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Spartacus returns home after serving with the Roman Legions for a decade to discover that his father has been murdered!

He falls out with the king who sells him and Adiadne
a Dionysias priestess to a slave trader.

One of the main reasons I enjoyed this book is
the meticulous historical detail.I was fascinated by gladiatorial combat and the way they were trained each gladiator had at least two weapons which were used for different tactics to kill their opponent in a most horrifying way.

David Ashe is a ghost hunter and parapsycholist who is employed by a wealthy company to investigate the cause of paranormal activity at Cromaich castle on the western coast of Scotland. As David learns more about the castle and the inhabitants he becomes more aware that this is not just a ghost hunting problem.

Fleur is a feisty teenager whose father was murdered in front of her so she joins her uncle's pirateship. Life is hard on board ship but Fleur is determined to prove to her uncle that she is a true Hart and that she can look after herself in the most awkard situations. Tom the cabin boy becomes her best mate and as their relationship progress he gradually comes to respect her.

On an island far away three old sisters kidnap three children to help them care for all the animals that need their help but with disastrous consquences.

I enjoyed this book very much because Eva Ibbotson has such a creative imagination and her plots are well thought out, but there is always plenty of humour to help the story along. My favourite character is the Krakena a mythical gentle
sea monster who is revered by all creatures of the sea. He travels and cleans the sea and hums as he goes along.

A good book with a perfect ending I loved it.

Fer lives with her grandmother in a cottage in the woods she is a loner and she is teased mercilessly at school, so after a row with her grandmother, she flies into the woods falls down
a hole, and her whole life changes forever.

This is a dark exciting book with plenty of dark magic
but I was never quite sure if the animals were human or the other way round.A magical story with plenty of action and an exciting finale. I enjoyed it very much. Highly Recommended.

Based on the highly successful screen play by Soren Sveistrup this book is a winner. David Hewson has filled out the characters and made them into believable people.He has captured the atmosphere of this rather bleak screenplay and made it into a book which is gripping and exciting. Once I started reading I was hooked until the last page and read it just three days! There is a slight twist at the end and several things in the book have been changed but in my opinion it made far more sense.

A throughly enjoyable book.I loved it and highly recommended it.

This is the latest book in the Thrusday Next series which is about a literary detective who polices the book world.

Thursday Next has disappeared so the fictional Thrusday has been given the task of finding her.

An exciting plot with several distractions on the way, one of them is the mechanical man called Sprocket who becomes Thursday's butler. Sprocket is an amazing character because he
is the perfect butler who always says the right thing at the right time, and by the lifting of an eyebrow he can show his feelings.

A fascinating book that recounts the lives of some of the first class passengers who boarded the Titanic on April 12. It is an insight into a completly different world where money and class
were a way of life - it explores how their wealth was created and the aftermath of their lives after the fatel sinking.

This is the second book in The Adventure Island series with Emily Scott ,Jack and Drift the dog.

A film is being made at Pendragon Manor, which has a legend about a ghost and the leading lady has disappeared so Emily and co are quickly on the case.

I like the way that Helen Moss portrays some of her characters, especially Sid Golding who is the film Director, who is completly over the top and a nightmare to work with - but the leading male Brett di Blanco, a lovely play on, is not much better because he thinks so much of himself.

This is the second book in the dramatic Stonewylde series about a pagan community in Dorset.

Cracks are beginning to appear in this idyllic community with the relationship between Yul and Sylvie growing every
day, because Magus is becoming more frightening and manipulative, especially when he realizes that Sylvie has something very special that he can exploit.