Books with author ROBERT HARDY

Harris Provides an awe-inspiring tour of one of the monumental engineering triumpths on which the Roman empire was based... What makes this nove all but putdownable... is the bravura fictional flair that crackles through it. brilliantly evoking the doomed society pursuing its ambitions and schemes in the shadow of a mountain that nobody knew was a volcano. Harris, as Vesuvirus explodes, gives full vent to his genius for thrilling narrative. fast-paced twists and turns alternate with nightmarish slow-motion scenes (desperate figures struggling to wade thigh-deep through slurries of pumice towards what they hope will be safety). Harris's unleashing of the furnace ferocities of the eruptions terminal phase turns his books closing sequences into pulse-rate speeding masterpieces of suffocating suspense and searing action.

There appears to be much needed a work on parliamentary law, based, in its general principles, upon the rules and practice of Congress, and adapted, in its details, to the use of ordinary societies. Such a work should give, not only the methods of organizing and conducting the meetings, the duties of the officers and the names of the ordinary motions, but in addition, should state in a systematic manner, in reference to each motion, its object and effect; whether it can be amended or debated; if debatable, the extent to which it opens the main question to debate; the circumstances under which it can be made, and what other motions can be made while it is pending. This Manual has been prepared with a view to supplying the above information in a condensed and systematic manner, each rule being either complete in itself, or giving references to every section that in any way qualifies it, so that a stranger to the work can refer to any special subject with safety.

They say humans can't do magic. Claire Stone knows different. All is not well in Underland. The Authorities are not happy about Claire's unauthorised training, and unpleasant things start to happen around her. Observers are being replaced by Grenlix; crafty, untrusted citizens of Underland. Worse, the humans are losing their memories - and without memories, then can't get into Underland. The Authorities like Claire even less when she starts to poke her nose into what's behind the missing memories, and they are desperate to know why her magic is so different to theirs. Claire digs her way to the truth, but is the price she pays worth it? White Magic is the second volume of the Warrior Stone series by R B Harkess, a dark adventure in a steampunk world, for Young Adults of all ages. Follow Claire deeper into Underland - read White Magic today.