David Hayman
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Scotch The Story of Whisky volume 3
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English
Description
So great is worldwide love for Scotch whisky, many countries have begun making their own versions. It represents a threat to Scotland's dominance of the market. Presenter David Hayman travels to meet some of these rivals. His journey begins in Norfolk, where he encounters the thriving English Whisky Company. He visits Japan, learning of that great country's whisky culture, and then Tasmania, a world whisky hotspot. In Europe, Sweden represents cutting-edge...
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Scotch The Story of Whisky volume 1
Language
English
Description
David Hayman surveys the state of the Scotch whisky industry and examines the threats to its world dominance. He meets coopers and coppersmiths, whose craft it relies on, before visiting Campbeltown to enrol on a distilling course. Hayman is then schooled in the alchemy of blending whisky by Kirsteen Campbell, Famous Grouse master blender, and visits distilling students at Heriot-Watt University.
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Scotch The Story of Whisky volume 2
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English
Description
David Hayman feels that the Scottish terrain and air are just as important as science in the creation of the drink. He visits Islay, rejoicing in the land and people who make it The Whisky Island. On Speyside, he encounters the progression of whisky from illicit distilling to a landmass dominated by global brands. Scotch whisky's profile and sales would be lost without marketing - though image does not always meet with reality, as Hayman learns. Finally,...
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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English
Description
Two other women soon suffer attacks similar to the detectives' current case, and one miraculously survives. Struggling bravely, she leads police to a suspect.
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Series
Trial and Retribution volume 1
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English
Description
North joins a team reopening an old case involving James McCready, convicted of murdering his partner. Citing new evidence, a barrister wants to overturn the conviction.
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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English
Description
North - now working on the vice squad and living with Walker - responds to a complaint from a wealthy businessman whose pursuit of her turns increasingly sinister.
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Trial and Retribution volume 1
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English
Description
Walker is assigned to head up a murder investigation after a skeleton is discovered during the demolition of a derelict north London house.
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Series
Trial and Retribution volume 1
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English
Description
The lives of Detective Inspector Pat North and Detective Superintendent Michael Walker have never been more intense.
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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English
Description
Skeletons keep turning up at a home in North London. The bones belong to three young woman killed more than 17 years earlier, when a family ran a bed-and-breakfast there.
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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English
Description
When a mother is snatched from a local wood in full view of her young daughter and friend, Pat North takes charge of the investigation.
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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English
Description
Personal and professional pressures mount in the McCready case when North uncovers irregularities involving Walker, who led the original investigation.
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Trial and Retribution volume 1
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English
Description
Teenager Cassie Booth vanishes in the midst of her newspaper delivery route. Walker's hopes of finding her alive fade when an anonymous tip leads to grisly clues.
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Trial and Retribution volume 1
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English
Description
After a prostitute's tortured, mutilated body turns up on a garbage heap, DS Michael Walker and DI Pat North know they face an exceptionally sadistic psychopath.
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Trial and Retribution volume 2
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English
Description
DS Michael Walker joins DI Pat North in investigation of a child's disappearance. They target Michael Dunn, an unemployed alcoholic who lives in the neighborhood.
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Trial and Retribution volume 1
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English
Description
When a five-year-old girl goes missing from the playground of a public housing project in East London, the police launch a desperate search that brings results too late.
16) Bull
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English
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Ten years after he was last seen, Bull returns home to methodically track down those who betrayed him and find his beloved son.
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Paradise volume 1
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English
Description
A year later and The Paradise is struggling without its charismatic owner, Moray. Now he is back and reunited with Denise, but their joy is fleeting, as the arrival of Katherine and her new husband shocks everybody. Moray controversially closes the shop for a day, hoping to create a fever to boost business but when the grand opening is threatened by sabotage, uncomfortable discoveries are made.
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Dead Still volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Victorian-era Ireland, portrait photographer Brock Blennerhasset has made a successful career out of commemorating the recently deceased. When one of his photographic plates goes missing-putting his reputation on the line-Blennerhasset hires eager gravedigger Conall Molloy to help find it.
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Pub. Date
℗2013.
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English
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The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption,...
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