Peter May

Six full practice tests with tips and training for the 2015 revised Cambridge English: First (FCE). First Trainer Second edition offers six practice tests for the revised Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam combined with easy-to-follow guidance and exam tips. The first two tests are fully guided with advice on how to tackle each paper. Extra practice activities, informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a bank of real candidates' exam papers, focus on areas where students typically need the most help. This 'without answers' version is ideal for class use. Audio for the listening and speaking test activities is available online for download. Audio CDs featuring the listening material are also available, separately.

Enzo is running out of time in the third thrilling instalment of the series. FRANCE. A death sentence. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Enzo Macleod is running out of time to crack the most confounding of unsolved French murders. A death threat. His daughter is nearly killed, Enzo is mugged – and then he is arrested. Someone is trying to destroy his character. Someone is framing him for murder. A deathly enemy. Killers from the past will stop at nothing to halt Enzo, who must use all his forensic skills to solve the case – before they succeed.

Vinnare av Prix International på Deckarfestivalen i Cognac.Vinnare av The Barry Award för Årets bästa kriminalromanNominerad till CWA Dagger in the Library Award.Vald till en av de 100 bästa deckarna någonsin av Lotta Olsson i DN»Peter May är en av mina nya favoriter. Det här är väldigt bra!« | MAGNUS UTVIK, GOMORRON SVERIGE, SVT»Lewismannen stannar kvar i minnet och är faktiskt ännu bättre än Svarthuset.« | LOTTA OLSSON , DNI en vindpinad torvmosse på Isle of Lewis påträ ffas liket efter en ung man. Av den patologiska undersökningen framgår att mannen blivit knivmördad och att han troligen legat i mossen sedan slutet av femtiotalet. I övrigt har polisen bara en ledtråd: DNA-analysen visar att o ffret på något vis är släkt med Tormod Macdonald, en åldrad lantbrukare från ön.Men Tormod har alltid hävdat att han är enda barnet och ingen har någonsin hört talas om några släktingar. Numera lider han av svår demens och har små möjligheter att själv bringa klarhet i situationen eller att försvara sig mot de misstankar som riktas mot honom.Tormod är också far till Marsaili, den före detta poliskommissarien Fin Macleods första stora kärlek. Fin, som återvänt till ön för att restaurera sina föräldrars torp, inleder nu en privat undersökning. Han ser det som sin plikt att hjälpa den kvinna han aldrig slutat älska, men är samtidigt medveten om de bråddjup som plötsligt kan öppna sig när man börjar vända på stenar i det förflutna.I svensk översättning av Charlotte Hjukström.PETER MAY [f. 1951] är en flerfaldigt prisbelönt skotsk romanförfattare, bosatt i Frankrike. Svarthuset [The Blackhouse] första delen i hans »Lewis-trilogi« om Edinburgh-polisen Fin Macleod hyllades av kritikerna och vann en rad priser, bland annat Le Cezam Prix Littéraire i Frankrike och The Barry Award för »Årets bästa kriminalroman« i USA. Lewismannen [The Lewis Man] är den andra boken i trilogin.Om Peter May och Isle of Lewis-trilogin:»Genom sin illusionslösa men ändå inlevelsefulla blick på människans mörkare sidor skriver May fram en berättelse som på ett paradoxalt sätt ändå andas hoppfullhet. Jag ser redan fram emot nästa del i trilogin.« | MAGNUS PERSSON, SVENSKA DAGBLADET»Peter May är den sortens författare jag följer till världens ände.« | NEW YORK TIMES»Lewismannen är en ovanligt välskriven, berikande spänningsroman som håller läsaren i ett fast grepp från första till sista sidan.« | ELISABETH BRÄNNSTRÖM, TIDNINGEN KULTUREN»En av de absolut bästa deckarserierna på senare år.« | THE INDEPENDENT

A focused, 50-60 hour course for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam from 2015. Compact Advanced Student's Book with answers provides C1-level students with thorough preparation and practice needed for exam success. Ten units cover all four exam papers in a step-by-step approach. 'Quick steps' and Writing and Speaking guides, explain what to expect in the exam, and provide strategies on approaching each paper, model answers, useful expressions and further practice. A Grammar Reference covers all key areas of grammar. Two practice tests with audio are online for teachers to access. The CD-ROM provides interactive language and skills practice, and the Class Audio CDs contain the Student's Book listening material.

A focused, 50-60 hour course for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam from 2015. The Student's Book with answers provides C1-level students with thorough preparation and practice needed for exam success. All four of the revised exam papers are covered. 'Quick steps' and Writing and Speaking guides explain what to expect in the exam, and provide strategies on approaching each paper, model answers, useful expressions and further practice. The accompanying CD-ROM provides interactive language and skills practice. There are two complete practice tests for teachers to access online. Audio required for the Student's Book listening exercises is available on Class Audio CDs or in the Student's Book Pack, both available separately.

A focused, 50-60 hour course for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam from 2015. The Student's Book without answers provides C1-level students with thorough preparation and practice needed for exam success. All four of the revised exam papers are covered. 'Quick steps' and Writing and Speaking guides explain what to expect in the exam, and provide strategies on approaching each paper, model answers, useful expressions and further practice. The accompanying CD-ROM provides interactive language and skills practice. There are two complete practice tests for teachers to access online. Audio required for the Student's Book listening exercises is available on Class Audio CDs or in the Student's Book Pack, both available separately.

A focused, 50-60 hour course for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam from 2015. Compact Advanced provides C1-level students with thorough preparation and practice needed for exam success. Each unit tackles a key part of each exam paper and develops Grammar for the Reading and Use of English paper. The Teacher's Book includes step-by-step guidance for presenting and teaching all the material in the Student's Book along with suggestions for alternative approaches and extension activities. It provides complete answer keys with recording scripts for the Student's Book. The keys include sample and model answers for Writing tasks. There are photocopiable Progress Tests to assess students every two units.

A focused, 50-60 hour course for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam from 2015. Compact Advanced provides C1-level students with thorough preparation and practice needed for exam success. Each unit tackles a key part of each exam paper and includes a section on Grammar for the revised Reading and Use of English paper. The Class Audio CDs include all the listening material needed for the Compact Advanced listening and speaking practice activities. These CDs are also included in the Compact Advanced Student's Book Pack, available separately.

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of BooksA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE... When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU... But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATH

MEET ENZO MACLEOD, AND BEGIN THE ADDICTIVE COLD-CASE SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND COFFIN ROAD.An old mystery. As midnight strikes, a man desperately seeking sanctuary flees into a church. The next day, his sudden disappearance will make him famous throughout France. A new science. Forensic expert Enzo Macleod takes a wager to solve the seven most notorious French murders, armed with modern technology and a total disregard for the justice system. A fresh trail. Deep in the catacombs below the city, he unearths dark clues deliberately set - and as he draws closer to the killer, discovers that he is to be the next victim.

Vinnare av The Barry Award för »Årets bästa kriminalroman« 2013!»May är den sortens författare jag följer till världens ände.« NEW YORK TIMES»Ett mästerverk.« L'HUMANITÉ, FRANKRIKEPå Isle of Lewis, en liten ö i de Yttre Hebriderna, har människorna sedan urminnes tider fört en ojämn kamp mot elementens raseri; den outtröttliga vinden, det piskande regnet, havets skummande vrede. Det är en hård värld där tron på en allsmäktig Gud kommit att bli den enda ledstången genom tillvarons många prövningar.När ön skakas av ett brutalt mord skickas kriminalkommissare Fin Macleod till platsen för att undersöka om brottet möjligen kan ha koppling till ett liknande mordfall i Edinburgh. För Fin, som själv är född och uppvuxen på ön, innebär utredningen en resa tillbaka till ett för­flutet som han under arton års tid gjort allt för att lägga bakom sig. Han ställs nu återigen öga mot öga med skoltidens vänner och plågoandar och med Marsaili MacDonald, hans första stora kärlek. Åren har gått, men Fin tvingas motvilligt inse att barndomens sår är allt annat än läkta, och att ön inte tänker släppa honom ur sitt grepp en andra gångPETER MAY [f. 1951] är en flerfaldigt prisbelönt skotsk romanförfattare, bosatt i Frankrike. Svarthuset [The Blackhouse] är den första delen i hans »Lewis«-trilogi om Edinburgh-polisen Fin Macleod. Svarthuset kom först ut i Frankrike, där den hyllades av kritikerna och tilldelades en rad priser, bland annat The Cezam Prix Littéraire. 2013 vann den amerikanska utgåvan The Barry Award för »Årets bästa kriminalroman«.»En av de absoluta bästa deckarserierna på senare år.« THE INDEPENDENT»Klockren mordthriller.« DAILY EXPRESS

THE PERFECT COMPANION TO PETER MAY'S LEWIS TRILOGY, AND A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS.The landscape of the Outer Hebrides, with its stark cliffs, ghostly mists and lonely beaches, has become a definitive character of Peter May's Lewis trilogy. In Hebrides, readers will accompany him on an odyssey in prose and images, through a history of the Vikings' 'Long Island' and his own deep personal connection with the islands that influenced his bestselling work.Travelling as if alongside his protagonist Fin Macleod, he describes the island life - as bewitching as it is treacherous - his encounter with the bird-hunters of Sula Sgeir, the savage seas of Ness and the churches of Eriskay. With extracts from the trilogy and specially commissioned photographs, this book places his writing and characters within the land that gave them form.Couldn't get enough of the Lewis trilogy and its extraordinary setting? Check out Peter May's latest bestseller, Coffin Road, in which the million-selling master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides.

THE NAIL-BITING, BESTSELLING FINAL CHAPTER IN THE LEWIS TRILOGY'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years' Independent'Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth' New York TimesPETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDESTHE NEW STARTFin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. THE OLD FRIENDThis mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. THE FINAL CHAPTERBut when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.LOVED THE LEWIS TRILOGY? Read Peter May's other Hebrides thrillers, COFFIN ROAD and I'LL KEEP YOU SAFE.LOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, A SILENT DEATH

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO THE BLACKHOUSEBOOK TWO IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years' IndependentA MAN WITH NO NAMEAn unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer.A MAN WITH NO MEMORYBut this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child.A MAN WITH NO CHOICEWhen Tormod's family approach Fin Macleod for help, Fin feels duty-bound to solve the mystery.LOVED THE LEWIS MAN? Read book 3 in the Lewis trilogy, THE CHESSMENLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, A SILENT DEATH

The RichardJudy Book Club bestseller, and the first novel in the Peter May's million-selling Lewis trilogy.

I'm on top of the world!" shouted Kevin Garnett after the Boston Celtics demolished the heavily favoured Los Angeles Lakers for a league-leading seventeenth NBA championship. Peter May chronicles the amazing run of the team, who went from having the second-worst record in 2007 to leading the pack in 2008. Drawing on interviews with the players, Coach Doc Rivers, and General Manager Danny Ainge, May charts the pivotal moments of the Celtics' magical season. From rebuilding the team to capping off their stunning year with another championship, Top of the World brings readers every key moment of the Celtics' wild ride.

Whether on a baseball field as the only girl on an all-boys team in Hammond, Louisiana, or on a basketball court where her play-making ability was compared to Louisiana legend Pistol Pete Maravich, Kim Mulkey was a young athlete so gifted she was named to Parade magazine's 1980 All-America High School Girls Basketball team. Mulkey went on to win two national championships at Louisiana Tech, as well as a gold medal with the 1984 U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team. She served as an assistant coach on Louisiana Tech's 1988 national championship, then turned around Baylor University's women's basketball program by coaching them to a national championship in a mere five years. In Won't Back Down , Mulkey reveals the many trials she has overcome, and how her children and her coaching have sustained her in her most difficult moments.