Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian & by his entanglement with the cynical & manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to live. Eyeless in Gaza is considered by many to be Huxley's definitive work of fiction. ...

Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian & by his entanglement with the cynical & manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to live. Eyeless in Gaza offers a counterpoint to the biting cynicism of Huxley's earlier satirical novels, & is considered by many to be his definitive work of fiction. ...

Chris Paget's well ordered world is blown apart by his love for his assistant, Terri, in the sequel to Degree of Guilt. ...

From the inauguration of the London Eye in 2000 to the 2009 Copenhagen climate change summit, Eyewitness Decade tells ...

Out of the ashes of doomed ad agency Miller Shanks has risen Meerkat 360, a very 21st century workplace. Staff include David Crutton, an MD with the worst email signature in history; Milton Keane, a definitely-straight PA with a yearning for reality tv fame; Liam O' Keefe, a creative with an online gambling addiction who may be linked with the contents of the stationery cupboard appearing on e Bay; & Harvey Harvey, a creative who politely replies to pornographic spam & who might just have met his future wife online ...

Out of the ashes of doomed ad agency Miller Shanks has risen Meerkat 360, a very 21st century workplace. Staff include David Crutton, an MD with the worst email signature in history; Milton Keane, a definitely-straight PA with a yearning for reality tv fame; Liam O' Keefe, a creative with an online gambling addiction who may be linked with the contents of the stationery cupboard appearing on e Bay; & Harvey Harvey, a creative who politely replies to pornographic spam & who might just have met his future wife online ...

He was head of an international drugs ring, a kidnapper & a ruthless killer. One night British Sea Harriers reduced his Beirut headquarters to rubble & his evil empire to ruins. But Abdul Habib still had money, & hate, enough hate to spare to construct an elaborate plan which would destroy Gibraltar & the British Aircraft carrier which had committed the fatal strike. All he needed was luck to thread a nuclear warhead through the complicated network of the Middle East terrorist rings, get it on a Libyan freighter & head west across the Med-And enough luck to avoid the one man whose hate is even greater than his, Captain Peter Brodrick of the Royal Marines. A man Habib foolishly left alive, though he killed all his friends. A man whose fate is inextricably entwined with his. ...

Second-century Roman Britain is the setting for epic battle, high drama, bravery & romance in these two stories for young readers.

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In this lavish companion to the BBC series Earth: The Power of the Planet, renowned science writers Iain Stewart & John Lynch ...