A New Statesman Book of the Year London A city apart Inimitable Or so it once seemed Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition The vestiges of secret tunnels the ghosts of saints & King Harold's last stand buried by developments the cycling revolution & Brexit An electrifying final odyssey The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory ...

A New York Times bestseller " Splendid" -Kirkus Reviews " Vivid & compelling" -BCCB "A smart & feisty female protagonist in whom readers will delight" -Booklist " Will keep you guessing until the very last page" -Cinda Williams Chima New York Times & USA TODAY bestselling author Gangs of New York meets Six of Crows in this captivating new series about a girl who must travel back in time to find a mysterious book that could save her future Stop the Magician Steal the book Save the future In modern day New York magic is all but extinct The remaining few who have an affinity for magic-the Mageus-live in the shadows hiding who they are Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island Crossing it means losing their power-and often their lives Esta is a talented thief & she's been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink With her innate ability to manipulate time Esta can pilfer from the past collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she's there & all of Esta's training has been for one final job traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order-and the Brink-before the Magician can destroy it & doom the Mageus to a hopeless future But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs & secret societies a world where the very air crackles with magic Nothing is as it seems including the Magician himself & for Esta to save her future she may have to betray everyone in the past ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A hero can't always be good Joe Rickman head of clandestine operations in the Middle East has been kidnapped & with him top secret CIA information that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands Mitch Rapp must find Rickman at all costs But something doesn't add up & he soon suspects something even more sinister is afoot With elements inside his own government working against him Rapp will have to make to make a tough call between playing the hero & playing nice Or will he be stopped dead before he can succeed?AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ' Mitch Rapp is a great character who always leaves the bad guys either very sorry for themselves or very dead' Guardian ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A hero can't always be good Joe Rickman head of clandestine operations in the Middle East has been kidnapped & with him top secret CIA information that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands Mitch Rapp must find Rickman at all costs But something doesn't add up & he soon suspects something even more sinister is afoot With elements inside his own government working against him Rapp will have to make to make a tough call between playing the hero & playing nice Or will he be stopped dead before he can succeed?AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ' Mitch Rapp is a great character who always leaves the bad guys either very sorry for themselves or very dead' Guardian ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley The Godolphin & Latymer School formerly of Royal Holloway University of London The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation Set in the late twenty-first century the novel unfolds a sombre & pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction Interwoven with her futuristic theme Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley & Byron yet rejects Romanticism & its faith in art & nature Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman & the radical philosopher William Godwin Her mother died ten days after her birth & the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle & her own reading She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814 In the summer of 1816 she began her first & most famous novel Frankenstein Three of her children died in early infancy & in 1822 her husband was drowned Mary returned to England with her surviving son & wrote novels short stories & accounts of her travels; she was the first editor of PBShelley's poetry & verse ...

The author travels across Russia from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept villages following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry In this book he tells the story of a nation famine war the frozen wastes of the Gulag the collapse of communism & now a people seeking oblivion 304 pages Bullough Oliver ...

Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting & dangerous decade of spaceflight His career spanned the entire Gemini & Apollo programs from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to commanding Apollo XVII man&s last mission to the moon Between those two historic events lay more adventures than an ordinary person could imagine as Cernan repeatedly put his life his family & everything he held dear on the altar of an obsessive desire Written with " New York Times" bestselling author Don Davis this is the astronaut story never before told
- about the fear love & sacrifice demanded of the few men who dared to reach beyond the heavens for the biggest prize of all the Moon
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The year is 1942 & Paris is occupied by German forces Jewish theatre owner Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) has handed over the control of his theatre to his actress wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) while he hides out in the cellar hoping to avoid capture by the Nazis During rehearsals for the next production the presence of a womanising actor (Gerard Depardieu) & a Nazi-sympathising journalist cause many difficulties for Marion Eventually she is forced to decide between her loyalty to her husband & her love for her countrymen & acts out her solution in the production she has been rehearsing Nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar the film also won 10 French Academy Awards in 1981 ...

A gripping thriller from David Baldacci The Last Mile is perfect for fans of Lee Child & James Patterson Memories can be a real killer Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row He was one of America's most promising football stars until aged twenty he was arrested & convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFLWhen Amos Decker newly appointed special agent with the FBI hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings he persuades his boss to allow him to carry out an investigation into the Mars murders There are facts about the case which don't add up & as the investigation deepens Decker & his team uncover layer upon layer of lies & deception which are rooted at a time in American history which most would rather forget but some seem keen to remember There is someone out there with a lot to hide & a secret that everyone is looking for A race against time ensues because when revealed that information threatens to tear apart the corridors of power at the very highest level The case proves to be life-changing for both Mars & Decker in ways that neither could ever have imagined The Last Mile is the second in the Amos Decker series following Memory Man ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the acclaimed sci-fi short story by Lewis Padgett The Last Mimzy tells the story of two children who discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys As the children play with these "toys " they begin to display higher & higher intelligence levels Their teacher tells their parents that they seem to have grown beyond genius Their parents too realize something extraordinary is happening ...