When German troops surround Leningrad & cut off food supplies in the autumn of 1941, no one imagines that the siege will last almost three years & take hundreds of thousands of lives. As the first 'hungry winter' sets in, the city's residents strip the bark off trees, boil & eat moss-covered stones, & trade priceless antiques for half a loaf of bread
- & sex for a chunk of sugar.

But the scientists at the Institute of Plant Industry pledge to protect their collection of rare seeds, painstakingly gathered from all over the world, no matter what the human cost. But as the siege continues, the group divides into those who would preserve their principles at the price of starvation, & others who turn to deception
- & more sinister measures
- to survive.

A powerful, stunningly precise & beautifully written novel about human nature under life's harshest pressures. Reminiscent of Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room & Bernhard Schlink's The Reader in its brevity, spareness & power, it is a quite remarkable debut.






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* Cities cover just 2% of the world's surface, but consume 75% of the world's resources
* Global food production increased by
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* Cities cover just 2% of the world's surface, but consume 75% of the world's resources
* Global food production increased by
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A goblin has come to visit & you'd better take care... because he says he's hungry, hungry, hungry! He will chase you all around the house
- but if you offer him a jellybean, all will be well! A bouncing, rhythmic text with an irresistible refrain joins forces with wildly exuberant illustration to create a jolly romp of a picture book.
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In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of limitless, clean propulsion for a new breed of fuelless transport systems
- & weapons beyond our imagination. Of course it never happened. Or did it? Forty years on a chance encounter with one of the engineers who made that prediction forces a highly sceptical aerospace & defence journalist, Nick Cook, to consider the possibility that America did indeed crack the gravity code
- & has covered up ever since. His investigations moved from the corridors of NASA to the dark heartland of America's classified weapons establishment, where it became clear that a half century ago, in the dying days of the Third Reich, Nazi scientists were racing to perfect a Pandora's Box of high technology that would deliver Germany from defeat. History says that they failed. But the trail that takes Cook deep into the once-impenetrable empire of SS General Hans Kammler
- the man charged by Adolf Hitler with perfecting German secret weapons technology
- says otherwise. In his pursuit of Kammler, Cook finally establishes the truth: America is determined to hang onto its secrets, but the stakes are enormous & others are now in the race to acquire a suppressed technology.



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Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner & lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellière is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, & install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef, Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. Together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world.

Gorgeously original, full of wry humour & razor-sharp observation, redolent of Paris, its foibles, its food & its neglected corners, Hunting & Gathering is a universal story about despair, love & the virtues of ensemble-playing in a naughty world.

It's a big novel that you will not want to put down.



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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history
- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann & Klaus Barbie
- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.

The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided & abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, & were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, & daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.

Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, & what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, travelled the 'rat lines', & poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic & vivid life.





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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history
- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann & Klaus Barbie
- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.

The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided & abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, & were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, & daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.

Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, & what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, travelled the 'rat lines', & poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic & vivid life.





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