WINNER OF THE IRISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015 Arson accident or murder? After a fire rips through a North London tower block two bodies are found locked in an 11th floor flat But is the third victim that ensures the presence of detective Maeve Kerrigan & the murder squad It appears that controversial MP Geoff Armstrong trapped by the fire chose to jump to his death rather than wait for rescue But what was such a right wing politician doing in the deprived culturally diverse Maudling Estate? As Maeve & her senior colleague Derwent pick through the wreckage they uncover the secret world of the 11th floor where everyone seems to have something to hide ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 Shortlisted for the Petrona Award 2018 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year The last novel from international crime bestseller Henning Mankell A brilliant & moving mystery set in the Swedish archipelago Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago where he lives alone on an island He swims in the sea every day cutting a hole in the ice if necessary He lives a quiet life Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire Fredrik escapes just in time wearing two left-footed wellies as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin & evidence of arson The house that has been in his family for generations & all his worldly belongings are gone He cannot think who would do such a thing or why Without a suspect the police begin to think he started the fire himself Tackling love loss & loneliness After the Fire is Henning Mankell’s compelling last novel ...

Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago where he lives alone on an island He swims in the sea every day cutting a hole in the ice if necessary He lives a quiet life Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire Fredrik escapes just in time wearing two left-footed wellies as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin & evidence of arson The house that has been in his family for generations & all his worldly belongings are gone He cannot think who would do such a thing or why Without a suspect the police begin to think he started the fire himself Tackling love loss & loneliness After the Fire is Henning Mankell’s compelling last novel ...

Father John controls everything inside The Fence & Father John likes rules Especially about never talking to Outsiders Because Father John knows the truth He knows what is right & what is wrong He knows what is coming But Moonbeam is starting to see the lies behind Father John's words She wants him to be found out What if the only way out of the darkness is to light a fire? ...

AFTER THE FIRST DEATH is a brilliantly tense hostage drama by Robert Cormier the acclaimed author of THE CHOCOLATE WAR It is one of The Originals from Penguin
- iconic outspoken first On the outskirts of a small American town a bus-load of young children is being held hostage The hijackers are a cold & ruthless group opposed to the secret government agency Inner Delta At the centre of the battle are three teenagers Miro is the terrorist with no past & no emotions Kate is the bus driver caught up in the nightmare & Ben is the General's son who must act as a go-between The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults From political awakening war & unrequited love to addiction teenage pregnancy & nuclear holocaust The Originals confront big issues & articulate difficult truths The collection

Includes:: The Outsiders
- SE Hinton I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith Postcards from No Man's Land
- Aidan Chambers After the First Death
- Robert Cormier Dear Nobody
- Berlie Doherty The Endless Steppe
- Esther Hautzig Buddy
- Nigel Hinton Across the Barricades
- Joan Lingard The Twelfth Day of July
- Joan Lingard No Turning Back
- Beverley Naidoo Z for Zachariah
- Richard C O' Brien The Wave
- Morton Rhue The Red Pony
- John Steinbeck The Pearl
- John Steinbeck Stone Cold
- Robert Swindells

















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The third book in the 1 New York Times bestselling Field Party series
- a southern soap opera with football cute boys & pick-up
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A fantastic voyage through 15000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age Then global warming arrived leading to massive floods the spread of forests & the retreat of the deserts By 5000 BC a radically different human world had appeared In place of hunters & gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites there were towns The foundations of our modern world had been laid & nothing that came after
- the Industrial Revolution the atomic age the internet
- have ever matched the significance of those events AFTER THE ICE tells the story of climate change's impact during this momentous period
- one that also saw the colonisation of the Americas & mass extinctions of animals throughout the world Drawing on the latest cutting-edge research in archaeology cognitive science palaeontology geology & the evolutionary sciences Steven Mithen creates an evocative original & remarkably complete picture of minds cultures lives & landscapes through 15000 years of history


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In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations & concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political & social inequality it is time we ask what comes after a broken internet? Ramesh Srinivasan & Adam Fish reimagine the internet from the perspective of grassroots activists & citizens on the margins of political & economic power They explore how the fragments of the existing internet are being utilized
- alongside a range of peoples places & laws
- to make change possible From indigenous & non-Western communities & activists in Tahrir Square to imprisoned hackers & whistleblowers this book illustrates how post-digital cultures are changing the internet as we know it
- from a system which is increasingly centralized commodified & personalized into something more in line with its original spirit autonomous creative subversive The book looks past the limitations of the internet reconceptualizing network technology in relation to principles of justice & equality Srinivasan & Fish advocate for an internet that blends the local concerns of grassroots communities & activists with the need to achieve scalable change & transformation


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Alan S Blinder-esteemed Princeton professor Wall Street Journal columnist & former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan-is one of our wisest & most clear-eyed economic thinkers In After the Music Stopped he delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened what the government did to fight it & what we must do to recover from it With bracing clarity Blinder chronicles the perfect storm of events beginning in 2007 from the bursting of the housing bubble to the implosion of the bond bubble & how events in the US spread throughout the interconnected global economy Truly comprehensive & eminently readable After the Music Stopped is the essential book about the financial crisis ...

For the characters in after the quake the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm ' When he gets angry he causes earthquakes' says Frog ' And right now he is very very angry ...