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Into Darkness is the fifth episode – a blockbusting 688 pages – in Terry Goodkind’s irresistibly intense new serial novel, The Children of D’Hara. ’I want to introduce everyone to THE CHILDREN OF D’HARA, a new series that continues the story of the lives of Richard and Kahlan. This…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturkunskap Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of flight. A book about flying – from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the British Airways pilots of today.
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
’Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful’ The Times.
The epic, harrowing and world-changing story – in words and colourized images – of…
The fall and rebirth of an empire. With a cast of hundreds and a world unlike any you have seen before, The Grace of Kings is epic fantasy for the 21st Century.
Emperor Mapidéré was the first to unite the island kingdoms of Dara under a single banner. But now the emperor is on his deathbed, his people are exhausted by…
In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do.
But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life – food,…
Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near – all too near – future.
’Unauthorized Bread’ is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman’s perilously illegal…
’Sultry fun in the sun!’ Heidi Swain. ’Clever, romantic and unputdownable’ Julie Houston. ’Leave a piece of your heart in Greece with this beautifully told story’ Sandy Barker.
Two weeks. One unforgettable trip to Corfu. A chance to change her life.
Becky Rose has just landed her…
What would you give for a second chance with the one that got away? ’What a jolly holiday of a novel! It was like a big festive hug – warm, funny and oh so romantic. I loved it!’ – Holly Martin, author of Sunlight over Crystal Sands
After a terrible heartbreak, Harriet Cookson worked hard to…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful – and most secretive – of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story – encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealth and…
Khaim clings to life. Flooded with refugees and slowly starving, the last city of a once-great empire is surrounded by a choking thicket of toxic bramble. This is a world poisoned by magic. Every time a spell is cast, the bramble advances, sprouting in tilled fields and roof beams, thrusting up from between…
In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth’s first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus’ lunch. Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile commodity – a fleeting glimmer…
The dramatic conclusion to Terry Goodkind’s New York Times bestselling Nicci Chronicles.
As Richard Rahl’s emissaries to the Old World, sorceress Nicci and her companions have travelled far into uncharted territories, battling tyrants, monsters and strange magics. Now in the wake of a brutal war unleashed…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.
Private spy Nick Heller is the best lie detector you’ll ever meet. Tough, smart and stubborn, Nick Heller prides himself on uncovering the truth. But now he has just forty-eight hours to solve the murder of an innocent woman. Forty-eight hours to force the power-brokers of Washington to give up their…
The first novel in an explosive new series inspired by Robert Ludlum’s Bourne universe, perfect for those who binged Treadstone.
Operation Treadstone made Jason Bourne, but he’s not the only agent they trained.
Treadstone nearly destroyed Adam Hayes.
The top-secret CIA Black Ops program trained him to be…
The epic story of the Dandelion Dynasty continues in the third book in the series. As the conquerors and the conquered jockey for position in the new regimes, tradition gives way to new justifications for power.
A precocious eleven-year-old girl, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his sky-blue Chevy for a drive into the unknown… A university transfer student becomes increasingly obsessed with the murder of a female classmate, placing her own sense of self in peril… A recent widow…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Synopsis The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
Winner of the Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year Ultras are often compared to punks, Hell’s Angels, hooligans or the South American Barras Bravas. But in truth, they are a thoroughly Italian phenomenon… From the author of The Dark Heart of Italy, Blood on the Altar and A Place of Refuge.…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
A visually stunning history of global conflict from 1914 to 1945, from Dan Jones and Marina Amaral – the team who created The Colour of Time.
Angela Constantine is a girl born broken.
The daughter of a meth addict, Angela is convinced she was born a monster. Haunted by an abusive childhood, she was forced to become a woman far too soon. And in the process, she became more.
Angela Constantine has a secret.
Living in a secluded mountain cabin and juggling…
’A fast paced, all-too-real thriller with a villain right out of James Patterson and Criminal Minds’ ANDREW GROSS.
They say you should face your fears. Hello.
OLD ENEMIES… Francis Ackerman Jr. is one of America’s most prolic serial killers. Having kept a low prole for the past year, he…
Against impossible odds, the last survivors of the human race have created a new home on a planet far from Earth. But everything is not as it seems – and they will end up facing their greatest challenge yet. The conclusion to the Long Winter trilogy.
Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is now eighty-four and keen to retire. But who can take up her mantle? Enter Tyler Patchett, our new kind of heroine and Ruth’s grandson. He’s an ultra-confident, twenty-three-year-old man: beautiful, resentful and unemployed. Tyler won’t be satisfied until he…
Kitty Montrose isn’t sure she believes in true love anymore. When she was a little girl, she had dreamed of finding her soulmate. Someone to laugh with, cry with, and to share her twilight years. But it never happened. She has her gorgeous children and grandchildren, but her marriage was never the…
’Paris, passion and a penguin called Pepe. 5 festive stars!’ Nicola May, bestselling author of The Cornershop in Cockleberry Bay’Brilliantly funny, heartfelt and impossibly festive’ Portia MacIntosh, author of The Great Ex-scapeUnited in grief. Pushed apart by tragedy.
Keeley Andrews…
Seven unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations.
A precocious eleven-year-old, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, unforgettable, fate.
A university student becomes obsessed with the murder of a female classmate as…
In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father.
When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
The Time Traveller’s Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century’s worth of literary travels into past and the future. The anthology…
Kategorier: Medicin och omvårdnad
Seamus O’Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be ’conquered’ ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals.
He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending…