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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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 ...

Easy to fall in love with it's delightfully warm & captivating'
- Lovereading Home at last Summers at Rosewood were always about
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' Opens Vanessa Ronan's literary career the way dynamite opens a safe beautiful & invigoratingly shocking' Joseph O' Connor Irish Times Mid-July in Texas Cicadas shed their dry summer skins the scent of roses hangs heavy in the still air & a woman sits alone on her porch at dusk watching the empty merciless prairie its light falling to darkness He's coming home Upstairs Lizzie knows her daughters are safe in their beds Joanne still young enough to smile at strangers one last summer of childhood left in her Katie already a beauty the first flush of womanhood blooming on her skin Both sleeping soundly But out beyond the boundary of their land the townspeople sleep fitfully Too many have heard that Jasper is coming back
- folk who know him of old who remember what he did
- men who will make it their business to see he doesn't stay too long round these parts ' Vivid storytelling makes your fingers tremble when you turn the pages The terror & the pity of it will stay with you for a long time' Sunday Times'A powerful formidable debut Vanessa Ronan is a natural storyteller & what a gripping dark compelling story this is' Donal Ryan' Written with poetry & vision With a blistering ending that leaves you racing to its conclusion ' Stylist' Shades of In Cold Blood & Truman Capote shades of Harper Lee there's constant mystery hovering over every turn of the page' Ryan Tubridy RTE' Each word is weighted with dread & laden with drama impressive' Sunday Independent

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Akila Berjaoui's incredibly sensual photographs often feature sand sun water-or a combination of all three In her first book this highly sought-after fashion photographer armed with her favorite old analogue cameras takes us to breathtaking seaside locations from her hometown of Sydney Australia to the bathing hotspots of Italy France & Brazil to name just a few Much in the tradition of Slim Arons Bruce Weber Peter Beard Claude Nori & Juergen Teller-all of whom she regards as influences on her work-Berjaoui's photos harken back to the 1950s '60s '70s & '80s with their soft colors & sultry joie de vivre As a woman Berjaoui is able to draw out her female subjects with a sense of kinship rather than voyeurism One of the world's most in-demand photographers Akila Berjaoui is destined to make a name for herself in the field of travel beauty & lifestyle photography ...