Bøker av Stephen Williams

'Mr. Philpott; Jennifer's first visit to Somware' is the curious story of a little girl and the most wonderful adventures that may be found within only the most loved of gardens, by the most devoted of gardeners and curious of children. This is a story about magic, gardens, and muddy fingered adventures. Jennifer and her Mother have slowly restored her Grandmother's old garden on Krom Drift Farm in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa. With every new flower that blooms the magic in the garden grows stronger and long forgotten secret pathways that are hidden within it reopen. On a quiet day, while playing alone in the garden, Jennifer accidentally discovers a magical land called Somware. In her first visit to Somware, Jennifer learns that there are no boundaries to any garden, and that hidden pathways link gardens around the world with the most curious and muddy of young adventurers. In this first adventure, Jennifer meets Mr Philpott and his wonderful new friends. After much tea drinking and cake eating, she goes on an even more adventurous journey. With the help of her new Meerkat friend, Jennifer tumbles into the gardens of Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire.

AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER WITH AN ASTONISHING TWIST.A bloodstained coat. Three missing women. One dead body.Detective Mary Hume reckons she's seen it all. But she's never seen anything like this.It begins with the discovery of a broken body in a lift shaft in an old Victorian warehouse.The post-mortem reveals the bloodstains on the dead man's coat belong to three different people. DNA identifies one of them as Julie Cross, whose body was discovered six months earlier, covered in horrifying wounds.Maverick ex-police officer Raine was hired to look for Julie. She didn't find Julie in time. But she's determined to find out who killed her.So, who does the rest of the blood belong to?Chalk-and-cheese detective duo Raine and Hume are in a race against time to uncover the truth before more young women die.Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Lynda La Plante, Karin Slaughter, Biba Pearce and Angela Marsons.

Detective Mary Hume is on the trail of a vicious serial killer. A killer who leaves a baffling code carved into the skin of his victims. Can you crack the code?

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The facts of workplace stress are terrifying for businesses: in the average organisation ten percent of employees report very low levels of satisfaction with their jobs and three percent of turnover may be lost. Yet while stress may be endemic to business, it is not inevitable.

Diocletian and the Roman Recovery is both a portrait of one of Rome's greatest and most original rulers, and a political study in the emergence of Absolutism.