinks the job is unfeminine - unlike Sylvia's new friend Kitty, who is as sweet and pretty as can be. But Kitty's innocent nature hides a dark secret . . .As the pressures of rationing, bombing raids and sleepless nights grow, the two sisters must decide what they really want from life and if they're brave enough to fight for it.A heartbreaking yet inspiring novel, Annie Murray's Meet Me Under the Clock is perfect for fans of Margaret Dickinson and Katie Flynn.

Estate agent, necromancer and reluctant sleuth Toni Windsor has to find out who clubbed a Cornish cheese millionaire to death while he was alone in a locked room. She’s trying to keep the peace between vampire courts, a fistful of demonic contracts have just landed on her lap – and her love life still isn’t looking great.

Toni Windsor is failing at ‘happily ever after,’ but it really isn't her fault. All she wants is true love and the perfect wardrobe, but instead, there are murders to solve and zombies to raise, and she’s broken her phone again.

All-in-one hiking route guide, maps and accommodations for the 253-mile Pennine Way, from England into Scotland. Includes 138 large-scale walking maps (1:20,000 or 3 1/8 inches to 1 mile); 10 town maps and 15 overview maps. Full details of all accommodations and campsites, restaurants and pubs; plus full public transport information. Includes day-walks.

Guidebook to walking the Severn Way, a 210 mile (338km) walk through the Welsh borders. Beginning near the source of the River Severn in Powys, mid-Wales, and finishing in Bristol, the history-rich route is described over 22 stages (ranging from 3 to 14 miles), passing through the counties of Powys, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.

Julia Goodfellow-Smith has chosen 15 of the best short walks in the Malvern Hills, including Worcestershire Beacon. Each walk comes with easy-to-read Ordnance Survey maps, clear route description and lots of images, plus information on beauty spots and refreshment stops. No challenging terrain or complicated navigation means walks can be enjoyed by everyone.

Explore the Worcestershire town of Evesham in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of Warwickshire's most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.

This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of Lincolnshire's most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.

HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: STRATFORD-UPON-AVON takes readerson a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Stratford-upon-Avonexposing all its scurrilous secrets. With a frightful map touristscan plot their path to the past. Fatal fleabites, bloody battlesand brutal beheadings, it's a trip no Horrible history fan willwant to miss

This book explores the fascinating history of Nottinghamshire's remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.

Illustrated throughout, discover the folklore, myths, legends, customs and traditions from Staffordshire that will both enlighten and entertain readers.

The story of how Francis Pryor created a haven for people, plants and wildlife in a remote corner of the fens.A Fenland Garden is the story of the creation of a garden in a complex and fragile English landscape - the Fens of southern Lincolnshire - by a writer who has a very particular relationship with landscape and the soil, thanks to his distinguished career as an archaeologist and discoverer of some of England's earliest field systems. It describes the imagining, planning and building of a garden in an unfamiliar and sometimes hostile place, and the challenges, setbacks and joys these processes entail. This is a narrative of the making of a garden, but it is also about reclaiming a patch of ground for nature and wildlife - of repairing the damage done to a small slice of Fenland landscape by decades of intensive farming.A Fenland Garden is informed by the empirical wisdom of a practising gardener (and archaeologist) and by his deep understanding of the soil, landscape and weather of the region; Francis's account of the development of the garden is counterpointed by fascinating nuggets of Fenland lore and history, as well as by vignettes of the plantsman's trials and tribulations as he works an exceptionally demanding plot of land.

M&GNJR was a Midlands to East Anglia railway linking towns and villages like a patchwork knitted together by clever business entrepreneurs.

This book attempts to show through documentary and archaeological evidence how Birmingham evolved from a village into its present role as the second city of the United Kingdom.