John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series They must save themselves
- or die trying John Perry was
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Spring 1728 A young well-dressed man is dragged through the streets of London to the gallows at Tyburn The crowds jeer & curse as he passes calling him a murderer He tries to remain calm His name is Tom Hawkins & he is innocent Somehow he has to prove it before the rope squeezes the life out of him It is of course all his own fault He was happy with Kitty Sparks Life was good He should never have told the most dangerous criminal in London that he was 'bored & looking for adventure' He should never have offered to help Henrietta Howard the king's mistress in her desperate struggles with a brutal husband & most of all he should never have trusted the witty calculating Queen Caroline She has promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue but then again there is nothing more silent than a hanged man Based loosely on actual events Antonia Hodgson's new novel is both a sequel to The Devil in the Marshalsea & a standalone historical mystery From the gilded cage of the Court to the wicked freedoms of the slums it reveals a world both seductive & deadly & it continues the rake's progress of Tom Hawkins
- assuming he can find a way to survive the noose
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London 1728 A young well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn They call him a murderer But Tom Hawkins is innocent & somehow he has to prove it before the rope squeezes the life out of him It is of course all his own fault He was happy settling down with Kitty Sparks He should never have told the most dangerous criminal in London that he was bored & looking for adventure He should never have offered to help the king's mistress & most of all he should never have trusted the witty calculating Queen Caroline She has promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue but then again there is nothing more silent than a hanged man Based loosely on actual events Antonia Hodgson's new novel is both a sequel to The Devil in the Marshalsea & a standalone historical mystery From the gilded cage of the Court to the wicked freedoms of the slums it reveals a world both seductive & deadly & it continues the rake's progress of Tom Hawkins
- assuming he can find a way to survive the noose
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' Anything you do in the past changes the future The tiniest little actions have huge consequences You might tread on an ant now & it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future' There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology With the best & most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point the Discworld's last continent needs a saviour Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer beer drinker bush ranger & someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober In fact it's Rincewind a wizard so inept he can't even spell wizard He's the only hero left Stillno worries eh? ...

A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel' Anything you do in the past changes the future The tiniest little actions have huge consequences You might tread on an ant now & it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future' There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology With the best & most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point the Discworld's last continent needs a saviour Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer beer drinker bush ranger & someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober In fact it's Rincewind a wizard so inept he can't even spell wizard He's the only hero left Stillno worries eh? ...

With one week until the end of all crime in the United States can the last heist in American history be pulled off? In the not-too-distant future as a final response to terrorism & crime the US government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts To keep this from the public the government creates a distraction installing a new currency system using digital charge cards Enter Graham Brick A career criminal never quite able to hit the big score Graham intends to steal one of the charging stations skip the country ...

Dads leave home all the time It's not that unusual really Leon's dad walked out So did Mo's But Archie's? Well that's a different story
- a story that Archie must keep secret at all cost Archie knows he should accept Dad for who he is so he hides his turmoil until he can stand it no longer With nowhere else to turn he finds himself at the railway track The track has been calling to him promising escape release The only problem is it's been calling to someone else too Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant & dyslexic readers aged 13
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Listed as one of the Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time ' Some books simply exude excitement & self-confidence as if the writer is on fire with ideas or intoxicated with information This is one of those titlesremains unsurpassed' Robert Mc Crum The Guardian' Brilliantly written & researched The Last Days of Hitler remains the most vivid account of the final Wagnerian chapter of Hitler's tyranny' Max Hastings In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery He had simply disappeared & had been missing for four months Hugh Trevor-Roper an intelligence officer was given the task of solving the mystery His brilliant piece of detective work not only proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin but also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written The Last Days of Hitler tells the extraordinary story of those last days of the Thousand Year Reich in the Berlin Bunker Besieged in the shattered capital but still dominating the remains of his court Hitler reiterated the original alternative of Nazism either total victory or annihilation This book is the record of that carefully prepared ceremonious finale to a terrible chapter of history ' This is an incomparable book by far the best written on any aspect of the second German war a book sound in scholarship brilliant in its presentation No words of praise are too strong' A J P Taylor New Statesman 'A masterpiece' The Times 'A brilliant study' Guardian ...

THE TOP TEN EBOOK BESTSELLER' Magnificent' Alan Moore'I couldn't put the book down' Ron Howard' Chilling & utterly immersive' M R Carey It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book No stranger to controversy he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed Then there was that video forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making yet was posted from his own You Tube account Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed
- until now ' Fascinating hilarious disturbing exciting & surprising as hell' Ron Howard director of Apollo 13 A Beautiful Mind & The Da Vinci Code' Brilliantly paced utterly compelling I didn't have a clue what would happen' Toby Whithouse' Super spooky & addictively written' Heat' We fell hard for Jason Arnopp's whip-smart & impulsive thriller meet your new favourite book' i Books Store' Wittier than the lovechild of Stephen Fry & Charlie Brooker scarier than watching The Exorcist in an abandoned asylum' Sarah Lotz author of The Three' This is The Omen for the social media age' Chris Brookmyre' Ingenious & funny A magnificent millennial nightmare' Alan Moore DISCOVER THIS YEAR'S MOST TALKED-ABOUT THRILLER
- perfect for fans of Stephen King Irvine Welsh & Chuck Palahniuk

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Weaving together the historical & the imagined China Mieville's The Last Days of New Paris is a surreal & extraordinary work from the author of The City & The City 1941 In the chaos of wartime Marseille American engineer & occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton In the strange games of dissident diplomats exiled revolutionaries & avant-garde artists Parsons finds & channels hope But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams & nightmares changing the war & the world for ever 1950 A lone Surrealist fighter Thibaut walks a new hallucinogenic Paris where Nazis & the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict & the streets are stalked by living images & texts
- & by the forces of Hell To escape the city Thibaut must join forces with Sam an American photographer intent on recording the ruins & make common cause with a powerful enigmatic figure of chance & rebellion the exquisite corpse But Sam is being hunted & new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties
- to each other to Paris old & new & to reality itself

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