A Brace of Skeet

Gerald, Hammond

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Macmillan

Gundog breeder John Cunningham and his new wife are on a wildfowling expedition when a dead body comes drifting to their feet.  Why was there fresh water in the lungs when the body was found in salt water? When a spaniel is found running loose nearby,at least one person is desperate to get her back. Is she carrying a murder clue?  Events are to become more mysterious and even     violent before the mystery is solved.

Whose Dog Are You?

The Curse of the Cockers continues the sleuthing adventures of Captain John Cunningham, Falklands veteran and champion dog breeder. Gerald Hammond's Cunningham books, lauded by Publishers Weekly as "a superior series," feature the hunting lore and local Scots color that have made this author such an enduring figure on the mystery scene.This time around, the Cunninghams' New Year's Eve (or Hogmanay, as the Scots call it) revelry is cut short by a hit-and-run accident that leaves a man dead and a terrified cocker spaniel on the side of the road. Then, as news of a particularly gruesome murder shakes his small town, Cunningham finds that one of his war buddies is the prime suspect in the hit-and-run. Soon, the dog, the "accident," and the murder come together in a nightmarish encounter with a ruthless psychopath.

The Curse of the Cockers (Crime Case)

The reader and Shakespeare's young man sonnets

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Barnes&Noble

Give a Dog a Name (Portway Large Print Books)

Remploy Press

Home to Roost

Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd

In dictionary form, but offering much more than a dictionary, this book presents a guide to the history, development and usage of words and phrases employed on the racecourse, by those who train and look after the horses, those who ride them and those who lose their money betting on them. Here you can find out exactly what 'the distance' is, and why it is so called; what the 'cap' was in handicap; what relation the wild goose chase had to the steeplechase; what is 'dead' about a dead heat and what the differences are between getting in, getting on, getting out, and getting up. The history of racing language has many surprises, so be prepared to discover that racing is not the first, or even the second claimant to the title 'Sport of Kings'; that when jockeys 'nurse' a horse in a race the term comes from the nineteenth-century omnibus service; and what when a horse 'pecks' after a jump this has nothing to do with birds. Whether at Ascot or a local 'gaff', this book opens up the language of the racecourse, including the bizarre vocabulary of betting, from the 'betting boots' which early bookies put on, to the 'faces', 'heads', 'sharks' and 'sharps' who feed off the 'buzz' and 'whisper' which go round the ring.

Horse-racing (A Book of words)

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Carcanet

--- BIGGEST COLLECTION OF MAYA ANGELOU QUOTES --- Marguerite Annie Johnson alias Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014), an American author, poet and civil right activist. Angelou is famous for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography and first of her seven famous autobiographies. Angelou uses her autobiography to explore subjects such as identity, rape, racism, and literacy. She also writes in new ways about women's lives in a male-dominated society. Caged Bird was nominated for a National Book Award in 1970. In this ‘Ultimate Quotes Series’, Book No.005, ‘928 Quotes of Maya Angelou’, the number 928 signifies the resemblance of her year of birth 1928. Her protest and activities ended in May 28, 2014. She showed only the death could made her actionless, She teaches us, she uncover the miseries of a human life through her books and her quotes.

928 Maya Angelou Quotes

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A new novel from this master storyteller. One beautiful Scottish spring day, Julian Custer comes across the devastating scene of a very recent car crash. Only the passenger has survived : Delia Barrow is confused and badly injured; her name is all she can remember. It seems that Julian is all Delia has. Luckily, Julian is a solicitor, and so begins a voyage of discovery as they try to discover the identity of the passengers in the missing car....

Crash

Genre Fiction

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

A new novel from this master storyteller - In a gentle village on the Scottish borders, Roland Fox, a young aspiring writer, moves in next door to the equally young and attractive Jane Highsmith, a newly qualified veterinary surgeon. But the growing attraction between them is muted by the recent and mysterious death of her beloved great-grandfather. There are all the ingredients present for a traditional village mystery in true Gerald Hammond style and with his usual Scottish flavour.

Fingers of One Foot, The

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