Jessie Keane Release Date
Annie Bailey is Annie Carter now, living the high life with Max and Layla, their daughter, on the Costa Del Crime. Then in one cataclysmic day of horror, her husband is lost to her, his brother is killed and her young daughter is snatched. Now it ‘ s up to Annie to take charge of the family firm back in London , to renew old contacts and start calling in favours. Dealing with the Mafia and crossing swords with the Carters ‘ old enemies the Delaneys, she finds out who her real friends are. She also learns that the price of revenge is high when the stakes are life and death.
With all the toughness she can muster, Annie carves out her niche in gangland London and fights long and hard for her daughter’s life against cruel hardened killers. Slowly Annie starts to pull the firm back together and finds that she has untapped depths of endurance and ruthlessness when it comes to getting the results she needs. But is it too late for Layla? As the fearsome Black Widow, Annie is about to find out.
Black Widow is released in paperback on 1st June.
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Steig Larsson Release Date
Steig Larsson died in Sweden in 2004 but shortly before his death, attempted to get three manuscripts he had written published. He posthumously won in 2009 the Galaxy Book Awards he won an award for The Books Direct Crime Thriller of The Year, with his best selling novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The Girl Who Played with Fire, the second novel in the million-selling Millennium Trilogy won the Best Swedish Crime Novel award in 2006 and has now been translated into English and now available for the first time in paperback in the UK.
The plot begins with Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, who has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. A young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation. Mikael is a character from the first book in the trilogy and also featured in the plot is Lisbeth Salander, the ‘Girl’ of the title and a “social misfit hacker extraordinaire”.
The Girl Who Played with Fire is released on 2nd July.
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Fallout 3 Release Date
Fallout 3: The Pitt & Operation Anchorage is released as downloadable expansion pack for the PC on 12th June and feature 2 main contents:
The Pitt allows the player to travel to the industrial raider town known as The Pitt, located in the post-apocalyptic city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The pack features several new weapons such as the auto axe, new armor and clothing items, four achievements and around 4 – 5 hours of gameplay.
Operation: Anchorage takes place as a virtual reality “military simulation” in the main game where you are stripped of your equipment and are forced to use the ones provided for you. The content focuses on a pivotal event in the Fallout timeline before the Great War took place, namely the attempt by the United States Army to liberate Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders. The pack contains several new quests, new items, and adds four new achievements.
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Star Ocean Ltd Edition Release Date
A new breed of hero has arisen. Explore new worlds, fighting for the salvation of mankind to give new hope for the future. Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the fourth game in the Star Ocean series and comes as a prequel to the entire series, taking place in the aftermath of World War III in which humanity must find a new home to survive. The protagonist is a young man named Edge Maverick who is accompanied by his childhood friend Reimi Saionji.
Producer Yoshinori Yamagishi announced at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show that it will be the last in the series. Released for XBox 360 already in Japan and the US, the UK/European release date is 5th June 2009
The Limited Edition of this release includes:
- Limited Edition Star Ocean: The Last Hope Box: Unique ‘digistack’ packaging with dual gatefold, inside a special collector’s sleeve.
- Star Ocean Soundtrack Compilation CD:
- Five Star Ocean: The Last Hope Character Cards
- Brady Games Official Miniguide: 32-page game guide printed in full colour, with extra character artwork, descriptions and walkthrough information – to help you on your journey through the universe.
- Three Star Ocean: The Last Hope Game Discs: Expansive galactic adventuring goes across three game discs, accompanied by full colour play manual.
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Garmin Nuvi 205WT Sat Nav System
The 205 WT has a large sized 4.3” wide display with full colour touch screen. Directions are delivered via turn- by- turn voice instructions. The maps can be displayed in either 3-D or 2-D views. The auto re-route facility will give the most effective directions, or choose Route avoidance to avoid paying tolls for instance.
There are a huge amount of points of interest included as well as the facility to include your own.
The ‘Garmin Nuvi 205WT Sat Nav System’ has all the features you’d expect and more of a high quality and fully featured satellite navigation system.
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Sony NWZ-B133 1GB MP3 Player
There are plenty of useful features packed into this very compact MP3 player. The storage space will hold in the region of 245 music tracks. For ease of operation there is an LCD display. Users will be able to adjust the sound to their own taste through the five band equaliser system. A nice touch is the LED that will blink in time to the beat of the track that is playing.
The ‘Sony NWZ-B133 1GB MP3 Player’ is simple to manage using drag-and-drop from Windows Media Player or Windows Explorer. This great little device is very versatile and handy to carry around and has plenty of playback time.
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Sony NWE003 Flash Memory Walkman 1GB MP3 Player
For such a small device it has plenty of battery staying power with around 28 hours achievable between charging. There is a very handy quick charge facility where three minutes of charging will give three hours of playback time. Even though the storage space isn’t massive the compression technology included will allow storage for around 45 audio CDs. SonicStage software is included for ease of audio file management.
They don’t any handier than the ‘Sony NWE003 Flash Memory Walkman 1GB MP3 Player’. This great little MP3 player is extremely portable and a simple way of taking your most favourite tracks with you wherever you go.
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Samsung YP-P2JQB/XEU 2GB MP3 Player
This is the ‘Samsung YP-P2JQB/XEU 2GB MP3 Player’. This MP3 device is also a video player and FM radio with 2GB of storage space.
It has a generously sized 3.0 inch LCD display that has icons for ease of operation. To get the sound just right there is a seven band equaliser system for fine tuning. There is ample capacity from the battery with around 30 hours of playback for audio, five hours for video and a fast recharge time of 2.5 hours. The player can also be used to store images for display on its photo viewer.
The ‘Samsung YP-P2JQB/XEU 2GB MP3 Player’ is a very nice example of MP3 player that has all of the main features that you’d expect from such a player.
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New Apple 8GB iPod Touch
Presenting the ‘New Apple 8GB iPod Touch’, this is a super cool and elegantly designed model. It is extremely solid with a sleek and well-defined appearance.
This version comes with 8 GB of storage space but there are also 16 and 32 GB versions available. The technology available on the iPod touch is highly advanced with things like Multi-Touch display, 3-D graphics and accelerometer. Users will be able to experience high-quality music playback as well as watching film footage and enjoying life via the Internet. This device has a large 3.5 inch Multi-touch touchscreen for ease of operation.
The ‘New Apple 8GB iPod Touch’ is a highly intelligent and very desirable piece of technology that is also simple and easy to use.
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Apple 120GB iPod Classic
The ‘Apple 120GB iPod Classic’ is a stunning piece of equipment that has a massive storage capacity of 120 GB. Users will be able to store around 30,000 tracks, 150 hours of video footage or around 25,000 images. There is also an 80 GB version available and different colour options.
The look of this iPod is simply amazing, this particular version comes in black and has a casing made from aluminium and stainless steel that is polished for a quality look. It’s super easy to find music tracks to listen to and the intuitive Genius feature will help users find songs that complement one another. There isn’t anything that this little device won’t hold for people on the go. The generously sized 2.5 inch display screen is great for watching movies or for playing iPod games.
The ‘Apple 120GB iPod Classic’ is a fantastic high quality player that is the only device that users will need to enjoy music, movies, image storage or just playing games portably.
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