' 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? ...

Every ending starts with a beginning; every beginning an end Boyd & Vita have been separated for six years when Boyd asks if he can move back into the house they still own bringing with him his twenty-seven-year-old girlfriend Honey Of course Vita agrees enough water has travelled under enough bridges since her marriage to Boyd ended & she is totally over him; nothing can touch her now Boyd & Honey move in & everyone is happy or so it seems However all three are keeping secrets ...

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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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
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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
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From the winner of the Oscar for the Best Screenplay for The Imitation Game in 2015 comes a superb historical legal thriller ...

Chronicling the life & death of the father of western philosophy & charting his influence on the most influential ancient Greek philosophers Plato's The Last Days of Socrates is translated from the Greek by Hugh Tredennick revised with an introduction & notes by Harold Tarrant in Penguin Classics The trial & condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy & corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens In tracing these events through four dialogues Plato also developed his own philosophy based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house debating the nature of piety while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety & a defence of the philosopher's life In the Crito while awaiting execution in prison Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape Finally in the Phaedo he is shown calmly confident in the face of death skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul Hugh Tredennick's landmark 1954 translation has been revised by Harold Tarrant reflecting changes in Platonic studies with an introduction & expanded introductions to each of the four dialogues Plato (c 427-347 BC) stands with Socrates & Aristotle as one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West He founded the Academy in Athens the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research & teaching & the prototype of all Western universities If you enjoyed The Last Days of Socrates you might like Plato's The Symposium also available in Penguin Classics ...

A gripping account of the months before & after Stalin's death & how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime He was poised to challenge the newly elected US President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force & was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet Jews Stalin's sudden collapse & death in March 1953 was as dramatic & mysterious as his life It is no overstatement to say that his passing marked a major turning point in the twentieth century The Last Days of Stalin is an engaging briskly told account of the dictator's final active months the vigil at his deathbed & the unfolding of Soviet & international events in the months after his death Rubenstein throws fresh light on the devious plotting of Beria Malenkov Khrushchev & other comrades in arms who well understood the significance of the dictator's impending death; the witness-documented events of his death as compared to official published versions; Stalin's rumored plans to forcibly exile Soviet Jews; the responses of Eisenhower & Secretary of State Dulles to the Kremlin's conciliatory gestures after Stalin's death; & the momentous repercussions when Stalin's regime of terror was cut short ...