SlayA groundbreaking and seminal chronicle of the hidden history and mythology of female dragon slayers from ancient world expert and author of Goddess with a Thousand Faces Jasmine Elmer. The dragon is a monster with a rich history of symbolism in almost every culture. In the stories that have been passed down through time, dragons lurk in the great wild, in dark, unknown and mysterious lands that exist on the periphery of human civilisation. Only the

and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself

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September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge

and Sam's underworld connections

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Verity calls in private detective duo Emma Holmes and Sam Collins

introduced by bestselling author Joanna Trollope

so does her bond with Zina

the pleasures and pitfalls of social media

lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders

and go on to scale even greater heights