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A Brief History of Fightng Ships by David Davies
Category: European History | Series: Brief Histories
This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line - the deadly battleships that played such a vital role in the battles. The author describes the ships' construction and armaments, the daily life of the me ...Show more
Aesthetics And Literature by Davies David
Category: Fiction | Series: Continuum Aesthetics S.
Part of "The Continuum Aesthetics" series that looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by major art forms, this book places philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about literature. It takes examples from the traditional and contemporary literary arts and uses them to introduce the ...Show more
An Idiot in Love by David Jester; Matthew Lloyd Davies (Read by)
Category: Audio
Kieran's love life didn't get off to a good start. He threw up after his first kiss; he was beaten up by the first girl to have a crush on him; and after a mix-up with his first love letter, he could only sit back and watch as the entire school mistook him for a brutal murderer. By the time the hormones ...Show more
Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive by David Bogan & Keith Davies
Category: Business
The authors basic premise is that retirement is a notion to be banished from all sensible conversation and promotes the idea that no one should retire and no one should want to retire. Quite apart from the economic reality that our respective Governments cant possible afford the retirement we all expect ...Show more
Brothers in Blood (Detective Paul Snow #1) by David Stuart Davies
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Detective Inspector Paul Snow Ser.
A brutal game devised by three intelligent but bored teenagers escalates into murder. Led by the charismatic and cunning Laurence, the trio of 'brothers' meets once a year to carry out untraceable, motiveless murders - for fun. Until, years later, they must murder in order to protect one of their own, l ...Show more
Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories by David Stuart Davies
Category: Paranormal | Series: Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural
Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori's 'The Vamp ...Show more
Classic Christmas Crime Stories by David Stuart Davies (Editor)
Category: Gift | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Christmas is not always the season of goodwill. As this hugely entertaining collection shows, it can also be the season of mysterious deaths, hidden poison bottles and blunt instruments.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled e ...Show more
Classic Horror Stories by Ed. David Stuart Davies
Category: Classics
A spine-chilling anthology that celebrates the thrilling pleasure and rich literary legacy of horror writing. From the sinister imagination of Edgar Allan Poe to the supernatural suspense of H. G. Wells, this collection of stories explores a range of eerie experiences. There are hauntings, monsters and ...Show more
Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart (AFT) M. R.; Davies James
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey horny and wrinkled. He flew o ...Show more
Crime Scenes by David Stuart Davies
Category: Classic | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Crime Scenes is a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Within these pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a great variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnit to the psychological chiller to the hi ...Show more